The Portland daily press., 1862-06-24
MATTERS ABOUT TOWN.

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IMPRovEMENTs.-Extensi improvements
are being made on the Kennebec Il Portland
bed through its entire length. New rails are
taking the place of the worn, and new sleepers
are strengthening the old The Ravine Road
near Hallowell, is being filed and thus the
railroad rendered more secure than before.
Mr.. Cushman is determined to give us, in the
Kennebec & Portland, one of the best rail-
roads in Maine.
u The Anniversary ofthe Federal Street
School, was fully attended on Sunday evening
and the large audience seemed to be interested
in the exercises. ]. H. Coffin, the Supt. APP
peared to be an efficient officer, and his report
was very minute and interesting. The School
is in fourishing condition; two deaths have
occurred during the past year. There have
heen several conversions from the ranks of the
School. Remarks were opened by DIR. Robin
son, Messrs. Kicker, Stevens, Claride, and Capt.
Sturdivant The singing by the scholars was
ofa superior order, and was appreciated by
the audience.
sH- With most approving glance did we
receive box Of strawberries from our kind
friends on Market Square, Messrs. Greenough
q Morse. We felt some little curiosity at
viewing the amount of pigs and poultry scat
tering about, evidencing a fearful slaughter,
and betokening an attack to be made some
where, and upon asking were quietly informed
that the fifty pigs and 500 lbs. Of turkies, were
to occupy very prominent part in the order
of the day for to-day. What a futtering of
feathers, and squealing of pigs! Good times
coming!
THE SHAcKLEs or JOHN BRowN.-We
have now on exhibition at this Office, through
the kindness Of lady but recently returned
from Martinsburg, the real, original and bona
.dde manacles of John Brown, of Harper's Fer
rynotoriety. These irons were wornby Brown
during his imprisonment, and were forwarded
to this place by Sergeant Atwood, formerly of
this city, and now jailor of Charleston, Va, to
certain of his friends residing in this place.
They were given to him by the jailer under
whom John Brown was held in durance, and we
idence, endorse the snpposition of their being
indeed genuine, and that they were once the
fetters Of the great Virginia agitator. One
thing, in this connection, is certain. On the
first Sabbath of this month Henry Ward
Beecher delivered from the pulpit most ell
oquent discourse, during which he took occa-
sion toprovetohis people, affording them occu-
lar demonstration, that the manacles and
chains Of John Brown, were now in the pos
session of the North, and, holding up from the
sacred desk, the irons of the martyr, carried
his hearers by the powers Of oratory, back to
the blood-stained soil of Harper's Ferry. Par
ties wishing to view them can do so by visiting
our Counting room, at which place they will
remain for public inspection the balance of the
day.
ALMOST A TRANSLATION. :. Rather an
amusing incident occurred yesterday, at the
works Of the Portland Company, in which, bat
for the mild wind blowing at the time, we
should have had occasion to chonicle another
translation, as of old. 1t seems that one of
our downtown merchants essaying to take
peep through that monster telescope, the man.
moth chimney, suddenly found himself lifted
and going. Hastily bidding his friends adieu,
he resigned himself to his impending fate, and,
like the equi-poised steel between two magnets,
remained for an instant suspended 'twixt heay-..
en- and earth, when Suddenly, tho wind lulling,
he was enabled to descend again to terra frma,
though not without the loss of his tile which,
on eagles wings fed upward and onward, and
when last seen was entering an ominous look
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-Seeadvcrtisemento Of Marston
& McAIistcr in another column. Now is
good time to enlist In one of the finest regi-
ments Maine has raised.
REruRNED.-The Hallowell Gazette states :
that DR.. J. Q. A. Hawes, who has been con-
nected with one Of our Maine Regiments, at
Port Royal, S. c., during the past year, arrived
at his home in that city, on Wednesday of last
week.
ED A travelling circus nuisance passed
through our city the other morning, with the
usual parapheranlia of lank beasts and lazy,
clownish performers.-lH Hallowell Gazette.
:, Wonder who's been plagulng the usually
placid editor Of the Gazette. Didn't the 1lazy,
clownish performers" send in the ticketss
ALoNG MoNTH.--We notice an advertise
ment in one of our city contemporaries, dated
May 57th, 1852. ~ -' taigs sf
sH- The Custom House will be open to-day,
from ~ M. to 2 p. NJ
CRUELTY TO ASrMALs.-A fiend in "store
Clothes was noticed, on Saturday afternoon
last, whipping jaded horse in a most unmer-
ciful manner. The poor animal made hearty
snap at his arm, and had he have torn 1t from
his body, the next brute coming within reach
of his displeasure would have Jared the better
"A merciful man, &c.
PIcKPocKErs AND HRAKEs.n-Passing up
Middle street, yesterday, We were somewhat
alarmed at the large number Of rakes upon
that great thoroughfare; and we mentally re-
solved to give the public warning, by this me-
dunn, to beware Of ill-doers In the shape of
pickpockets, who will no doubt be on the qui
rire to-day, with their accustomed dexterity.
The rdkes, we since learn, are to be sent to the
country, and the pickpockets to Jail, II caught,
CAUGHT, CAUGHT"
PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HIS
ToRY.-We are authorized to say that the hall
of the Society, No. $50 Congress street, will
be open to the public, free Of charge, to-day,
from A. NJ, until p. NJ. Among the recent
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