The Portland daily press., 1866-10-16
gARE ETIES.

The N. Y. Tribune says: "The Evening
Star was large vessel, and should have been
strong one. Her engines were upright, and
here is one mistake which endangers the repu-
tation of all our coastwise steamers The up
right engine is notoriously unfit for the ocean
and may only be safely used in river steam
boats 1t is not improbable that the power of
this engine, laboring in heavy gale was too
much for the frame. The screw steamship is
alone fit for ocean navigation
The London Athenaam learns that the
state of DIR. John Browns health is much i'm
proved, and that he is about TO resume his pro-
fessional duties. This will be gratifying and
unexpected news to all his friends.
Mr.. Alfred Tennyson is engaged upon
new poem to be published early next year.
The Paris Temps says that Count Monta-
lembert is still in a very precarious state of
health. He can only sit up two hours in the
day, and is not allowed to write, but his phys-
clans hold out hopes of his recovery.
"A paper is about to be started in Florence
which will bear the extraordinary title of "The
Valley of Jehoshaphat, the Organ Of the Day
of Judgment" We are unable to state what
earthly objects the paper is to be devoted to.
why will not somebody ascertain once for
all how Mr. Johnson's Attorney General spells
his name? Is is Stanberry, or Stansberry,
Stanbury, or Stansbury? The same benevo-
lent individual will confer a favor upon the
community by deciding between the a and in
Gen. Custar's Tor Custer's) name.
The Advertiser, in an article ON political
l. u.
hankerers after pure food have to wait before
churches who are now blindly led on by party
wire-pullers, will see the error into which they
have fallen? "Hankerers" after pure cant will
find plenty of it in the article in question.
AT the Republican National Convention
of 1864, when proposition was made in the
Wisconsin delegation to unite their vote in fa-
vor of Andrew johnson for ice-President,
Gov. Randall, now Johnson's right-hand man
and Postmaster General, opposed the motion.
"No," he said, 81 know Andrew johnson bet
ter than you do. He is a base, tredcherous man,
and UNFIT for the office"
A meeting of the merchants of New Or
leans, called for Saturday, 9th inst, to contra
| dict Gov. Wells's statement that Northern
men are not safe in Louisiana, adjourned to
the next Tuesday, ON learning that the report
Of the military commission had got into print,
and has not since been heard from. These
merchants have never taken any measures to
express their disapprobation of the riot of the
30th July.
We have received a printed letter from an
enterprising party in New York, who desires
us to copy and use the article as original cor
respondence. We respectfully decline, for sew
eral reasons; one of which will appear to the
critical reader of the following sentence from a
printed note accompanying the printed letter:
81 will, during the Congressional season, visit
the National Capitol often, so 1 may write in
telligently on subjects of public interest there
from" ...
"A Paris correspondent of the New York
Tribune quantity says:-"That Bismark has
been the very able editor of movement to-
ward German uniication, that was already in
proof and fatally sure to come out somehow,
is not to be disputed Whether its issue with
Prussian inprimat,U, under censorship of
that mysticofeudal King of Prussia, be any
advancement of German liberty, OF of liberty
in Europe general, is a much disputed ques-
ton, into the discussion of which it is not the
office of your French reporter to enter.,'
The current number of Euery Saturdav
contains sharp article from the London Spec-
tator. entitled "Reverence for Interiors" in
which Messrs Carlyle, Ruskin and Kingsley,
the apologists of Governor Eyre's Jamaica at
rocities are very severely handled "Silcote of
silcotes," also reappears in this number; Miss
Thackeray's vivid story of "The Village on the
Cliff" is continued, and likewise Yates novel
of BLACK Sheep" There is short story from
All The Year Round, and variety of other
pleasant reading