The Portland daily press., 1864-06-25
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
Eew Advertisements To-Day.
Theatre-DeeringH Hall.
Consumption-Dr. Morse.
Boarding
Literary Entertainment-New CITY Hall.


at New London are diminishing.
RrTen cents per day has been added to the
pay of soldiers.
81 Agents are travelling through New Hamp- !
shire buying the new clip of wool at seventy-fve
to eighty cents.
% "Perley" telsgraphs that an effort will
now be made in Congress to increase the commu-
taton to $780,
e Isabella Cubas, the famous dancer. died in
New York on Monday, of consumption, aged "
years
Il Mr.. G. +. Evans, of Norway, was the pur-
chaser of the Bennett Mills, instead of Mr..
c. c. Sanderson.
81 The fugitive slave law was erased from the
National Statute Book on Thursday last The
vote in the Senate was n toI2.
sEThe N. Y. Times says the Democratic Con-
venton has been postponed by the influence of
the Cox War Democrats
VCol. W. L. Tilton succeeds Col. Chamber
lain in command Of the lst Brigade, LIST Division,
5th Corps.
% Mr.. James Fl. Nichols, of Brunswick, was
thrown from gig on Thursday, while riding
through the streets of that village. and consid-
erably injured.
ga man in Waterford, MY, who had been
deaf for many years. had his hearing suddenly
restored to him during thunder storm, a short
time since
u In the list Of patents issued for the week
ending June 2lst, is one for William Stacey, Of
Kittery, for improved mode of preventing mill
dew in eanyas cloth, &c.
V The Lewiston Journal says Levi s. Bar
rett, in five hours. sawed out at the mill of s. R.
Bearce Co.. in that city, SIS feet of two
inch plank and of boards
vDummy engines are about to be substitute
ed for horses on the street railroads in Boston.
In Philadelphia the change has already been
made.
% The St. Croix Herald says the blacksmith's
shop Of Mr.. G. DeWolf, st. Stephen, two wag-
ons and . considerable quantity of tools were
destroyed by FIRE on Monday, 10Th inst
EThe greatest punishment that can be in
Aicted on Vallandighsm, by the Government, 10
to let him alone. Having lost all power for good
evil, his ebulitions should be treated with ST.
lent contempt
ga London compositor has lost his life by
touching boil on his face with his fingers, they
beng covered with the dust from new type The
boil swelled toan enormous size, and the young
man died in ten days.
| VHenry A. Wise, Chief of Bureau of Ord
nance, in company with other officials, visited
the Kittery Navy Yard on Wednesday, and from
thence. in company with some of the officers of
the Yard, made an excursion down the river
! 80 lady in Connecticut, who has seen the
| machine carriages which tells how far they
have been run, is at work to in, emit similar in
strument to tell how far husbands have been in
the evening when they have just stepped down
to the rost Office.
BItis reported that Miss Watt, the only
surviving child Of the eminent British bibliog-
rapher, DR.. Watt, has lately died at Glasgow in
workhouse. Circumlocution prevented her
receiving the benefit of the endeavors of some
eminent literary men in England to relieve her.
BThe following are among the deaths that
occurred in Washington on Thursday last
Major Samuel Moody, 10Th Michigan, native
of this State, who distinguished himself before
Lieut. Charles A. Harrington, 3lst do; Josiah
Estes, 32d do.
IFres are quite prevalent in the woods in
Aroostook county, endangering the safety Of
dwelling houses and other buildings Several
buildings were destroyed at Caribou, and a
large quantity Of cedar shingles on the Little
Mad waska from this cause, as we learn from
4 the Pioneer
% The Biddeford Journal says, the body of
Charles Andrews was taken from the river near
the red store" wharf, in Ssco, Thursday
morning. Deceased lived with his mother on
Wharf Hill. and was left sitting up reading when
the family retired Wednesday night When he
went out is not known, nor whether he fell into
the river by accident
81 The Providence Journal says, "a gentle
man, who knows whereof he afirms, informs az
that Gov. Pickens has daughter, Anna, now
young lady. We must, therefore, beg her par
don for intimating that there was no such per-
sonage, and congratulate her that she has not
been killed BY shell. although by not being
killed che has spoiled q romantic story"
EMr. William Beecher. . cousin Of Henry
Ward Beecher, was, it is feared, fatally injured
recently by falling from window in the Gus
tom House in New Yorx. Mr.. Beecher had
seated himself near the window, and while read
ing paper unconsciously moved his chair over
the sill, and was thrown violently upon the pave
ment. q distance Of about twelve feet.
81 The Mexican cup is not only full, but
pressed down and running over with the bitter
ness OF insult Gen. Santa Anna, expelled from
his native land by his own countrymen, has been
made Field Marshal of the new empire, and the
traitors Almonte, Miramon and MARQUES are
likewise made Field Marshals to tyranni1e over
the people they have betrayed MAX" is pro-
crossing fn,ly.
q The Cleveland Herald tells Of gentleman
Of that city. in attendance upon the ceremonies
at Gettysburg last November, who was. taken
sick and FASTENED to Washington, seeking an
asylum at a friends house, telling that friend
that he did not know but that be had come there
to die "Why. my dear SIR" said the friend,
that is very unwise; funerals in Washington
are very expensive
81 The friends Of Edward W. Green are max
ing strenuous efforts to influence the Governor
to commute the sentence of death, under which
he now lies fer the murder Of young Converse.
II is said that Green's brain is not more deyel-
opsd than that Of a stupid boy at twelve years
of age; that he has been afflicted with disease
Of the head which has made him semi.idiot.
and irresponsible for the deed which has been
committed.
- Dr. Jacques, one Of the Railroad Commits
sioners in Connecticut, gives the following ex-
PLANTATION OF the cause of the accident at Berlin.
"The expansion Of the rails by heat raised the
ties and the iron ION the bed of the track. Tae
heavy engine and forward cars passing over it
were weighty enough to hold the track in its