The Portland daily press., 1866-02-05
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

DB DR.. Abernethy used to tell his pupils
that all human diseases sprang from two causes
-stuffing and fretting
BB@At Madrid recently crowd of students
who assembled at the Puerta del Sol, shouted
"Long Live Prim !" "The Workingmen For
ever p -s..
YEA correspondent of the London Morn
ing Post says: "Itis reported in diplomatic cir
cles that private understanding exists be-
tween the governments of Great Britain and
Washington, by which the claims made by
America for the losses at sea will be amicably
arranged" .sr,,.(s-.... ..
90 -The onlNyeason why the Democrats op-
pose the constitutional amendment is because,
if adopted, it will compel the South either to
confer suffrage upon the negroes or to lose
twenty-five or thirty members in the House of
Representatives. Either would be a Democrat
ic loss. If the South were Republican or if the
negroes were Democrats, the opposition would
howl themselves hoarse in efforts to secure
such an amendment. 80 ss 4lE
Ia Recent reports at the Freedmen's Blu
reau show thatit has established, in conjunc-
ton with various benevolent institutions, six
hundred and fifty-fve schools in the South, in
which are thirteen hundred teachers and eigh-
ty-four thousand pupils. Besides these the
freedmen themselves have established about
five hundred schools, which are attended by
over fifteen thousand children. a.
DB Maryland has appropriated $4,000 to
aid in completing the grading and ornamenting
of the Antietam Cemetery. 3ls
BB- JEFF. Dayis's friends assert that "the
shameful petticoat story" will be exploded by
testimony to be brought forward at his trial.
Ey-The National Intelligencer states that
Gen. Grant has contributed five thousand dol
lars to aid the erection of a new Methodist
Episcopal Church in Washington. Qt lard
E~The Badger well at Boutwell,, c. W.,
yields 100 barrels of petroleum daily, worth at
present prices at the well, in gold, 81 600.
y-The Boston Transcript, in noticing the
death of the venerable Mrs. Gardiner Greene,
which occurred in that city on Thursday, says:
"She was the only person living here who sailed
from the Province of Massachusetts, under the
British flag, just before the Revolution. With
her brother, the late Lord Lyndhurst, and
sister, she embarked for England in the last
vessel that left our shores under the English
ensign. The three children then went to Eng
land to visit their father the famous painter, j.
s. Copley, who was at that time receiving much
patronage from the patrons of art in London.
She lived 80 years after meeting her father in
England upon his return from Italy. ~
E-The President refuses to interfere with
Gen. Terry's recent orders annulling the va
grant act passed by the Virginia legislature.
Yet here is an act of astate Legislature made of
no effect by military order. What is the use
of theorizing about the rebel states being in OF
out of the Union when such things are DONE
Hartford Press.
Prof. Brunnow, an American citizen by
adoption, has been appointed Astronomer Royal
for Ireland and Professor of Astronomy in
Trinity College, Dublin, in place of Sir William
Hamilton, deceased. Prof Brunnow has been
spending the winter at Berlin with his father
in-law, Prof III. P. Tappan. Prof, Brunnow was
formerly connected with the Dudley Univer-
sity and lately Director of the Observatory of
the Michigan State University. 81
There is report from Paris that Napo-
leon is willing to withdraw the French troops
from Mexico, asking nothing of the United
States except to remain neutral in relation to
the contendlng forces in that distracted coun- /
try ''" ii-
E.Y- Stewart, the New York merchant prince,
is again in the papers. On his complaint Rich
ard T. Colburn, sub Editor of the New York
Tribune, and Geo. Knapp, one of the proprie-
tors of the st. Louis Republican, have been ar
rested for certain statements in the late issue
of the St. Louis Republican, in a letter written
by Colburn as New York correspondent.
EY-Two sharp boys in Waterbury, twelve
years old each, have started a local newspaper.
They do the editing, composition and press
work themselves, and selling their own paper
on the street. The sheet measures seven
inches by nine.
. Eg-In 1856, DR.. Robert de Lambelle, dis
tinguished physician of Paris, announced that
a shock of electricity given patient dying |
from the effects of chloroform, Immediately |
the influence, and restored the |
sufferer to life. Has the experiment ever been |
tried in this country? -...-r
Fashionable ladies at the Washington |
allow their hair to fall behind its
full length without bond or fetter of any kind. |
YThe celebrated divine, Doctor South, on |
one occasion preached before the corporation /
of tailors. He took for his text the appropri-
ate words-"A remnant shall be saved"
EY-M Miss Harriet Martineau is said to be the |
author of the tribute to Mr.. w. l.. Garrison
which lately appeared in the London Nea0s.