The Portland daily press., 1864-03-22
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Swindlers; Profound Ignorance of the "Poor
White Trash" in the South
~ On fourth page,-Capital Punishment.
sVrThe wife of President Hill of Harvard
College died on Saturday.
Sg-Among TIE hostages held in the rebel
prison at Salisbury N. c., is Capt. Ltchfeld,
4th Name
CIT is expected the steamer Katahdin
will be put on the route between Bangor and
Boston about the LIST of April.
sawyer, says: "While none ever saw him see,
thousands have seen him saw"
nvEducation in Russia is now deemed es-
sential to the safety and prosperity of ma
ton. Eight thousand school houses have
been erected within year.
lB- The shipmasters of Ellsworth have had
meeting and publicly agreed not to bring as
freight, any intoxicating liquors of any kind
into that town.
ga pious old lady, on hearing that the
salvation of the country depended on the
success of the democratic party, exclaimed:
ooh Lord on what slender thread
Hang everlasting thingsi
ngA gentleman was recently taken to
task for reading the New York World He
excused himself by saying that it put him in
religious frame of mind, giving him desire
for another and better "World.'
rS-Mr. Sumner, proposed an amendment
to the bill to incorporate the Metropolitan
Railroad company, of the District of Colum-
bia, shat no person shall be expelled from the
cars on the road on account of color"
~ The editor of the Bath Times don't
give word of the retiring speech of the May
or of that city, but gives his own, as President
of the Common Council, in full third of
column of solid mnion.
nY Miss Anna E. Dickinson will deliver
lecture in New York on the anniversary of
the murder of Massachusetts troops in the
streets of Baltimore. Subject: "April Nine
teenth. Lexington, ITS. Baltimore, 1854"
sg- Bro. Wheeler of the Bangor Wing,
says of the editor of the Press: ave don't
like to lose an old friend; but if he goes on
he will soon get out of our sphere" We can
only say to him, Come up higher" before
the Penobscot fogs settle upon your brain.
GA country editor living on the line of
railroad sent to the superintendent of thelroad
for pass for himself, and added, 'pIease en-
brace my wife," The superintendent returned
the pass to the editor but declined the pro-
posed honor
GB- The other evening gentleman,s button
caught hold of the fringe of a lady's shawl
81 am attached to you," said the gentleman.
laughing, while he was industriously trying
to get loose. The attachment is mutual, was
the good-humored reply.
B-Seyeral India merchants have subscri-
bed $500 in aid Of the Freedmen's Relief As
ISOLATION one third of which amount S1412, SO
was sent TO Gov. Andrews, and equal amounts
| to the Presidents Of the Associations in New
York and Philadelphia.
| sB-A contemporary says that the New
York Herald has changed its programme, and
now goes for Grant on Mondays instead of
Tuesdays-reserving the latter for its Nc
Clellan day. Thursday is still its Fremont
day.
sB-The st. John New Brunswick Globe,
mourns over the departure of so many enter
prising young men from that Province to the
States, and asks If something can't be done to
keep them at home. Give them constant en-
ployment and good pay, such as they find in
the states.
| g- While SO arrests were made in Bath
the past year for drunkenness and 81 for ''be-
ing drunk and disturbing the peace" only
four arrests were made for selling intoxicat-
ing liquors, and no search and seizure cases
are reported. Do the tipplers OF Bath go away
from home to get their liquor?
sTIndictments have been found against
the selectmen of the town of Brownfeld for
1868, charging them with having presented
sworn accounts of the Indebtedness of the
town of Brownield, on account of State aid
to soldiers families, for sums that were never
| disbursed.
sr'Perley" says Gen. Neal Dow is conf
dent that the total strength of the rebel armies
is not owes three hundred thousand, and, that
much difficulty is experienced in feeding the
troops in Virginia. He has received many
evidences Of the existance of Union feelings in
the South, which is only restrained by bayo-
nets.
sE-Says the New York Tribune, the
people very generally and heartily approve
the call of Gen. Grant to the chief command
OF the Union armies. They think it means
business, and that is what they mean. The
call-for 100000 more men is doubtless of Gen.
Grants suggestion. He means to put down
the Rebellion, and asks to be provided with
the means. And he will be.
V- We learn that Lieut.. c. C.Cone of the
! U. S. army is at home in Bowdoinham on a
furlough, having been wounded at the battle
of Olustee. Lieut.. c. is a nephew of Rev.
c. G. Cone; and though but 20 years of age,
has seen much hard service, during the last
three years, having been in nearly all the bat
ties on the Potomac, and is said to be brave
officer.
aB-The Washington Chronicle says it
would seem that Neal Dow has not spent the
winter in Richmond without purpose. The
rebel Legislature sitting there has actually
passed an anti-license law, so that every grog
shop in Richmond, and we suppose in rebel
Virginia, will be permanently sealed up on
the first day of May! What is most singular
is the fact that the bill passed both branches