The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-29
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Bonnets; A Roll of Honor
On fourth page,-A Sketch.
I-An attempt was made recently to burn
the rebel war department buildings.
The Universalist church edidce in Au-
burn, is to be enlarged and improved $4,000,
having been raised for that purpose.
9ECol. Lemuel Lombard has beeu ap-
pointed Postmaster at Belgrade, vice J. Til
ton, resigned.
T- The New London Nail Company, in
Connecticut, turns out seventeen hundred
pounds of nails day.
V-It is reported for the sixth or seventh
time, that Rev. G. II Spurgeon, is about to
visit this country.
T- The 100 rebel prisoners received an
enthusiastic reception e Richmond on the
Sunday of their return.
90 Gov Gilmore of n II. who has been
considered dangerously III, we are happy to
learn, is recovering
ag- Pork packing in st. Louis in 1863
was largely in excess of any former year.
The total number of pigs which fell under
the sacrificial knife was 239,73l.
sT-The dwelling house of Mr.. Perkins,
in Fairfield, near Smithfeld line, was consid-
erably damaged by fire, on Thursday last, as
we learn from the Wateryille Mail.
GA Hartford man has expended $4,000
on stable, which is said to be "ftted up as
nicely as a gentleman's residence" and in
which there are $50, 900 worth Of fine horses.
nVThe Boston Transcript says that Balls
equestrian statue of Washington is nearly
completed, and will soon be open for exhibit
ton.
sT- Three Boston artists will leave this
spring for Europe-wright, Cole and Bacon
the latter young artist who goes to Paris to
study the figure.
svWm. w. Penney, son OF Mr.. VIM. G,
Penney, of Watervile, a member Of Co. b,
18th Maine Regiment, died at the st. Louis
Hospital, New Orleans, on the 18th inst, aged
20 years.
eEThe Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is no
longer, either real or nominal, editor OF the
New York Independent, his mantle in that
respect having fallen OH his young friend
Theadore Tilton,
nHe The Frankfort Commonwealth has
taken bold and decided grounds against the
attempt to sell out the Union party of Ken
lucky to the Vallandigham Democracy Of the
North.
~ The Richmond Wing, says the South
want peace and are "ready to accept" on any
terms-which General Lee, standing in Faneul
Hall, may choose to dictate to the base born
wretches who have sought to enslave u.s."
I-A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald
says flour that sells in the New York market
for IS or $40 barrel is selling for s. or 6
in Liverpool. 1t will be taken into account
that IS or So Liverpool currency is nearly
as much as IS or 80 yankee money.
sB-At meeting of the milk producers of
Lowell and neighborhood, held on Saturday,
the 10th inst, it was voted that the price Of
milk to dealers should be three centsper quart
for six months, from April list, and four cents
during the remainder Of the year.
~
the late secretary of the American Board, pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church in Norfolk,
Va, has been sentenced by Gen. Butler to
work on the Notifications at Hatteras, as a
punishment for disloyal practices.
sEBishop Timon, of Buffalo. announces
officially in his organ, the Western New York
Catholic, that the "Fenian Brothers" cannot
march in procession with Catholic societies,
nor take part in Catholic rites and holy sacri-
fees.
n@It is stated that there are at least from
thirty to forty thousand citizens in Kentucky
who have been piundered by Morgan and his
men, and a very large portion of these poor
victims have since been saved only by federal
charity from death by want
sY-A company of Boston capitalists are
erecting buildings in South Boston for the ex-
tensive manufacture of plate glass. The sand
to be used in the manufacture is to be brought
from Berkshire cjunty, and four hundred
workmen are expected over from England in
few days.
sTThe Philadelphia Bullatin says the
present high price of coal is by no means an
unmixed evil, since it is developing a COM
petition in the mining business which must
soon put an end to the existing combination
and guaranty an ample supply of cheap fuel
for all time to come"
sH-The following letter was received by
gentleman of Poughkeepsie through the "San-
itary Fair Post Office in that place "Sanithara
P. 0fice-Dere Sur-Enklosed pleze find Ten
dollars-if yu kan. Very restectably yures,
Josh Billings" The $40 had not been found
at last accounts.
IV The Louisville Journal, speaking of
the Copperhead candidacy for the Presidency,
says, "Gen. Mcclellan is in this relation not
only the most prominent, but without com
pettor. Like Jupiter among the gods, he is
first, and there is no second" Mcclellan re-
sembles Jupiter also In the fact that he is the
myth Of a dead religion and the idol of q past
worship.-IChicago Tribune.
H-Thc Louisville Journal says, "as things
now stand, Gen. McCelan's nomination by
the Chicago Convention is on all hands con-
coded TO be foregone conclusion" The
Chicago Tribune says, referring to the fore
going, that Gen. McClellan's popularity arises
not SO much from the fact that "things now
stand" as the fact that "ttings non lie.'
MH-Savs the CHICAGO Tribune "tbe vanal