The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-05
VAkI ETIES.

Nj. Maxine Ducamp, in an article on the
French Post Office, published in the last num-
Der of the Revue des Deu1 Mondes, relates the
following anecdotc: "One day a gentleman
who showed great agitation, and dragging by
the arm ayoung lady in a half-fainting con-
dition, entered the bureau of the Poste-Restante.
and asked, in fierce tone, ifthere was a letter
for Madame L.. The clerk carefully went
over the packet from the L. pigeon hole:
Nothing for Madame b-g1A~-L~.. .s...
wards the young lady returned, this time alone,
and, almost trembling, approached the coun-
ter. The clerk saw her, and before she had
time to speak; Here is your letter Madame;
on no account whatever could 1 deliver it to
any one but yourself Madame L.. adds M.
Duoamp, has entertained the very highest
regard for the Poste-Restante ever since"
Rev. Geo. I. Williams of Virginia, who
was arrested for picking pockets, has been
committed for trial If the reverend GENTLE
man happened to be Yankee, this would be
considered as O new illustration of Puritan
ism.
The French papers announce tho death of
Mile. Georges, the last but one of those great
actresses who studied under the Revolution.
and who played under the First Empire. De-
jazet still remains.
"A meerschaum pipe, manufactured in this
country and designed for the Paris Exhibition
is now to be seen in New York The pine IT.
self is eleven inches in length, and the amber
mouthpiece eight inches long and two inches
thick. The carving ON the trunk of the pine
represents the meeting of Macbeth and Ban
quo with the witches, ON their way from the
kot% GnlJ No
inches in height. Surmounting the bowl
Shakespeare is represented seated in chair,
looking down upon the scene.
The nun who was so miraculously cured of
consumption near Quebec died and was bur-
led last month.
"A Richmond paper thinks that if the present
generation of New England men had been
more soundly flogged when they were school,
boys, they would probably have been bett,
men. To which the Springfield Republican
retorts: 1T the present race of Southern lead
ers had been fiogged at all in their boyhood, in
stead of amusing themselves by iogging
young darkies, we should not have been under
the painful necessity of fogging them in their
old age, and we fear the job is not yet half
DONE"
EVERY Saturday" for this week has pow
erful paper, by Charles Dickens, on that dandy,
Rtterateur and poisoner, james GrifHths VAIN
wright, the "Janus Weathercock" of the old
London Magazine, and well known as at one
time the companion of Hazlitt, Lamb, Ii ood
Cunningham and Cary. This is the monster
whom Bulw.r has made the hero of his ''Lu,
crezia," but no invention of the romance-wri-
ter could surpass this naked statement of the
mere facts of his history.
-Brevet Major-Gen. Davis Tillson has been
relieved from duty as Assistant .mmisioner
ofthe Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia, and is
succeeded by Caleb G. Sibley, Colonel of the
| 10th United States Infantry. Col. Lewis of
the Bureau in Tennessee is, to be Col Sibley's
Chief of Staff.
\ The temporary association which common
love of gallant enterprise has induced between
those two young sportsman Prince Alfred and
Mr.. Bennett, sends shiver of horror through
the soul of Canadian fiunkeyism. A Montre-
| al paper utters its phelinks in this way: "Itis,
we NAV also remark, humiliating to SEQ this
son of one of the worst Scotchmen tha. ever
left Scotland, and representative of what is. by
common consent, called the Satanic Press of
New York coming out before the world upon
terms ofequality as competitor in watch race
with the second son Of Queen Victoria. This ia
even worse than the kiss which her Majesty
gave to Louis Napoleon
| Intelligence reached Montreal on Thurs
day OF an ice-shove, causing very serious re-
suits, at st. Regis, an Indian village, sixty
miles up the st. Lawrence, on the American
frontier. The ice showed over a large portion
OF the village submerging it. 1t occurred dur
ing the night, and the CONSERVATION Is describ-
ed as dreadful. Some of the villagers climbed
up and lodged in trees Many had nothing TO
eat for whole day. The Indians, 1t Is said,
have lost their all, and are lying on straw with
out any covering The degree ofmisery caused
bv sucb flood in mid-winter can scarcely be
realized
A story being current that MIR. Tiiton and
Anna Dickinson had matrimonial designs
upon each other, Mr.. I. responded to a letter of
inquiry on the subject as follows:
Ottawa, Ill, Jan. q, 1867,
My Dear Sir;-In reply to your kind inquiry
whether the story be indeed true that am to
marry my pleasant friend Miss Anna Dickin-
| son, permit me Just to mention( what must
suffice for the presently that in this, as in every
| other important matter, 1 am bound by q
/ rule which have observed TOR now nearly
eleven years; and that is not to take conclus-
i've action without the advice of Mrs. Eliza
beth X. Titon, very sensible woman, and tho
wife Of yours truly,
THEopoRR TILToS,