The Portland daily press., 1866-04-05
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Europe savants are debating the propo-
sltion of M. Won Gumpach who has issued
several books and pamphlets arguing that the
earth is not a compressed but probate clip
sold; or in other words it has not the figure of
an orange, but of a lemon. O.
| Vs. -Four hundred people were witnessing a
4 school exhibition in the second story of the
village schoolhouse at Mulwanago,, Wis, re-
| Gently, when the floor gave way and about half
the audience were precipitated to the first floor
which also gave way and let them down into
the cellar Strange to say, no lives were lost,
though many were badly bruised, and FEEDER
lex Patterson had a leg broken Il Those left
above were taken down through the windows,
with the aid of ropes and ladders, and those in
cellar helped up in the same way
G The Richmond (Va.) Republic asserts
that it is fact known to everybody that
throughout Virginia, and all through the South
ladies who were the recognized leaders of SC
ciety have betakens themselves to the needle
for the support of their families, and are toll
ing industriously and as eheerfu1ly in their yo-
cation as if they had been bred to it from their
childhood Not only this but in many instan-
sces they have performed the household duties,
the cooking and other work, once exclusively
done BY their menials" All this was done iby
| Northern ladies equally refined long ago, only
they never boasted of their industry =
BY A genuine, unmistakable case of chol-
I era is reported as having occurred at Mobile.
EB Can anybody tell why Texas is omitted
in the list Of States, in which the President de-
clares the insurrection has come to an end. ~.
EN$.Tbei Rostoy, poofS5 vc,,+;ox,n -.
markable fact, that during the dozen years or
more of the publication of the Albany States
man, the Evening Journal never by the slight
est allusiopto the paper or its editor reoog-
nized the existence of its rival.ols aRfEs zts :
GB-Dr. Colenso has been formally excom-
municated at Natal. - III
gB-The Presidents proclamation is the cue
for the Democratic press to insist upon the ad-
mission of the Southern delegations to Con.
gress. We are remitted now, they say, to the
( stdtus quo ante bellum. That would be true if
the Presidents proclamation could abolish the
fact that there has been war IA 5deasoi
" gsB The Argus admits the election in Con-
necticut of "Hawley, the radical candidate by
majority Of SOC" but declares that this result
is virtual defeat" of that party. Just as YOU
please, neighbor. A succession of defeats" of
this kind will we imagine, be quite satisfactory
to the radicals s-aA $3.50
y Va In Denver City, Colorado, -four is selling
at ten dollars hundred pounds. ~
The Erening Star in the course Of some.
hurried comments upon the proclamation of
pc .ce, expressed the fear that its meaning
might not be perfectly Ineligible. 1t appears
that the fear was well grounded. The Arous
declares that the Star has taken CONSERVATIVE
and sound" Democratic ground, which we be-
Eeve to be impossible. -er-1 ~ AK, r
EB- Mr. Wendell Phillips has issued call
for meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society at
DIR. Cheever's church, in New York, MAY 8,
He says "the rights of the negro are today in
more fearful peril than at any time since the
first fire ON Sumter" ss
gan Ohio soldier, disabled in both arms.
has learned to write intelligibly holding his
pen in his mouth. ------
EY-The Treasury Department. has learned
that at some ports large quantities of bottles
of essence of ginger, tincture of camphor and
other essences and tinctures are entered, which
are almost entirely filed with alcohol, the OBJ |
ject being to practise fraud by evading the
duty on foreign liquors The Secretary has !
issued a circular calling the attention of the |
officers of customs to this matter, and, urging
them to extra diligence. rto