The Portland daily press., 1866-02-10
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EY-A New York letter writer says Mr.. Jo-
siah Perham has sold out all his franchise and
interest in the Northern Pacific Railroad to- a
company of Boston people, for the snug sum Of
$3.50 600 asaie'a inls13s ~, ~ y f.Issd ss. 4
EH-The St. Paul Pioneer states that Gen.
Washburne, President Of the Water Power
Company, has just completed arrangements
with Boston capitalists for the erection of
Cotton Mill at Rock Island, Ill. All over the
West, manufactures are rapidly INCREASING
Ca The Democrats eonstrue the neglect to
fill the vacant New York Colectorship as
favorable augury for their party. They say the
President will keep this vacancy open till he
settles in his own mind whether to break finally
with the Union party and throw himself into
the arms of the opposition. ''' 49,.
EB The people Of Louisiana are shivering
with the thermometer at AZ degrees above zero.
What would become of New Orleans nose in
this temperature !? sat 50 s1lGgFaioo aoas9n
DH-The Germans are opposed to having their
countrymenY go South under contracts with
planters, into what they consider q species Of
slavery. uff-3dsH
Ey-We are indebted to Hon. W. W. Brook
ings of Yankton, Dacotah, for a pamphlet con-
tanning official Information for emigrants, in a
report made by a committee of which he was
chairman to the House of Representatives of
that Territory Mr.. Broolzings is native of
WoolWich, in this state and graduate of
Bowdoin. Dacotah, lies west. of Minnesota
and between that state and Montana It.
destined to be rich state "a s,ie. 5ss Iksa {
| Va Canada is likely to become the country
flowing with oil. 1t is almost literally getting
oil on the BRAIN The Toronto Globe, one of the
most staid and phiIosophic journals extant, is
perfectly oleagInous. The latest news show
| that oil has been discovered at -Eastnan's
| Springs, near Ottawa, and a company is opera
| ting at Mount Pleasant. The oil region seems
to be very extensive. III .
/ EM Mr.. Morrilps Bill for the Government of
the District of Columbia, is a formidable docu-
ment of 1o2 pages, containing al sections Mr.,
Morrill, had unanimous consent to introduce it,
and have itreferred to the Committee ON the
Distrietof Columbia end printed. Wsare in
debted to him for acopy.
GYThe Richmond Times says ;sthe N alton
al Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company,
chartered by an act of Congress in 1885 for the
| benefit of the freedmen and their descendants,
| are opening new branch banks in different por-
tions of the South. The headquarters of the
corporation is in New Yofk city. Branch banks
have been established in Norfolk and Rich
mond, Virginia; Newborn, Wilmington, and
Beaufort, North Carolina; Charleston, South
Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; Mobile and
Huntsville, Alabama; Vicksburg, Mississippi;
Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee; and Wash
ington, District of Columbia. The total de
| posts at all the branches up to. the present
time amount to $25OOo0 of which sum $4,000
has been returned to the freedmen for the pur-
chase of homesteads. Ia The amount deposited
with the Washington, Office is $4,000. " Thisis
pretty well for class of people that don't know
how to take care of themselves.
EThe Governor of Georgia has vetoed the
bill making valid all contracts between the
whites and the freedmen; and the Senate OF
the same state has passed bill allowing per-
sons to testify in their own behalf in criminal
cases only. III = dO'l
| "a Va The American consul at Liverpool states
that the cattle plague is rather on the increase
than otherwise. During the week ending Jan.
goth, nine thousand two hundred and forty
three cases were reported to the authorities;
thus far upward of seventy thousand cattle
have either died with the plague, or been killed
after taking it. ....,--. ,r..,-r =