The Portland daily press., 1869-07-27
esn.s $500 per annuns, fn adrance.
here stated, but need not trouble your read
ers with disquisitions which do not claim
myself 10 understand.

here stated, but / need not trouble your read
ers with disquisitions which do not claim
myself 10 understand 30
Such a statement as that made above will
perhaps appear strange TO the readers OF the
Press, and some of them may doubt lis cor
reetness, and call up individual cases within
sleir own knowledge to disprove it, and yet
insist it is substantially correct; and will
only add, that while removal TO Minnesota
may be good Tor those simply predisposed to
consumption, ,-those who have an hereditary
consumptiye taint,-for tbe confirmed con
sumptye, suffering under developed disease
OF the lungs, nothing can be more imprudent
Such a one comes here to die, and to die
under circumstances less Conducive to tempo
rary comfort than he would find at home
E'ery intelligent man knows that OF the hun
dreds OF consumptives who leave New Eng
land to seek recovery, probably nineteen out
OF every twenty either die before reaching
home, or return in worse condition than they
left.
LEI il be borne in mind that not all the
consumpiiyes who come here are from New
Enfilaud. There are far more from what ia
New England are considered Western States,
though the impression is quite prevalent with
your people that pulmonary consumption IS
almost exclusively an Eastern disease. The
report OF the st. Louis General Hospital for
1868, shows that during that year too hun
dred and seventeen eonsumptive patients re-
ceived treatment in that one institution; on
| ~ three OF the whole number claimed to have
been cured. Such is the testimony of The
Board of Health of that city.
dare say there are points in Mi4nesota
more favorable TO health and long life than
some points in Maine, but l do not believe
there is<asspet in the whole State where
health is so much the rule o! life, where aver
age life Is so long, or wlere the sanitary con-
dition of the people is so good, as in your own
city Of Portland, or in many of the towns aud
villages of your own State.
have already protracted this letter beyond
the limits | intended, and yet have many
facts and figures that have not given, bear
ing directly upon this vital subject. will
therefore stop here, aud take up the discus
sion in another article. OBSERVER.
GEN, GRANT HAS AN INTERvIEw.--On
the occasion OF Gen. Grants recent visit to
New York, when he had embarked on board
the steamer to depart, the following incident
took place: D.
| The President stood for some time on the
lower deck, and there shook hands with sew
eIal pc sons who came forward. the only
| prominent citizen among them beng Peter
Cooper While the President was standing
there ludicfous scene was enacted. An old
| IrishWonan, well known on the pier. went
| up to the President shook hands with him,
| and taking from her orange basket two as
good oranges as she could find among the tar
/ from tempting collection, thrust them into
| the Presidents hand, and insisted on bis ac-
| ceptiBg them. The act caused considerable
merrimeDt among the bystanders, but Gen.
| Grant did not seem to appreciate the joke
i he looked first at the oranges, which had
| seen better days, and then with bewildered
expression at the geniallooking, voluble old
1 woman, and, after little time, comprehend
| ing that she meant these treasures from her
humble store a& present, put them in his
pocket. He then aseeDded TO the upper deck
| and sat down beside his wife and daughter.
| The old Irish woman was enthusiastic over
1 the little event in which she had been a prom
| inent figure, and amid the laughter OF the
crowd cried out in the same ebreafh-"Musha.
but he's a rale foine looking gintleman intiIe
| ly-here yees are, tour beautiful oranges for
| tin cints,' This was followed by, "Shure /
shook hands wild TIE President, so did" on
which was in the crowd cried out, "a nice
thing for a democrat like you to shake
hands with a republican like him." This
blow at her, devotion to principle seemed 10
stagger her for a moment, but recovering her
presence of mild, she retorted, "Divil bit Of
black republican blood in his bodyw The
crowd laughed loudly, and the old woman, ev-
identity feeling that she had NOT yet redeemed
herself in the eyes OF the great "dimocracy,"
exclaimed, "Sure Andy johnson was the rale
pure dimocrat entireiyl Arrah, but he was
the jewil iv manw