The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-04-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

EB The Boston AdUertiser's dispatch OF
Tuesday says Ex-senator Fessenden has been
quite unwell since Sunday morning. 1t was
thought yesterday that he was threatened
with an attack Of fever. He was absent from
the Senate both yesterday and today, but is
more comfortable this morning. 1873 O8g b.
G@-The Atlaatic Monthly for May is to CON
tain new "Biglow Paper" by Lowell; an ar
ticle on Edwin Booth, by E. G. Stedman poems
by Longfellow and Whittier; more passages
from "Hawthorne's ote- Book" and new chap
tiers of Charles Reads Griffith Gaunt" and
Mitchell's "Dr. Johns" The latter novel ends
with the June number of the magazine beds
EThe Montana women are up in arms
against the Chinese laundrymen. They insist
that they shall have monopoly of "doing up
the linen of the lords of creation The editor
of the Montana Radiator has been waited upon
by acomnittee Of the agitators and asked to
become their champion. ~. e. ~.
G8-The Scientific Anerican saws that pul-
verified charcoal and litharge (oxide of lead) in
equal quantities. mixed with raw linseed oil,
makes cheap and very durable dark brown
paint for rough boards, or exposed iron. Shi
EB The burglars in Petersburgh (Va.) bore
hole in store, throw in fishing line, oatcha
bundle of goods, and then draw it out dzid
81 Va Dublin correspondent of the. Boston
Journal, who signs the initials"T b. H 7" de
clares that 200 600 fairly drilled men could any-
day be put in the field BY stephens, and that
no human power can postpone the rebellion
beyond next autumn. Stephens is in Paris,
and ,,,,+,, A .-l4.iflEl
GB 1t is reported that IN the event Of Maine
troops being called into the field for the, pur
pose Of enforcing the neutrality laws they will
probably be placed under the command of
Brevet Major General Charles Il. Smith. for,
merly Colonel of the LIST Maine Cavalry, and a
gallant and splendid officer 'f'-S"
S w The latest received London Tipses con
tains five column speech by Thomas CARLYLE,
delivered ON the occasion of his Inauguration
as rect'r of the University of Edinburgh, and
much occupied with the praise of silence. Mr.,
Carlyle laments the. fact that "the finest ma
tions in the world7the English and the Amer
lean = are going all away into wind and
tongue. Daii5-4uio5 9lj nOgU lGi1 hG9 ,a39ai
Eg- Judge Hollis testimony before the
House Judiciary Committee on the completely
of jefferson Davis and G. c. Clay with the as
sassination, supported by a mass Of documen-
tary evidence, was of such nature that the
Committee placed an injunction of secrecy on
It. Ii the witnesses are reliable, and the docu-
ments are genuine, Davis and Clay should
be hung as conspirators against the life Of
- w 'i-e ID -1i''.'t :
EB Mr.. Henry A. Smythe. just appointed
Collector of New York is well known to bust
ness men. He is now the President of the
Central National Bank, and was for a long
Time engaged in the dry goods trade. He was
1t one time the principal of the firmof Smythe,
Sprague & Cooper, in Park place. He is
thorough business man, and by those who
know him best is said to be in every wise fitted
for the responsible position to which he has
Just been appointed by President johnson
The Tribune says lis selection reflects credit
Upon the President. The World says he is an
vowed and earnest upholder of President
Johnson's measures and views. The Herald
avs he is appointed not for party purposes but
or his supposed business qualifications. The
Times says he is Republican of the deepest |
Tue, and rather gives him the cold shoulder. |
Washington letters say Raymond, Weed, Nor |
IAN and Seward all protested against his nomi-
lation. ~ Eae .f.f.o. ..I:5 L.,sI /