The Portland daily press., 1871-12-09

A sorrowing and reproachful daughter of
New York Shoddydom sends this farewell mes
sage to the departing Romanoff:
Perhaps some day you'll waken
Mid sea-sick pangs to know
Tho hearts that Won have hral,e

MIN SO"oioh P"iSo W hhoW
---.---..-. The hearts that you have braken''
''Perley" of the Boston Journal says s. P.
Brown formerly of Maine, now leading mer-
chant in Washington, has been unjustly accus-
cused by Democratic papers with pecuniary
misconduct while he was Navy Agent in that
CITY during Mr.. Lincoln's administration. Dur
ing his official term Mr.. Brown disbursed over
thirty million dollars the accounts for which
have all been settled at the Treasury, with the
exception of his charge for disbursements made
for other stations This is still matter of dis
pute, but there is nothing concerning it which
reflects upon Mr. Brown. a-.A
The Census Bureau reports that there were in
Massachusetts, but two thousand six hundred
men who were disfranchised under the ob!iga-
| tory poll tax paying and the reading and writ
| ing provisos a+zHl-s.@f EQ4
The money-order system between the United
| States and Great Britain, which wentinto OPP
Grafton Oct. LIST, is very popular. Up to Dec
| 1st 5000 ORDERS amounting to $4,000, were
sent from the New York Post Office
This is the era of taxing Injuries, and the
constant demand is to raise the tax on articles
of this nature and abolish it on others The
plONlIlCc VI SSucutC ISSpUuuS uOUly 10 ILLS ue-
mand. Heretofore the cost CT marriage Ii
cense in that region has been six dollars, but it
is now intended to increase the revenue from
this tax by making it two dollars higher, and
the additional sum is to be added to the public
school fund. Truly wise application of the
money, and evidently an appropriate one.
Mr.. Arthur Cheney, of the Globe Theatre,
has purchased the sole right for the production
in Boston, of Edmund Falconer's new drama,
'tEileen Oge, or Dark's the Hour Before the
Dawn" which has recently been played in
London with the most distinguished success.
Probably the principal literary event of the
coming year, will be the publication in the At
lantic Monthly, of Hawthorne's newly discoy-
cred romance, Septimus FELTON,, or the Elixir of
Life; the first installment of which will ap-
pear in the January number. .a
The value of the exports from Boston to for
eign countries during the month of November
is greater than for any other month since Bos-
ton became city. The whole amounted to
$2,130,O74, of which $1,334,434 were sent to
| Great Britain alone ins.F,s5$ rfs,refl
| The report of the civil service commission is
nearly completed, and will be submitted to the
President before many days. 1t is officially
stated that their recommendation will be such
as to require little legislation on the part Of
Congress, but will leave to the discretion of the
President the inaugu al of civil service reform.
A Chicago, ILL.,, dispatch says the House Of
Representatives Thursday passed bill granting
women the legal right to follow any business
they may select. This enables women to ac.
cept clerkships in State offices.
A dozen first-class ships, with their cargoes
have been lost in the st. Lawrence river, below
Quebec, by the early setting in of winter and
in some instances the crews had difficulty in
reaching the shore in boats
The Swedish arctic expedition has brought
from Greenland twenty specimens of meteorie
iron, two of them of enormous size One now
placed in the hall of the Royal Academy Oh
Stockholm, measures about forty-two square
feet, and weighs nearly twenty-one English
tons; another, which has been presented to the
museum OF Copenhagen, weighs about six tons
| The use of electricity as an agent in aid OF
dental surgery is a novel scientific application
DR.. Bonwell exhibited, at late meeting of the
Franklin Institute, an electromagnetic, which
was constructed to drive plugging tool fol
nlllng teeth. By its agency the work of den
tlstry is said to be greatly lessened, and the
time OF an operation considerably shortened
THE Times deliberately reviews the charges
against President Grant in leader Friday. 1t
asserts that he has not received dollars worth
OF property since he became President, outside
OF his salary His income is under $6OOO His
st. Louis farm was partly inherited by Mrs.
Grant, and partly bought with the 100000
given by New York citizens to President Grant
when he was General His stock in the Seneca
Stone Company was bought in 1867, while
Cooke, the President of the company, was not
made Governor of Washington until 1871. His
Chicago investment was made with the savings
from his Major-Generaps pay, while his Phila-
delphia house rents for $4,000. -
| e The Times prints the Sua's list of President
Grants alleged relatives holding office. and
shows that his father-in-law and several Others
were appointed by President Grants predeces-
sors while eleven of the others on the list are
no relatives of the President, the rest beinq