The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-24
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

fact that on Thursday, for the first time in our
country's history, colored contractor received
pay for carrying the mail.
va The st. Louis Democrat learns from
what it considers authentic sources, that the
government has concluded to garrison the forts
and protect the routes ON the Plains with col
ored troops, of whom at least three full regi-
ments will shortly be dispatched to the Indian
country.
Ey- The position of President of the Metro
politan Railroad Company was offered to Gov.
Andrew, at salary of $4,000 year, but the
Governor declined the offer.
CY- The Newburyport Herald relates that "a
State constable called at shop kept by an
Irish woman, last week, and inquired if she
had whiskey in some bottles behind the coun-
ter. She answered eyes" He wanted some,
| and she placed bottle on the counter with
glass that he might help himself He turned
out some of the liquid, which proved to be kerr
osene oil, and he left a sadder but no wiser
man. -....s4 fl
By Toast by perfect brute: Woman, now
and forever, one and insuferable.
EB The St. Paul Board of Trade seconds
the movement for Northwestern Commercial
Convention, on the 7th of February, at st.
Paul, and tenders it's hall, the largestin the
city, free to the convention.
Ca A. II. Francis, colored has been elected
member of the City Council of Victoria, Van
couver's Island, British colony.
D1T- Out of 100000 persons married in Eng
land in 1863 only 1872 40Swere able to sign their
names.
= Artemus Wards success in town in
Wisconsin was not satisfactory. His agent
took s2S7 at the door, while Artemus took the
| measles inside. - -
bill in the House of Representatives making
| en- appropriation for the defence of the North
| eastern frontier ~ -,
DY~ A notorious fellow named VIM. Roach
made an attempt upon his own life in Boston,
| a few days since, which is regarded as unfortu-
nate for the community in that it was not sue
cessful. He is the same person who caused
the death of Lieut.. Hunter of the Navy, in the
fall of 1859, by beating him in North street.
The Journal very benevolently suggests,
though he discharged loaded pistol il his
mouth and blew off the top of his head, that
sit is feared Roach will recouerl" ,--.
vs. The small pox is prevailing in Mobile.
| EY- Gen. Hooker is Frustrated by paralysis,
unable to read or write. Query: Were he
| citizen of Massachusetts, would he be quail
| fed voter
1 vs. Senator MorrilPs bill before the Senate
''to regulate the elective franchise in the Dis
| trict of Columbia" is as general in its provis-
| ions as the act which has been passed in the
| House. 1t is an election bill, and differs from
the House bill inasmuch as that strikes out the
word white" from the existing law, and leaves
the qualifications the same as before in all 9TH
er respects. The Senate bill disqualifes per-
sons "who m y have left the District to aid the
rebels in the late rebellion"
| BB-The N. Y. Times, referring to the vote in
the House in favor of Negro Suffrage in the
District of Columbia, says: We fail to see the
gain to the cause of peace, of reunion, of the
freedman himself, in what was done by Thurs
days vote" The cream and consistency of this
tremark is found in the fact that Mr.. Raymond
the proprietor and editor of the Times, voted in
favor of the suffrage billi Can't see the good
of his own acts The Times is decidedly
| crotchety.
EB- Mrs. Ruth Clark, of New Bedford, fell
down stairs recently, and broke her neck. She
was 80 years old.
DB A Richmond paper says there are large
amounts of vacant lands within thirty miles of
that city, now offered for sale at prices rang
ing from five to one hundred dollars per acre
Many of these tracts are highly productive and
convenient to market
BB- The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided that the Boston owner of a $1,000 certifi-
cate of Indebtedness who innocently purchas-
ed it of thief is entitled to it, and the original
holder, a New Yorker, must lose it.
EB- The poor of Richmond are suffering
much for want of the necessaries of life.
ca The State debt of North Carolina is
fourteen and half millions, plus the rebel
debt, which they will try hard to recognize one
of these days.
EY At the present rate of payment the Eng
lish debt will not be extinguished until the
year 2270. In the meantime there may be two
or three wars which will put off pay day few
years longer. The London Times is impatient
and urges increase in the rate of payment
gB- The mileage of Mr.. Goodwin, the dele
gate from Arizona, reaches the respectable sum
of $1,000. 'a9asa. r ri7. a.ssy 81 s,ss4r
EB Two members of the Tennessee Legis-
lature voted for repudiating the debt incurred
for putting down the rebellion; all the rest
against it. -" 44-
EB- Nervous people have often allowed
themselves to get excited about the possible
consequences of an encounter of the earth with
the tail of comet The Scientific Reyiep says
"This extraordinary event. against tho occur
renee of which, according to Arago, there are
more than two hundred and fifty million chan
ces to one, actually took place on the 10th of
June, 1861, the earth having been for four hours
totally immersed in the tail, according to the
calculations of M. Liais, founded on the obser-
vations made by him at Rio de Janeiro The
earth was plunged into it to the depth of no.
900 leagues, and yet no effect was produced on
the weather, not even fog-a proof of its ex-
traordinary tenuity, compared even with our
atmosphere"
GY- Since the days of Peter the Great, Rus
STA has advanced her frontier 700 miles toward
Vienna and Berlin, 500 miles toward Constan-
tinople, and 1900 miles towards Lahore and
Kurrachee in India. She has taken from Swe-
den more than half her territory; from Poland,
| territory more extensive than Austria; from
Turkey, provinces equal to Prussia, the Rhine
provinces, Belgium and Holland; from Persia,
provinces as large as Great Britain; and from
Tartary and China, countries greater than the
whole of Europe. Her population in the same
time has increased skiold.
ER No less than $4,000 worth of the oil of
peppermint was made last year in the little vii
lage of Three Rivers, Mich.
gy- A st. Louis paper attributes the high
rents in that city to the presence of gambling
houses and other disreputable establishments,
which take up all the eligible places.
EY- Miss Rosa Murray died in fortune
teller's chair, in Brooklyn, N. Y, the other day.
The mysteries of the future were revealed to
her without the idle gossiping of the soothsay-
| er.
EY Some of the women of Kansas have me-
morialized the Legislature of that State for the