The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-02-08

, BE The Saturday Press says the cholera Is
confidently expected in New York early dur
ing the coming spring, and the municipal au-
thorities are preparing to give it the freedom of
the city.
Ess-"It is a great misfortune" says La Bruy-
ere. mot TO have mind enough to talk well, nor
Judgment enough to be silent"
Eg-The latest announcement with regard to
the Fenians is that they are about to organize
a calvary service, the chief of which will have
the title of Head Centaur."
E- Governor Cox of Ohio, has declined to
commute the death sentence of DR.. Jno. w.
Hughes, the Cleveland wife murderer. s.-.
Va Fort Laramie dates to the 3d. say that
the Sioux Indians having been frozen out, have
made treaty to keep the peace and not steal
mules and stock.
ER- A freedman named Price has been
swindling the unsophistocated negroes in
Lynchburg by getting cash subscriptions for a
freedmen's paper to be published in Nashville.
He got about sixty subscribers at So apiece.
ERThough Mr.. Beecher is an uncommon
man, he sometimes falls into very common
error-that of over-estimating the number of a
congregation. Much has been said about the
capacity Of the house of the Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, N Y, and the popular idea is that it
| will seat from three to four thousand people.
Mr.. Beecher speaks of his congregation com
! posed of "three thousand persons" = others
have estimated it at from three to four thous-
and. At recent sale of pews the Trustees
| presented an exact plan of every pew and all
extra seats above and below and the exact
number each seat would hold. And according
| to this official statement, which must be pre-
| sumed correct, the house will seat, all told the
exact number of seventeen hundred and forty
nine. We believe it is yer common to over
estimate the number of a congregation; an ac-
tual count will be far more reliable Il Advo-
cate. a. Gs44e ..9'
| EY-Reports are received from Utah that the
Mormons contemplate the abandonment of
that Territory, and a wholesale emigration to
| the Sandwich Islands. 1t is said that Brigham
| Young has purchased or secured the refusal OF
| two of the Sandwich Islands for future coloni-
cation by the Mormons.
| EvA tender maiden of forty three obtained
| averdict of $1,000 damages in Ohio the other
1 day, against blushing youth Of seventy
who failed to keep his promises
|
EY- Readers familiar with the name of John
4 B. Weller, Ex-Governor and ex-senator will
appreciate this He was a passenger ON the
steamer Golden Rule, of the Opposition Cali
fornia Line, lost few weeks ago. "What did
| you save % inquired afriend of Weller IN 9th
ing but my character" "Then," declared a
wag who heard him, che must have landed al
San Francisco with less baggage than any man
who ever came to the Pacific Coast"
EY The Newburyport Herald states that on
Monday night, 10Th ult., Mr.. David M. Deal
captured a live seal, weighing about two hun.
dred and fifty pounds, on Salisbury Beach L,
is quite lively and tractable, and will soon be
placed on exhibition. @i hHs sifa&JE
EB-M Mr.. Stanton has written letter to the
President, taking different view of the dona.
ting of the Sea Islands from Gen. Sherman
Y-The colored men of Washington have
held convention in which the most un1inch
ing loyalty to the government, was pledged. :