The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-25

soP "aOu Olu DeaV6rS. .
-Ihe 18th ofApril, so famous in our annals,
mas been wisely selected as the day for the as
sembling of the Republican State Convention
in Virginia.
| 1t is suggested that Gen. Butler must have
been hard pushed in the House, Thursday,
when he was obliged to use Montgomery
Blair's falsehood respecting the Innocence Of
Mrs. Surratt. tHa 500 ~ -9i'i1.
John Morrissey has called on the Presi-
| dent to urge the nomination of Democrats TO
| New York offices. This shows says the Tran
script that Morrissey does not think his char
acter will be injured by being associated, in a
political way, with the President. ---. .s....
The questions, "Who struck Billy Patter-
son?" and "Will saltpetre explode?" have Civ
place to another-Is DeBow, the statisti-
clan, alive or dead? His death was published,
then contradicted, and now fresh rumor says
he is positively deceased. 3f Hit l'
-Artemus Ward had large seal ring which,
he used quantity to say, he wore only during
the forenoon, as it fatigued him to carry it all
day. .saljs. -1,l.t7- Let 3MaFsrr'
| The printers ern Lights" have
failed, and the magazine has faded from NOR
tai vision. 1t was as feeting and short-lived
as the aurora. ' -'''li ' ' PIX
The Boston Transcript suggests that the per.
sonal encounter between Messrs. Butler and
Bingham in Congress, though it make the un
skillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious
grieve. ~ .1 5eaI3o,-sfi "a. .srli,.i.,1 .9,i
"A hairdresser, who has invented head o.
golden hair, announces his design, in creating
it, is to add to womans head the halo the
Creator forgot to place there. H. a.
The N. Y. Post says what is wanted at the
Custom House in that city is "honest, vigor.
| GUS, capable administration"
"A country paper in Massachusetts, says
that "most the Boston ministers drink wills
key and patronize the Parker House." lf
a The New York ladies are stripping Their
heads of the horrid chignons, under fear Of
! "pediculi."' /. gYgg ,f9.l. s.sruTr ;e,.i.-,,
| Mrs. Mountain, wife of the eronaut, has
obtained divorce from her husband. He would
| get high vii -.. .e,. f..,.....s.
| g The cost of the liquor annually consumed
in this country, would, in six years, pay the
national debt.
| The Detroit Post styles the New York World
the leading organ of the Democratic party Of
the North, and says "it furnishes all the ideas
for that party, whose other papers merely re.
peat in diluted form the thoughts of the
World But the World, like all the other Dem
ocratic organs, is governed by expediency, moi
by principle" 7oHn.'a3 Hgmatss4ty I'D
"A Detroit paper says the Toledo Blade is
$50 called because it is invariably dull" excep,
so far as it is sharpened by Mr.. Nasby's com
| munications. t. .-.. ..... ...i......
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| The returns from the town elections in
New York show anet gain of nine towns since
last year, for the Republican side.
A young man was drowned in Arkansas
during the recent flood while attempting to
rescue his sister, who had taken refuge on top
of her house from the rising waters. He swan
in on horseback, but failed to reach the house
and turned back, but recalled by her cries he
renewed the attempt, and when near the house
| his horse sank and both persisted in her sight
She remained on the house nearly three day.
before she was recovered. Naad io ace5
| The grasshopper is a burden in Kansas
Quantities of eggs deposited by the swarms Oh
| last year it is expected will hatch out a young
brood ready to devour every green thing.
/ "A London surgeon has invented an article
called "rhigoline,' from petroleum, which will
have all the beneficial results of chloroform
without its attendant dangers gu"
+ John Minot Bolts has written letter to
Senator Sumner, thanking him for his course
in relation to the South, He says, "Let me
beseech you not only to give us registration
but a close vote as we have it in this State
Unless this is changed we cannot bring one
fourth of the loyal white vote to polls for feal
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and the effect also on their business pursuits
4 The Jersey City Times calls for legislation
to stop the vending of obscene literature.
Chicago has lumber sufficient to lay q
plank road thirty feet wide across the CONT
nent, and have 170OOO,OO0 feet to spare.
| "A man in Milwaukee went insane upon
reading letters announcing the death of sever
| al near relatives in Scotland and the insanity
| of a sister in consequence. Oft pho
While the Southern people object to ne.
| gro suffrage, and Northern Democrats talk Of
it as an indignity oheaped upon conquered
but nOble-spirited people, the negroes of South
Carolina, enfranchised under the Reconstruc.
| ton law, are pledging themselves to work fol
the acknowledgements of the disfranchised reb-
els. Which class is the most manly and mag
unanimous?
| The head of literary institution writes to
| the Boston Transcript that he has upwards of
two thousand fine poems cut from that paper
during the last twelve years. 70 20 ed3Shl
The Chicago Tribune cody advises Sena-
tors Doolittle, Dixon, Cowan and Norton to
"Save a little remnant of their former reputa-
tions by following the directions of poor Jim
Lane who male some reparation to his be-
| trayed constituents, by blowing out his
| brains" ,aafaH3l bHc sluGi io s4sModas4l G.
| An cratic poetical genius about town was
highly delighted the other day by an editor
| telling him heEessmbled Poe, the author of
the Raven" do you really think SOP" asked
the moon struck sonneteer, in an ecstasy;
pray in what respect?" "Why, you wear
your shirt collar upside down, and get tipsy on
gin and water" Ah'i'
Some of the New Jersey journals are call
ing for the passage of laws to prevent gam
bling in the cars, On Philadelphia train
the other day fifteen hundred dollars changed
hands between Trenton and New York.
Tits stated that upwards of fifty thousand
of the citizens of New York are to be called up
to pay fine and costs amounting to $3.50 for
neglectipg to keep their sidewalks clear of ice
and snow during last winter. ....,.. -.-
| Mr.. Bergh, President Of the Society for the
suppression of cruelty to animals, has given to
it piece of property worth 100000 which was
bringing him an income of $1,000.
"A delegation OF Sioux Indians had an in
terview, recently, with the Secretary of the In
terror, and during the "talk" the head chief of
the Indians sententiously remarked that "when
white men come to fight the Indians they
could not do much. They carried their wives
with them, and drank too much liquor"
"A circus rider a few evenings ago, on a
wager, rode one of the circus horses from the
bottom to the top of the circular stairs leading
TO the dome on the Court House, at Chicago.
The dome is one hundred feet from the land
ing. The stairs are not more than four feet
wide, and the balusters are not more than three
feet high. so.'H-- gla.. If- aaf.ri
The Church Journals High Church pa
paper-attacks with much severity the recent
Declaration of the twenty eight Bishops
against Ritualism, characterizing the docu-
ment as blank cartridge" and its arguments
as "mere sound, with no substance whatever.
The Ritualistic movement continues to
make progress in England. In London no less