The Portland daily press., 1867-04-19
Original and selected.

First page-Taxation of National Bank
Stock; The Confederate Cruiser Shenandoah;
The Austrian Mission Growth of the Country;
Notice to Quit Letter from Texas; Put in the
| Spring wheat; Recent Publications.; Remarks
of Senator Fesst nden. Last page-Footsteps
on the other Side, poetry; An Eastern Story;
Paying for his Provender by Praying.
Emerson Etheridge, the Democratic nomi
nee for Governor of Tennessee, began his re-
cent career as Jealous Union supporter OF
Abraham Lincoln, bu. soon degenerated into
one OF the most bitter and abusive of all the re-
vilers OF that great mans administration. GoV'
| Brownlow may not be model statesman, pu'
he is the man for Tennessee in TINS Juho
ture, and the Unionists white or black hho" \.
Hon. Thad. Stevens is pretty wen, pu'
on,, a>o;.o,,o,,. h;,os ON the palpitation OF the
| heart. r....
-Aftor oil the efforts of the Tennessee con-
.o.:.,os n seems that they were able to get
oo,v six negro delegates in their State Con-
| vention. f.fs 49, y I'D
senator Sumner introduced a resolution
declaring that in opinion of the Senate the
| Austrian mission is not vacant. The Senate
| adjourned, however, before any action was talk
| en-. -,sff
John w. Hunt, the member of the last
Congress who gave the lie to Mr.. Ashley, was
nominated as Postmaster at Brooklyn and re-
jected at once. ga i''ls i'-''i .....-
The portraits of Thomas H Seymour and
Isaac Toucey have been restored to their places
in the Connecticut Senate chamber whence they
were ordered to be removed, some years ago,
on account the originals being secession SYM
pathizers W ' '' i.'' .,-.-. ~,
Pennsylvania has enacted stringent law
| against prize fighting. Participants or specta-
tors are liable to fine of $1,000 and imprison-
ment for two years. -. .at o. F.
How much will the Temperance cause be
strengthened by filming men for selling s,oeet
ciderP May not good cause be injured by in
discretion? t''' - ''' ......
| An exchange in speaking of the magical
strains of hand organ, says: when he play
ed old Dog Tray we noticed eleven pups sit
ting in front of the machine OH their launches,
brushing the tears from their eyes with their
fore paws '~"
We notice that the name of General Carl
Schurz has been dropped out of the Post as
edtor-in-chief. We presume he has gone to
st. Louis to take charge Of the new German
paper in that city. He is very able writer.
Wanted recipe for putting five pecks
into half-bushel measure. When we get
such prescription we shall know better how
to get all the communications we receive into
the columns of the Press. i'''
"A Boston correspondent says: 1.-TWO car
loads of invalid soldiers from the South left
here via, B. &. NJ. Road for Togus Spring Re-
treat. Sup't. Merritt, provided his best cars
| for their transit. The honest remark of one of
the wounded men in regard to conductor
Tucker, that he had a heart as bio as an OK,
| reminds one that they were well treated while
under his care" -- 80 - i''3 l.ai
An exchange suggests that the ordering of
Gen. Rousseau, Immediately on his confrma-
ton, to Fort Vancouver, Washington Terrific
ry, looks as if his appointment was intended
as an honorable Punishment, to give his hot
blood chance to cool. Perhaps the writer is
not aware that Fort Vancouver is one of the
pleasantest spots on earth, and to many mill
tary men the most desirable post in the whole
country. Such is the statement we have had
made to us by officers who had been there
year, and who received orders to return to
the Atlantic States with evident dissatisfac-
| ton. t'j1 81
The Messrs Harper OF New York, paid
Charles Dickens for the advance sheets and
| privilege of publishing THE Tale of Two Cit
les" e1,000; for "Great Expectations" 81 200;
for "Our Mutual Friend" e1 900, making for
three works a total Of over $4,000 in gold, or
$4,000 in greenbaeks. T. B. Peterson & Bros.
of Philadelphia have been in the habit of pay
ing to the Harpers half of the total expense to
secure the privilege Of publishing the stories in
1 book form. The amount paid Dickens for his
various works by Harper and Peterson
exceeds $4,000. We notice that Me ssrs Tick
| nor & Fields have also sent him a sum for the
Diamond Edition of GOO. ~ H..
Pollard of Richmond said recently to
gentlemen: Negro suffrage. is dirty weap-
| on, but you have put it in to our hands, and
we mean to beat your brains out with it," d
| A New York dealer in stamps on Monday
sold $4,000 of stamps for bond issued by a
Western railroad. The paper thus stamped
represents $30,0OO,OO0 .1 l.5f s, a4s
The Congregational Church at West Brook
field, Mass, which is a lis years old, has had
but four pastors. The history of the First Par
ish in this city shows longer term with only
four pastors, and no interregnum in the pasto-
raj Office