The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-31
VARIETIES.

The Buffalo Courier learns from authority
u regards reliable that some time ago, befoia
tue strength of the Crowns evidence in the
Ease OF the Fenians under arrest was known in
"sn'nd instructions had been received from
INC home Government not IN resort 10 ex
IRENE measures, even should n conv;ct;on ha
| had oon'i0"on 10
-ine prize offered by Mr.. Greeley for the
best grape has been awarded 20 t,,o Cs.s.s
"A joker at the Boston Theatre tha o.hor
night remarked that he observed ,to. p:s.o",
had plunged at once in Medea's no.
"A Lowell paper publishes reou,or,x, .ho
names the parties to whom the c;tv c,erI
mas issued certincates OF marriage intentions
AT Mme Ristori's last matinee in New
York, on Saturday, the tragedienne was called
before the curtain at the end of the sleep-wallx-
ing scene in Macbeth" and made a little
speech in English, favored with piquant Ital
ian accent. She said =
Ladies and Gentlemen Sometimes think
1t all a dream. Am / in the New World? This
enthusiasm-these honors-are they real? My
astonlshment is profound, and my gratitude
life." q. '.,. n 49, - - -,
"a new breastplate has been invented in
Lyons, consisting Of cork, from four to seven
centmetres thick, covered on one side with a
sheet OF metal and ON the other with the cloth
OF the uniform. 1t is very light and said to be
efficacious as a defence against sabre shot and
bayonet 'F
-Itis said that among the applicants for
Commissioner of Patents, (not yet declared va
cant) are Edmund Burke of New Hampshire.
and Judge Mason, leach of whom has occupied
the position in time past,) and Mr.. G. M wes-
ton, an unsuccessful Congressional candidate in
the late Maine election. f ..f
The Tribune says burning school-houses is
unconstitutional and ought not to qualify any
class to send Representative to Congress-
"A gentleman" according to the Boston
fost, spoke disrespectfully of Anna Dicken-
son the other day, after her address in the city
OF notions, as an "old maid" Her age is said
to be 23
The World says "there is nothing of which
the Democratic party has greater reason to be
| proud than its course during the late war"
which reminds the Bangor Jefersonian of the
unsophsticated damsel who chad the itch and
was proud to own it,"
The Mammoth Cave with the hotel, is to
| let. The cave would make a pleasant country
| seat for any fat gentleman of independent for
| tune.
The Ottawa Union publishes the following
touching lines:
| I. There s a calm for those who weep
a rest for Copper-,Iohnsons found,
They softly Le and sweetly sleep,
1 Rowedby Salt River s rippling sound.
1t is reported that Columbus Delano will
contest the seat of Morgan in the Ohio Thir-
teenth District. 1t is said that one township
gave Morgan more votes than there were voters
| The Republican General Committee are taking
testimony
| The New York Journal of Commerce ad-
vises all Democrats in the Fifth District to cast
their votes 'at whatever cost" against John
Morrisey, the regular Democratic nominee for
Congress. .al r..
The Hon. John L. Thomas Representative
in Congress from the Second Maryland Dis
trict and a candidate for reelection, had re-
cent conversation with Gen. Grant, in New
York, in which the latter explicitly and volun-
| tarily took ground in favor of the Constitu-
| tional amendment, and declared it would be
fatal to the South if they refused to adopt it.
In all the speeches of Mr. Thomas he gives the
particulars of this conversation, in which the
General gave him this unqualified assurance.
-Colwell Coville, the Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Second District of Mime
sofa, has declared that he is in favor of the
constitutional amendment and of Negro suf-
frage. The New York Evening Post says it
knows that several of the Democratic candi-
dates for the Assembly Of that State, if elect
ed, win vote for the ratification of the amend
ment. The world moves, and the Democratic
party win eventually follow.