The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-06

90 The editor of the Bunker Hill Aurora
says that few Sundays ago he heard clergy
man, in illustrating a point in his discourse,
state that during the late war New York
merchant at Alexandria, in Egypt, having &C.
casion to furnish ship with freight home
ward, was led, partly through fear of pirates,
to load her with mummies from the famous
Egyptian Catacombs. On arriving here, the
strange cargo was sold to paper manufacturer
in Connecticut, who threw the whole mass, the
linen cerement, the bitumen and the poor re-
mains of humanity, into the hopper and had
them ground to powder" "And," added the
speaker, 'the words 1 am now reading to you
are written on some of this paper"
GB DIR. Hayes, in a lecture ON Icebergs, de-
livered in New York ON Tuesday evening, said
that the largest he saw in his expedition of
1860 was three-quarters of mile long, three
hundred and fifteen feet high, with contents es-
timated at q 600, 900 cubic feet, and weight
of something like q 00,000000 tons. -l
% The Washington correspondent of the
Worcester Spy reports the following lively
passage of arms in the House, during the de-
bate on the Constitutional Amendment
"Thaddeus Stevens gave the "little villain" of
the Times one of his pungent hits, upon the
close Of his grafton. AS MI. Julian of Indiana
rose to speak, Mr.. Stevens gave notice that if
his remarks were to be in reply to Mr.. Ray
mond, he should call him to order, saying that
MI II. had not spoken to the question at all,
but that he had not called him to order for his
violation of the rules. Mr.. Raymond, in re-
coid ha VIC h
any rules. am aware Off, growled Stevens,
if you had been an old member should have
called you to order being new one L ex-
cused you. Raymond subsidized, with nothing
to say"
VS. Alarming intelligence to the butter
spectators Butter is declining in all the
Western markets. At Cleveland it is dull at
2Sa30c for the best tub and ROLL at Chicago the
best dairy brings only 2sa3oc, while fair firkin
Is 23a25c; at Milwaukee the best roll is as low
as o.
GyThe ladies of Summit City, California,
some forty in number, amuse themselves slid
ing on snow shoes. They climb to the tops of
the surrounding hills, and with the speed of the
wind, dash past, astonishing crowds of specta-
tors gathered to witness the sport.
Va The colored people of San Francisco
celebrated the Third Anniversary of Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation, on New Years
Day. The Procession was very large, and ex-
ceedingly well organized in every respect.
Literary exercises were held in the Zion Afri-
can formerly Starr Kings Church. 4I
EB- The planters of South Carolina, like
those of Louisiana, are taking active measures
to prevent all leasing of lands to negroes. A
resolution lately adopted at meeting of land
owners says: st is the sense of this meeting
that any landowner renting land to negroes to
be worked free from the control of himself or
some responsible agent, is, in the present con-
ditien of the negroes of this district, pursuing
a course ruinous to themselves and highly det-
rimental to the peace of the community and
the interests of the whites; that we bind our
selves not to infringe the letter and spirit of
these resolutions, and to discourage the in
fringement by others as far as our influence
extends"
EY A special Washington dispatch says the
U. s. Consul at Honolulu informs the Depart
ment of State that 100 seamen captured ON
American whale ships by the pirate Shenan-
doah and landed on Ascension Island, have
reached, Honolulu, en- route to the United
States
THE New York Herald has runaor that
should the Freedmen's Bureau bill pass the
House asst has passed the Senate, the Presi-
dent will issue a proclamation restoring the
habeas corpus in all the late rebel States. All
such bosh as this is intended for mischief 1t is
equivalent to saying that congress is obliged to
legislate under menace, and it is such false
and wicked friends tD of the President who
are doing him an immense dishonor, by trying,
in their hot haste to oppose the set of the pop
ular current, to make him out tyrant Such
friends are his worst enemies lE.e
DB- New Bedford is to have Soldiers
monument. Why cannot Portland have one,
and have it on the spot now disfgured by the
old Market House, in Market Square
GA clerk in mercantile establishment
writes to friend at home IT have nice time
of it now-a-days-very little work to do-our
firm don't advertise"
The New Bedford Mercury says the
big Boston hotel is to be built of white marble,
to have about 1000 rooms, and to cost ST. 100000.
1t will cover an acre and half of ground, and
is expected to pay equal to a flowing oil we'll