The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-04-17
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

DB There are probably few thinking men,
says the Nation, who are not now satisfied that
the whole veto message would have been just as
powerful, logically, it was if it had consisted
simply of the sentence-"If know myself, L
have no prejudices; but do hate Niger"
/ EB- A correspondent of the Boston Post,
who is tired of BLACK Eyed Susan" wants to
lnow how o new play called Bloody Nosed
Nancy" would do. Z. V4eJ
va General Grant is to sit for bust to
Frank Simmons, who has a studio in Washing
ton, and halls now from Boston, at least in the
Boston papers
GB-The Manchester Mirror saws: sour
mills are running at loss-the cotton ON hand
costing more before it was made up than it will
bring now after it is manufactured" "a
GB man in Michigan, the other day, sold
his wife for seven dollars and five pounds of
maple sugar, taking note for the money. 81
BB- A Washington correspondent of the
Providence Journal gives the following as q
bona Jide incident: can appoin
himself on being an f. F. Vim the Interior
Department at Washington, being ordered be-
fore the Board for the examination of clerks
, are you grsmffsshfpaahth this aqsstisns a sla
'No, sir, am Virginian p
B~The Washington dispatch of the Boston
Advertiser states that Senator Poland has re-
ceived letter from Hon. A j. Willard of St.
Johnsbury, VT, in which he says that his ap-
podntment as one of the vice presidents of
Montgomery Blair's wing of the Andrew John
son National Club was without his knowledge
or consent. This makes five of the vice-presi-
dents who repudiate this brazen-faced use of
their names. Mr.. Willard says, 81 think it
would do President johnson good to spend a
short lime in the Green Mountain State He
world learn there what he has not learned at
the White House-that the people are in favor
Of keeping the government awhile longer in
their own hands, and not delivering it up to
the men who for the last four years have tried
to destroy il. Let Congress but do its duty,
regardless of the wishes or dictation of the
President, and they will be triumphantly sus-
tanned by the true loyal men of the country,
both North and South" -
w The Boston letter of the Round Table
announces that "Lowell takes the President in
hand in the next Atlantic, in a new 'Blglow
Paper of considerable length and the old pun
gency. He prefixes an argument as ludicrous
as the piece itself"
GB Pollard, editor of the Richmond Exanai-
,aer and author of the Southern History of
the Wal" is avery trueulent writer on occa-
sion; but he has been beaten in his own game
by Ex-Governor Allen, of Louisiana, now edi-
tor OF the Mexican Times. The passage in
which Allen calls Pollard a human hyena, ex--
huning the bodies of the sacred dead and howl
ing in horrid delight over the revolving FEAST"
is hischef deuure. We long to read Pollard's
whitening" reply.
EB "A Prussian feet of seventeen ships of
war, carrying two hundred and forty guns,
will be concentrated in the Baltic this spring.
An English paper says that an expert
ment in the cultivation of oysters in the old
salt marshes near Lymington, Hants, is sue
cessful. Many thousands of oysters taken
from various grounds are laid down, and some
time hence means will be taken to secure the
spawn. Old oyster shells are for this purpose
strung on cords stretched across the ponds near
the surface; to these the rising generation win
dutifully adhere, If all be propitious.
EaF-An immense land slide occurred lately
on the South Yuba, California, near French |
Corral II ~ ,-fiL
GsP-"Our Mutual Friend" brings Dickens
between five and ten thousand pounds-accor-
ling to the Boston Posts wise conjecture.