The Portland daily press., 1866-02-27

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

A"u uohO oo iOI hFo years.
E-Now that the bridge over the Hudson is
completed, the Western railroad will run one
car day through from Boston to Buffalo with
out change. They will be marked "Boston,
Albany, Suspension Bridge, and Buffalo"
Eg-John Trumbu.l |, in McFingal, speaks OF
muskets which miss the mark they drive at,
"And though well aimed at duck or ploVer'
bear wide and kick their owners over. AneA-
hibition of this on a large scale was Witnessed
at Washington on the 22d. - boston iran
script.
EB-Three new yachts of from one hundred
and thirty to two hundred and forty Ons bur-
don will he built for members of the New
York Yacht Boat Club before next summer
Tn .June there will be review in the bay, with
man-of-war man@uvres and regular signals;
and it is expected that in August a squadron
cruise will be made to Boston.
GA company Of communists living at
Wallingford, Conn.,, who ignore rum, tobacco,
tea, coffee and pork, managed to bring their
expenses for food and clothing last year to two
dollars and forty cents per week, or thirty-four
and half cents per day, for each person.
Ey Thursday next is the day appointed for
from the last Thursday in February on account
OF that being Washington's birthday.
Vs. The Empress Eugene has made another
sensation in the fashionable world. A Paris
correspondent of the Nord writes "a terrible
rumor was circulating yesterday in the saloons.
Crinoline is in danger. Neither the Empress
nor her ladies of honor wore it at the dinner
on Monday at the Tuilleries. You here see the
consequences of that reform at the court
which, if it be continued, will completely de-
stroy unhappy crinoline."
grThe Waterman, paper recently started
in New York. double Sheet very neat and at
tractive in its appearance, but whose character
and aim could not very well be made out from
its first issues, in the last number speaks of
Stonewall Jackson as "the best beloved Of all
the Americans who have followed Washing
ton to heaven" The editor is said to be
Southern Methodist"
Hon. James Monroe, United States con-
sui at Rio Janeiro, has been offered the presi-
dency of Oberlin College, in place of DIR. Fin
ney, resigned. Mr.. Monroe was formerly pro-
fessor in the college.
BYThe Independent says "a proposition
ment of an American College in China, out of
the commercial fees accruing there, of which
sum of nearly 100000 has already accumula-
ted. The students are to be educated in Chi
nese laws and customs, so as to be fitted for
business there" .
Vs. Nothing is more certain to produce low
fever than old wall paper, laid on in different
years several thicknesses 1t is in part what
makes the White House unhealthy, paper
which was laid ON in Madison's time having
just been stripped off. In Rochester, numerous
cases of typhoid fever are attributed to this
cause. Il b.- .rrs.-. 81, --ss -
GB" A Philadelphia paper very properly
complains of the tendency of many modern
newspaper writer's to misuse words, and men
lions among others the word "park," which
means space of ground in its natural state,
but which is often used in place of the word
"pond." "Skaing-parks" are spoken of all
over the country. Tournament" is another
word which is run into the ground. We have
had "base ball tournaments" billiard tourn-
aments, (" and even skating tournaments. "
Another instance is afforded In the frequent
use of the word carnival" We hear of bill
lard carnivals," Skating carnivals," etc, but
the carnival (carne Uale) is properly festival in
Roman Catholic countries which takes place in
the week before Lent, and the most common
application of it in this country is simply ridic-
ulous.
Chicago has something new to boast of.
Il now claims the possession of "the most NO.
BILE palatiai eating house on the continent"
GB The first army wagon used by the ma
tional army in the war against the rebellion
has been preserved, and will figure in the
Worlds Exhibition at Paris, next year.
BB- The belief that Louis Napoleon is a
Jew, is sufficiently refuted by his well-known
dislike of Ham.-[Saturday Press.
m EEA legal wag calls his marriage certifi-
cate, strange to say, "a writ of attain'd her."
Eg-The Maury County Herald, Tennessee
newspaper, denounces common schools with
great energy. "The direct tendency of all COM
mon schools" says the Herald, "is to weaken
the ties and lesson the influence of the family
What the South needs, then, is some wise sys-
ten, which, while it teaches a reasonable
amount of reading, writing and cyphering, will
preserve the moral and social integrity of her
character. We do not want free schools" 1t
ID HCCulCoc W huu Uudt JOuTIdl Is RTcdt
advocate of pardoning JEFF. Davis, and of inn,
mediately admitting the rebel States to full
share in the government of the Union.
EB-M Mrs. Swisshelm's lecture in Washing
ton, Friday night, was upon what she calls the
involuntary servitude which senators wives
owe their husbands, and its effect upon the sal
airy of female clerks - e
Vs. AT least Thousand persons have per-
ished in the storms of the sea off the English
coast within the brief space of the last few
weeks. r -s--.- -r.rs -.--...
ES- The Madrid Espiritu Publico reports
that two monitors, built in England for the
government of Chill, and which were already
at sea, were forced to put back into English
ports, owing to the weight of their armor and
guns. iio --,
YEA new periodical, written exclusively in
verse, will shortly be issued in Paris. 1t is
limited that the ratio of its meritwll also be in
verse. irls , els 81 g0tlT
BB The new Constitution of South Caro-
lima gives the Governor the right of veto, and
Governor Orr first exercised the newly given
power upon an act which in effect reestablished
the police regulations with regard to freedmen,
which had once controlled them as slaves
Va mere accident has just led to impor-
tant discoveries in the ruins of the old manor
house OF Cebastro, which stands in the gorge CT
Uces, between France and Arragon. The re-
cent high winds threw down part of the wall
of the southern tower, and exposed to view the
entrance to sepulchral vaults belonging to the
period of Gothic denomination. Excavations
were Immediately commenced, and have
brought to light great quantity of jewelry of
all kinds, as diadems, bracelets, rings and pins.
The diadems bear some resemblance to the
crowns preserved in the Cluny Museum, and
enable us to form an accurate opinion as to the
arts of the Visigoths. . hes .-..... -
ER THE London Saturday RevieU is pub
fishing an essay on Abraham Lincoln, based
ON AIr Ra.rrunnd,s hiooranhu extending thro,