The Portland daily press., 1864-03-02

Mayor Gunther has just vetoed a resolution
of the New, York City Council for providing
themselves with heavy gold badges of office.
sE-The ordnance tug-boat "Bluelight"
was successfully launched at the Portsmouth
Navy Yard on Saturday afternoon last.
sy- Large quantities Of cotton are said to
be stored at Huntsville, Ala now in our pos
session.
n-The four Professorships in Bangor
Theological Seminary have been recently full:
ly endowed.
nrThe punishment OF death is about to
be abolished in Portugal, except for military
crimes committed during the war with for
egn power.
sY-Rev. J. S. c. Abbott is about to publish
work entitled" Heroic deeds Of Heroic Men,
in which the achievements OF our more prom
inent patriotic soldiers will lie comemorated.
g-Benicia, California, has Navy Yard
that has cost 100000, and the only vessel ev-
er built there proved to be a failure Much
repairing is done there.
LEA Division OF the Sons of Temperance
was organized in Richmond, this State, on the
18th instant, of which L. d. Lamson is pre-
siding officer.
aVThe Bangor Wing learns that wood
shed and contents at Etna, on the NJ. c. r. r.
were burned Tuesday morning Loss 5000. In
sured. The fire probably caught from the
engine sparks.
ny-Samuel Day, for sending fraudulent
notice of marriages to the Boston Journal, was
up before the Municipal Court of Taunton on
the 18th ult., and fined s25 and cost. Served
him right.
gEThe Penobscot tribe of Indians, accor-
ding to the recent report of the Agent now
numbers 271 males and 240 females. The ex-
penditure of the agency during the past year
was S62lS.
s1-The Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society of
Kennebunk, held a fair last week in aid
of the Sanitary Commission, the proceeds Of
which amounted 10 one thousand dollars, ex-
elusive of all expenses.
syTwo passengers on the emigrant ship
Victory at New York from Liverpool, were
shot by the first mate during the voyage. One
of them died in consequence. The passen-
gers declare the shooting upjustifiable.
aB-A large three-story wooden block in
Lawrence, leased by the Pacific corporation
as boarding house for operatives, was burnt
on Saturday afternoon. From twenty to
twenty-five Irish families were rendered TEN.
porarily homeless by the conhagration.
Tf-John Smith has been sentenced to the
Massachusetts State Prison for passing coun-
teriet money. We hope the ten thousand hon.
est John Smiths will not commence suit for
libel, as we don't Of course mean either of
them.
erThe Boston Courier and copperhead
papers of that ilk, are greatly exercised lest
the negro should be abolished as well as slavery !;
and so these phianthropc friends of the Airi-
can propose to chain him to prevent his get
ting lost
.vr There was a split n the New York
Democratic State Convention, the Tammany
delegation Withdrawing, while the Mozart and
McKeon factions were admitted. The latter
admitted the peace" platform, which Tam
many refused to accept.
ap-The Bath Times says the ship Frank
Boult, belonging to Oliver Moses & Son, of
that cts, arrived in Portland Monday night
from Philadelphia, making the passage in six
ty hours from the Cape Delaware. A very
quick passage. This ship, the the Times says,
is to take part of the Cavalry South.
sE- The Portsmouth Chronicle says Mr..
Henry Yeaton of that city was very severly
injured at the Portsmouth Navy Yard on Sat-
urday afternoon. He was stepping from one
beam to another above the shafting in ma
chine shop, and the lower part of his overhals
caught in the shaiting, by which he was drawn
in until his left leg was broken in pieces
When the speed was checked, he fell, with his
leg broken, fifteen feet to the ground He was
conveyed to the hospital, where his leg was
amputated by the Surgeon, about four inches
below the knee. He bore the operation brave
ly, without complaint.