The Portland daily press., 1866-02-01

: - sAAS AASo VI cuuudly 1OOu, tuc pubic u6DJ
was S76A63. 176; this was .successiyely reduced
until 1872, when it amounted to $45,737 yOOO-
The war Of 1872 raised it to $127 1884 933 in 1916;
the debt was thoroughly cancelled in 1885, and
in addition, $2S,0OOOOO of surplus divided pro-
portionately among the States, The United
States has enjoyed the rare honor of being the
only Government that has paid her debts, with
surplus, and this without having oppressed
her people with excessive taxation.-TNew-
buryport Herald.
BB-A bill has been introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature intended to put
stop to the practice Of procuring to. be publish
ed false announcements of marriages. 1t pro-
vides that every person found guilty of such a.
notice in the Pennsylvania papers shall be pun
ished by Imprisonment of five years or less, or
/ by fine of $500 or less, besides being liable in
odamagesat the suit of the damaged parties
Vs. In town in Connecticut resides man
who made a fortune in the milk business, by
not giving the full measure; as he grew rich
he thought he would change his occupation to
something more respectable, and accordingly
bought a grist mill. In conversation with his
wife, he said he did not feel right about the
cheating he had practised in the milk business,
and wished a way could be devised whereby he
could repay in the grist mill what he had
cheated in the other. AT last they settled on
the fol. Lowing plan, which was to have the
measures with which they took toll as much
too large as the milk measures were too snail.
GB In some places in California the frost
has opened serexiees zin@the earth. At Gold
Hill several of these were from twoto three
inches wide at the surface and crowbars and
thin Stats of wood were let down them for. a
distance oftwenty feet before meeting obstruc-
tons.
MIR. Bateman, the engineer of the Glas-
gov waterworks, has published q pamphlet
proposing scheme for supplying London with
water, by means Of an aqueduct from North
Wales. l He proposes that the aqueduct shall
have two branches in Wales, which shall meet
before they cross the Severn; the length of the
whole viii be 15a miles; the capacity will be
22O0o0OO0 gallons daily, and the cost es, 600
upwards of $4O,OO0,OOO. ..,-,,,
Ey- The st. Paul (NIinn.) Press estimates
the amount of wheat sent to market from that
State during the year 1865 at 100000 bushels
This gives forty -eightbushels for, every inhab-
itant man, woman and child, in the State.
DY- George 81. Pendleton, Ohio Pendleton,
ex-candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the
"Little. Mac ticket, has written a letter to a
Virginia gentleman saying that Justice and
good policy alike require that ample protection
should be assured to the person and property of
the negro wherever he is recognized as free
man. I mean tina. protection, and that sense
of protection, which just laws, impartially adj
ministered, give to the person and property Of
the white man., s.,.l.rseaf ~ KS 5gsge F1c
GV The city of New York is estimated to
beIworth, in real and personal property, about
six hundred millions of dollars, 1t maid, in
1864 eighteen and quarter millions to the In
ternal Revenue eIn1a65 that sum was increas-
ed to over thirty-seven millions, owing to the
more perfect enforcement of the law. It pays
to that revenue about forty dollars for every
man, woman and child, and it is estimated that
nearly one-ffth of the national revenue comes
from New York, .y4 : toae S59fe'Hfa
W. Professor Newton of Yale College has
gone to Washington for the purpose of submit
ting to Congressa system of weights and meas
ures, having for its unit the French metre, and
TO aid in endeavoring to secure the passage of a
law, establishing that system throughout the,
States - ~S~a'~ a. ~
=. BB- The capital of the Boston g. Cuba
Steamship Company is to be 81 800 900; and of
the Boston B New Orleans Steamship Co. ST.
100000. Ct}IIWJEI fl(E
( G4~ A oolored delegate from South Carroll
ma appeared before the Select Committee on
Freedmen, a few days since, to urge the pas
sage of the Senate billenlarging the power of
| the Freedmen's Bureau, and especially the re-
tention Of that provision giving freedmen the
occupancy for three years Of the Sea Island
cotton lands.
10 Va, A fire broke out in Portsmouth, N. H.
Tuesday evening, in the stable of Joseph
Holmes, on Cornwall street, but by the strenu-
GUS exertions of the tremen it was confined to
that building Loss about $1,000. ~ s''94'%
=, EIn Boston, on Saturday, Parker =. Bar
~ was fined by Judge Russell $1,000 for keep
ing liquor nuisance in School street, and to
give $1,000 to keep the peace. The fine was
paid and the bonds given r5rNgGE erE{-I
T. vs. Frederick g. Ward, formerly of Salem,
and father of the late Gen. Ward of China, died
recently at San Francisco. sz'arld i''rG
U.s. Mrs, Robert E. Lee, it is said, is bring
1 = =. = 49, =
ing the influence of many leading men Of vir-
ginia and the South to bear upon the President
in favor of the restoration to her of the prince
ly Arlington estate, with some probability of
success.
l.. gB- Four persons were burned to death at
! the Railroad House, Dunkirk, N. Y, last week.
A barrel of crude oil fell from passing train
andobroke. The hotel folks swooped up some
oil and carried it into the house. One of them
went near a tub of oil with candles when the
oil exploded, and the hotel and some adjacent
houses were burned, occupied by Brady, zim-
norman and Others -sseff g.,f l1If-s,r
E- The Rev. Dr., B. -7---, while introduce
ing to the audience, Rev. DR.. S., the ia
nous missionary from India i(hisi home by
BIRTH concluded his remarks with the follow
ing left-hand compliment:-"He comes to you
from that land where every prospect pleases,
and only man is Vile" The modest missionary
arose and blushingly rendered his thanks
amidst the irrepressible mirth of the audience.
EB-@Alpaca PARTIES" whatever those may
be, are the fashion in Springfield, Mass ..!g