The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-26
VARIETIES.

The New Orleans Tribune is elated. not
unnaturally, because out of five journals print
ed In French, which furnished accounts of the
riot OF the 30th July, the Tribunes report alone
was reproduced and commented upon by the
Paris press. Considering that the Tribune is
edited by negroes while some of the white
mems papers have spoken of it as possessing
no value, noimportance, no talent, no infiu-
ence, no anything" the circumstance is little
remarkable.
Daniel Pratt, the great American Travel
Ter, is writing political articles for the Argus
His second contribution appeared yesterday.
The Richmond Examiner, which supports
President johnson in his attempt to carry out
what he calls the policy of Abraham Lincoln
refers to Lincoln and the Loyal Southerners
in the following choice terms:
The gorillas, Onrang-outangs, and apes ap.
pointed by the mulatto convention as q com
mittee of pilgrims 10 the tomb of the King Ape
have begun their initiative tour.
The following, from the Bangor Times, is
rather good satire .,..,st
"nen the Wild wave OF battle surged over the plain,
,o lo INC shores OF his own Tennessee
anu the tan grass exhaled the red dew Of the
"a And the v arrior was ready TO dee.
"n2 I chung TO the flag and the eannon's hot moutlq
u When the wolves hoyered round he veal ioId .
A"as sne aEisnd OF the North with his home In the
whose % swosi drank their blood as the earth in a
Twas Andy, p;oud Andy, the Bold
The only sailors at the Cleveland Conyen-
'ion were one or two captains of canal boats.
"A gentleman In Charleston, who enter
tanned good dead Of company at dinner, had
black as am attendant, who was native of
AFRICA and never could be taught to hand
Things invariably to the left hand of the guests
attable AT length, his master Thought of An
infaliible expedient to direct him, and as the
| coats We're then worn in Charleston sinole-
breasted, in the present Quaker fashion he
told him always to hand the plate to the bpt.
ton-hole side. Unfortunately, however. for the
poor fellow, on the day he had received this in
gen1ous lesson, there was among the guests at
dlnner foreign gentleman with a double
breasted coat, and he was for while complete-
iy at a stand. He looked first at one side of
the gentleman's coat, then at the other. and
finally, quite confounded at the outlandish
make of the strangers garment. he cast a des-
pairing look at his master, and exclaiming in a
loud voice. buttons on both sides, massa,"
handed the plate right over the gentleman's
head.
: "A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser
writing rom Portsmouth, N. H., announces
the death of Hon. Charles H. Peaslee of that
city, who died recently while on visit to st.
Paul, Mimi. General Peaslee was well-known
as former member of Congress from New
Hampshire, collector of the port of Boston.
and for over twenty years a director in the Con-
cord Railroad corporation
i.l5-lt is now stated that the new magazine "to
be edited in Boston,, but published in New
York, and under the control of lady and
gentleman well known in literature" is to be
edited by Mrs Julia Ward Howe and Mr. j. r.
Gilmore, Edmund Kirke."
-on the upper Sacramento river in Califor-
MIA, q little steamer with its cabin fitted up as
store, sails up and down, stopping at all the
farms, selling merchandise, and taking chick
tsnsseggsy in'exchange for her coffee, sugar
and calico. ira.- fr ..sr