The Portland daily press., 1866-04-10
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

G- The newspapers say young mans
brains were beaten out in house of ill fame,
the other day, by an inmate. The story is
probably hoax, SO far as the brains are con-
cerned.
w THE Springfield Republican, tells of a
neighbor of quiet, domestic habits, who beat
bis brother with shovel, knocked his wife
down, and turned his mother out of doors. ri
ER Intelligence from the Dry Tortugas re-
ports DR.. Mudd very thin, sad, and wishing to
die. His duties are of the most servile charac-
ter. Arnold is Adjutant's clerk, fat and happy,
and Spangler is robust and jolly and at work in
the carpenters shop.
Semmes has been released by the Pres
ident and is now being lionized in Baltimore.
He was charged, it will be remembered with
violating the customs of war The President
declined to order trial before military COM
mission, and as the civil courts know nothing
of the offence, the whole matter falls. sr-
BYO Oil has been found in Louisiana go
re George Washington cut his throat in
New York recently. Whether he cut it with
his "little Ratchet" or not he did not live to
say. He had been specializing in petroleum
lately and had been unfortunate
ga quadrille is just now the fashion in
Paris, with figures SO intricate that it is known
as "trigonometry." 81 h ..5i fl5t 5.
DB Instead of the Republican party, it is
the johnson party which has split. There are
two johnson clubs in Washington, the origi-
nal sin, of which Mr. M. Blair is president and
Mr.. B. Bradbury one of the vice-presidents,
and a Sanoi n11h1 offc a
tor Cowan is the head centre. The Democratic
club held meeting to consult about the pro-
propriety of coalescing with the Republican
club and voted not to coalesce. The Republic
cans have never even considered the question
The President meanwhile falls between his two
stools IlA' '-'@t ti S''f-fs44 IT,
BB Gen. Frank Blair is raising cotton in
Mississippi raiia.-ifa a rs
~ The impudence of the reconstructed"
is something actually sublime. The Mobile
Times, whose principal manager is an unpar-
doned Confederate, speaks of "the traitors and
rebels in Congress who are led by the triumvi-
rate of Sumner, Wilson and Stevens p Indeed,
one can hardly take up Southern paper with
out finding Congress denounced as 'spack of
traitors" and as rebels against the constituted
authority" IF anything could be more refresh
ing than these utteranees it is to hear the
whole Copperhead press joining like pack of
well-whipped houndsin the same cry. Even
the Argus, which during the whole war openly
advocated disunion, end did its little utmost
to make d.sunion inevitable and rebellion
success, now joins in the chorus. In its issue
of Saturday that modest sheet utters "sol-
emn warning" to the radicals" that "a supple
mentary rebellion on the part of the disunion
element of the North will share the same fate
as did the great rebellion of the disunionists
Of the South, and in much briefer space of
time with a man like Andrew johnson to WELD
the strong arm of our country" The auda-
cious and brazen effrontery of such talk as this
from such source, has in it something mag
nifcent We yield. it the tribute. of our adj
miration.
70 Horace Maynard, at great meeting
held in New Haven Saturday week, gave his
opinion that public sentiment in Tennessee
and North Carolina is more inclined to Justice
than in Connecticut and Pennsylvania "The
question of negro suffrage in Tennessee he
said, twill be settled by and by in favor of the
black man, and I should not wonder if Ten
nessee gave the black man the right to vote be-
fore Connecticut does. And the black man
will probably vote sooner in North Carolina
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