The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-08-24
VARIETIES.

An English paper paints the following OF
one Of the born rulers of Great Britain: "Lord
Carnarvon is a sort of patrician pump running
with milk and water. He has that kind of
amiably insipid garrulity which is sometimes
not disagreeable in pretty girl, but which
needs particularly rosy lips and exceedingly
bright eyes to give it any charm. He would
be Invaluable as a male Secretary to a Dorcas
society; he shines with soft and moony lus-
tire, at quarter sessions and at kettledrums;
but in the heat, and crowd, and stress ofprac-
tical politics. where bearded men are strug-
Cling for mastery, we should imagine that his
neck-tie is likely to get out of order, and that
some heavy, plebeian heels will tread rather
roughly on his delicately vanished boots.
There is an opportunity for another "Song
eff the Bell" The bell foundry at West Troy,
New York, has just received ten tons of fine
copper and tin metal, which formerly consti-
tuted portion of the machinery of the rebel
ram Virginia. 1t will be put into good use by
being cast into church bells.
1t appears that stories of Indian depreda-
tions are sometimes manufactured by residents
in frontier settlements, who desire the presence
Of troops for profit instead of protection This
turns out to be the case with regard to the re-
ported massacres in Paradise Valley, Nevada,
early in July. 90 calrt IH .sIalI
I-Madame Anna Bishop has lately made
her appearance in a new role, that of Robin
SON Crusoe. She was among the passengers OF
the Bremen barque Libelle, from San Fran
cisco for Hong Kong, which was lost on Wake
Island, on the night of March A. She writes to
q friend in San Francisco:
We were three weeks on the uninhabitable
island. No water, and had to wait three days
before we Gould get any from the ship. We
had no clothing but what we stood in IN To ar
| riving on this island. The governor and inboh
ltants have been most kind, and furnished ms
| with few materials to make up little cloth
ing. They have no stores here. We came.
IWenty-one OF us in an open boat, fourteen
nundred miles. How we wished it was to San
francisco! A perfect miracle our safe passage
TO this place. The captain Of the Libelle left at
the same time we did from Wake Island, in q
small boat with four of his men and three
Cmnese; but up to this time we have not
heard of them. 7li ...iH .~,a7
9STIThe report that Mr.. George Lunt, late ed
ltor OF the Boston Courier, is to be made post.
master OF Boston, has called out some unusu-
any strong expressions. of bitterness from tho
papers Of that city. The Transcript says that
should the rumor prove true, "every radical
and conservative Republican in New England
would be obliged to confess that President
johnson had at last found out how to punish
them for their loyalty Can't Robert E. Lee
be persuaded to be magnanimous enough to
accept the place of Hannibal Hamlin. or. bet-
ter than that the position Of Maior-Genera,
underwond?l We like patriotic soldiers for of i.
ticials in this quarter'a 3.,ls.is ol I.aI 1fr
The findings in the cases of the officers of
the Freedmens Bureau, lately tried in NortI,
Carolina, have not been made public but
Washington dispatches say it is well under
stood that, with a possible exception in ths
case Of Captain CLAWS, they have all been ac-
| quilted Igfsa alida a4l say al s4,-....
Am English stone mason was recently
heard to remark, II am not going to fight for
country where don't own a square yard OF
land" That's a sermon for English states
men. r.
Under date of August 8, letter from
Richmond says: "Our ministers here have talk
en- even additional courage since the murder
of Unionists at New Orleans % Lord, bless
and savei Andrew johnson and Jefferson Da.
WIS., is the prayer of many of our reverend
traitors The rebels still continue to arm
themselves and drill, keeping up in fact theis
| old Confederate organizations. The womel,
are as spiteful as she tigers, and manifest az
much thirst for blood now as they did in 1861
and 1862. Every traitor, male and female, is
loud in praise of Andrew johnson u "
There is a perceptible crevice in Table
| Rock, which marks where its fall is anticipat-
ed ere long. Visitors will soon miss this rock
among the lines of Niagara. 400 !. ..,t
| h Letters from Rome report that the ex-
| King Francis H. has sold the Farnese Palace
to the Emperor Napoleon for eight million
francs l1Ii r ~" an n.-y -9ldin, ruu
BARRY .Cornwall's1 new life of Charles
Lamb is announced in London. D. d i
o'5,4-A good story is told of General Grenville
M, Dodge, the Union candidate in Mr.. Kas-
sons district.nWhile. he was in command at
Vicksburg he enforced strictly the regulations
in regard to cotton. The spectators tried his
metal by the usual appliances-an offer of $50
0o0in gold, then 100000, $4,000, .S2O0,OOO-
He then sent "a despatch to Washington asking
to be removed from command. He said be
had been offered 100000 to disobey orders,
which was SO near his price that he was afraid
the next offer would bring him. .5.Hro
in-The receipts at the Great National Fair
at Washington for the benefit of the Orphans
of Soldiers and Sailors foot up $26,s33,34 OF
this amount $3.50 was made by the Maine ta-
Bile in charge of Mrs. II. @. woodward. The
Independent Table" conducted by Mrs Kearn
and Miss Plant both Maine ladies netted $780,
co. exclusive of 500 which was stolen by a
thief % t'-''i 'l- .'h1i''iip3 -.- ..fi
--Doolittle, on assuming the chief stool in the
Philadelphia Wigwam, Characterized its col
lected braves as "a body greater in numbers
and in weight Of character and brain than
ever assembled on this continent under one
his modesty charming Each Kickapoo rising
in war council to address his filthy and squald
fellows invariably declares his tribe the largest
and most powerful nation on the globe, add
ing the inevitable sequence, big 1njun mep'