The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-07-26
VaI'ietieS.


An attractive and very accomplished fe-
male swindler has been vietimizlng the beney-
olent in the vicinity of Boston lately. She
gave herself out as a nun escaped from con-
vent in Canada, and anxious to raise money
to carry her to England where she had wealthy
friends So artful is she that she has wrought
upon and obtained the sympathies ofhundreds,
and has been entertained for weeks at the best
houses. When detected she gave as a reason
for her operations that she hated work and
wished to live in good aocietyl
General r. E. Lee, it is said, is to be ap-
pointed President of the Covington and Ohio
Railroad, OF Virginia, and his son, Custis, is
to be Chief Engineer
An Ohio man gives his views on the suf-
frage question. He says: "a man that has
more Anslo-Jackson blood in his veins than
African ort to vote" We agree with him.
Frederick Douglass, in a letter to the
American Baptist, announces the arrival at
Rochester of his lost brother, Perry and fami-
ly. The letter concludes as follows: "The
meeting with my brother after nearly forty
years separation, is an event altogether too
affecting for words to describe. How unutter-
ably aecursed is slavery, and how unspeaka-
bly, joyful are the results of its overthrow"
"a terrible hurricane visited Port Hope,
Canada, on Sunday night. The new military
drilling shed which was in course of erection
and had been nearly completed, was blown
down and entirely destroyed.
The steamer North American, which went
ashore on the Island of Anticosh, has been
platformed aud is now kept free of water by
pumps. 1t was expected that she would be
aHoat in few days. .rt 5-.1 si....41-
AT one of the fashionable churches in
Pittsfield, Mass, strangers are seated accord
ing to dress. If elegantly dressed, they are
shown up the broad aisle near the pulpit; If
well dressed they will secure sitting about
halfway up the broad aisle; if ordinarily
dressed, they are disposed of in some one of
the side pews under the gallery, and as near
the door as possible. Verify, "to the poor the
Gospel is preached" but at distance.
Sherman, on his march toward Atlanta,
constantly astonished the rebels with the fa-
cility with which he restored the railroad
bridges they destroyed at his approach. They
would annihilate bridge just before he arriv-
| ed and the next morning there it was again,
| just as it was before they touched it. AT last
| a light dawned upon them. The original
plans for the bridges had all been furnished
| from Cleveland, Ohio, and before Sherman
| started he took those plans, had each bridge
duplicated in all its timbers and iron work,
took the pieces in SHOOK" state on his trains
| and so, when he found bridge gone, he had
| nothing to do but get its mate out OF the
| freight cars, bolt it together and put it up.
This thing worried the rebels good deal
when they found it out. One day they pro-
posed to destroy the Dalton Tunnel to hinder
Shermans march, but an exasperated rebel
said, "What in the nations the use? That
| d-d Sherman has probably brought an
| other one along with him from ClevelandP'
| ,--Gail Hamilton, in her new book entitled
| "Wool- gathering" remarks that "A single fac
| will show how rapidly the course OF Empire
| has taken its Westward way. Only In lo4O
| there was but a single school in Milwaukee,
with twenty-five scholars; now, there are
| three hundred lager beer shopsP '. r..
Montgomery Blair is stumping Virginia
| in the rebel interest. He complains that Pres
ident johnson has hurt the cause by retaining
his enemies in office. @
Mr.. Greeley, in commenting upon his
nomination for Minister to Austria, says that
| he could not accept this place had the alleged
| nomination been unanimously confirmed, in
| tending not to leave his country at least until
| every State disorganized by revolt shall have
been restored to her normal position in the
| Union-if possible on the basis of Universal
Amnesty coupled with Impartial Suffrage
| On the eve of new Presidential canvass, in
| so momentous an exigency, be would regard
| any employment that required OF nun So-
| iourn of months abroad as at best put honor-
| able punishment And, while he VIII NOT ue-
J cline nominations that have not oeen tenuer-
| ed him, he purposes never again 10 oe eahoi-
| date for office. ..... --.
| THE French Academy have elected NJ Nj
| sarl member of the Committee of the Histor-
;cal Dictionary of the French Language, In
the place of the late NJ Victor Cousin, and
| they have appointed q committee (tormed of
NM. Ste. Beuve, Vitet, Albert de Broglie,
Prevost-P Paradol, and Cuvillier Fleury) to pre-
pare new edition Of the ordinary Dictionary
of the French language.
The Chicago Post referring to tue TACT
that Hon. John Wentworth has received the
| title of IL. d., says: "If his alma mater mad
| Ct ono John since he grew up, she
| .o,,,, ,,,o hcleve have devised title Of more
| ,ouao1 lanqth If not of more laundering
.o,,od designation little over two ellis
lona Is simply ridiculously short. 1t is as lit
40 becoming to our conspicuously eminent
sslIow-citizen as would be the latest style of
4 bobtailed coat"
The Chicago Tribune says-"The eight
hour movement, which caused so much excite
ment during the spring, has long since faded
from the memory of the general public, but its
leaders are not disposed to let their efforts die
ont without another essay. A National La
bor Congress is called to meet in this city on
the third Monday in August, when that move
ment will probably be discussed in all it9 bear
ings."