The Portland daily press., 1867-04-02
THE PRESS.
Tuesday Morning, April 2, 1857,
Original and Selected.

First page-British Colonial Matters, A
Thoughtful Husband, The Fenians under Fire,
"Only a Little Brook" A Brave Girl, "Minis'
tering Children" Library Charles Sumne.
Last page-A Midnight Hymn-poe"1'
Tough Rat Story, Fanny Ferns First Ai'ei"i'
Success. ,o
-Ex-President Buchanan, In MS H''o' w
clinine a public dinner, says that mo RESPONSE
bility for the years of blood ana soiio" VIC
bove endured rests on him." Seli-complacent
old dot,rd, He is probably the only man in
tho limited States who entertains that opin-
ion
"A man crossing the st. Lawrence, with
his wife and child in sleigh, the ice broke,
and all sunk and disappeared, except the
child, which was thrown upon the firm ice by
the mother.
The receipts of the Atlantic Cable, from
the oath of February to the 10th of March, 10
days, amounted to e15,539, or above $1,000
day.
The Lincoln Monument Association was
organized at Washington the latter part OF
last week. Mr.. Harlan of the Senate is presi-
dent, Mr.. briggs of the House, vice-presiden.'
General Francis Z. Spinner, treasurer anu
among the fifteen managers are ex-uo'erno'
Andrew, General Howard, Bishop oinlpSoh'
Postmaster G General Randall, FREDERICK Doug-
lass, Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Mr.. Cole OF inc
Senate, Mr. Perham of the House.
The State treasurer of New Hampshire re-
eeives salary of only 5000, and is obliged to
give bonds of 100000.
An old church built by Queen Anne in
T.lo
on Thursday.
The mule-spinners of Lowell, following
their brethren of the same craft at Manchester,
have resolved to do only ten hours work in a
day hereafter.
The Nashville Press and Times says that
the democratic politicians are secretly endeav
oring to get the colored men to sit as delegates
at the approaching State convention of Ten
nessee.
Madame Ristori's net profits at Louisville
were $500 for five performances.
Raleigh newspapers show that among the
persons who took an active part in the recent
convention with the negroes were some who
voted against negro testimony in the conven-
ton of Oct, 1865.
The Buffalo Express thinks we are econo-
mizing with vengeance because the amount
of dry goods entered last week at New York
for consumption was only $4,072 y344.
-"All-Fools" Day passed off yesterday in a
very orderly manner. We presume the usual
number of stupid paactical jokes were played
off upon the unsuspecting, and that the
Fools" enjoyed their tricks hugely.
BY the great fire in Woodstock, VT, on the
. l,,I% A. J-xJ olg. l..
an extra slip promises that in a few weeks the
paper will be issued in full size, with new type
and on better paper than ever.
The eight-hour bill passed by the House,
lacked one OF a passage by the Senate.
Gov. Patton, of Alabama, on the recon-
struction question, advises the people to &C
cept the Terms proposed cheerfully and carry
out the law faithfully. ...
The Richmond Wing says that Governor
Pierpont is "the most liberal, least proscript-
i've, and in many respects the best Governor
we have had for twenty-five years."
President johnson will doubtless be known
to history principally, as the hero of many We
toes.
Some Of the Presidents friends say that he
will make strong effort for reelection to the
United States Senate. They claim that by
shrewd management and judcious distribu-
ton of national patronage he will gain sup
porters enough to easily attain that end.
An advertiser in one OF our exchanges
wants "a young man to take charge of span
of horses of a religious turn of mind"
Gen. Sherman has obtained permission to
go to the Holy Ind on Captain Duncan's ex-
pedi,ion from New York, which is expected to
sail about the first of june ..-
E. p. Whipple has written, at the request
of MIR. Fields, an essay on Dickens, which will
probably appear in the next number of the At
lantic. 1t is said to be one of his finest produc-
tiOns.
The Princess of Wales was reported to be
seriously ill on the 18th of March, but we have
almost three weeks later news by telegraph,
which says nothing upon the subject. 1t was
inferred by some that tie Princess could not
be in danger, because the Prince continued to
hunt, and to go to the theatre,-but the infer
ence is not strictly logical
Tho MAJ rr-a' 'r~.s~ commenting
Gen. Buffers dangerous lack of reticence calls
him "the e,Va,at terrible of the Republican
party" To which the Republican retorts:-
Rather SO, it must be confessed, but adopted.
1t does not become the unnatural parent who
dropped him on our doorstep to upbraid us
with his inherited faults"
The Prince Imperial is unwell. He has
hurt one of his knees, and he doesn't recover so
fast as he should. His death would make
Prince Napoleon the most important person
age in Europe.
The woollen manufactures of Rhode Is
land received additional protection" recently,
on the ground of benefting American labor
Their method of accomplishing this result is
ingenious, and consists in reducing the wages
of the operatives ten per cent.