The Portland daily press., 1865-10-21
ORIGINAL AND sE1ncrED.

gSf= On the first page-Legal Elections; The
Convict; The Demonstrativeness of Affection.
On the fourth page-Poetry and miscellany
gIY- A ferryrnan while plying over river
which was only slightly agitated, was asked by
a timid lady in his boat whether any persons
were ever lost in that river. ooh, no" said he,
''we always find em agin the next day."
T-'''Thc following is Paddy's description Of
fiddle at has the shape of turkey and the
size Of goose; he turned it over on its belly
and rubbed its backbone with stick, and och,
by St. Patrick how it did squale."
The late lamented Lempriere tells us,
says Punch, that 10 was changed into heifer;
but we have lately CLEANED from a doctors
prescription the following piece of information
respecting the end of that young person so
dide of Potassium" HY s5aed 70
BY--A disconnected Benedict exclaims -
What if beef is forty cents per pound, butter
fifty, and cigars t,Oersty. flee cents apiece, wo-
mans vanity must be gratified. -s 81
Tho New York Neus says that Presi-
dent Johnson's speech to the negro soldiers is
Extremely Objectionable, as Indicating that he
does not differ essentially front the radicals as to
what ought to be the future stdt,ts of the negro
in the United States.D Just so.
E8f@ An unknown young man. sunposed
from his inooherent utterance to be on his way
South to get married, was accidentally shot
by a hunter, while standing on the platform OF
the cars as they passed through East Bristol,
Tennessee. He died in the house of Mrs Mary
| Gous, at that place, leaving valuable baggage
! andjewelry, and 81 500 in money, which the
| friends are desired teidentify and reclaim. 4
Ii 90 We suppose that Mr.. Wendell Phillips
is as good representative as can be found of
that class of anti-s1avery men who are now
anxious to drive the wedge between the Presi-
dent and the party which elected him, and thus
to renew and perfect the disastrous alliance Of
former years between the democratic party and
! Southern seetionalism. Not that Mr.. Phillips
is likely to be long representative either of
thenror of anybody else, for his party usually
has but one member, At present, however, he
finds himself aiming at the same immediate
objects with the class of which we have spoken,
and his speech at the Music HalIsis unques-
tionably the ablest expression of its views
which has yet found its way to the public
Boston Advertiser.
The claim of James Brooks to seat in
Congress as enc of the Representatives from
New York will be contested by William E.
Dodge. Both claim to be elected by about 200
majority.
% Attorney General Speed decides that the
rendition of service to the government by a
slave, Of ITSELF dissolves the relation of master
and slave; that this relation once dissolved can
never be restored; that the soldier of the loyal
army is freeman, and as suchi is entitled to the
bounty offered by the government to volun-
teers. Is Sea
G~ An exchange says nearly every other
man, woman and child in Indianapolis has the
shakes regularly.
Bd-A New Orleans correspondent writes
that every steamer that arrives out brings an
immense number of Northern men, with their
pockets full Of money.
~ Minnesota potatoes are said to produce
several more pounds of starch to the bushel
than those raised in any other State. 85
E9- Six thousand colored persons in Wash
ington have signed a petition asking for the
right of suffrage, lao 'Ri.s