The Portland daily press., 1867-01-15
REETIES.

NJ" nc might journey to the MISSISSIPPI, and
come back as big fool as he went. We take
Europe In lightning flashes, and get about as
distlnet an idea of it as the Dutchman had who
at the Lnke of Geneva, thinking of the Prison
er u Chillon, asked to see the post to which old
| Byron was chained, because he would not shoot
the apple from the head of VIM. Tell. and who
was imprisoned at st. Helena, where he was
allowed to speak to no one but his man Friday,
we can make visit better by books than by
such skimming over sea and land
In no country in the world is less heed Civ
EN- to economising in daily expenses than in
| the United States
considering what Gen. Banks's friends have
been doing for him pecuniarily, the Boston Post
thinks it is clear that the General is not one of
the Savings Banks of Massachusetts
The wardrobe of lady who had been invit-
ed to attend upon the Empress at Compeigne
consisted of three morning robes, six demi-toil-
cites, i've evening dresses, one blue velvet train
robe, one shooting costume and accessories
wherewith to change the five evening dresses
into ball robes or dinner toilettes and that, too
in ten different ways
"A cane prepared by the ladies of a Catholic
church in Norfolk was presented to Jefferson
Davis, at Carroll Hall, in Fortress Monroe, on
the 7th inst. 1t is made of a piece of oak taken
| from the rebel ram Merrimac Mr. Davis ac-
cepted the gift in briefreply
Herman Ehrenberg, the metallurgist. who
was murdered by the Indians in Arizona about
month ago, was learned and scholarly gem
tleman of German birth, and mining engi-
neer, long employed in Arizona
Representative Bunby of Ohio was consid-
erably disconnected when in the course of
| long Saturday afternoon speech on the curren
| cy he had yentured to enquire, who wants
the resumption Of specie payments?" by the
simultaneous and hearty response Of yarious
Congressman, "We do" If Mr.. Bunby wopId
lay his ear to the ground he might hear faint
echo from all parts of the country, near and
remote, "We do," 1--WE do"
BY resolution of the Chicago Board of
Trade, the Genital system of weights will he
adopted there on and after the LIST of March
next. Grain, seed, everything in fine which
| is now sold by the bushel, will then be bought
| and sold by the hundred pounds. 1t will be
general all over the country, as all Boards of
Trade in the leading cities, either have adopt
ed or will adopt the system. Some confusion
may at first arise, but dealers can prepare
themselves somewhat Tor the change in the
| meantime, and when once accustomed to it no
one will wish to return to the old order.
q -Phe Chicago Republican records the death
of A. q. Herndon, at his home in Springfield.
Illinois, at the age of seventy. 1t says that be
bore prominent part in the public affairs in
the early history OF Illinois, having represented
Sangamon county in the State Senate when
that county, in addition to its present territory,
embraced the greater part OF what now con-
stitutes the counties OF Mason, Menard, Logan
and Christian. He was the contemporary in
the Legislature of Abraham Lincoln the late
Colonel e. ID. Baker, United States Senator
from Oregon, who fell at Balls Bluff, and other
distinguished men. VIM. II. Herndon, the
friend and biographer of Lincoln, is the Oldest
surviving son of Col Herndon.
"A correspondent OF tho New York World
calls the dominant party in Congress Thad-
icals
Capt Samuel Samuels gets $1,000 for
bringing in the Henrietta first in the yacht
race. He has been appointed to the command
OF vessel now in process of construction for
the China trade by the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company.
-Agassiz, Holmes, Mazzini, Aldrich, Higg-
inson, Alice Cary, Trowbridge and the author
of "The Man Without Country" have arti-
cles in the forthcoming Atlantic Monthly.
Mazzini's paper is an appeal to America in
behalf of ''The Republican Alliance"
"A Washington correspondent tells story
ofa Congressman who asked another the name
OF the book the latter had under his arm
"Rousseaus Confessions" was the reply.
"Confessionsi What did the d--d fool confess
for? The House passed a vote of censure on
him, and couldn't do no More" "Oh, that amt
the Rousseau. This is a S..all who lived in
France hundred years ago, or more
Haven't you ever heard of him?" "No. L
thought you meant the fellow from Ken
tucky."
Since the accession of the present King of
Wurtemberg no sentence of death has been
carried out in the country. In consequence,
people generally believed that capital punish
ment was abolished, at least de facto A
year ago the Chamber of Deputies asked the
government to do away with the penalty, but
the application received a negative answer
A few days since tribunal pronounced sem
tence of death, and the public was not little
astonshed to hear that the condemnation was
confirmed. The official organ declares that
the government does not believe itself able to
pronounce the absolute abolition of capisal
punishment as had been asked by the Cham
Der.
The American Minister in Rome is said to
be warm supporter of the temporal power of
the Pope.
The Prince Imperial of France who is not
quite IL years old, is said to be an excellent
compositor.
The fathers of Gems Mcclellan, Grant,
Sherman, Sedgwick and Mansfield were born
IN Connecticut.
M. Edmond About has just com ed
new novel, in the form of fettileto1s to the
French paper published in Florence, called
L'Italie.
-"When the Greeks" says letter in the
Journal 1es De6ats on the blowing up of the
convent at Arcadion, saw that thew had
nothing for it but to die and sell their lives
dearly, they knelt before an aged monk who
bad never ceased TO exhort them during their
defence oftwo days and two nights; they asked
his supreme blessing, which he gave them,
promising that they would all meet again in
heaven, together with the ancient martyrs Of
the creek Church. Every one present, sol
diers, women, and children, said AmenP A
light was then put to the gunpowder and
the convent, with both its defenders and assail-
ants, was blown into the air." Dion Bouci-
cault, in a note addressed to the Daily Tele-
graph, desires to know who survived to trans
NIT these circumstantial details. WAS there
a special correspondent of the Deodts perched
on a neighboring tower? Ifso, he could not
have overheard the blessing or the Amenl If
not we may fairly ask for further interesting
particulars from one who doubtless saw the
blow up from the inside"
| La MinerUe, the organ of the Canadian
Government says that Government, in send
ing the condemned Fenian prisoners to the
Penitentiary for twenty years, shows that it
acts with complete Independence, without at
taehing more importance than is necessary to
the menaces OF Roberts or the exaggerste de-
mands of the Washington Cabinet, and it tells
the American Government that if they persist,
by culpable negligence, in leaving our frontiers
at the mercy of brigands, their proteges now
sent to Kingston win remain there till the last
minute of their term had expired, and that
those here after arrested under similar circum-
stances will experience the full severity Of the
law,