The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-06

BB Speaking of the present fashion of
dresses, the Paris letter Of the Daily Telegraph
says:-"The story of the 'Maitre d'Hotei COM
ing up to tell Madame *, who had paid her
compliments to her host and taken her seat
thather dress was shut in the carriage door, is
hardly an exaggeration, so long have the trains
become"
---Esfz Mr.. Conant, lately city editor of the
New York Times, sails for Washington Terri
tory with MI. MERGERS expedition of four hum
dred women, and will starts paper there.
BY- Astory is told of an inveterate drinker,
who signed the temperance pledge, but was
found soon after imbibing as often as ever. To
his friends who demonstrated with him, he re-
piled that the document which he signed was
/ invalid, because it had no internal revenue
stamp. --.-..--
W. One H. Melville Fay, formerly agent of
the Davenport brothers, is now exposing their
| humbugs in the foreign cities. z-
BB- The Louisville correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette has just seen Kentucky
farmer in the cars who had not heard Of Mr..
Lincoln's death or Of the emancipation of the
slaves. He is a staunch democrat. n =
E- 1t has already been announced that
Gazaway B. Lamar, Of Savannah, is on trial
before a military commission in that city on a
| charge of defrauding the government by OBJ
tanning cotton. The Savannah papers contain
full reports Of the evidence. Lamar, now near
ly seventy years old, is native of Georgia
and was the president of the Bank of the Re-
public. He put in a plea, denying the jul
risdiction of the Court, but it was overruled
and the trial began on the 26th ult. ,>f
BY~ A lady in Norfolk, Va, last week left
her infant in bed in an upper room of her
dwelling, and went down stairs, to attend to
her household duties. In short time her at.
tention was attracted by sound something
like the tread Of a. cat upon the stairs leading
to the room where the infant lay sleeping, The
4 lady Immediately ran up stairs, and upon en-.
tering the bed chamber a rat jumped off the
i bed. Upon examining the child, which was
crying bitterly, its left hand was found to be
nearly eaten away. & III ENySy 1 q
/ ES- The Liberator, for "a years edited by
William Lloyd arrison, has closed its career
as journal. Slavery is dead, and the Libera.
tors pursuit of it is over. The Liberator Is him.
self liberated. s<BsPe rEseFEEs'cs
/ EB" Only two survivors of the Revolution.
airy struggle now remain, VIM. Hitchings, Of
Penobscot, and Samuel Cook, of Clarendon, N
Y. Three died during the past year.
4 Mr.. McCulloch gives the aggregate pub.
lie debt, on the LIST day of JAM at $2,716, 5S1
$685. q s-giti go l'Q ~! 'f2gi - :
>Ey- The National Intelsgencer has long
article on the proposition to establish iiniver
sal suffrage there, which distinctly intimates
that the President will veto any bill recogniz
ing negro equality there or elsewhere Well
If he shoaad veto such "a just and democratic
act of the national legislature, we suppose
there would not be wanting plenty of ardent
Republicans who would conclude it was al
right The pregnant hinges of the knee
were not all confined to Shakspeare's time.
GY- 1t is said Secretary Stanton's friends
hope he will accept the mission to England a.
a certain way of relieving himself from the va
rious suits which it is understood are to bt
brought against him by copperheads and THEY
ing contractors, a commencement having beef
made in New York. ,-rv,- -v
L. W A friend who has recently made tri,
Z westward, writes:--"i found the road from Al
bany to Rochester a very rough one, but ths
rest of the way smooth and good. If you, o.
any of your friends, are dyspeptic, and have oc
oasion to come this way, advise to travel tina
road. First, you will be taken withsa ioltine
up and down; anon, with lateral shake.
dose of this roads better than hard trottins
horse, for dyspeptic.'
Chief Justice Chase and Secretary Sew
ard were among the pail bearers, at the funera
of Hon. Henry Winter Davis.