The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-04-05
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


TThe Peiepscot Bank of Brunswick, has
declared dividend Of per cent.
ly@ In the Hartford Posts announcement
ofspeakers we find the following:
Gov. LEWIS BARKER, of Maine, will speak
at New Haven, Saturday, April 2.
GE- Philanthropists of Massachusetts, are
talking of establishing home for discharged
female prisoners.
sB-The Hon. Owen Loyejoy is represented
to have been very wealthy, owning some of
the finest farms in Illinois.
-"Delta" of the Boston Advertiser,
says Col. Burnham, of the 9th Maine, has
been appointed Brigader General.
w- The New Hampshire Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church commences
its session in Lebanon, on the 9th of April.
sy- 1t is proposed to tunnel Broadway,
New York, for an underground railroad at
cost of s4,oOo,Ooo.
nR- The Union ticket was elected in East
port on Monday, 2Sth ult.; in Pembroke the
Democrats succeeded.
nVMaj. Charles Hamlin son of Vice Pres
ident Hamlin, is now on Gen. Howe's staff,
and is located at Washington
lg- The April session of the S. J. Court,
for Sagadahoc County, commences to-day
Judge Barrows will preside.
ny~ The Kennebec river being clear of ice,
the Eastern Queen is expected to go up to
Hallowell on Wednesday.
R- New York is now surpassed in popu-
lation by but two cities in Europe, London
and Paris, on both which il is rapidly gaining.
sB- The copperheads in Southern Illinois,
who have taken up arms against the govern
ment, have already found it is no boys play.
nE- The funeral of Rev. T. Starr King, as
described in the San Francisco papers, was
most imposing and impressive occasion.
-Parke Goodwin, Of the New York Eve
ming Post, contradicts the report that he is
writing life of Secretary Chase
lB-The Advertiser of this city seems to
have become Fremont organ. Referring
10 Fremont meeting in Chicago of few Ger
mans, it says "the good work goes bravely on"
sYrMuch interest is felt in the election of
delegates to the Constitutional Convention in
Maryland, which will take place on Wednes-
day.
sB1The Reading Railroad Company, that
made an immense profit last year, has added
fifty cents ton to the freight on coal, which
the consumer must pay. A soulless body.
eH-The Journal Of Commerce (Democratc)
argues that it is the true interest OF this
country to recognize the new government of
Mexico.
aVA young man named Alexander Cowie,
committed suicide in Bangor ON Sunday, Sd
inst, by taking arsenic, as we learn from the
Wing He arrived in that city, from st. John,
that morning.
sE-The agent for selling liquors for medic
inal and mechanical purposes, for the town OF
Pennington, sold in nine and half months
of last year, liquors of various kinds to the
amount of s3,93301.
There are about 1000 miles of railroads
in Massachusetts, which cost sixty-seven
million dollars, carried 100000 passengers
in 1868, and earned above the expenses So
379, 673.
aBThe Advertiser hit the truth as usual
in representing the Press as protesting against
the action of the Union members OF the Legis-
lature in choosing Lincoln and Hamlin Dele
gates to the Union National Convention.
gvTwo of Gen. Blar's staff officers testif-
al he ~ lo;r
that they signed the famous liquor order
with him, but that after signing the word
each had been inserted, thus making the order
call for eight times as much as was intended.
svLate information from Vienna states
the death of the King of Bavaria was owing
to lock- jaw, originating in a scratch on the
breast from pin attached to an order he was
fastening on his coat. He was sick but four
days.
sTThe story about the murder of Rev.
Mr.. Cox, Chaplain of the 25th Regiment of
Corps d'Afrique, at Donaldsonville, La, by
guerrillas, is not true. He was in New
Orleans on the 18th ult., and was greatly sur
prised to learn that he had been hung.
Ig- When a foul-mouthed rowdy is con-
stantly talking or writing tauntingly of mis-
cegenation", it reminds us of rich loafer,
SOLDERING drunk, boasting of the parentsge
which he is daily disgracing; or turning up
his carbuncled nose at honest poverty.
sy- Rev. John Pierpont has just finished
Digest of the Decisions and instructions OF the
Treasury Department, to Collectors of Gus
toms, reducing fifty-four folio volumes to one.
Secretary Chase speaks in the highest terms
of the work. Mr. Pierpont is now nearly 20
years of age.
.H@We understand that Rev.S. +. Weth-
erbee, Chaplain OF the Maine 18th, is expected
home in season to take an appointment from
the Maine Conference, which meets in Bath
the 14th inst, Fast Day. He has received an
honorable discharge from the service, and is
on his way home from Texas.
eg- The Argus claims to have driven the
Press TO the wall on the German enlistment
question. We were not aware OF such a feat,
though we confess the temptation to scale
wall or almost anything else would be very
strong to escape the weapons of that concern
as much SO as ifpursued by S,camp kitten.
nH-The New Orleans Era of the 10Th
utimo says that "Gov. Hahn has appointed
Capt. John L. Swift (of Boston, Adjutant
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