The Portland daily press., 1866-01-13
ORIGINAL AND sELHoTED

ES>The Springfield Republicdn and some
other papers seem to have gone into heroics
over report that Chief Justice Chase had
signed petition for the pardon of young
Aetohum, and the New York World has the
lneffable meanness to intimate that Ketchum,
In his forgeries, only copied MIR. Chase's finan-
clal policy as Secretary of the Treasury. More
than week ago Mr.. Chase gave an emphatic
denial to the report that he had signed a petit
ton, or in any way interfered with Ketchum's
affairs; yet the SANDER is kept up in copper
aead papers.
E~ son of the late President Polk takes
care of mules at Nashville, and gets 81. % day
for it. His father was an hostler before HILL
had charge of the Augean stable at Washing-
ton. l4 H.
EY- The Bangor Times which, just at pres
emit, seems to be little uncertain which way
to place its rudder, slapped the Press for ques-
tioning the political orthodoxy of Raymond, of
the New York Times. Since that slap Ray
mond has voted with the Democrats and against
the Administration party, on the question of
Withdrawing the troops from the late rebel
States, and of all the Administration members
of the House he voted solitary and alone with
the Democrats against referring Worries late
resolutions to the Reconstruction Committee.
G3 Barney Doherty was fatally injured by
the explosion of still in the Kerosene works
in South Boston, on Thursday morning1 last
U.s. At a social assembly in West Cam
bridge Wednesday evening last, Mrs. james
Durgin, an estimable lady, fell and expired al
s,,o< cha foIi bar nlaca n
on the floor to participate in a cotillon. A
hasty termination was put to the festivities.
- The Boston Transcript says counterfeit
greenbacks of the denomination of $40, are in
circulationrin that city. They are ooarsely ex-
ecuted. 1t is well to remark that proposition
is before Congress to execute" the counterfeit
ers.
The pay roll at Charlestown Navy Yard
for December, was $zaO,641.s5. Number of
men employed, 2,261.
EBf- Robert B. Minturn, one of the richest
merchants of New York, died at his residence
in that city, on Monday night last. He was a
man of great philanthropic impulses, and took
much interest in the cause of the freedmen.
E8 France has now seventeen large COM
mercial steamers running between Europe and
the American continent and her colonies. On
ly a few years ago the Mediterranean service
was all which that country produced in the
way of a steam commercial navy. In May
next, five steamers will run constantly between
Havre and New York. ala5a9-
ER- A Roman Catholic night refuge has
been established in Montreal. In two years
the Protestant one afforded 1900 night lodg-
ings and $4,000 meals. s.E e- aJ .s4A
BB- As much nitrate of soda as can be held
between the thumb and fingers will preserve
flowers for the space of a fortnight. az, u
SB- A clergyman, not long ago, wrote book
to prove that the temperance agitation, and es-
pecially the Maine Law, was one of the "seyen
Ia It plaques" spoken of by job in the Revela-
tons. ID ~.
| E8 The New Orleans Picayune says -
Throughout Texas all seems to be life and
hustle Every stage and railway car, on every
road, comes and goes crowded with passengers.
while all the thoroughfares leading from the
coast ports to the interior towns are alive with
wagons taking out goods. Never before was so
much activity observable in Galveston, Hous.
ton and San Antonio; in the latter city in par
| ticular, rents are enormously high, and al.
though new houses are rapidly going up, they
are all occupied before the plaster is vet dry.'
| va The Springfield Republican publishes
an encouraging fact for boys, In the winter Of
1855 there were eight carrier boys EMPLOYED to
distribute that paper in Springfield. Three Of
1 these boys are row cashiers of banks in or nea,
| Springfield. 7s-l5i 4 oi 8se 1858 tI p
/ ~ General Swayne, Commissioner o,
Freedmen for Alabama, writes that he has sue.
ceeded in limiting the issue of subsistence to
destitute persons of all classes in his district to
about fifteen thousand ratiops per day. The
State commissioner, appointed by tn Legisla-
ture for that purpose, reports the number Of
destitute whites at 10000.
| Ca AT the recent exhibition of the Mechau-
10 Association in Boston, Mr.. Trouvelot, Of
Medford, Massachusetts, exhibited q box con-
tanning cocoons and silk, the product of q ma
tive silk-worm, found by Mr.. Trouvelot in the
woods some six years ago. He began his ex-
periments with pair of worms indoors. and
continued propagating for four years until he
had a large stock on hand; two years since, he
began propagating in the open air, and was
perfectly successful. The worms are hardy.
living in the open air, and feeding On the leaves
OF trees in our forests, such as oaks, walnut,
birch, chestnut and willow. 10 -a syaG oW
| EY = Some of the New York people want to
have erected in that city the largest organ in
/ the world. A correspondent of the Post offers
to be one Of dozen gentlemen to complete
such an enterprise.
BB An association of invalids from all parts
Of the Union, at st. Paul. Mimi, is called the
Pulmonary Brigade. 'il DIT y H''iis PIG
VS. The special telegraphic correspondent
of the Boston Aduerttser infers from the action
OF the caucus on Wednesday night that no
bill granting universal suffrage in the District
OF Columbia can pass the House. It will re-
quire reading and writing qualification to
pass, and possibly with such provision some
men like Thad. Stevens will oppose it. The
Boston Hera!ds dispatch says the result of the
caucus may be summed up in the simple fact
thatit was agreed to pass bill for qualified ne
gro suffrage in the District More than two
thirds of the members present voted for such
bill. y , Fl 3fi oi f.9-J II ueot IS 9
vs. The Senatori. i canvass in Ohio is way
ing warm. John Sherman and Gen. Schenck
are the two principal candidates. afl ~ avi
D8- The churches in Newport were desert
ed ON Sunday, 7th inst, on account of the Sc
we're cold. The pastor of one of the largest
congregations in the city preached regular
sermon to seven hearers-all men-from these
words; Stormy wind fulfilling his word"
Va 1t is whispered that a new magazine ia
to be started in New York, with Hurd g.
Houghton as publishers and Bayard Taylor as
editor, which is expected by its sanguine pro-
jectors to cast the Atlantic Monthly far into the
shade. -'. ~ .. 81" -l
gB- On Tuesday, 9th inst, by the burning
of cottage house in Salem, an old lady so
years of age, and a little boy were suffocated
EY- Hon. w. p. Fessenden and Hon. J. H
Lane, of the United States Senate, Hon. J. w.
ForHey, Secretary of the Senate, Hon. j.