The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-21
ORIGINAL And SELECTED.

GB~ On first page,-The next President, by
an Officer in the Western Army.
sV On fourth page,-The Saved.
vShipbuilding is active at Machias.
GrJames Clark, Esq, of Lewiston, re-
Gently sold yoke of oxen for 1910.
GBrThere are about 200 students in attend
ance at Bates College,
% Messrs. Hemmenway & Holway are
building steam mill at Machias.
aVThe musical convention at Lewiston
closed on Friday evening with concert. 1t
was well attended
GB-The 10Th Maine Regiment, when last
heard from, was at Franklin, La, under march
ing orders.
agrThe prices of silks have recently de-
clined in the Lyons market, through appre-
tensions caused by the German war.
GA loyal Roman Catholic clergyman in
Missouri, who has pastoral charge Of large
district, recently observed that he never yet
met poor man who was secessionist.
AB Ii IuilOlS are SOWIUG LutlT
spring wheat already--and great deal of it.
Farming hands are scarce, however, and their
wages range from twenty to twenty-five dol
lars per month.
sB~We are glad to see that the dog tax
proposition has been indefinitely postponed in
the Senate. Every town has right to tax
dogs now, and that is sufficient. Why not
tax cats, poll parrots and canary birds
sVThere were only eighteen votes in the
House in support of Mr.. Mallory's motion to
strike out of the act enabling the Territory of
Colorado to form a State government, the
clause prohibiting slavery.
nBThe Secretary of the Treasury will
have surplus of 100000 in gold, which
he can sell between now and the first of July,
under the provisions of the bill just passed by
Congress.
sB-The New York papers talk of steamers
preparing to start in search" of the " Re Ga
lantuomo." What slow coach New York
is. Now if it were Portland the very spot
where the frigate went down, would be mark
ed with buoy before this. Think of the
Tacony pirates Boston Advertiser.
hVA correspondent of the Boston Adver-
tiser says the bankrupt bill is ready to be re-
ported, but majority of the Select Commit
tee on the subject are in favor of postponing
it until the next session, and the House will
probably adopt their recommendation.
sB-Rev. A. j. Rich, formerly of Cooper,
Me-, has accepted the call extended to him to
become the stated pastor of the Village
Church" Dorchester, Mass, and will be or
dained and installed over the same on the 30th
of March.
ERev. w. II. Daniels, of st. John N. B.,
has come on all the way from there to go as a
delegate Of the Christian Commission to the
army, without pay. This proves that there
are some who sympathize with us in the Brit
ish Provinces.
lEThe Portsmouth Chronicle says the
U. S. steamer Agawam, on her passage from
the navy yard to the lower harbor, on Thurs
day afternoon, ran against the rocks off Sulli-
vans Island, injuring the vessel considerably.
Her port paddle boxes are badly stove, and
she leaks to some extent.
sy-The rebels speak of General Grants
'blundering audacity." They don't acknowl-
edge that he is a great military man. With
them, as with northern copperheads, Gen.
Mcclellan is the only able Federal General.
They think well of him, probably, because he
has done them so little injury.
srThe friends of Fremont were invited
to meet on Friday evening in New York, to
consider the propriety of presenting his name
as a Presidential candidate. The invitation is
presumed to include our neighbor of the Ar
gus, as he has recently taken to copying the
manifestos of the friends OF rival candidates
against President Lincoln. The Fremont
manifesto appeared Saturday morning.
p-The Barnstable Patriot says that three
enterprising citizens of Chatham - Capt. L.
Nickerson, Capt. Joseph Nickerson, and Mr..
John E. Perry-have recently purchased some
three or four acres of land bordering on
Townsend harbor, Boothbay, on which to es-
tablish first class establishment for fitting
out fishermen, packing and inspecting mack
erel, curing Goldfish, etc.