The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-02-25
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

GB Ahc PSopic vi oatn seem iuiiy dWdhe
to the Importance of daily line of boats to
connect that city with Boston.
sy- Messrs. Geo. NJ Patten & Co., of Bath,
have contract to cast six gunboat stems,
weighing 22oo pounds each.
sY- The telegraphic dispatches in the
Boston papers yesterday, contained very little
of Importance.
s- The fourth and last OF Mr.. Pearls ar
teles on Reciprocity and National Defenses,"
is unavoidably crowded out till tomorrow.
IL The St. Louis Democrat speaks very
encouragingly of the prospects of the loyal
cause in Kentucky.
LIZ There Is no man in either branch of
the legislature that has had more weight the
present session, than Mr.. Buchanan, of East
port He weighs 275 pounds! se-
sY- Mr.. Joseph Covel of Bath, now in his
nnety-fourth year, voted for George Wash
ington at the first Presidential election in
1883.
sg-John Mitchell, who was wont to be call
ed the Irish patriot, Richmond letter says, is
about to start newspaper there as soon as ar
rangements can be made to that end.
sI- The Lewiston Journal says there were
one hundred and fifty students in attendance
the first week OF the Spring term of the Maine
State Seminary. @0 tf
Nr During a late discussion in the Indiana
Legislature. Senator Cobb admitted the exist
ence of secret order inside Of the Democrat
ic organization, but denied that he was a
member.
LIE The Naval Committee have leave to re-
| port a Letter-of- Marque bill at any time, and
its passage viii thus probably be secured, as
majority of the House is believed to be in its
favor.
sY The Times says the gunboat built in
Bath by Messrs Larrabee & Allen is nearly
ready to launch. She is 240 feet long, IS wide,
and is built Of very heavy timber and of the
best quality.
nY- Resolutions were offered in the Ohio
House of Representatives on the 18th, con-
demning the abolition policy Of the Admins
tration, which were promptly tabled by large
majority.
TT The peace resolutions in the Illinois
Legislature were defeated In the Senate. Two
Democrats voted with the Republicans. Cheer
ing Union meetings are being held in every
county in the State, and the reaction against
the copperheads has already begun.
sR- One of the Lewiston clergynem said
on Sunday last, says the Journal, that Wen
dell Phillips, Greeley, Beecher, and Garrison
are but luciier matches in the hand of God to
set on fire the pestiferous rubbish of cur
land"
sB- The Southern papers exhort the plant
ers not to raise cotton, but to cultivate hogs
and hominy. So skiing Cotton is to be de-
throned in his own dominions by s,cine and
that, too, by a nation whose Prime Minister
tBenjamlnl is jew. tfG
.v- According to report, the Secretary of
War has stated that we have now eight ar
mics in the field, numbering in the aggregate
100000 efficient men, and that the condition
of each separate military establishment is
good.
sH- The editor of the Bridgton Reporter,
having taken peep into the Stocking Mill at
that place, says "the Knitting machines are
really pretty but in their operations conflict
strangely with all former ideas of that ancient
occupation"
sHWe are glad to learn that such treason
able papers as the New York World have been
tabooed in the army OF the Potomac. 1t
seems that hundreds and thousands of these
secession organs have been sent 10 the army
for grntuitous circulation, to breed discomfort
and mischief
~ The Journal says that an Irishman
named John Clancy, has been held for his
appearance at Court in the sum of 1920, for
stealing $3.50 in gold and silver from Mrs.
Howe, in Lewiston. He had persuaded the
credulous woman to Withdraw the money from
the savings bank, and bury it in her cellar.
sH- Rev. J. c. Fletcher has returned home
AFTER journeying seven thousand miles on the
coast and in the interior of Brazil. He has
assembled the Amazon to Peru, and says that
the capabilities of that immense river, and the
fertility of the great Amazonian basin, have
been underestimate by even the widest
enthusiasts.
rr The Lewiston Journal publishes list
of the members OF the House Of Representa-
tves, with their political procivities, religious
faith, occupation, age and weight. Hon. Il. o.
J. Smith is put down Independent" in politics,
and Cosmopolitan in religious faith. Cos
mopolite comes from cosmos-the world-so
that cosmopolitan is properly a wording"
Mr.. Smith, therefore, in religion claims to be
,roridting!
sE- The Augusta correspondent Of the
Boston Journal says Mr.. Smith, in his recent
speech in the House, intimated that Maine
might yet ''soar on the wings of hope, and 60
back to the mother country" 1t is pretty safe
to assert that the Westbrook gentleman has no
authority to speak for Maine, aud it is equally
safe to say that our State would no more real
ize her hopes by going back to the mother
country, than she would by seeking refuge in
"Smiths Mothers home"
gB- An intelligent gentleman who listened
to the speech of Mr. Smith of Westbrook, in
the House of Representatives, pronounces
portions of it the baldest treason, thinks no
man would be allowed TO utter such senti-
ments in Baltimore, and says the Democrats
were evidently heartily ashamed of it. Smith
commenced with full house, but with all his
mental force he failed TO keep up the interest
with which ha starta1 aud long hafnra ha oot