The Portland daily press., 1867-07-10
Varieties.

She doSmatism and selfassertion of his great
ancestors in exaggerated proportions. This,
he says, accounts for the spirit he is now dis.
playing toward the Republican party. Per-
haps he imagines that he will succeed to the
presidency by kind Of democratic divine
| right" His long residence near the person Of
| Queen Victoria has evidently done him no
good
"A young lady being asked where was hay
native place, replied, 81 have none; ain tho
daughter of a Methodist minister"
The State Department has received ofIlcia!
copies OF the decree for the suppression of the
slave trade in Cuba.
Tho Vedette, published at Salt Lake City.
says that the business of Utah is suffering very
severely from the policy adopted by Brigham
Young in forbidding his people to trade with
| the gentiles.
"A gentleman asked DIR Beecher the other
| day what he intended to do with the charac-
| tiers of his novel now running in the Ledger.
| He said he was bothered to know, but 'fslt
tempted to get up grand railroad accident
and kill them all off at once"
The Providence Journal means no disre-
| spect to Kentucky, but thinks that Maryland
| is, at heart, the most disloyal State in the IN.
ion, She was kept from going into secession
| only by the arrest of the members of the legis-
lature, who had been elected for that purpose
and were about to carry it out.
One Of the performers at menagerie at
Rochester, n. Y, few days since, while in the
cage with some lions, was attacked BY one of
the brutes which sprang upon him, telling him
to the fioor of the cage and setting his Jaws in
to his body, as though he intended TO eat him
| up. The man was rescued by his attendants,
but was horribly mangled by the sharp teeth
| and ponderous jaws of the excited and furious
beast.
AT the last Commencement of the College
| of California, at Oakland, two young gentle
| lnen were graduated. One of them delivered
a salutatory and an essay; the other poem
and the valedictory. Addresses were deliver
ed by Professor Silliman and the Rev. DR..
Stone, and poem OF unusual merit written
| by Mr.. Frank B. Hart, was read by the Rev.
| Horato Stebbins.
The memorial of citizens of Connecticut,
charging fraud by VIM. Il. Barnum in procur-
ing his election over Barnum, the Snowman,
| specifies several cases in which the iron man
is alleged to have bribed voters for 525, 500 and
made on the investigation will be rich, spicy
and original
President johnson has told senator that
he should probably have to veto the Recon
struetiOn bill that Congress would pass, but
that he would endeavor to do so as speedily as
possible. 1t is generally believed that the ses-
sion viii be concluded by the Goth.
Among those seeking the appointment to
the vacant place of Commissioner Of Agricul.
ture are James R. Hubbel, ex-member of Con.
gress from Ohio and Col. Peters of Baltimore.
The new Brazilian minister was presented
to the President on Friday.
Musical critics in many journals in Eng
land are protesting against the encore sys-
tenn" at concerts. ta .
The Pail Mall Gazette says, "a correspond
ent informs us that number of the men en-.
gagged in iron ship building have lost the sight
of one of their eyes, from the iron chips which
are constantly flying about while they are at
work." r- .f.r.I r.t
The New Hampshire Statesman says there
is document in the History of Concord, sign.
ed by Walter Bryant, surveyor during the con.
troversy between Concord and Bow, in which
the aforesaid Bryant perpetrates an A / Irish
bull. 1t is in the closing paragraph, as follows:
II crossed Merrimack river within two miles
OF Canterbury line and found all the inhabi.
tants south of Canterbury, and east of the Msr-
rimackp ~ Runford to be tn Bosc."
The Gloucester Advertiser says that in
consequence of representations by Gen. Butler,
Secretary McCulloch has directed that the tax
Of three cents per hundred pounds for weigh.
ing salt taken in bond to be used in curing
fish, be omitted by the collectors of custom ct
fishing ports, on the ground that salt SO taken
is not withdrawn tor expectation, nor export
ed, in the sense contemplated by the act under
which the tax has been collected. ls-.
The much-talked of match between an
Arabian aud French horse, from the Bois
de Boulogne to ChsntlIy, will not come Off
Khalil-Bey, the owner of the Arab, being
persuaded that his horse would stand no
chance, declared forfeit on Tuesday at the
Jockey Club. 500 ~ s.-a r-l
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser of fBayj1
says: "The fine clipper bark Martha of New
Bedford, Captain Thomas, sailed from Hone
lu.u for the Kodiaoland Arctic whaling grounds
on the 9th of May, carrying the first mail dis
patched to the newly acquired Russian-Amer-
Eastern, Honolulu and native newspapers,
were put up at the news depot for every ship
known to be cruising on those grounds while
all the letters in the Postofice addressed to
them were taken out and forwarded by Messrs.
Cartwright and Jones. Over six hundred pa.
pers and several hundred letters were des-
patched to the fleet, which numbers sixty-fve
vessels, the whole filling two large mail bags
We notice that the San Franciscans talked of
despatching steamer to Russian America In
June. Honoluluans are ahead Of them, and
have already got off their first boat with des'
patches on the 9th of May!" . ~.
z AN European congress Of veterinary sur.
geons will be held at Zurich from the I'd to the
sth of September, 1857. The cattle plague will
be the principal subject of discussion.
The Sultan has formerly accepted the in
vitation of the Corporation of the City of Lon
don. The entertainment will be on scale Of
the greatest magnifcence.
-Jerrold's joke about the old port and the
elder port will be unpleasantly recalled TO
"crusty" drinkers by the following paragraph
on the manufacture of Portuguese wine, from
a note by the English Secretary OF Legation OF
Lisbon AN port wine hitherto exported for
the ENGLISH market is largely mixed with
brandy. and is composed almost as much ofel-
dsrberries as of grapes. The way in which
what in England is called port wine has hith-
erto been manufactured for the London mark
ct is this: Paiz de Vanhaterio abounds in eld-
der-trees; the berries of these trees are dried
in the sun or In kilns. The wine is then thrown
on them, and the berries are trodden las pre-
viously the grapes) till it is thoroughly sstura-
ted with the coloring matter of the berries.
Brandy is then added in the proportion OF from
three to sixteen gallons to every pipe of 115
Gallons. This is the composition Of all the port
wine hitherto drunk in England. No pure
wine no wine not thus specially adulterated for
the English taste, was allowed by the Govern
ment COMMITTEES OF Tasters to pass the bar Of
the Douro before the year 1867
The mayor of Washington claims that the
capital has increas In wealth and population
more rapidly than any other eastern city since
the year 1900 lis.
The six Japanese students who are now
pursuing their studies at the academy in Man.
son, Massachusetts,, are said to exhibit great
intelligence Though no effort has been made
to call their attention to the subject, they have
concluded that the Christian religion is the
power which has given the western natiors
their superiority.