The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-11-16
VARIETIES.

convention OF persons who desire "to "a
oute the right of suffrage to all citizens. with
"' u'Suhetion OF race or SEX" will assemble
IN ~ A"eddle Hall, Albany, November 9Otb
i'i' convention has been called by the Amer
icah Equal Rights Association
memphis must be a cheerful nl.co of -ns;
denee. A newspaper of that CITY saws. aN;obt
aiter night afrays occur; men are shot within
anew yards Of our office; bullets are fired into
WINDOWS; and it's 'D-n your clickl bangs
4 am shotF nightly from one end of the city
to the other"
1t is stated that Gen. Grant disapproyes
the restoration of Gen. Sweeney to his posi
ton IN the regular army, which he forfeited bv
violation of the neutrality laws in the Fenian
raid
The Norwich Comm Bulletin calls tho
New York Herald the "only successful comic
paper that this country has ever produced"
"A New Hampshire blacksmith was request
ed to bring suit for SANDER. He said he
could go into his shop and hammer out het-
ter character than all the courts in the State
could give him.
Sword blades resembling those of Dauas-
Gus are made at solingen, in Germany fag-
30. hlst FORMED OF alternate fine bars of iron
ana steei 1t is drawn out, doubled and twist
ed seVerai times and then formed into ribbon.
Two such ribbons are weded together, enclos-
between them thin blade of the best cuttine
English steel. After polishing, it is dipped in
diluted sulphuric acid to give it pattern.
The Mobile Register, John Forsyth's pa
per, sings perfect Jeremiad over the
result of the Northern elections. 1t saws:
we of the South can do no more than
to pray for our country We have no voice n,
shaping its destinies." If they had contented
themselves with praying for it five or six years
ago, instead of trying to ruin ii, they would
not now be in the position they find so disa-
greeable AS it is we do not see why they
should complain if the loyal nation declines to
( allow them any voice in shaping the destinies
OF country which they still insist they had
right to destroy, until it has put it out of their
power to play the same game again. If they
obstinately persist in rejecting the easy terms
offered them, preferring to devote themselves
to their prayers, the nation will probably
be able to bear it.
Under the head of METEOROLOGICAL tho
Providence Journal has the following:
On, Sapientes. tell IT'S why
No Shooting Stars'' fell from tbe skv
As promised in the ''bils?'
Was it our poets damned the wav
And shamed the Gods from their sscroauet.n
Upon the oiympian Hills?
The Argus complains of having been @cut
and slashed" by tbs "pewter weapon welded
by the Press. The knife appears to he sbarn
enough for the material upon which il is used
A hoe is proverbially dull, but answers to cut
up weeds with
we have received from subscriber on Do
yer Hall Plantation, Glynn County, Georgia. a
fine sample of sea island cotton raised by
Maine boys employing free laborers. With
twenty hands one hundred and twenty-eirbt
acres of cotton have been cultivated; and the
spirit AMI energy of the freedmen has been
quite satisfactory even to their Northern en-
pioyers. For fineness, length of fibre, and
cleanness, the cotton is better than we ever
saw, raised under the old system.
The New York World, with great consis-
tency, assails John Bright, the leader of the
English Radicals, as q dangerous politician.
There 10 no reason why the World should op-
pose impartial suffrage here and advocate il in
England, as the Argus tries to do.
1t is stated that the New Hampshire De-
mocraey are highly disgusted that q person
named Bowers, who has recently come
into the State from Connecticut should
have the assurance to pat President johnson
ON the back and tell him what the New Hamp-
SHIRE Democrats would do for him, and take
the best and in fact the only good Office in the
Third Congressional District, when he was like
the captain who was "not on speaking terms
with his men and couldn't control one of
them.9 1t is called the greatest policy of as
surance ever issued in the Granite State. and
the ''unterrifiod" decline to be taken at these
rates. ..