The Portland daily press., 1866-08-15
VARIETIES.

"A Philadelphia correspondent ofthe Boston
iost says Forney's Press Office is an arsenal of
arms and munitions, and that arrangements
nave ~ oeen made for scalding riotous Democrats,
any such should appear, on a scale never
equaled out of Cincinnati.
-Ex-Gov. Crosby has been elected chairman
OF the Maine delegation to tho ph;lodo,,l,;o
Convention. t'iil''
AN enrased husband publicly horsewhip-
Peu traVelhng photographer at Plymouth,
Oonli'' iew days since for distributing photo
graphs OF his wife, which had been disGpured
by the addition of whiskers and moustacbos
The artist went to law, and was comforted 70
the extent of six cents damages.
The New Bedford Mercury remarks that tho
new local DRAMA to be brought out in New
York under the name of "The Millxman,r is aan
aquatic piece, probably"
Winnie Ream, to whom Congress has voted
ten thousand dollars for a statue of Lincoln is
rather handsome young women, who has ex-
traordinary powers of persuasion through lob
by appliances. So far as known, she has never
accomplished single work of art which will
stand criticism. 40
The Editor ofthe Salem Register commends
Gen. Cogswen for declining to accept an office
from the President saying it would "enlist the
General in a cause antagonistic to that for
which he fought" and then takes ID himself.
So says the Boston Post. ... .i
The last accounts from Jonah Vallandg-
ham indicate his determined purpose to pro-
ceed in his attempt to board the whale. The
whale is increasingly reluctant.
The Illinois naon1e have an avNrass;ya
way of putting things. A recent Union con-
vention in that State adopted the following
resolution:
ResOlred, That "treason must be made odi-
Gus" but that it cannot be made odious by
giving rebels seats in Congress, nor by feed
ing JEFF. Davis on poached eggs and fried
oysters.
The Philadelphia Press calls the late
convention in that city, the third Rebel inva-
sion of Pennsylvania.
The Memphis Avalanch has been advising
the people of Tennessee as soon as the present
crops are sold, to invest in machinery and 90
into manufacturing.
"A Washington letter-writer furnishes
some curious information with regard to the
use Of the Congressional library. McDougall
of California is a steady reader of Comte's
Il OSi1iNo HhOSOpuyJ OeIIlln8, aubnOr OF
the famous Marlborough, Hannibal and Grant
speech, read twelve weeks to get itup. Chas.
Sumner reads more books than any other
Senator and Representative: they are his
messmates. Gratz Brown is close student
of mental science and political philosophy.
John L. Baldwin and Mr.. Edmunds of Yer
mont are attentive readers Conness of Cali
fornia and a few others never drew a book
from the shelves.
The new York World calls the act for the
equalization of bounties a swindle, declaring
that the payment of these bounties is not the
payment of debt, the discharge of a moral
obligation, nor even an act of generosity
The Southern press probably regards the re-
ward of HLincoln's hirelings" with like disfa-
vor. ai hrs .
Hon Isaac N. Arnold, late a member O
Congress from Illinois, and long a friend and le-
gal associate of Mr.. Lincoln, has prepared and
will soon publish full history of the admins
tration of the latter and of the overthrow of
slavery. The work will comprise a sketch of
the history of slavery from 1887 to 1850, with
summary of important debates in Congress re-
lating to the subject a narrative of the early
life of Mr.. Lincoln, and much matter Of in
terest not hitherto given. 1t is to be published
by Clarke and Co., Chicago, and promises to
form valuable addition to our sources of in
formation in this direction.