The Portland daily press., 1866-03-27
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

B-In the debate in the House on Thursday
in relation to vignettes on the currency, one
member sent to the clerks desk new table of
values which read thus: 1.-TWO Clarks make
one Washington; two Washingtons and one
Clark makes one Fessenden; two Fessendens
make one Spinner; two Spinners make one
Chase; five Chases make one Madison, etc."
BY Hon. E. B Washburne declines to be a
candidate for senator from Illinois, but will
offer his name for reelection to his present po-
sition of representative. 70 1850 a,iaah s.
va The Boston Advertisers special says |:
THE probable fate of the civil rights bill has
been the chief topic of conversation here to-day
and yesterday. The most violent of the Presi-
dents new found friends assert confidently
that he has prepared an unqualified veto, not
withstanding his more cautious democratic ad-
herents have advised, as a matter of policy, to
pursue a different course. There is but little
doubt expressed in any quarter that the bill
will be returned to the senate without the
Presidents signature. Henry A. Stansberry
of Ohio, prominent lawyer of the Buchanan
school of politics, is said to have aided the
President in drawing up the veto message"
several private letters from the South, lament
ing the marked change of feeling which has
taken place among the rebels since the Presi-
dents veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
The most important of these letters, recently
received by Senator Sumner from Wilmington,
North Carolina, represents that the spirit Of
hatred towards negroes and Northern men is
increasing in malignity, and finds expression in
libelling the female teachers from the North,
ssrzIIt.rzIiIy, pcr-
scouting the colored people. Arrests of the
freedmen, it is said, are made on the most tri-
fling pretences, and the most degrading and
torturing penalties inflicted. At Wilmington
the rebels hurrah for JEFF. Davis and President
johnson, and such is the feeling against the
military that it is positively unsafe for an
ofi1cer to venture out alone at night, unless
well armed. " .aoiii - l10f4i7 Flltsf9-l
va Chicago has no park, or as the Tribune
OF that city puts it, there are Fifteen square
miles of mud without green spot of land
two hundred thousand people without breath
ing place." -st si 3l
SE is stated that the plays of Sophocles
Euripides and Eschuyus and other classic au-
thors, are shortly to be performed at one of the
Paris theatres. s...s - t.,r,,-.,' s-.,r-
T. va 1t has just been decided, at Buffalo, that
a conductor is not bound to make change for a
passenger The latter must, if required, pre-
sent the exact sum fixed as the price of
ticket -
EY Mrs Charles, the author of the "Schon-
berg Gotta Family" is publishing serially in an
English magazine story entitled "The Dray
tons and the Davenants; being the Personal
Recollections of Mrs. Olive Drayton Of the
Fen Country" r., -''--- ..'-'' 4 +. '.n (
BS A large meeting was held at Vicksburgh
fortnight ago to indorse President Johnson's
policy. Among the notabilities on the plat
form was Col. Joe Davis, elder brother of
prisoner in Fortress Monroe. '-l -
Vs. At great dinner given on St. Patrick's
day at Charleston, S. c., a Mr.. Thomas Ryan
offered for toast:-"The memory of Preston
Brooks. 'oijaJ3fJ Gi jrB..tf lG4al fuil
6Y- West Roxbury, Massachusetts,, has paid
all her war debt, and has money in the treas
ury. Eo5 - - = ' t1s@ - ..'io :
va The Hartford Evening Press says "six
hundred new voters have already been admit
ted in New Haven this spring. One applicant
for admission read the words deceitfol convey
ances in the Constitution delightful conveniences
and was at once passed as being able to read" I'd
"a 1t is announced that Gen. Grant has
shaved off all his beard. .G51F sI 5lEoH !
EB-A somewhat laughable illustration of
the code which regulates the pay of men and
women in the various departments of labor.
was recently brought to light in Washington.
The female clerks in the Treasury Department
petitioned for penknives, alleging the smallness
Of their salaries. An order, was accordingly
issued to the clerk in charge of stationery, to
make an estimate of the probable cost, and in
the report rendered we find that the price of a
knife for gentleman clerk is two dollars, for
'laborer employed in the offices" adollar and a
half, and for female clerk dollar and /
quarter. enl Bu g,rT aA. Uoh selQ
DB-The custom of wearing the wedding
ring on the finger next the little finger of the
eft hand originated in the ancient superstitious
belief that there was an immediate magnetic,
Dr. electric, or mysterious connection between
that finger and the human heart. 1i noi5is