The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-24
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VARIETIES.

Mr.. Geo. A. Hobbs, editor Of the aeneseo
uii-0 Republic, has Just returned to his du-
uss aners visit to his friends and relatives in
' ns native State. He finds himself be-
ou ~ nus absence, having the misfortune
~ n,o IN ingersolPs district where the Presi-
uonNn Jury RACES unqaenched, and Radical
Pos'nrHters are consumed like stubble A
ooi. ramsey has been nominated by the John
sonians' Tho Republic thinks Ramsey "bv
hard work on the part of himselg and his
friends, may succeed in reducing the s,x tbou-
aand majority of 1864 to eight thousand in
1896. 90 10 i
-Mpor-Gen Howard has written new lee
turc entitled christian Duty to the South"
"A San Francisco paper says there are sew
ensy -fise thousand coolies in California: and
I'M 'na' they are demoralizing blight 70 any com
Mnnity in which they are domiciled. 1t SAYS
they are filthy, thievish, and UNANIMOUSLY viIe."
no. 1seierring to the recent report that politi-
oai meeting at Quincy was addressed by John
Suinoy l4Adans, ir, the Boston Advertiser
says AS the gentleman named is not Ear from
n'e years old, he must be even more preeocious
tnan has great-grandfather, who was secretary
OF legation at fourteen. 1t was unnecessary
for him to decline nomination to Congress
f6rwhich youth alone would disqaalify him"
IN General Sherman's letter, in which he is
reported TO ihdorse the Presidonts policy i'm
full, Is pronounced a worse surrender 10 the
febels than his convention with Joe Johnston.
which "A ndrew johnson cancelled. ll.H H1a, ... .
Mr. George Peabody's gift of one hundred
AND ffty Thousand dollars TO Yale College has
been announced In New York. It, terms are
not yet made public, but it is understood to be
for the maintenance of museum of compare
tive zoology.
which sustains the policy of johnson 'con-
citation" thus chasteiy retorts on Carl Scburz
fot saying that the freedmen universally cele-
brnted the last Fourth of July, while the late
rebels did not: rs that any of your business,
lydu squash-headed. hop-eared, beer-swilling,
agfrlic-eating, negro-loying German convict?"
n thThei Rev. MM. A. DREW, Of Augusta,
Writes to the Boston Uniysrsalist, suggesting
that credit for the strange history of "Old Nc
Chqseiand," who spent the last thirty-three
years of his life in Augusta Jail, should be Civ
eh to the Press for which paper it was written
BY MIR. Drew, and not to the Boston Journal,
which in copying the article inadverantly
soblittcdtoi specify its origin. Mr.. Drew has
pbPen q regular and valued contributor to the
/ Rress for more than two years. li. .,..
|, -sIsis said that Capt "osbono," who figured
it tina RECENT assault upon Matamoras as com
nAander Of the gunboat Chinaca, was formerly
newspaper reporter In New York, the OssoN
| who was for some time during the war locked
| up by Secretary Stanton. ~.
The President has diversified his adminis-
tration BY brilliant flash of silence. A Tenn
perance procession the other day paid him the
compliment Of marching salute, and he mere
" @bowcd his Acknowledgements" The Tri-
bune suggests that the President must have
booked with some wonder upon such process
SION calling upon him, and probably feared
chat If he gave the fellows the slightest encour-
agement, they would bring out the pledge and
ask him to sign it However that may be. let
Us all be thankful that for some reason he sDar-
edus the infietiOn of another superfiuous
speech.
An exchange paper says: "a great watch
dog, belonging to q Philadelphia dry goods
warehouse, died recently, and the clerks could
not get rid of the body. They finally put 1t in
o packing case, nailed on the lid, and marked
1t "A. T. Stewart & Co., New York left it oy-
or night on the sidewalk, first giving hint to
the watchman on that beat. That same night
furniture wagon, with the horses feet mutfied
in pieces of carpet, drove up, two men jumped
out, quickly and quietly put in the box, Jump
ed IN again and drove away. That was the last
seen Of the remains of that faithful animal"