The Portland daily press., 1868-02-01
Varieties.

"A Naples dispatch of the 18th of JaDusry
say; The lava is still flowing copiously from
the crater of Mount Vesuyius The stream OF
lava is from seven to eight meters high, and
from 90 to go broad Shocks and detonations
are frequent, and it is not likely the eruptions
will soon cease"
Paris papers report the most gloomy It'd
ings from all parts of France. In Lyons, trade
and manufactures are paralyzed by a variety
OF causes, in which the uncertainty prevailing
as to the political future has no small share.
Hunger and destitut,on are making sad havoc
among the operatives at Nantes, Rouen and
RoUbaix, and even in Bordeaux, where the
mildness OF the climate does away with ona
cause of suffering, the desiitution is great 50
dense ore the throDgs Of famished operatives
that besiege the Hotel de Vile, clamorng for
bread or employment, that the guards have
been doubled. At Lille starvation is endemic,
aad in Paris the distress was very great. .
sf,--A Paris paper announces the arrival Of
the Davenport brothers st Nismes under the
head Of religious intelligence.
--The birth-day of Thomas Paine was ceis-
brated in New York on Tuesday, by a select
band Of his disciples. .
The Tribune learns that Mrs Olive Logan
Is about to return to the stage. Two year5
ftsHSNs pesss-' Hince-h -her-retirement therefrom
+ -d1lrlns which time she has seeadilv laOorea
with tue pen, and has written clever stories,
successful plays and bright magazine articles
Miss Logan is a clever, though not brilliant
actress, and her return to the stage win DO
hailed with satisfaction.
"A scheme is on foot for the establishment
in New York of q system of Peoples Read.
isgs," correspondent with the system OF "Pen.
ny Readings" that exists in England. Ths
latter have been established with view 10
public education, by an agreeable method.
They have appealed directly to laborers and
trades-people, and, in general, to persons hay-
ing but limited means sofintelleetual improve
ment; and they have been the direct cause OF
great benefit to the lower classes in English
cities. Their cost, as implied by their name.
| is cheap, SO that they are within the reach OF
almost the poorest persons. One London pub
clearinghouse has issued several volumes OF
! the selections read at these assemblies OF tho
! people. Good literature OF all kinds-stories
sketches, orations, poems, plays travels. mar
| rative, humorous tales-is represented in thess
books. The utility of such scheme is appar-
ent.
Don Henry, brother OF the King Consost
of Spain, has just published pamphlet which
has caused some sensation in Madrid. In is,
the Queens brother-in-law gives the Sovereign
some advice founded upon certain facts con-
nected with the private life of the Court, and
concludes by byimploring the Queen to save the
country by dismissins the Ministry and bold
ly entering upon liberal policy.
Lord Littleton has just translated Sam.
son Agonistes into Greek verse" So says
foreign paper. Ii, now, his LorSiship will have
the goodness to translate Gray's Eleay into
Sapscrit, and Childe Harold into Semitic, he
will have accomplished a great and necessary
work, and conferred an immense favor on tho
learned English is so disagreeably plain that
no man of true culture can possibly enjoy
reading it. Il is surprising that we should
have endured the Anglo-Saxon barbarities Of
our poets 50 long. Let us have the rest OF
them done into Greek at once.
Rev. Newman Hall gave an account OF
his visit TO America, a few nights ago, in Mr..
| Spurgeon's Tabernacle in London. In the
| course Of his remarks he referred to break
fast with Mr.. Robert Lincoln, and repeated
his own remark that if his companion had
been in England he would have been Prince
Robert. We quote from the report:
Hisreply was, Il knew my fathers position
would make no difference 70 me, that must
| work for my living" and so he did in his pro-
fession OF solicitor, except for the short time
that he had been fighting under Gen. Grant.
| Mr.. Hall asked about the Queens letter 10
Mrs. Lincoln. Yes" said he, "we have been
asked often about that letter-we have been
| asked to publish it. But il is long letter OF
three pages; the outgushing of a generous w0,
| mans heart, and my mother and myself
| thought it would not be right to publish II.
Extensively signed petitions from the wo-
ines of Minnesota, asking for the right OF suf-
irage, are going up to the legislature.
The bov Kaiser, who is doing such won
| ders on the violin in New Orleans, began to
learn music only three years ago.
| -Garibaldi neatly says, in a letter addressed
| to q friend in France, "Priestcraft and Bona
partisan, which openly nowadays take hands
to keep each other up, live me out as the enc
my Of France. That is much as saying am
an enemy 70 fruit because l hate slugs."
Stephen Aassett ("Jeems Pipes') deliver
ed his lecture, Drifting About in Yokoha-
ma, Japan, on tue tS.h Of November.
MIR. George W. Carleton, publisher, Of
New York, has gone to Northern Africa, by
way Of France and Spain, intending to take
sketches in AlsieFs and other places, perhaps
foy publication in the style Of "Ou- Artist In
| Cuba ari Peru.
The ice On Lake Caamplain, at Burning
TON. deyeloped some peculiar acoustic proper
Tia, a few dave since. 1t reared steadily for
many hours, with low, continuous hum. Ths
r,pnins, of thousands OF email cracks through
the ice produced this noise, which was audi
BILE under favorable circumstances, several
miles from the lake.
The Paris Figaro announces the aI-
preaching marriage of Adelina Patti to tho
Marquis de Caux, one of the nobility who err
joys good reputation, and lie remarkable for
his ability in leading a quadrille. The Em'
press has announced her intention OF receiving
Patti at Court