The Portland daily press., 1866-02-22

this produce $6o. Some lodes by the new
process yield $3.50 per ton.. Two cords day
can be manipulated by the desulphurizer. The
Excelsior Company in which MIR. Crosby is
largely interested, is at present using the de-
| sulphurizer with great success. MIR. Crosby
was the engineer for the extension of the An
droscoggin Railroad to Brunswick. s4o3
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
vs. Col. Forney has been sereDaded in
Washington, by company of colored men,
He faced the music, and declared himself for
negro suffrage. 21sa 9.t3J $50
EB-Liszt is to arrive in Paris ON the 1st of
March, for the purpose of performing his Cor
onation Mass at st Eustache. 's5 oia 'aas2
EBDuring the great rebellion the ranks of
the New York Seventh Regiment furnished to
the army of volunteers the following named
officers Major Generals, 8; Brigadier Gener-
ais, 10; Colonies, 80; Lieutenant Colonies, AZ;
Majors, So; Captains, I'D; Lieutenants, 1874;
Surgeons, z; Chaplain, 1; Adjutants, 10. Total,
561.
q EB- Laura Harris and Madame Vanzini
Mrs. Van Zandt) appear to be credtably sus-
tanning abroad the reputation of American
| singers Miss Harris as Amipd made very
favorable impression at Madrid, where she was
highly complimented by Mario, besides reoeiv-
| ing the warm plaudits of. the public Mrs.
Van Zandt at Copenhagen, made good sue
| cess. gai-lS2f asltzoT
So Grisi and Mario, it is said, both wish to
revisit this country Grisi is still singing in
| the English provinces in concerts, and sher
unioa ic xrat; inv rf,1
| ER- "A cooking range on Sunday exploded at
the st. Louis Workhouse, blowing the kitchen,
which was a substantial stone building, to
pieces. George Thompson, head cook, was
fatally, and his two assistants severely injured
3The Empress of Mexico has purchased
| at Jerusalem what is said to be the site of the
habitation of the Virgin Mary, and intend, to
erect a magnificent chateau on the spot.
D Max Strakosch's opera company, after
| successful season in New Orleans, visited Mo-
bile, and thence went to Montgomery, Alabama.
They will return North by way of Richmond,
playing at the principal cities. The Strakosch
| troupe is the first that has travelled ithrough
the South since the war, and we are glad to
hear that the tour has been pleasant and profit
| able. ,-.- ------
E9-George Putnam of New London was
| picked up off Cape Hatteras on the 18th Of last
/ month, by an italian bark, bound to Genoa
| He was sailor ON a schooner which was
wrecked on the oath, and had been clinging to
a hen-coop for three days when he was picked
| up. ~ i9A
Ey- The Provincial Legislature of New
| Brunswick is summoned to meet on the 9Th of
March. - Z.>4A
BB-T The Journal de Quebec says that COM
pany of influential men in Montreal, Quebec,
ST. Johns IN. b., and Halifax, has been form
ed to establish a line of steamers between Can
ada and the Maritime Provinces. The voyage
from Quebec to st. Johns will be effected in
three days and half, and the steamers will
make connexon at Shediac with the New
Brunswick railway. .s5osli
The total income of Maximilian's gov
eminent is calculated at seventeen to twenty
three millions of dollars, while the expendi-
ture last year was forty two millions.
GR A bill has been introduced into the
Georgia Legislature, authorizing the sale of
negroes into servitude for the benefit of credi-
tors who cannot obtain satisfaction of their de-
monds. 49, ~
WB DASSoNCilCS VI lucALduSUIDlc gOlu Q6-
posts, richer than California, are reported in
the state Of Michigan.
Last week some fishermen on the North
Carolina coast took six tons of rock bass at
one haul Of the seine. Some of them weighed
over seventy pounds each. They were sold for
the New York market at ten cents per pound
A good haul. .l4
GB A London correspondent states that
Miss Ayonia Jones was the wife of G. v.
Brooke, who was lost on the London, but had
been separated from him several years on ac-
count of his habits. They were reconciled be-
fore he sailed, and she has letter about him
in one of the English papers signed "Avonia
Brooke 30. sea
EY~There is rumor about New York that
Preston King has been seen in that city.
GB~The Boston Post says, the most remark
able man in Washington is the Russian minis
ter He can blush. f5s--4d De-
Va 1.-The police in Philadelphia are regularly
employed to keep crowds away from house in
| that city which is said to be haunted. q
Y"Our Consul at Malta writes that the
cholera has not permanently abandoned that
| place. The physicians think it will increase in
the spring. '1se-s' ~
EB- Senator Wilson intends moving an
amendment to the Constitution giving Con-
gress power to prescribe the qualifications of
voters in all the States, for members of the
legislature, representatives and presidential
| electors. 3fttE 81
| EY- The grand jury at Richmond has found
atrue bill against H. r. Pollard for assaulting
and beating E. P. Brooks, correspondent Of the
New York Times
gA Senator Guthrie was kind enough to
explain in the Senate that the Chicago Con-
ventiop only declared the war a failure "up to
that time" Perhaps, but the war declared the
Convention failure up to- this time-and for
all future time.1[Tribune. .,r5a.f.s
Wm Lloyd Garrison is i'm Washington.
EB-A disease among the CATTLE which is
thought to be the rinderpest, has appeared I'M
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and has
at length received the attention of the Legisa-
! ture and the local medical and agricultural
| societies.
gB The pay roll of the Kittery Navy Yard
| for the month of January amounted to $685.
411.37. | u ~.
John M. Bolts takes the ground that
| while State cannot be taken out of the Union
by rebellion, those of its people who engage in
that business may and do thereby expatriate
or denationalize themselves and become aliens,
as much as those who have joined Macmillan
| in Mexico. a5 oa sclls inisslacs.'--.a..
BR-A young factory girl met with a terri
bledeath at Fulton, N.Y. Crossing canal
bridge on plank which was slippery with
ice, and under which was shafting which re-
/ volved 100 times in a minute, she slipped and
fell, and was torn to pieces instantly by the
machinery.
Vs. In Canada Westi it is said the oil is so