The Portland daily press., 1864-02-22
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

rrThe Atlantic Monthly for March has
been received by Hall l.. Davis, Exchange st.
sg- Lewis Barker, Esq. will address the
citizens of Portsmouth and vicinity on this
Monday evening.
sB-Among the passengers by the Atlantic,
from Charleston, is Lieut., Foster, It'll Maine
Regiment.
10 The mercury in the thermometer at
Bath,N. H., on Friday, was % deg. below zero
at Bangor 10 deg below.
gB- Capt. Stephen Hoyt of ST. Louis, a ma
tive of Massachusetts, has been appointed act
ing Mayorsof New Orleans, in the place of
Capt. Miller.
~ The thermometer at Belfast, on Thurs
day last, indicated degree OF GOODNESS such
as is rarely experienced in this State. There
was foot of snow on the ground.
SB-Col Taylor has been prevented by
illness from visiting Augusta at the time he
was expected, but will be there Tuesday next
in company with Gen. Burnside.
sJ~ The Oxford North Quarterly Meeting
will hold its next session with the Baptist
church at Bryant Pond, on the 9th and 2sth
days OF February.
sB-The Boston Advertiser thinks that
Miss Carrie Wildwood of Pembroke can con
gratulate herself on getting large mail, if
the letters do not miss Carrie after all.
sg-A meeting of colored people in New
Orleans on the IS inst, resolution was adop-
ted inviting Frederick Douglass to visit that
city, and appointed committee to arrange
for his reception.
Much Misrepresentation prevails in re-
lation to the extent to which the 22d Of Feb.
is made legal holiday. The only sense in
which the makes it different from other days
is in its relation to the grace on notes, drafts
and similar paper.
lg- The best weekly paper in New Eng
land 1.-THE Maine State Press of course except
ed is unquestionably the Bosten Saturday
Evening Gazette. Mr.. Shiaber Mrs. Par
tingtonl is the editor. We should like to en-
ter it upon our exchange list
sR@Fiye ships are expected to arrive at
Il
ladelphia for the purpose of Transporting the
Cavalry now at Augusta to their destination
1t is stated that the cost for transporting the
cavalry and horses from Augusta to Portland,
will be about three thousand dollars.
IHTCaptan Edwin b. Dow, of the 9th Me.
Battery, says the Washington Chronicle, has
gone home to fill up his company Out of
one hundred and ii fly men who originally
came out with it bnt sixty remains. The
whole of them however have re-enlisted for
the war.
sS-An eminent New England senator is
reported as saying In Washington that "since
the meeting of this Congress last December
there has been more genuine anti-slavery
progress than have seen in any half dozen
years since have identified myself with the
movement"
.g-A grand concert is to be given to-day
22d Of February, in New Orleans as aicelebra-
ton OF Washington's birthday, and Gen.
Banks has arranged to have 5000 children of
the public school lend the music OF their
youthful voices to the interests of the ocea-
sion.
lE~ The father of Green, the Maiden muir
derer, kept public house and under Pierce
was appointed postmaster. He died poor just
before President Buchanan came into office,
and Edward his son was appointed and re-
tanned on account Of sympathy based some
what on a physical deformity
nge Mr. Eleazer Durham died in Paris,
Jan. 6, aged % years and 20 days He was
born in Carver, Mass, in 1867, and had been a
resident of Paris 66 years. He had IA chill
dren-12 of whom grew to manhood, and s
are still living; 10 grandchildren, SO great
grand children, and great great grand chill
dred. He was the oldest person in that town.
sI- We published all the material portions
OF the long prospectus OF the Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post in our daily edition,
but the publishers have not deemed it worth
while to send us their paper. Very well; if
the omission is accidental, perhaps this will
prove reminder; If wilfu, why, then we
shall look out next time.
sY- The New Orleans Era says the wife of
Napt- RhtilNS II. ,iaIcl went OUT 10 new VI
leans to spend the winter, but the regiment to
which Capt March belonged was ordered to
Texas, and Mrs. March arrived in that city
but few days after its departure. Instead
Of meeting her husband as she anticipated, she
soon received the sad intelligence of his death,
the particulars of which We have already
given.
SS@There has been something of sensa-
ton in the Senate, occasioned by the state
ment of Mr.. CONFESS, relative to the impera-
tive necessity of sending feet of war steam
ers to the Pacific coast without delay. The
authorities have positive information that reb-
ell steamers left Asia for that coast, and it is
feared that San Francisco will be menaced
before the navy can afford the requisite pro-
lection.
sB The New Orleans Era, in stating the
fact that the 18th Maine was about TO embark
from that etyt TO their homes, having re-enlist-
ed and consequently entitled to fnrlough of
thirty-fiye days, says that few regiments in
that department have attained more desery-
ing popularity. Under Gen. Niekerson, then
its commander, it distinguished itself at the
battle of Baton Rouge, in such a manner that
its deeds have already become matter OF his
! tory. 1t participated in the siege of Port Hud-
son, during most of which time IL was under
command of Lieut.. Col. Bickmore, who has
| been twice wounded in that Department.