The Portland daily press., 1866-05-24
VARIETIES.

Capt. Ap Catesby Jones, who left the Uni.
'eo states navy to join the rebels, and com
manded the iron-clad Virginia, has been ap-
pointed Chief of Ordnance of the Peruvian
navy.
The French journals annoppcs tbs dao,b
a' his 0n".eau IN Caidavos, of Count de Guer-
non han'ile' AZ the age of eighty. He was for
merry one oi He ministers Of Charles X, and
signed the famous ordinance of July. Having
been tried and condemned after the revolut;on
of 1880 for his conduct as minister, he was i'm
prisoned for seven years in the Fortress of
Ham.
Josh Billings thinks there used TO be more
fun in thirty cents than there is now in seven
dollars and a half.
The Shreveport (La.) Southeastern announ-
ces that telegraph cable was recently success
fully laid across the river at that place.
Maj. General Hooker is rapidly recovering
his health, and thinks he will be entirely well
within month.
1T is reported that Fitz John Porter's ac-
counts with the mining company in Colorado,
Oh whlch he was Superintendent, have been
found to be $4,000 short 1
-Gen Mcclellan is expected to return home
from Europe shortly. rf
-Ex-President Fillmore and his wife are
making tour in Spain. RI
-Col Jacques, who has been under trial at
Louisville, ON the charge of procuring an abor-
ton, has been acquitted.
-Gen. Sherman has arrived at st. Paul. He
will proceed from thence to Lake suner;or
where will be met by Gen. Ord, command;og
the Department. After inspecting the military
posts of that region, he will proceed in the
revenue cutter John A. Dix to Detroit, arriving
there about the middle of June.
This frcm Paris, is as Frenchy as possible.
A few days since Frenchman and wife gave n
dinner to celebrate the twentieth year of their
marriage. just before dinner one of them
broke a tumbler. This led to a discussion.
which degenerated into aviolent quarrel, which
ended in each party expressing a wonder at
having had the patience to live twenty years
with SO horrid and stupid an animal as the
other. The wife put ON her bonnet and Quit
the house. The husband lighted chating dish
full of charcoal in his chamber and lay on the
floor. When the guests came and failed to OBJ
tain admittance, they broke open the doors
and found the husband corpse.
"A SUI OI Uen Grant has been appointed
to the Military Academy at West Point.
One of the dreams of Napoleon's despotic
heaven was the destruction of all political jour
mails save one and that one the Moniteur. This
dream, which he owned frankly he burst not
attempt to realize, will surely be carried out by
his nephew : not by brutal violence, which
would have been the case with the great man,
but with the cunning more appropriate to his
diminished successor "--'
Miss Thackeray, author of "The Story of
Elizabeth" has written a new novel, which is
to be published serially in the CornhM Maga-
zine.
One of the quaint suggestions in the Pas
sages from Hawthorne's Diary in the last At
lantic is for a tri-weekly paper to be called
The Tertian Ague.
AN official report from the surgeon hay
ing charge of Jefferson Davis, has Just been
filed with the President The report repre-
sents the prisoner as considerably emaciated,
weak and nervous. Should he be attacked by
any of the severe forms of disease to which the
tide-water region of Virginia is subject, there
would be reason to fear for the result.
"A Paris architect, borrowing an idea from
the Romans, has invented brick which har-
dens with time and completely resists hu-
midity.