The Portland daily press., 1864-06-24

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Library Room.
Fresh Salmon-Loyeitt Sargent & Co,
20 Miss Kate Reignolisi is to play two weeks
engagement in Baltimore. beginning on the 4ih
of July
81 Masonic celebration at Liyermore Falls to-
day The Knight Templars of this city will at
tend.
% twenty dollar box of cigars was lately
sent to Gen. Grant, with the request that he
would smoke one of them at least in Richmond.
- Several men in Boston are Aanking the
coal dealers, by uniting to charter vessel and
send her to Philadelphia for q cargo of coal
gThe Bath Times learns that William Nc
Fadden. while boarding barn in wiscasset, fell
from the staging and broke his neck
30 The three years term of the 9Th Maine
regiment expires next week. and those who have
not re-enlisted will return to their homes
VCol. Chamberlain is at Annapolis, and is
having the best of care. His case is reported
favorable.
9At Waterville last week the Thermometer
ran mp to i02 degrees, and at Bangor to lOl de-
grees.
BThe population of Berlin at the end Of
1868 was 252,O30 souls, being an increase of
1877 within the year
% The Rome (Georgia) Sentinel complains
that the Federal troops are slow. They don't
have quite so many fast days as you do, rebs.-
Prentice.
% Six hundred thousand men have been
raised or re-enlisted for the Federal army since
the 18th Of October last. and sla5 900 900 have
been paid in bounties
BA Yankee doctor has contrived to extract
from sausages powerful tonic, which he says
contains the whole strength of the bark. He
calls it ''sulphate of canine
q The friends and neighbors of Gen. Rose
Grams in Licking county, Ohio, have presented
him with service of silver plate of fine work
manship.
80 The people of Copenhagen are raising
considerable sums Of money for their sick and
suffering soldiers by means of concerts. lectures
and voluntary subscriptions
gThe receipts of the Philadelphia Sanitary
Fair will exceed those at New York; they have
already reached 10000, and the fair will
not close till the Goth.
% The Bangor Wing enquiries il the Portland
Amateur Theatrical Company could not be in
duced to visit that city. Says they will give
them crowded houses.
% The Anniversary Of our National indie
pendence day is to be celebrated at the capital of
the State by three exhibitions of circus. wbere
is the spirit of 10
VThe English papers seem to think the
Prince Of Wales would be a good speaker IL he
would only hold up his head He is represented
as constantly looking down as though reciting
from notes
80 The Bath Times says the reception Of the
returned soldiers of Companies A and d. Sd Me.
Regiment, will take place on Tuesday afternoon
Of next week. The reception will be civic and
military.
= The receipts Of the Government from in
ternal revenue, for the fiscal year ending with
the present month, will be Sl00, 900, 900. 1t is
hoped the new internal revenue law will double
this when it gets in working order.
Bsheldon & Co., of New York. are soon 10
publish, in two volumes, Gen. Scott's Memoirs
of his Life and Times, on which the veteran has
been at work since his retirement from active
service.
. A SIX year old boy at Pittsburg, Pa. late
iy gouged out the eyes of an offending playmate
with rusty nail, and was proceeding to gouge
out the other when his screams brought assist
aace, who secured the youthful gouger.
Major Fitzhugh Brney, who died in WASH
ington last week Of wounds, was son of James
G. Birney, Presidential candidate of the Liberty
party in 1874, and belongedt to the present senior
class Of Harvard University.
E5-The Loyal Sunrise, at Presque Isle, state.
that the valuation of the taxable property in
that town has increased the last year over three
quarters OF a million of dollars The town i,
prosperous. sustans two newspapers. and is &C.
tivein all worthy enterprises.
q The Charleston Courier, Of late day.
complains bitterly Of the want of manufactures
Of glassware and pottery, of matches and agri-
cultural tools, and also Of oils of all kinds
There isn't mandatory of agricultural tools
in the Confederacy.
VAt the meeting of the New York banker,
and brokers, on Tuesday afternoon, committee
was appointed TO wait on Secretary Chase and
obtain some explanation in regard TO the new
gold law, and also to endeavor to have it modi-
ned or rescinded. The meeting was fully attended.
The editor Of the Kennebec Journal no.
ticed young lady at work the other day. in the
suburbs Of Aug usta, making hay. She seemed
TO understand the business The war has
brought about a strange state of things in re-
gard 20 labor.
p subscription opened in Denmark for the
widows, orphans and wounded of the war, pro-
duced in single day at Copenhagen alone up
waads Of 10000 francs The King put his
name down for 900 francs year during n
period Of ten years.
EE-The Detroit Tribune mentions seyera,c,se.
in which Vallandigham assisted deserters from
the Federal army in Canada and discouraged
their return. If Canada was good enough resi-
dence for these defers Of the law, why not for
him.
% Seven thousand persons persisted from
starvation on Santiago Island, one of the Cane
'erd, between January LIST and May ist There
has been no rain for year, and the crops have
failed. Steps are being taken in Boston to send
aid.
90 An exchange says, q clergyman in wes-
tern Massachusetts,, who has evidently had to
wrestie with his fock, recently went to Washing
ton, and told Secretary Stanton that he would
take Richmond if the Secretary would take
charge of the Congregational Church on Ches-
ter Ilill.'
% The Paris papers think the recent battles
IN America surpass everything Of which history
furnishes any account. Xerxes, Darius, Tanner
lane, Attila, led larger armies into battle but
never did these armies fight for weeks together.
without giving signs of lassitude and discour-
agement.