The Portland daily press., 1867-03-23
Original and Selected.

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First page-The Alment of the Heart, The
British Cabinet, Old Portland Last page
The First Love and the Last-a select story.
\ The Nebraska City Ne,os says the ice in
the river at that place is tight as brick, and
| spring is looked for about the 4th OF July.
IT is believed that Governor Brownlow
cannot live much longer. His present nervous
disorder grows more and more threatening
Alfred Tennyson occupies a farm seven
| miles from anywhere.
General Grant was urged to become Pres
ident of the National Temperance Society
| He said he was in full sympathy with the
cause, but did not think he was the man for
| it," f""l .... 't'.H -.r
In Mr. Stevens first article to Mr. Neal as
printed the phrase nasty beef" appeared. 1t
was written roast beef by Mr.. S. and the fault
OF lts msprlnt was none of his. 'N''
AN advertiser of a cough remedy commeces
with this advise-"Keep your feet dry, wear
good shoes, keep them well stuffed with OIL
query; is it the feet or the shoes that are to be
kept stuffed with oil? r.ai .J ' .#
If the Republicans of Connecticut should
be beaten by a few hundred votes, which could
| easily utNe DeeH ntu tho Oo'oiS" S'N--N
the verdict will be, Served them right, for
| their objectionable bgotry and pride III retus-
| ing to strike the invidious word white" from
| their constitution. They may need those
whom they have rejected to save them yet.
Speaking of the House of Representatives
at Washington, the lady correspondent of the
Tribune says, "When You enter-and this let
ter is not for a day, but for all time-Garret
Davis is speaking. He is a sepulchral and at
tenuated GratianO. His reasons are as two
grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chat
You shall search all day ere you find them. and
wnen you have them they are not worth the
search. His text is any one of the eleven hun
dred enactments of Congress- but his sermon
~ Always the Constitution, and it violated
mat nobody listens to him does not in the
least disturb him. He purls on, a turbid riyu-
let oil talk, till some ingenious damminc chokes
him up" fH F1i u. lr'lO'1
In kentucky, at a gathering of the sover-
elgns for a political purpose, where high de-
bate was held on the principles of 49," "uhe
Virginia resolutions, and other cognate sub
Jects, the question of the bred Scott case and
Judge Taney's decision was under COMMENT
One of the crowd, doubling the accuracy of
some statement that had been made in refer
ence to it, expressed the belief that 'Dred Scott
neuer decided the question in any such ,cdy ~
There being some dubiety as to exactly what
"Mr. Scott" did deci5e, further consideration
of the subject was dropped. .HrHIls..
The Winchester gun has recently met
with great success in Switzerland The ar
morer Weber Mnrsh has ordered six of these
guns to be sent from America, and sending
one to Colonel Bruderer, the latter caused a
small target of the size used by infantry to be
placed at the distance of one thousand feet and
In one minute they struck the mark eleven
times out of twelve Shots -
There are to be aquatic contests of various
kinds in Paris at the time of the Exhibition,
and it has been proposed to match an eight-oar
American Shell, rowed by amateurs against an
English eight-oar The American crew would
be made up mainly Of Harvard and Yale grad
yates, who have been distinguished as boating
men and who have not yet grown "scant of
BREATH"
The widow of Henry Grattan died in Dub
lin DUNG February.
-Tammany Hall, the old wigwam ofDemoc-
racy, has been purchased by Charles A. Dana
The following are the returns from New
Hampshire, with only three towns to hear
from. Gen. Harriman's majority over Sinclair
is 1924, and over Sinclair and the scattering
vote 1894. The official returns may slightly
change the result either way. The Congress
sional majOrities are about as follows: Ella
1900, Stevens 500, Benton 1000. ......,. ......
"A disconsoate Tilted German professor of
the tonsorial art in indianapolis recently put
an end to his miserable existance by swallow
ing pint of hair dye.
Says the Charleston Mercury, the worst
rebel Of the whole rebel press of the South;
There is no need to give up an atom of our
self-respect; there is no need too give up one
memory of that "lessed past to which we have
so long chung; but the military law is the law
for us;and, until that law be repealed or modi-
fed, it is the law which the people of the South
must obey. No one but mailman would
council mere physical resistance to the law.
Obey we must; and it is better to do this with
out any exhibition of bitterness or ill-felling.'
Tho Old Dominion is not stubborn
enough to suit Prentice, who says: There is
plenty of yictuals in Virginia. Dirt is all that
her stomach Graves" r
-Ex-Gov. Henry A. Wise has consented to
take the stump in Virginia against the new
men brought out by the crisis. ., 4..,..,..f
Who was the biggest liar in sacred histo- |
ry? He of Gath-Go-Eidh.
( The Democrats of New Hampshire have |
just been badly beaten for the sixteenth con-
secutive time, and they are trying to extract |
comfort from it, tits rather cool comfort, how |
ever. ' .t ...-.+
One of the colored speakers at the fraterni- |
cation meeting recently held in South CARROLL
na, promised not to rest till the whites were
enfranchised, but advised his brethren,
when it came to voting, to "look to merit
alone" Another, speaking of elections, he
said that the question should not be wheth-
honest" Truly the freedmen know what they
are about.
John Stuart Mill has written another let
ter in favor of giving the suffrage to women
The votes of two thousand colored men
would suit the Republicans of Connecticut
about these days. mai -iqt .-r
General Mcclellan has not yet fully decid-
ed what line of steamers TO patronize ON his re-
turn home. - ..-.......
Mr. Colfax is the only man except Henry
Clay who has been honored with three cleo
tions to the Speakership.
State Items.
/. r'@-.. = --7 lEil 1850 ta.
The Bangor House is advertised to let