The Portland daily press., 1864-07-19
ORIGINAL and SELECTED.

Winslow's Soothing Syrup is recommen-
ded as preventative of any more Alasamas.
E-The South is to become reunited TO the
North, by Lincin, says western wag.
- The lawyers in Lowell have increased
their fees 100 per cent. Lawsuits will be found
expensive Injuries.
~ The rebels, in the recent raid into Mary
land, exchanged 5000 men for as many cattle
and hogs.
~ The New York Post says there has been n
great falling off in the importation of goods in
that city, during the past week.
R-The Bangor Daily Wing and the Bangor
Times have raised the price of their papers to
five cents for a single copy.
GE-The 9th Maine regiment remained in from,
OF Fort Stevens after its time of service had
expired, the whole regiment volunteering to de-
fend the Capital.
81 member of the Lazy Society, in Lowell.
feeling fly alight on his jolly red nose, instead
OF brushing it OF, is circulating a, petition to
Congress to have the insect removed.
% A fountain in a park near Stockbridee.
Mass, represents dog worrying cat, while
the latter bristes up and spits-the Jets of water
at him. T
~ George Boweryem, war correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press, was recently drowned
near Fortress Monroe, having walked off
steamer when in a fever delirium.
R-Edward Emerson, son of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, and Junior of Harvard College.
has enlisted in the Acton company of one hun
dred days men.
50 1t is rumored that Master Robert Lincoln,
the Presidents son. who will graduate in a few
days at Harvard College, will Immediately enter
the army as a private.
- Fun is of different qualities. Some COD
perheads at Newport. Ohio, enjoyed their kind,
recently, BY taking negro lad ID years old,
stripping and painting him, after which he was
thrown into pond and drowned. sW
The Buffalo Commercial says Lieutenant
Frank E. Brownell, the avenger Of Colonel
Ellsworth, is lieutenant to the regular SER
vice, and is now on half pay, on account of poor
health
81 The order of the Sons of Temperance in
some sections of the jurisdiction, has had large
accessions to its membership during the past
year, while in this State there has been reduc-
ton of IS per cent
9rGeneral Garibaldi is now SO great power
in the political horizons Of Italy, that not
movement takes place without calculating his
influence for or against it in Italy and in Eu-
rope
n The proprietors of one of the oil farms
near Pittsburg. gave the proceeds of the oil pro-
cured on their territory, in one day last week
to the Sanitary Commission. The amount was
5000.
Stockings can do without so long as
wear fashionable dresses said village belle
somewhat Straightforward her financial resour-
ces, "but bosom pin and kid gloves / must
have"
y The census of the United States show,
that in 1850 the male white population of the
country exceeded the female by 73l COS. How
the proportion will be when this war is over the
figures then will tell.
The wags say that in Gen. Sigel's retreat
from Martinsburg, he turned his artillery on
his ammunition train, and sent word to the re-
treating rebels that he would blow the whole
thing up if they didn't let him alone.
cyan exchange thinks if the Philadelphia
coal dealers, who are raising soldiers, should
succeed as web as they have in raising the price
of coal lately, there will be no necessity for
another call.
- The Bath Times says information has been
received in that city of the death of Melvade C.
Croker, of Co. X, 10th Me- Cavalry, who was
shot down and then captured by the rebels. He
died in their hands.
= general meeting of the Newspaper Pub
fishers and job Printers of New Hampshire is
proposed TO be held in Concord on Friday. the
22d inst, to consider the expediency Of gener-
al advance in prices.
80 The New Hampshire Mirror says the Man
chester Mills Print Works have declared a diyi-
dend of 20 per cent, and this is the fourth 20
per cent, six months dividend, or so per cent.
in two years
HW. T. Stearns, merchant in India, son of
the President of Amherst College, has given
that institution $4,000 for the erection of
College Church; and an unknown donor, S2o,-
600 as an endowment for the support of the
Pastor of the college church.
1-The Detroit Tribune asks: ''why is il that
only Democratic papers, such as the World
and n. Y. News, have confessedly rebel cores
pondents who write them news from the trail
tors standpoint The questions are full of
suggestions to the thoughtful
EErThe following deaths of Maine soldiers
have been reported within the last few days:
Edward s. Foster and Thomas Hatch, LIST Heavy
Artillery; Patrick McCarrian, John Lee, 7th:
Horace W. Burleigh, LIST; Charles Eastman, Sd;
II. B. Sanborn, 18th; Grin s. Steven $, 3lst;
John z. Chapman, 32d.
B-Bad reports of the treatment in Ports
mouth Grove Hospital, come to us from almost
every direction. A writer speaking Of the treat
ment of soldiers in this hospital says sit tends
to discourage the men, and soldiers constantly
declare that they will never re-enlist if subjected
to such treatment. Att~
- During the recent drought in California
large numbers of cattle persisted. Abel Stearns,
the great stock raiser at Los Angeles, lost H.
900 head, and others lost very large herds.
They were, however, the native wild cattle,
valued principally for their hides and worth
from SO to SIS each. y, satf8 v rp s9
y The Commercial Bulletin says the fall
trade in boots and shoes, which set in SO early
and vigorously, stems likely to hold out good
to the end, and business steadily increases a.
the season progresses. Western buyers appar-
emily have their pockets well lined, and are not
much affected in their operations by the pre-
vailng financial stringency. kt8s8
- Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, has
made appointments and prescribed regulations
for recruiting in rebel States. Five assistant
provost marshalls are to reside severally at
Washington, Fort Monroe, Hilton Head. New
bern and Nashville, and through them and their
employees the recruits are to be gathered and