The Portland daily press., 1866-11-19
VAR RIETEEs.


we ind the following in the local column
OF the Hartford Press:
20 kig says that Won conId ,o,I al .1,.o -
s sad up last Digit to see the sdars shoot badI,
'idhuedzy'" '"uuer they prodouds
Inc uilheulty which resulted in the brealr-
ing up OF the National Union Exeontive CgEo-
l,"''ee meeting arose on the question of taxing
1ne clerks in the depart ments to pay the S30,-
ooV winch the committee owe Rittenbouse
ho"ier g Company. A member of the COM
lhittee left for the North Thursday. to raise
funds wherewith to pay the debt
The London Daily News of the Both ult
says OF DR.. Mary Walker: "This lady, who has
recently passed so successful an examination.
visited Middlesex Hospital on Saturday and
was conducted through the establishment in
male attire She wore a low-crowned felt hat.
u'rK plush coat not quite reaching to the
A"ees, and black cloth trowsers."
| Miss Clara Barton delivered an address he
80 large audience in Worcester the other
n'as uea''linS her army and hospital expert
one SAID that at the battle of Antie-
.Nin "e, sleeve was pierced by bullet which
instantly killed the man whose wouns. .,,.
was stanching ''
90 "SAA" "oAOie tne mayor OF Harris.
purg' Pa, begging to be imprisoned. as she
was laboring under an uncomfortable impulse
TO murder somebody. She produced package
oil strychnine in evidence, and was locked M
forsthirty days.
| Dr. w. w. Fletcher of Concord. Nh
mas procured in New Brunswick large ouan-
uty OF the spawn of salmon, and will deposit
IL In the Merrimac and Pemigewasset rivers.
| The latest advertising dodge is a free mag
azine called "Onee q Month" and conta;n;no
on alternate pages "Story of the Heart" and
recommendations of Steinway's pianofortes
with other and more violent transitions. The
| publishers very appropriately say, on the cover.
flease let this He in a conspicuous place.
where all may read it." We have put our eonv
III the waste basket.
| -Ihe riverside Echo is one ofthe handsome
est papers we see, and the best Temperance
paper we ever saw
The Newburgh Times commenting unon
the election of free colored men to the Massa-
| chusetts legislature observes: s.It was 10 the
Boston people Daniel Webster. twenty years
| ago, addressed the alvice that they should
conquer their prejudices, and they have just
succeeded. Logic evidently rules at the Hub
The new magazine, Northern Lights" is
to be published in day or two The first num-
Der will contain an illustrated poem by Mrs.
| Howe, the first chapters of New England
novel, poetry and prose by Orpheus c. Kerr.
Edmund Kirke, Rev. F. w. Shelton and Fitz
| Hugh Ludlow, and the first Of a series OF bu-
morous articles y Petroleum V. Nasby
-Vesuvius, which for the last month has
been throwing up sheets of flame and smoke.
| has now subsided into dormant TRANQUILITY"
"A comcal typographical blunder occurred
the ether day in one of the newspapers. which.
in announcing the death of postmaster, made
it read POSTMASTER"
Rev Henry Ward Beecher is hereafter tn
publish his Sermons and Lecture-Room Talks
in The Examiner and Chronicle of New York.
once in every two weeks-Mr Beecher having
determined to withdraw from the Independents
at the.c close of the present year.
The Democratic Board of Canvassers in
Wayne County, Michigan, who threw out the
the votes of the fifth and sixth wards of De-
troit, because they gave Republican maiorities f.
will have an opportunity to defend their action
before the courts. 1t is true these wards cast
twelve more votes for Governor than the DOLL
lists would account for. The surplus votes
But it is also true that the votes for county of
ficers were quite within the limits of the lists
and the canvassers had accordingly no excuse
Whatever for overriding the decision of the peo-
PIE 50 far as these ofieefs were eeoneerned.-----.
AN ingenious writer in the Round Table
devotes three columns to "the Metaphysics of
Plagiarism" declaring that the metaphysical
test is tie only sure means of detecting itera-
rE hnff Hn ill,1otr l.. Al.
that I. B. Aldrch's poem, "Miantowona"
published in the Atlantic Monthly for October,
is plagiarism from little Swinburne's "Ma-
donna Mia" 1t turns out, uDluclSily for the
metaphysical test, that Mr.. Aldrich's poem
was in the hands of the printer before any
copy of Madonna Mia" reached this country.
AT the Berkley Church Fair there is o
comic gallery of art in which the articles are
catalogued. On looking for what is described
as THE British Lyre," the visitor finds copy
OF the London Times
In view of the rumor that Confederate
notes are again coming into circulation in the
remote South, the Mobile Times says-"We
can add that Mobile wood dealers will take
them even-eord for cord. If this be treason,
make the most of it,"
An association of guards of the night''
has been formed in Edinburgh, to take turns
In praying by the hour from II at night till 8
IN the morning, to foil the machinations of the
devil, and particularly his conjuring up of vi
olent storms and tempests during the hours
when christians are mostly asleep.
The Boston Transcript publishes the fol-
lowing ancient riddle which our readers can
exercise their ingenuity in guessing:
There is n oarfair ,,at,,roI ,,-o1,,oA;o..
neither animal, vegetable nor mineral; it ex-
lists from two to six feet from the surface of the
earth; 1t has neither length, breadth nor sub
stance; IS neither male nor female, but is often
found between both; is often mentioned in the
Old Testament and strongly recommend ed in
q she IMew, ana answers equally the purposes of
fidelity and treachery
AT recent railroad dinner, in compliment
to the fraternity, the toast was given: '.An
honest lawyer-the noblest work of God" But
an old farmer in the back part of the house
rather spoiled the effect by adding, in loud
| voice. "and about The scarcest"
The Quebec Chronicle says that numbers
of mechanics and laborers have been leaving
that city for the States since the fire, and the
emigration still continues. A great many per-
sons have gone to the West, Chicago and De-
troit being the favorite destinations. The en-
couraging accounts sent home by the earlier
emigrants, keep up the movement, which
threatens to considerably diminish the popu-
laton.
Chief Justice Chase,s Interview with the
President.
vu Nov