The Portland daily press., 1866-01-02
ORIGINAL AND sELECTED.

going, left the house, and, as is now known
took the next train of cars out of town. No
clue to her whereabouts has yet been obtained
and the cause of her sudden fight is a mystery
va The Buffalo Express figures up that
during the last forty years, Mexico has had
thlrty-seven different forms of government
thrty-two of which were Republics" and
seventy Presidents !! It's revolutions dnr;no
that time have amounted to over two hundred.
Many years since Mexican protectorate was
urged upon the United States Senate by Gen.
Houston, upon the ground that the Mexican
people otherwise would fall a prey te some Eu-
ropean power The project was condemned
and abandoned. -Il .tr -
US Inc New York Tribune thinks it would
DC alow estimate to place the baneful results
Vi sieepinS cars at thirty thousand typhoids
ana one Thousand deaths per annum, in conse-
quenes OF their foul atmosphere.
Z BB~ Amongst the patents lately taken ont
In France are hygienic alphabet in ginger
bread; method of making head-dresses cans
and Pocket-handkerchiefs in paper; a mechan-
lcal tan, opening and shutting instantaneouslv.
a machine for cutting stone by means of a svs-
TEN OF points, reproducing minutely the relief
required; an apparatus for making deafpeopl
hear; and no fewer than ten patents for stor-
ping railway trains
EY- The Mississippi Legislature, the same
which ratified half of the Constitutional
Amendment and refused to ratify the other
haif passed law prohibiting freedmen from
renting or leasing lands. The President imme-
diately sent an order to disregard the.law, and
Gen. Howard issued an order to Gen. Thomas
10 continue to protect the freedmen in the
right to lease lands. All very right and prop
erproceeding, but one which causes the Trib,.,ae
to raise question as to the precise condition of
State wherein the President NAV nullifv a
law by his executive order. Is Mississippi re-
constructed, Or is she not /? If she is, how can
the President interfere with her municipal af-
fairs If she is not, what right has she to rat
ify Constitutional Amendment I?
ES- A new motive power, so to speak. has
been discovered. A steam engine of ten-horse
power is in operation in West Lake street. Chi
cago, which grinds twenty-seyen bushels of
corn an hour, with fifty five pounds of coal. A
common engine would require over 100 pounds.
The invention is in the boiler, which is two
inches thick, round, with fattened ends, and
holds barrel. The principle of action is this
A few spoonfuls of water is let into the boiler.
which is quite hot; Immediately the water Is
converted into steam, which, properly, is an ex-
plosion, hence no other explosion is possible.
and the expansion and elasticity of this highly
heated steam is sufficient to work the engine.
The inventor, Mr.. e. Danforth, of Geneva, Ill.
says that the boiler win work any other engine.
The invention has passed into the hands of q
company with capital of over S2,OOO,OOO.-
N. Y. Tribune. rf raees, e .-.
EB- An aronaut named Buisley recently
made an ascension in San Francisco, in which
he INDUCED in the most foolhardy teats. At
tached to his balloon, instead of the customary
parachute or car, was trapeze 1.-TWO ropes sus-
pended about two feet apart, with a stout stick
connecting them at the bottoml and from the
moment that the balloon was cut from its an
chorage and above the heads of the people he
commenced his performance, hanging by his
feet and hands to the trapeze, then again by one
foot and by the neck. The balloon mounted to
great height, and when so far up that Buisley
appeared to be of the size of small child, he
could still be seen clinging to the trapeze, first
by his hands, then by his feet with his head
down, then lying across it on his breast and
back, initiating the motions of swimmer
The crowd seemed perfectly awed and thun-
derstruck by his terrific feats, several ladies
tainted, and it was not till it was seen that he
felt or acted with perfect GOODNESS and conf
dence, that the people could make known their
emotions, which then found expression in
shouts of applause. After remaining in the
air between fifteen and twenty minutes, at an
altitude of over half mile, he slowly descend
ed, and reached the ground in safety.
EE Queen Vietoria's new son-in law is His
Serene Highness Prince Frederick Christian
Charles Augustus of Scleswig- Holstein Son
derburg Augustenburg.
W That sentimental literary beggar, M. de
Lamartine, who has been trying for ten year,
to make money by exhibiting himself to the
world as the most exalted Of poetic paupers
having failed to induce the American people t.
pay his debts, has lost his temper. He now
writes letter in which he declares that tn,
Americans are the scum of the earth, and tn,
meanest kind of scum at that; that Europ,
owns America and has right to take it, ant
that Louis Napoleon is quite right to set up a,
empire in Mexico The spectacle of a forme
President of the French Republic thus stoop
ing 10 curry favor with the author of the co,u
d'etat is one not calculated to exalt our estimat
of human nature.
W The London Times, in announcing A,
official investigation into the affairs of Jamaics
says, Sits due to Governor Eyre, no less thai
to public opinion in England, that full an
searching inquiry should be made into the his
tory of the Jamaica rebellion, and we lear
with the utmost satisfaction that such an in
quiry is to be instituted forthwith" ~. 81
BB- The Sacrament, Bee says a submarin
cable is forthwith to be laid across the Strait
of Fuca. We shall have telegraphic communi
cation with Europe via Russia and the Pacifi
before the third Atlantic cable is ready for de
livery.
gB- A three-tongued infant has been borl
in Scotland. Female, of course.
l. BB A paper in the interest of one of ou
politicians boasts that he "can stand upon hi
Intellectual capital" We suppose 1t mean
that he can stand on his head.-[Lou. journal
EB- Some fellows robbing a hen-roost i,
Winstead, Ct, found, when they went to q
out, that the door had blown to and fastene,
them in. The cries of the hens alarmed tn
proprietor, who released the fellows upon thsi
paying $25.
VI The only domestic branch of manufao
ture which could not supply the demands o
the army, during the war, was that of blank
cts.
EY- People who soonest kick the bucket
are those who seldom drink from it,
EY-T The editor of the Idaho Statesman print
the name of his rival thus "patmalone." Tn
mans name is Patrick Malone.
V- A correspondent of the Sacrament,
Bee who has been to Colorado and was home
sick TO get back to the Golden State, SAYS wa
ges at Denver are very little higher than the,
are in California, while the common necessities
of life are enormously high, as, for instance
| Aour Is worth from ara 10 600 ,,ar bru5.oa -