The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-03-03
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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BI- 1t is proposed to remove the Naval
Academy from Annapolis to some place on the
Chesapeake Bay, where the cadets win be re-
moved from the temptations of town, and
where sufficient area of territory can be OBJ
tanned to admit of extensive drill ground.
81 EB- Mr.. Wendell Phillips made speech at
Amherst on Tuesday evening, on reconstruc-
ton, but did not mention the veto of the Freed
mems Bureau bill, and only alluded briefly to
the Presidential speech of the 22d.
EY-Dr. Jayne, the "inedicine man" of Phil
adelphia, is living proof of the virtue of prin-
ter's ink. He annually expends $15OO0Oin adj
vertising his medicines. = ~.
sEB- Professor Goodwin Smith writes q letter
to the London Daily Neaos, again urging that
the Alabama claims should be submitted to ar
bitration, and hoping that Parliament will
take the matter into serious consideration
ii Dy- The Newburypprt Herald is three score
and ten years'o old, having entered upon its list
volume yesterday.
!! ~ According tothe Home Journal the rea-
sen why so many Americans are going abroad
is in the fact that family can live in England
or France on the rent of their house in New
York. ,,tt. ''. ,' '-''4 =
va THE number of letters and newspapers
delivered in New York city is increasing at the
rate of not far from five millions q year. The
number received last year was nearly fifty mil
lions.
EB-Judge Humphreys of Alabama, in en-
deavoring to induce that State to return to the
Union, says "Genlemen, our safest place is
in the Union. Grant it that the idea of chattel
slavery is dead, if you please, our Democratic
allies will giUe as back that race in the condition
OF forced laborers, and it does not matter IN schic
state zoe haze them, If zoe haze them under our
control"
EB- The New Albany Qndianal Ledger says
that wool growing is becoming an important
part of the business of the Wabash valley.
EH-The Charleston Courier is gratifed to
observe indications of the rebuilding Of the
burnt district in that city, "a i..l5.l,
d, EB-The people of St. Johns, Canada East,
were greatly alarmed by a dispatch saying 1900
Fenians were en- route to attack the place.
Armed men patroled the streets, the theatre
was nearly deserted, and intense excitement
prevailed EOgsua ,rladW 'erig2 &c
EY-The New Orleans Picdyaiae complains
of the accumulation of capital in that city.
Business is very brisk, and the trades are in a
most flourishing state The surplus of capital
would be invested in stocking plantations, but
they are so encountered that they offer no SCI
curity, and pledges of the forthcoming crops
are demanded. Rents are high and increasing.
The Mobile Tribune says that it is still worse in
that city as regards rents = idk-5tf ar
. BY The Boston Herald gives the farmers of
New England the excellent advice that
they should invest their surplus means in their
own line Of business, and says that "the farmer
would do better to let stocks alone and spend
his money for stock" 'aag.. .ds'.i I..le.a
sEY-Twenty map publishers in Europe win
compete forthe prizes at the Paris Exhibition.
Mr.. j. I, Lloyd Of New York, is preparing for
the same purpose map of that city, twenty
five feet long and eight, feet wide, which will
show every building properly colored and num-
oered, and of such size that IL can be easily
recognized. az b., tt.tsyrra,0er
VIZ me Columbus tGa.) Enquirer remarks
upon the uncommon number of bills of moor
poraaon before the Legislatures of Georgia
and Alabama The most of tbeso oro Co.. ~, /,
panes desiring to engage in manufao,,,ras and
mining enterprises which have hao,, ,..oo.,..
stimulated by the abolition of slavery.