The Portland daily press., 1868-09-18
VaI.ieties.

The French paper, the Gaulois, says the
Count and CountG IS of Girgenti are in France
tor the purpose of inducing the Emperor Ma
poleon to enter into an offe ensive and de fensive
alliance with Queen Isabella. The terms of
secret convention between France and Spain
we're actually settled, in virtue OF which the
latter power undertook to furnish an army of
10000 men to the Pope in the event of the for
mer power being engaged in war. In return
France was to protect spain from her home a
well as her foreign foes; but to this double OBJ
legation the Emperor demurred. The Count
and Countess of Girgenti have tho refore been
sent to France, according to the Gdulois, to try
to overcome his scruples.
When the Emperor Alexander recently
passed through the city of Warsaw, the streets
were almost entirely deserted. Nearly every
handsome house in the city was closed, and
but fe W persons, except the soldiers and public
iunctionaries were at the St. Petersburg de-
pot, where there are generally at least a thou
sand pedestrians to be seen. But the Poles
had determined to make a demonstration
against the Emperor, and it was perfectly sue
cessiul. The st. Petersburg papers denounee
their conduct is unmeasursd terms, and init
mate that they will provoke still harsher treat
ment than they have suffered up to this time.
1t is difficult to see how they can be punished
tor merely staying at home.
John Paul. wants to know why the cler-
gy W no have so earnestly preached against the
Black Crook don't take the Grecian Bend in
hand.
Savannah has enjoyed haunted house,
in one chamber of which three raps resounded
every midnight. Nobody dared to inhabit it
until the mysterious sounds were traced to a
next-door neighbor who always smoked a late
pipe and knocked the ashes out against the
chimney
A broad-shouldered German girl met an
exquisite on a street crossing in Cincinnati,
where one or the other must turn out into the
mud The exquisite didn't care to dirty his
boots, and in an insulting manner ordered the
girl aside. Her reply was blow from the
shoulder which sent the swell clean off his
feet into the mud, when she calmly stepped
over his PROSTATE form dry shod
The ruling powers of the Catholic
church in St. Louis, after a careful study of
Planchette, have instructed the clergy of their
diocese to denounce its use in the families of
vention, calculated to foster superstition, inju-
rious to good morals and the religious instincts
of the community. The severest ecclesiastical
penalties are denounced against all who have
any thing to do with this invention of the
| devil! -
The notoriety that the newspapers bAve
lately brought John Allen into seems 70 have
been envied. The other day, in New York, a
number of fast youths met in a poted saloon,
in the upper part of the city, and, after par
taking of their morning cocktails, proceeded
to hold a mock prayer meeting, which lasted
the greater part of the porning. During the
first part of the day Ihe conduct of those en-
gagged was orderly, out by the time afternoon
arrived the liqupc had begun to do its work,
and the scene was turned into beastly de-
bauch. Lewd stories were told, and comic
songs sung until the proprietor, through fear
of interruption, had to put a stop to their or
gies. 1t is so be hoped the papers will not give
these young gentlemen the notoriety they
| "hanker arter."
Labor has been so scarce and expensive in
Ireland this year that farmers have become
reconciled to the use of reapins machines, for
the first time
-"The Raggedest Boy in New York" is the
| title of the latest sensational story in New
York
The waters of the Seine are now so low
| that navig4 ton near Paris is ent rely suspend
| ed.
| 1t is stated that Edwin Booth recently
purchased some "cloth of gold," for his new
costume in "Richelieu," at SIPS a ward.
The insurance OF the lives OF babies has
caused large number of cases OF iufanticide,
and the custom is to be abolished
There is a glut OF panthers in the streets
of Corydon, Ii d., and the citizens are prepar-
ing to thin them out.
| The corn crops in Kentucky this year will
be unusually large, reports from all over the
State indicating an increase over former years.
-NIaury perhaps the meanest OF all the
traitors in the United States, has turned up
again. On the 10th inst. he was formally in
stalled as Pro essor of Physics of the Virginia
Military Institute. Il is bad for the students,
for Maurys scientific reputation is not now
much better than his po itical record.
"A journal, speaking of the intention OF an
actress to play an engagement in III tsDurs'
says that city will just SCOT her"
An English paper says the Thames onP-
building Company are to be intrusteu WIN 'n9
construction of an armor-plated euPoi" sn'P
| for the defence of Bombay harbor Tue ship
| is to be called the Magdala'