The Portland daily press., 1864-03-30
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T The Republicans elected their ticket in
Wiseasset on Monday last.
g- The Lewiston Journal has commenced
the publication of noon edition.
A Brooklyn minister has made $4,000
specializing in stocks.
Ty-One thousand negroes. enlistedin Mary
land, are to be transferred from the army TO
the Navy.
lE-The proposition to prohibit slavery by
constitutional amendment, is being discussed
in the U. S. Senate.
THereaiter all advertisements of Auc-
ton sales will appear under their appropriate
head, last column, third page.
s- The sophmores and freshmen of Yale
College had fight last week, caused by the
freshmen appearing with new and shiny hats.
srThe Bath Times refers to the Port
land Democrat. That is paper with which
our citizens are unaequainted.
1g- Gen. Santa Anna has been ordered by
Gen. Bazaine, the French commander, TO
leave Mexico. He is now at Havana.
.~The government is issuing ten thou
sand rations day to INDECENT citizens of
East Tennessee.
sB- Leonard SWEET, an eminent Illinois
lawyer, is spoken of as the probable successor
of the deceased Owen Loyejoy.
s- The Maine Temperance Society in
New York celebrated its 3lst anniversary this
week. 1t has 10000 names upon its pledge.
s- Four hundred bales OF cotton week
are required to keep the Lewiston Mill run
ming, the Journal says.
sV- The bill placing ale, porter, and other
malt liquor in the same category as rum,
gin and brandy, passed both branches OF the
Legislature and has become law.
ss- On Friday morning last, Walter, son
of Mr Elias Newbegin of Saco, lad about
10 years OF age, broke both bones OF his leg
while at play, says the Democrat.
Maior-Genera Washburne has been
ordered to the temporary command of the
troops Of the ninth corps, now assembling at
Annapolis.
- Gen. Neal Dow will address the stu
dents of Westbrook Seminary, on the Subject
ofTemperance, on Friday afternoon, at three
o'clock.
s8- The Augusta Hotel Company move
ment has resulted in the purchase of the Au-
gusta House, which is to be enlarged and i'm
proved.
GB@The loss of the Mail steamer Bohemian
will, it is understood, involve loss of $4,000
on the underwriters in Liverpool and Lon
don. The ship was but partially insured
sT- The Lewiston Journel says an Irish
woman named Driscoll was found drowned in
the Cross Canal, Monday morning. She was
floating on the surface when discovered,
buoyed up by her dress.
-Lost overheard from the schooner
Rodman Price, between Point Judith and
Watch Hill, March 18th, 1864, Charles Holt,
aged 10 years, son of John Holt, ESQ.,, OF
Winterport.
John M. Harvey, laborer in the Kit
terry Navy Yard, fell from the deck of the
Agamenticus to the ground on Monday, inju-
ring him severely, as we learn by the Ports
mouth Chronicle.
lB@ The shoe mandatory of Robert
Mathews, at Milton Mills, NH, together with
the store and house of James W. Nutter, and
the store of L. II. Twombly, were destroyed
by fire on Monday last.
- The Ohio House OF Representatives
has passed resolutions instructing Ohio Con-
gressmen to favor the immediate abolition OF
slavery everywhere by congressional amend
ment to the Constitution
sE-A yonng lady who works on the
Bates Cooperation, Lewiston, attempted to
commit suicied on Monday last, by throwing
herself from the bridge. She was prevented
by persons who were watching her move
ments, as we learn from the Journal.
To- The Maine State Press, 10 be issued
to-day, win contain Gen. BOWS recent speech.
We shall work limited number Of extra cop
les for the accommodation of those who failed
to secure copies of the daily edition containing
the same speech. Price five cents.
H-The editor of the Watersille Mail
having become sorely vexed on account of
flood of poor poetry sent him, threatens to
publish some of it to the eternal disgrace of
writers thereof, as the surest way OF abating
the nuisance.
LIZ The Saeo Democrat says fire set in
the pastures of Mr.. Pillsbury and Mr.. Pike,
on the Ferry Road in that town on Monday.
spread so fast on the dry grass that the build
ings of Mr.. Pike and Mr.. Joseph Seaman
were with extreme difficulty saved from burn
ing. When the progress of the flames was
stopped it had reached to within about thirty
feet of Mr. Pixies buildings.
sg-In an article copied from the New
York Evening Post in relation to the death
of Hon. Owen Lovejoy, it was stated that his
brother, Rev. +. p. Loyejoy, was killed in AL
ton, ILL.,, in lS47. 1t should have been 1897.
The error was the Posts and not ours.
rB-The Providence Post, which has here
tofore been rabid copperhead sheet, has
changed hands, and will now, in the language
of its new editor, "endeayor to the best of its
ability TO support and defend the measures
of the great National Union party, that has
been born from the wants of the times, acting
on the earnest patriotism Of our people"
rB-A friend at Brunswick calls our atten-
ton TO the fact that on page $40 of vol. 80 of