The Portland daily press., 1867-03-08

Original and selected.

-Eighteen Fenian conyicts whose santancos
were recently committed to twenty wears i'm
pr'sonment, arrived at Kingston, G. W.. by
speciai Tram from Toronto, and were secured
IN the penitentiary.
heV. Or. Bellows is going to Europe with
impaired health. .iH
Inc Hartford Press suggests as an appro-
pirate name for the new kingdom on the North,
The Anti-Fenian League"
Henry Ward Beecher says that the reason
MS sermons continue to be published in the
independent is that small surplus has accu-
INFLATED in the Office of that paper, which he
did not think he had right to control
DIR. j. j. Craven, author of the "Prison Life
of jeff Davis" has been rejected by the Sem
ate as postmaster at Newark, N j. A man
named johnson appointed him.
On the 4th of July next a new star will be
added to the national flag, representing the
new State of Nebraska .'t" 'i
"A dentist who was about to extract a tooth
| from the mouth Of a man who extended his
| jaws alarmingly distant from each other, told
him not to open them any wider, as II propos-
ed to stand on the outside to perform the opera
ton .u-.E tA1 afl f'iF
The Mobile Advertiser says that any plan
OF resistance to Congress which depends upon
I the action of the Southern Legislators and peo-
pie is of no account. "The South has no pow
er in this revolution 1t has fought its fight and
is played out" 7@sH
Gov. Hawley of Connecticut, is the princi-
pal owner and editor of the Hartford Press
and Senator Anthony of Rhode Island is an
owner and one of the editors of the Providence
| Journal. s.,.
AT large New York reception the other
evening the flowers used for adornment of the
rooms and for the guests cost over seventeen
hundred dollars, by which the general expendi
ture of the occasion may be estimated. 80
The Honolulu Advertiser of Jan. IL, says
Gentlemen who returned yesterday from the
crater represented it as being in grand state
ofexcitement. On the day prior to their arr
val, it had overflowed in various places, and
the seven lakes were seething and boiling beau
tifully. We can't predict anything very conf
IDENTIFY about the crater, but it seems as if Pele
was leisurely getting ready for grand pyro
technic display. But where or how or when
we must wait and see." .i.f r. .f5..,.lf -
"A hermit has taken up his abode in New
Mexico, in the Hunco mountains, not far from
III Paso. He is an Italian by birth, about six.
| ty years OF age, speaks many languages, and is
believed by the Mexicans, who visit him. to be
endowed with supernatural gifts. He has lived
all over the world, and is in the perfection OF
health and vigor. oqli
When the late Commodore Foote was in
Siam he had upon one occasion, the king on
board his vessel as guest. He did not hest
tate in the royal presence to ask blessing as
the guests took their places at the table, "Why
| that is just as the missionaries do" remarked
the king, with some surprise. eyes," answer
| ed the heroic sailor, Sand am missionary
too"
1t is currently reported that Sydney How
ard Gay, late managing editor of the Tribune
is engaged in gathering materials for the life
of Horace Greeley, work which his long and
close association with his distinguished subject
| will well qualify him to perform.
The Deseret Ne,Ds announces the depart
ure of Brigham Young, jr, for Europe "to
resume the presidency of the missions in the
eastern hemisphere s...sl i -s
Miss Laura Harris, an American prima
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donna, well known to our citizens, is creating
a sensation in Paris. 5........-....5 ..fg
Great men direct tho events of time; wise
men take advantage of them; weak men take
advantage of them; weak men are carried
along in their current.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Chef Geuyre, The
Natural History of the Intellect, is again prom
ised by Boston publishing firm.
Madame Patterson Bonaparte has come
back to Baltimore, and threatens to disinherit
her grand-sons if they marry American wom-
en-. ........ .. man .-. ..I 30
The Bangor Democrat republishes long
letter from c. G. Burr to Rev. Stuart Robin
son, advocating the different origin of negroes
and white men. .-..--.-
"A Chicago dramatic writer styles Helen
The Bangor Democrat thinks the Republi-
cans of New Hampshire manifest anxiety
about the results of their approaching election
without cause, and says if the Democrats shall
reduce the majority against them from 4, 600 to
$500 it will be amply satisfactory, and sub
stantial victory
At present the New World beats the Old
in telegraph lines, having 10000 miles of lines
against 10000 in Europe and 5000 in India.
The celebrated bor;.x lake of California is
situated in Lake county. The borax is found
in an almost pure state at the bottom. The
mud is lifted up, the borax taken from it and
then sent to the works ON shore to be refined.
A Sacramento paper says there are now some
seventy hands, mostly Cinnamon, employed
there, and when the roads improve little, the
number of hands will be greatly increased.
The municipality of Toledo, Spain, has re-
ceived an autograph letter from Plus TX,
thanking that body for the offer of an asylum
in case of fight from Rome,
"A new and fatal disease is prevailing among
the cattle of Wolfsboro, N. ii. and vicinity. 1t
usually terminates in death in three or four
days from the first attack, and the town author
tiles are taking measures to check its spread
by slaughtering the diseased animals.
"A mulatto slave in Brazil has carried off a
national prize medal for the best works OF
sculpture, and has also received a paper Of
manumission.
An old debt-A man in ireland has been
Owen Duffy 122 years. .......
The London Saturday Reuieao says: $50
long as there are mothers left with daughters
to be married, SO long win match making con-
tinue to be pursued and it must obviously be
pursued all the more theoretically to keep
pace with the growing Discrimination of bache-
lors among the upper and middle classes to face
the responsibilities of married life.
"A Paris journal speaks of A. II. Stephens
as the Fenis.n head center, formerly vice presi-
dent of the southern confederacy. These for
eign paper know all about us.
"A Mo bile paper tells ola destitute German
woman who ratified her baby. She realized
$25 by the operation, and the infant fell to an
old bachelor, who having none of his own, will
adopt it.
"A model patent lawyer argued "cut Off
case before the Supreme Court of Errors at
New Haven, the other day. In the course of
his argument he confessed that he addressed
the court standing on patent soles, in patent in
expressibles. We eat patent food, we drink
patent drinks through patent teeth, we wear
patented wigs, We dye our hair with patent
dyes and die ourselves of patent medicines and
are buried in patent cofins"
The old Stuyvesant pear tree, at the cor
ner of Third avenue and Thirteenth street.
planted by Governor Stuyvesant two hundred
years ago, has been run against by wagon
and destroyed. tat
"A trapped rat-Surrat. He will doubtless
md hole through which to escape.