The Portland daily press., 1867-09-11
Varieties.

Bonner, of the Ledger, has agreed to give,
Tue hev- Mr. McChesney $500 year, if the
church over which Mr.. McC. presides will add,
the same amount to his salary. McChesney
was the clergyman who denounced the Ledger
while ago, and was sued for libel by Mr..
Bonner, who accepted the retraction and with
drew the suit.
The latest news from Spain shows that the
insurrection is gaining ground. The Paris
Tsnaps announces that an encounter has taken
place in Arragon between a body of insurgents
and the royal troops, commanded by Manso de
Zuslnga. Three hundred men were killed,
among whom was Manzo, and a portion of the
troops passed Over to the Insurgents. The Epoque
publishes news announcing that desertions
were commencing in the Spanish army on
large scale. "l i'
I Admiral Farragut's party are being very
extensively lionized in Russia At last ac-
counts they were at Moscow, and that grand,
old half-Asiatic, halfEuropean city, whose
green roofs, Tartar cupolas, and magnificent,
gilded domes, glitterng with the golden grand
eur of the Orient, bring to the mind the fables
of the East, while its churches. palaces, towers,
belfries, donjons, turrets, spires, watch
! towers, embattlements, and fortifcations are
equally eloquent OF feudalism, was being ex-
hausted of its resources to do honor to these
representatives of republican power.
Mr.. Max Strakosch has framed an inviting
circular, announcing the organization of the
La Grange and Brignoli Combn alton, for
opera, concert and oratorio throughout the
country during the season of '67 and '68." Ma
dame Anna de La Grange is to arrive, in COM
pany with Madame Ristori, in the French
sreamer now nearly due. Under the above
title Mr.. Strakosch has commenced forming a
very excellent and compile ,e opera troop, the
bright, particular stars" OF which are to be, OF
course, Madame La Grange and Sgnor Brig
noli. Of the details of the enterprise, which
promises much for the opera-goers of many
cities, we are yet without Information. Mr..
Strakosch is, however, bent upon making the
new troupe up to the mark in all respects.
The Florence Opinione says that the total
amount of church property which viii imme-
dately be put up at auction is 150 millions lire
Siguor Ratazzi is negotiating with the Ma
tional Bank to secure its cooperation. .. o.
A Roman Catholic chapel has Just been
consecrated in Headfort, county Galway, which
is designated by its builders the "Irish-Ameri-
can Church of St. Mary" The money tor its
erection was supplied by Irishmen in the
United States, and its bell bears the ins1rip-
ton, Presented by few Irishmen in Ameri-
ca who love their misruled county" .
Baron Won Beust is said to be maturing a
plan for the sale of the Austrian chu CHI pro-
perty, the proceeds to be used in the paynlen,
OF the national debt which would seem to L,
~ LAT fscf - II
Paul.
The Italian correspondents OF q LONDON
paper writes: "We have bad news from tne
South, where brigandage is again IN the as
cendant. A band of four hundred men is said
to have appeared at Rossano, IN Calaoria.
General Sacchi is in pursuit with body OF
troops"
wendell Phillips, in this weeks blast of
the Anti-Slavery Standard, says of Grant;
aOnce before, there was an animal which pass
cd for lion till he spoke" Not very new,
Wendell, since Brick Pomeroy said the same
thing several years ago in the La Crosse Demo-
crat. .,,.fg -.4 ..rrt. ri
-Ex-Governor Andrew, in an address de-
livered before the New England Agricultural
Society last week, said; "a Yankee Is being
s,ti generis, and lives upon territory OF his own.
He is peculiar genius, and he needs to be
one. We have our six States of Massachusetts,.
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Is
land and Connecticut, but after all we are one
Yankee people; one Yankee blood. am an
American; but never forget that am also
a Yankee 1 am proud of Yankeeism and of
Yankee ideas. am not insensible Of the limi-
tations of Yankee character; but regard the
Yankee as the seed corn OF the continent"
r William L. Stone of New York, the Theta
r Delta Chi orator at Brown University Iues-
day, spoke of Maximilisu as the last OF tne
buccaneers of America" and said that ms
Mexican adventure was "a grand freeoootiuf
expedition under the patronage Of Napoeon
the Third"