The Portland daily press., 1867-03-07
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On first page-"The Maine State Press,
"The Compromise on Wool and Woollens,"
Significant Association" Estate Taxes for
1867" "Recent Publications" snatch Making"
Frederick Douglass on Social Equality" "a
Western Wife's Home" muck, Crime and
its Punishment" &C. On last -"Beranger
on Greece"-poetry, "Byron's Maid of Athens"
and other pleasing miscellany.
We learn on reliable authority that Rev. HI
w. Beecher and family are to be of the eXcur-
sion party for Paris and the Holy Land, which
is to sail from New York during the approach
ing season, and of which G. c. Duncan, Esq, of
New York, formerly of Bath in this State, is
the manager.
The present u. s. Senate is composed of
AZ Republicans and II Democrats Two of the
latter-Doolittle of Wisconsin and Patterson
Of Tennessee, misrepresent their States and
have been requested to resign. The House, 80
far as elected, consists of 124 Republicans and
Is Democrats. The States to elect will prob
ably return Is Republicans and II Democrats.
1t rumored that Gov. Bullock will not be
candidate for reelection in Mass. Gen. But
Ter, DIR. Geo. B. Loring and Hon. John B. Al
ley are all named in connection with the sue
censorship.
-E. P. Rosseau, a brother of the general,
committed suicide in Louisville on the 14th,
with pistol. He was aged "A, and leaves a
wife and several children.
There is large measure of courtesy yet
left in Congress. When the drawing for seats
came off in the House, the seat of Hon. e. B.
Washburne was reserved for him, though he is
absent in Europe. Mr.. Stevens of Penn, was
allowed to retain his old seat in the centre of
the republican side, and Ex-Governor Thomas
of Maryland, in consideration of his age and
character, was allowed to choose before the
drawing began.
"A young man in Pittsburg, dying of the
consumption, has made will, leaving S. 900 to
his betrothed. His sister with whom he re-
sides, refuses to grant the lovers an interview,
because she will get but $1,000 ,lJFqF
"A New Zealand paper claims for the war
with the Maoris the honor of being the longest
war on record. With little intermission, it has
continued from 1874 to the present day.
In Boston $25OcO has been raised for the
benefit of the suffering poor of the South.
1t is suggested that the remarkable quiet
which obtained during the last hours of Con-
gress is the fruit of Speaker Cofaxs order pro-
hibiting the sale of liquor in the Capitol build
ing A+f5ft
An exchange calls attention to the fact
that If the first Bureau Bill that President
johnson vetoed, had become law, and been
enforced by the President, the present fright
full restitution among poor whites at the South
would have been mostly avoided, or easily and
speedily relieved The sufferers, if they un-
derstood the matter, would have Ia blame not
only their own madness and folly, but also the
madness and folly of President johnson and
his copper copfeoerate party.
Raphael Semmes of Alabama renown, has
taken editorial charge Of the Memphis Bule-
tin. He opens his salute with the following
sensible shot, The only way by which the
South can benefit herself, or be of any service
to the country, is to attend 10 her industrial
interests and let politics alone" s1ezas
Deacon William Sterlin hung himself in
his barn, near oodstock, VT, ON Monday
week. .r.I F
The Joint discussion between Gen Walter
Hartman, Republican candidate for Governor
of New Hampshire, and John G. Sinclair, Esq,
Democratic nominee for the same Office, which
has once been unavoidably postponed, is to
come off in Portsmouth this evening.
The N. II. Democrats must be near rela-
| tives of their Southern brethren. The Arson
Adpocate says they "are literally roasting Har-
Irixn fba Co
aliver" That is the way the Southern Demo-
Gratis have been accustomed to treat their ne
groes. We are suspicious, however, that on
Tuesday night next the roasted man will be
found without smell of fire upon his garments,
while the roasters will be so crisped that their
own mothers will disown them. -.
Mr.. Dion Bourcicault is i'm Paris, making
arrangements for the production of two new
plays which he has been commissioned to write
by Ftench managers.
The $4,000 left by Miss Caroline Plum
mer, over ten years ago, for founding a farm
| reform school in Salem, Mass, has increased
to $47 900, which it is proposed now to put to
the use intended by the donor.
Mr.. Fessenden made the important state
ment in the Senate on Thursday, that the in
ternal revenue receipts had fallen off lately at
the rate of forty to fifty millions of dollars per
year. G-sI 'aatla ci ta
Hon. jesse d. Bright, who was kicked out
of the United States Senate as a traitor in
1862, now declines to be nominated as a repre-
sentative, saying: 81 could not be induced to
take seat among snch men as constitute the
already elected majority in the next House of
Representatives in Congress" The N. Y. Tri-
bune trusts the 10th Congress will be able to
survive this severe blow, but revives the I'M
pleasant "Reminiscences that the treason of
Bright was so glaring that even Garrett Davis
aided in kicking him out.
William Lloyd Garrison, William Cullen
Bryant, and Col. @. G. Hammond of Chicago,
have been appointed to represent the Ameri-
can Freedmen's Union Commission at the
World Anti-Slavery Conference, to be held
IN Paris in the month of June next. The two
latter gentlemen are already in Europe
"A Boston paper says some excitement was
created Tuesday afternoon at the Boston and
Maine Freight Depot on discovering that three
barrels each contained a dead human BODY.
The discovery was accidentally made by the
head of one of the barrels breaking ont. and
that of a human body being seen inside. The
barrels were directed to John w. Saxton.
Brunswick, Me-" Coroner Moore, was called
but expressed the opinion that it was no case
for him to interfere, and that the bodies had
better be forwarded to their destination.
-Four men caught one hundred and sixty
pound, oftrout and cusk in Lake Winnepesau-
kee N H., last week in forty-eight hours.
Report says Willkie Collins is incurably
sick of consumption i
There were fewer marriages, births and
| deaths in Massachusetts,, in 1865 than in the
| preceding year. 1888
| Mr.. Morgan Smith, oolorsd tragedian, II
Drawing large audiences at Dundee, Scotland.
new drama, entitled ''The Black Doctor"
has been brought out by him with success.