The Portland daily press., 1866-10-15

VARHETIES,


successful this season than for the last ten
years. At Douarnenez and Goncarneau, the
principal centres of this species of industry,
eight hundred and eighty-four boats caught up
wards of one hundred and ten millions of sar-
uihes IN the month of July alone, the sale pro
duclng 7O7G4S francs.
among the signs Of the times, il is noted
that a hotel in Vera Cruz, which is christened
anew every time there is a change in the stu
alton, has again changed its name. At first
the sign was "Hotel de Paris" That of course
was when the Frenchmen came. When the
influx of the rebels took place, it was named
the "Stonewall House." Now it is called "The
American Hotel"
Professor Ferguson, of the National OBJ
servatory at Washington, is making ARRANGE
ments for scientific observations of the meteor
ic display which is set down for November 18th
1t is predicted that the display will be unusu-
ally brilliant and particularly worthy the ut
tention Of scientific men.
OF Swindburne's new book, LGUs Venc5.is
and other Poems and Ballads, recently sup
pressed in England, and soon 10 be published
IN New York by Carleton, the London Exam
liner sharply says:-"The withdrawal of that
volume is an act of weakness of which any
publisher who does not give himself nm to the
Keeping of milk-walk for the use of babies. has
reason to be heartily ashamed -....
Gold opened Wednesday morning at ISL,
advanced on the announcement that the Pros
ident had addressed the revolutionary questions
attributed 50 him to the Attorney General, to
153 "a, the de hal of the report fell suddenly to
15O "a, recovering and closing at 151 1-S 1t is
melancholy fact that the report gained cre-
dence solely because the President has so fre-
quently and intemperately denounced the con-
stitutional Congress, that the public mind was
prepared to believe him ready to proceed FROM
words to acts. ..... -4.l...t..s
Joseph Rodman Drakes beautiful fairy
poem, "Lhe Culprit Fay" has been for some
two years in the hands Of artists engraversand
printers and will make its appearance from
the press of Carleton, New York, in a few DAYS
as holiday book of the most attractive char
acter The work contains one hundred ori.,i-
nal illustrations
Frederick William Thomas, the well known
author of "Clinton Bradshaw" EAST and
West, Howard Pinekncy," and other popu-
lar novels, died in the city of Washington on
the Both ultimo. ....-.
1t is aseertained by the cholera returns in
London. that the cases were always heavier ON
Mondays and Tuesdays than on any other days,
owing to greater drunkenness which prevails
on Saturday night, often extending over Sun
day morning. H
The Jesuits from Venice who have taken
refuge at Prague, are in trouble Shortly after
their arrival their house was surrounded by a
vast crowd, who shouted "Down with the .Je,-
uits! Down with the hangmenr.
"A correspondent writes that the i,lea of
making Paris aseaport has again revived This
time there is no question of cutting costly ca
naLs from Paris to the seacoast but of bring
ing merchant ships up to the Quai Orsay, as
at present. The inventor OF this schemes a Can
tain Brazer, and what he proposes to do is to
construct ships of peculiar make, adapted to
the sea, and at the same time capable of reach
ing Paris at the depth of water afforded by the
Seine at an average height
Freedom of the press being completely
abolished at Madrid, there is plan on foot for
Spanish journal to be published at Brussels,
by the editors of some of the suppressed Mad
rid journals. -lu.Y
The miserable pride of the drunken "bi-
lnBun sticks out of the Chiyalry in cyery di-
rection. The Richmond Base Ball Club will
not play match with challenging club, and
wish not to be considered as members of the Ma
tional Onion Club. Cause as they say. Eve are
southernersP They might have appropriately
added-"and .jackasses"
"A correspondent of the Army and NAVY
Journal says the experiments at Fortress Mon
roe prove incontestibly what was well known
to practical naval officers before, viz: that no
monitor in the navy would stand, for anv
length of time, the hammering from solid fif-
teen inch shot; aud it is doubtful whether they
would stand more than three or four blows
The Newburyport Herald says: The fish
ing feet were in sight from town, on Thursday
some 600 sail in our Bay, and apparently catch
ing mackerel. They extended from Salisbury
Beach to Cape Ann, and in places their masts
seemed as thick as the trees of forest Through
the "spy glass" they presented magnificent
appearance. il l-. .s..t
The interest Of Mr.. Boucicaulfs new play,
THE Long Strike" depends upon scene in
the telegraph Office, where the heroine strives,
under various difficulties, to send message by
the cable to one of the characters who has sail
ed for America, and whose return is necessary
to prove an alibi for the hero aid thus save his
life.
Henry Ward Beecher says he expects to
meet the Pope of Rome in heduen. He may
meet him, but he better not name the place
till he finds where "My Policy" carries him.
An item is going the rounds of the papers
that the Jews are the only religious order in
Great Britain who entirely provide for their
own poor without casting them upon public
charity Not so fast-the society Of Friends
or Quakers have always done that same thing,
not only in Great Britain but wherever its
members are to be found. ...