The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-15
Orig inal and selected.

Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Clerk of the
United States House of Representatives, is
writing Life of Thaddeus Stevens
The Pal Mall Gazette thinks that London
has seen its maximum rate of increase in pop
ulation.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is reported as so
delighted with Florida tn at she has purchased
place on St. Johns River, and intends to
take up her residence there
Uncle Toms Cabin has reached its three
hunered and twelfth edition, an 1 still sells at
the rate of thousand copies per anr.um.
The Toronto Globe reports the sale in that
city of 5000 bushels spring wheat at S190 per
bushel, bought by an American buyer for ship
ment to the United States, upon which, in ad-
dition, he will have to pay the American duty.
The is a colored theological school, with
thirty scholars, in Augusta, GA.
The report that General Banks will ac-
company the Brooklyn excursionists to the
Holy Land is contradicted.
Will the argus put Louisville, Ky. into
is list of cities where revolutions have recent
ly taken place. At the late charter election in
that city, the radical Union nominee for May
or beat the copperhead Democratic candidate
by 2,018 voses, on full poll. This is a tremen-
dous gain f,r the Union cause since last sum-
mer, whe the Copper democratic ticket swept
the city by over 1000 majority.
When the treaty for the purchase of Lou
isiana was completed, Bonaparte is said to
have exclaimed, This accession of territory
strengthens forever the power of the United
States; I have just given to England a mara
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| PRIDE"
The Providence Post warns its Democratic
| friends that it mas made arrangements for put
| ting itself into stock company. The editor
says he must leave, and "if the stock is not
taken by the first Of May, the Post and Her.
aid will utter their valedictories and take pas
sage with the grim ferryman."
| st. John, New Brunswick, papers of the
9Th inst, record heavy snow storms at that
\ place.
Six of the New York rioters on st. Pat
ricks Day have been indicted.
There are one hundred people in the
healthy town of Wilmington, Delaware, over
seventy-fve years of age, and two oolored peo-
| pie over hundred and two.
Milwaukee is estimated to have added fif-
| teen thousand to its population since the GEN.
sus of 1865.
Certain eminent professors report the cli-
mate of the Russian American territory in
winter to be about that of the city Of WASH
ington.
Wisconsin takes the lead in the Women
Suffrage movement, the Senate having con-
Cured by vote of 10 to with the Assembly
resolution proposing to amend the Constitu-
ton so as to extend suffrage to all persons over
the age of 2l years. ..srt,
The Nashville Times says Andrew john
son Is more than two-thirds Bourbon, and "old
Bo oarbon" at that. ....
| The Philadelphia Press has become so
prosperous that the proprietor, Col. Forney,
has been obliged to procure one OF Hoes elght-
cylinder presses to work it on
| -Amonp the customs of mankind, none is
| mora ancient and universal than the use of in
| tox;cat;no liquors Some think this fact
nroves the practice to be not only natural, but
right. If such be the case, their sin is virtue;
| f,r sin is as old as the world, and universal as
the race of man. Machias Union.
"A. T. Stewards store on Broadway, New
York, is to be enlarged during the summer, to
six times its present size, when it will cover an
acre and quarter of ground.
There are nine pianos and several billiard
tables on the Great Eastern, for the amuse-
ment of the passengers.
-Fifty-three opera houses, theatres and mu-
seums have been destroyed by fire in this coun-
try since 1898, fourteen of them IN New York
city.
| "A Montana paper says the mortan'y Vi
Helena is extraordinarily good. ohy seven
teen men were killed during the past Two
weeks. ,.,
A f,n;t grower at Norwich, Conn, shipped
20 NV work last week, 16 quarts OF straw
berries for which he received but ~ per quart
MANY of the public men in America eighty
,.o,rs 400 thought that should the region west
Of tbe Aneghanies ever be settled the residents
would belong to an independent nationality.
The last number of Euery Saturday gives
the end of the tale of the Black Sheep. The
whole of a sleeps tail is not ordinarily very
long.
Ship Onward, just arrived at New Bedford
made great whaling voyage, taking IN three
wears and ten months $50 barrels SPERM $500,
barrels whale oil, and s., 100 pounds of bone.