The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-11-12
Terms Eight Dollars per AMMAN, Ia, adya,,ce.
VARIETIES.

The New York World, moralizing over the
result of the elections, says it would be futile
for the President "to contend longer with ths
iadlcals in respect to the South, and he will
pest consult the dignity of his office by letting
actlon cease with his responsibility
AGAINST congress there was no appeal but to
.ne people, and the passions of the war have
noe yet sufheiently subsided to permit them to
Judge with candor The ratification of the
amendment is not question for him. but for
the states. He may hereafter stand aloof from
that subject without any loss of dignity or ~
consistency"
! "A mechanical horse has been invented i'm
faris which IS said to be equal in all respects
TO the 1--we animal The only obstacle to its
immediate introduction into general use Is the
lcost-ten thousand dollars.
Among the volumes soon to be issued
rom the Government press is revised and
greatly enlarged edition of Mr. Charles Lam
mans Dictionary of Congress" 1t win con-
tain nearly five thousand brief biogranbies
while the official information COMPRISING ;ta
ample appendix will be brought down 10 the
close of the last session of Congress.
Snow, two feet in depth, is reported be-
tween, Colorado and Salt Lake. Seyentv-six
mules belonging to Holladay's overland ex-
press train, We're frozen to death.
Attention is called to the mournfuI fact
That OF the passengers on the ill-fated Evening
star, not woman was saved, though sixteen
men came off in boats.
i-Tennyson has joined the defenders of ex-
Governor Eyre, and has sent subscription In
the fund for his defence This is the fourth
great literary name which has ttken Mr.. Evrs
under its observation-disclosures Ruskin, Kings
ley and Tennyson. Just at the time when men
of letters stood highest in the general estma-
ton, these four men have done all in tbeir
power to disgrace what Earl Grey would have
called their Order by lending their names to
the support of brutality, stupidity and massa-
ere. -- t- 1870
We have received the initial numbar of
"The New York Musical Gazette" a hand
somely printed quarto paper to be issnad
monthly, and which is announced to addrass
itself to all who take pleasure in, or have bnaI-
ness with, music, but especially to the great
American musical public, rather than To apr
select few. -Four pages of every number will
DC music, OF new, easy and popular charac-
ter; and 1t is intended to make the Gazette n
popular musical journal, interesting and use-
ful to all. The publishers are Messrs. Mason
Brothers, New York.
Mr.. Sumner once said that no man would
again be President of the United States, who
spelled negro with two g's. We are disposed
to say that no man shall hereafter be emnloved
as proof reader in the Press Office, who SMELLS
"fogy" with the same lavish profusion. M,
Sumner was disappointed however. and 40 varv
likely shall we be. We may as well make q
clean breast oft, and acknowledge that wa ore
considerably mortified to have printed Col
Thom's name Thorn. 1t is Col THoM. who has
relieved Gen. Alexander and taken charce ~
tne pubic works in this harbor. While we ara
about it, we will apologize for the Argus too
which certainly never meant to annonnoa a.s
the subject of Dr. Storr,s lecture a. aADar;.o--
Mankind" .
MI Edmund Yates has created quite a.
sensation In English literary circles by declar-
ing tnat so long as reviewers are paid salaries
as readers for the publishing firms upon who's,
ventures they have TO pass Judgment, and so
long as all the reviewers and publishers have,
Intimate private friendships or business rela-
tons, it is impossible that the truth can h.,
spoken" 10
Mr. Anthony Trollepe's new ser;a, nou.,
t2 be published in illustrated weekly. number.
Barset,"
Mr. James Hanny and Miss Elizabetb
Thackeray are said to be writing a memo;r of
the late William Makepeace Thaokeray.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who an
nounced herself candidate for Congress- in
one OF the New York districts, received eiebt