The Portland daily press., 1866-01-26

for the last week or less.
Ia Taking steps for the freedmen-holding
promenade concerts for their benefit
EB- Mr.. Joseph Emerson, of Pennington,
N. H., received about one hundred and seventy
five dollars last fall for turkeys, which cost him
only one and half bushels of corn, they hav
ing fattened themselves on beechnuts.
EB- Benjamin Phinney, wealthy farmer
at Rockport, ILL, was recently poisoned to death
with strychnine by his fifth wife, pretty gitl
whom he married six weeks ago.
EB- Stiles Kennedy, in taking editorial
charge of d weekly paper in North Carolina,
makes this brief but emphatic salutation: "In
assuming control of the Banner bring very
little into it, and expect to take very little out
of it. But I shall try to make substantial,
readable and reliable paper"
G Jim Brooks" copperhead representa-
tive in Congress from New York, said in the
House few days since, that he preferred his
| own color to that of negroes, and therefore
| should rather confer suffrage upon women
| than upon the Africans. "Jim" has changed.
A few years since he thought so much of Afri-
can color that he consented to marry South
ern widow for the sake of her plantation and
darkies, and that's the milk in his cocoa-nut
EB- Senator Wade remarked, few days
since, that elaborate speeches were not necessa-
ry to show what the temper of the South is, at
present. All might know it without evidence,
and he thought any man who did not under
stand human nature we'll enough, to perceive
what must be the prevailing sentiment there,
was not competent to be member of the Sem
ate. EsI
EY- The winter thus far has been remarka-
BILE for the large percentage of mild weather,
and yet, when we see heavy teams passing our
Office window, loaded with clear blue ice TWEEN
ty or twenty-four inches thick, the conclusion
seems irresistible that somewhere in the neigh
borhood, Jack Frost has maintained his rule
with a good deal of vigor = .--4J-
DB The Quebec Daily Ne,cs says that a re-
port was in circulation in that city, that COM
munication from Lord Monck had been receiv-
ed by the last English mail, announcing that
her Majesty had appointed his Royal High
ness, the Duke of Cambridge, to visit Canada
in May next, to open the Parliament Buildings
at Ottawa. The Duke is cousin to the Queen,
and would come as Yiceroy to give eclat to the
Inauguration.
The Jackson MISSY Clarion regrets to
observe $50 great a disposition on the part of
! colored people to congregate about the towns
| and villages, refusing regular employment in
| the rural districts" eff this is thing to be
| deplored," remarks the Buffalo Express "what
| supreme assininity on the part of the Legisla-
ture was it to enact law forbidding the freed
men to acquire real estate elsewhere than in
the incorporated towns"
EB- A special dispatch to the Boston Adver-
tiser says "the discussion in regard to the Pres
idents position with respect to the District
suffrage bill continues undated, and most con-
Trajectory well-authenticated reports prevail
| in regard thereto. General Butler has had
conversation with him, and believes he will
sign the bill as passed by the House; leading
| Western Senator states that the President told
him he would sign it in that form; while MEM
Der of the Cabinet was given to understand on
Monday, that twould not be signed, and a COM
mittee of so-called conservative republicans,
who have been discussing the matter, claim to
| have assurances that it will be vetoed unless
modified by the educational amendment"
GB- Some of the English physicians pro-
nounce the cattle disease form of small pox.
Why not call it the kline or ceaO pox Sucha
name would seem to be peculiarly appropriate.
Eg Bishop Morris of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, is dangerously i'll at Xenia, Ohio,
of paralysis.
EB The Quebec Journal gives some inter-
esting facts as to the diminution of the popula-
j ton in certain parts of Lower Canada. st.
Andrews, village in the township of Acton,
contains LIT families and has 200 houses unoc-
cupied. In St. Theodore, same township, there
are "a houses untenanted. The diminution of
the populatio in st. Andrews, in three years,
has been 2,065 souls, and in st. Theodore, 49,
In the township of Acton, $500 of the popula-
ton have left for the United States.
EB- An exchange says, "It is better to love
person you cannot marry, than to marry a
person you cannot love-" This is a short text
for a long sermon, which human experience
will continue to preach until the last syllable
| of recorded time"
Leopold II. is the first sovereign of Bel
GUM born within the country since the great
Emperor Charles ", who is well known to
have been native of Client, and always glori-
ed in his birthplace. a-
/ EY- Gov. Bullock, of Mass, has appointed
Major Edward J. Jones as State Constable in
place of Col. King, resigned. Major Jones
served through the war and performed gallant
service.
EH An aspirant for legislative honors in
Southern Pennsylvania says in his printed ap-
peal for votes, with more significance than he
intended, that if not elected he should remain
at home, cooper, and an honest man."
E- The Henry Winter Davis Monument
Association has been formed in Baltimore, and
over $4,000 were subscribed at the first meeting
EB Pickerel fishing is good in Berkshire
County, Mass. James M. Anthony, with his
son and two other persons caught one day last
week, 2S3 piekerel, weighing 143 pounds, from
Pontoosuc Lake.
GB- Assistant Secretary of the Navy Fox
is reported to have rendered his resignation, tt
take effect on the first Of March, at which time
he will assume the presidency of the California
Steamship Company, recently organized il
New York, in which city he will take up hi
residence.
BT One account of the recent marriage o
the Princess Anna Murat states that the whip
OF the coachmen cost twenty dollars each ant
the silk stockings of the footmen thirty dollar
pair.
B- The Chicago Republican has discontin
ued its Sunday issue.
EB-The Boston Advertiser complains of hav
ing papers stolen from the doors of its subscrib
ers, and says-the remark is as appropriate il
this city as in Boston-"we can only again re
commend what has been found the most effica
cious remedy,-to have box prepared for theil
reception" i-q'J FL
GB- The New Bedford Mercury thinks ths.
Master Cocker, who breaks his engagement
there on account of sickness, while he is sing
ing every night in Washington, is like the 9th
er little boy who was too sick to 90 to school
but well enough to 90 a-fishing.
gB- Thirteen men were hung for murder il
different parts of the United States, on Friday
the 18th inst. q sa,fts l.f ,