The Portland daily press., 1864-02-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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en- Factory at Union Mills, Calais, the COM
ing season.
% The Wesley Church, Bath, has Sc
| cured the labors of the Rev. Luther T. Town
send for the remainder of the conference year.
sB- Lieut.. Col Geo. g. Davis, 4th Maine,
has escaped from Richmond and arrived sale
| ly at Fortress Monroe.
TEA woman applied for free ride on the
railroad near Troy, N. Y, on the ground that
she had three husbands in the army.
lg-An appropriation OF $4,000 asked for,
to erect naval hospital at Portsmouth n. II.
has been so amended by the Senate that the
hospital is to be built at "Kittery, Maine"
s5- The Eastern Stage stables, in Bangor,
took fire on Wednesday last, and were only
saved from destruction by the determined zeal
and energy of the flremen, says the Wing.
gB-Hill's Block in Biddefcrd, took fire on
| Wednesday afternoon, when the wind was
blowing gale. The fire was subdued with
! comparatively little damage
IgTwo persons were killed and others
dangerously injured by the explosion of a
steam boiler at paper mill in Schuylervlle
| n. Y, few days since.
gB-The New York Evening Post raises the
| question whether Gen. Humphrey Marshall,
who weighs 800 pounds, is fit for an office OF
| light infantry.
tB- Eleven business firms of Beaufort, S.
c., have presented the wife of Gen. Saxton
with a sum Of money large enough to purchase
house They desired to give the house to
the general, but he declined to accept it.
gg-The Skowhegan Clarion says Mrs. Kate
f. Taylor, during severe coughing spell,
brought up into her mouth an old fashioned
ounce pin, which she had swallowed when
child, and which has caused her much trouble.
gE-In the list ofpatents issued during the
week ending Feb. 10th is one to Charles A.
Shaw, of Biddeford, for Improvement in gas
fixtures, and one to Charles A. Shaw and
James r. Clark Biddeford, for design for sew
ing machine.
svThe misrepresentation in Congress of
this district, Mr.. Sweat, voted against prop
osition, legally and constitutionally proposing
an amendment TO the Federal Constitution,
abolishing slavery. is he, or is he not, in
favor of perpetuating slavery?
vThe Chattanooga Rebel says: General
Humphrey Marshall is a candidate for Con-
gress from the State of Kentucky. As he
weighs about five hundred pounds the pre-
sumption is that If elected he will be able to
fill his seat.
SE-The Evening Post says the advance or
ders for Horace Greeley's book on the war,
"The American Conflict" are SO large that
the publishers are printing thirteen thousand
copies, which viii consume twenty tons OF fine
printing paper. This is large sale for an
eight-dollar book I" in war times"
aB-Bishop Burgess, stated at recent
meeting of the Historical Society recently,
that a negro in Gardiner who some time
has been gradually growing white, until now
his hands and arms and face, with the excep-
ton ola few ebony streaks, are of chalky
whiteness.
B-Mr.C. D. Humphrey, of Alabama,
Democratic Presidential Elector in 1860, and
since an active secessionest, has Issued an ad-
dress, in which he denies his position and ad-
vises the return OF the South to the Union.
He says the hope of foreign recognition has
proved failure, and the institution of slave
ry, for which the South went to war, has been
wrecked.
1-The Boston journal says "Atwoods
Quinine Tonic Btters have long held celeb
raty for their value in imparting tone to the
appetite and yigor TO the system, especially at
tor IL hos koa,, h.
Reference to the certificates in this mornings
paper will show in what other respects this
famous medicine is beneficial"
gEA Washington dispatch to the Chicago
Tribune says Gen. Butler states that the de-
serter who communicated 10 the enemy infor-
nation OF the intended movement against
Richmond, was one Boyle, who had been I'M
der sentence of death for shooting superior
officer, and whose execution was suspended
by the President.
sB-Hon. l.. d. NJ. Sweat delivered speech
Ia Congress, in which he was excessively
lavish in democratic assurances of all neees-
sary aid to put down rebellion, and then voted
for copperhead resolutions declaring the con-
scription law void, and virtually denying to
the Government the right and the power to
compel a single man to fight TO crush the
rebels or to defend its authority, This is
copperhead consistency.
The convention OF free State men call
ed 10 meet at Louisville on the 22d, promises
TO be very interesting and important gather
ing. Among the prominent men likely, to be
present are Gratz Brown and c. d. Drake, of
Missouri, Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee,
CAN'T, of Arkansas, Thomas J. Duran and J.
NJ. White of Louisiana and Henry Winter Da-
Wis, Of Maryland.
git is one Of the most singular coinci-
dences OF the war says the Boston Journal
that Col. Streght, for whom John Morgan
was held as hostage, should escape from the
prison in Richmond in precisely the same
manner as Morgan got away from Columbus.
Col. Streght was commander OF the first bold
and dashing raid which was made into the
rebel territory, and the Richmond despots
have had peculiar spite against him, which
has been manifested in harsh treatment, and
for many months close confinement in dun
geon. His imprisonment has continued, we
believe FOR more than year. The fact that
he has escaped from the tender mercies of the
rebels will cause rejoicing everywhere, and