The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-23
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

70 Wednesday eveniDg,-March 23d.
ggThe ice left Saco river on Thursday
last-the earliest for many years.
% Horse railroads are to be introduced
into the city of Springfield, Mass.
sB- Lewis Barker Esq. has been engaged
to speak in Connecticut, during the present
political campaign.
GTSome ninety medical students are at
tending the lectures at the Medical College,
Burnswick,-an unusually large number.
Ir Butter is now selling in Berkshire
County, Mass, for As cents pound. Rather
steep for a land flowing with milk and honey.
gg-The U. S. Sanitary Commission has
presented the 9th Army Corps with 600
books.
ag-The weather fora few days past has
been unfavorable for the business of maple
sugar manufacturing.
-The iron-clad monitor Monadnock is
to be launched at the Charleston Navy yard
to-day
B-The st. Croix Herald says the dipthe-
ria has been making sad ravages in Dennys-
vile and vicinity during the past few weeks.
E-There were 772 arrests in the city of
Bangor during the past year, of which AGA
were for drunkenness.
W-The Bangor Cornet Band has adver-
tised its instruments for sale preparatory to
disbanding, in consequence of want of suf-
fcient patronage.
@H-It is currently reported in New Or
| leans that the military operations now going
on in Louisiana will result in the shipment of
large quantities of cotton to New Orleans.
GI-The Governor of New Hampshire has
set apart Thursday, the It'll day Of April next,
as day of public fasting, humiliation and
prayer.
TThe new monitors, Tecumseh, Manhat-
tan, Onondaga, Chickasaw and Canonicus,
building at New York, are to be ready for sea
in twenty days.
lE-We are glad to learn that Bro Ding
ley, of the Lewiston Journal, who has been
confined By sickness for two weeks, is at his
post again.
sV 1t is quite generally believed that the
taking Of Richmond is to be one OF the first
movements of the spring campaign, aud that
Gen. Grant will lead the column in person.
I man who advertises for wife,
must be one who is so mean that no woman
who is acquainted with him, would be willing
to marry him.
LIE In our article on Common Schools in
yesterdays issue, we should have said that
assistant female teachers receive from S175
to S275 year.
gBr Arkansas has re-entered the Union as
free State, and Gov. Murphy and other
candidates on the Free State ticket,are elected
Thus have two wanderers been brought back.
aB- In the item yesterday in relation to
increase of the Commerce of Portland, the
word collected" was used in the first line for
estimated" With this correction the item
will read properly.
n-Tbe town of Watervile voted on Mon
day, to appropriate $1,000 Cor tho purchase of
the Ticonci Bridge, If the citizens would raise
the additional $1,000. If the money is raised
the bridge is to be free.
o. letter from Japan, in the n. Y. Tri-
bune, reports the burning of 800 houses and
$50 warehouses in the city of Gasaca, with
loss of life of from 500 to 1000 persons. The
hre.lasted three days.
CA squad OF $50 OF the I'd Maine Caval-
ry, will arrive from Augusta to-day, and en-
bark on board the ship Westmoreland. The
accommodation for the men on board this
ship are of a superior character, and those for
the horses are as good as can be.
ag-Hon. Z. W. Woodbury. of Sweden,
Hon. j. A. Milliken Of Cherryfled, and Isaac
r. Clerk, Esq, of Bangor, present Deputy
Land Agent, are mentioned in connection
with the Office of Land Agent made vacant by
the death of Col. Chapman.
~ The New York papers mention that
committee was sent 10 Albany few weeks
since with $751; 900, raised by the retail dealers
of New York for the purpose of defeating a
certain bill, and that the committee finally
decided to pocket the money themselves,
rather than to corrupt the legislators.
CA correspondent of the N. Y Herald,
writing from Key West, says the English
steamer Newman, while attempting to run the
blockade of the Suzanne river, was run ashore
and burned by her crew to prevent her falling
into our hands. Some IS bales of cotton were
saved by our vessels.
gB-Lieut. George Chandler, Esq, of Lew
iston, says the Journal writes his father I'M
der late date that he is well in Libby Pris-
on, Richmond, from which he has not set his
foot for eight months. He says the officers
there have little hope of an exchange. Capt.
Pillsbury of the 9Th, of Biddeiord, is well.
rRichard Busted writes to the New
York Lincoln Union club :-"Poltical creeds,
as such, are not now of much moment. My
own is a brief one. / believe in Abraham
Lincoln, in the indivisiblity of the American
Union, aud the right of every man to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
GyrThe papers are publishing the details
of sad tragedy which recently occurred in
Minneapolis, wherein Mr.. G. w. +. Little
field, formerly Of Dover, n. H., met his death
at the hands of an outraged husband, Mr..
Sumner C. Cutter, native of Sebec, in this
State, and resident OF Bangor some years
since.
ga gentleman from Saco drove span
of horses to Lewiston on Saturday, and put