The Portland daily press., 1869-03-25

A meeting of "original Grant men" was held
in Washington, last week. There are just
thirty Of them.
Last year the number of new publications
in the United States was 2169; in Great Brit
ain 1881. Fiction takes the lead in each case.
The Queen of the Gypsies has arrived in this
country for the purpose of gathering together
the twelve thousand of her subjects who dwell
here with view to settle them on lands al
ready purchased and to organize them into a
a nation n once more.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal says
that a movement for the formation of new
party has been started in New Hampshire. The
.rumor probably has no other foundation than
the.notorious personal quarrel among Rspubli-
can leaders in. that State.
Senator Sumner is suffering severely from
a throat disease.
So much trouble has grown out of the pro-
position to erect building on Boston Common
for the Peace Festival that il is proposed to
call it the "War Festival"
An election held in the City of Memphis,
Tenn, the other day, for School Commission
er and Board of Education, resulted in a
sweeping Republican triumph, the Repub-
licans electing the Commissioner and three
fourths of the members of the Board of Edu-
cation. The election passed off very quietly
and with light vote.
Ireland drinks less whiskey than Scotland,
though her population is quite as large. The
late Budget shows that while the latter eoun-
try drank, in 1858, 4,eO7,701 gallons. Ireland
drank but 4,77s,71O gallons. England at the
same time consuming more than both togeth-
er-over eleven millions Of gallons.
Late dispatches from Admiral Rowan state
that the war between the Mikado and Tycoon
OF Japan is still in progress.
J. @. Bancroft Davis, who was nominated
Tuesday as Assistant Secretary of State, is q
son of the United States Senator John Davis
of Massachusetts,, and was Secretary OF Lega-
tion at London when Hon. Abbott Lawrence
was Minister to England. He is now a citizen
of New York.
The New York Ledger proposes to publish
twelve articles by twelve United States Sena-
tors. Is Sprague one? He will be the SYLVIA
nus Cobb of the Senatorial contributors.
One of the. officers of the New York City
government was recently injured very severe
ly by the accidental diseharge-of his duty.
Hendricks, Voorhees, and Mcdonald are 60
ing to stump the infected districts Of Indiana
against the Fifteenth Amendment.
The Post Office Department, having ex-
hausted the stock of stamps of the old design
commenced this week to fill the orders Of
Postmasters with stamps of the new design
and issue. Postmasters have been informed
by circular that the stock OF old stamps on
hand must be entirely disposed of before the
sale of the new issue is commenced.
A Dover IN. 3. J cat, which was after a dove
was anticipated by hen hawk. The cat
grabbed the hawk and went up in the air
about fifty feet on visit to the bird of prey.
Both came down and the unique fight termi-
mated with a victory for the cat.
The bill to amend the Judicial system Of the
United States will add something like two
expenses of our Judicial system, but it is
claimed that this will be much more than
made up by tie additional facilities which
will now be afforded for the expediting of bust
ness.
Some of the principal banks in New York
city are going to change from the National to
the State system, ON account of the new law
forbidding national banks to certify checks in
advance of actual deposits. The requisite pre-
iminary steps have already been taken by the
City Bank, the Fulton Bank and the Bank of
North America, and other banks are consider
ing the propriety of doing the same
only fourteen members of the Grand Army
Oh Napoleon the Great are now living, but
100000 men have recently been added to the
grand army of Napoleon the Little.
The elections in Hungary are being conduct
ed with extreme violence. The Pesth corres.
pondent of the Neso Free Presse begins a letter
dated March ., as follows: 'The dead and
wounded already mount to 100. Five battal-
ions have already either been sent from this
place to the field OF battle, as a peace preserv-
or, or are awaiting orders to march. 1t is to
be feared that between the ten and thirty days
that the elections have still to continue, the
number of dead and wounded will be doubled, -
A gentleman writing to New York paper
of the meetings of the Boston Radical Club
calls them ''brain sociables."
Rev. Samuel D. Osgood, Pastor of the Uni
tartan church of the Messiah in New York has
resigned on account Of i'll health.