Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-04-15
The Cincinnati dailics have raised

The Cincinnati dailics have raised
their prices to 50 per year. 90 cents per
week. The increased cost of material and
labor has rendered this course imperative.
The receipts of the great New York
Fair for the Sanitary Commission, up to
Thursday night last,amounted to $455,ooo'
The total sum will doubtless exceed Il
million.
During the quart just closed, the
number of three cent stamps sold at the
Washington city Post Office, was two mil
lions and five hundred thousand, an in
crease of one million on the returns of the
previous quarter.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment, permanently abolshing slavery i'll
all the States and Territories of the Union
has passed the U. S. Senate by avote of %
against 6. Action on the measure has yet
to be taken by the House of Representa-
tivcs, after which, if there agreed to, (and
there is said to be little doubt OF its pas
sace,) it goe. before the Legislature of the
several States.
-Fifty-eigbt Life Assurance Companies in
England are winding up their business.
FIuE The house of John Albec, at Northfeld'
was destroyed by FIRE On the Sd inst. Nothing OF
Importance was saved. Tho insurance policy had
rpn but few days previous.
To LEAVE INMEnIArrLY.-A despatch from Au-
ru,ta the Ith, order. all recruits fer the slst
Regiment to be forwarded the l2th inst, as the
regiment leaves for the field Immediately.
Ono of the Hudson river steamers fttely
made the trip from New York to Albany in eight
hour. and forty -four minutes, and having full
cargo of passengers and freight. Her passage is
considered the fastest on record.
The Portland Courier says there have been
several fatal cases of spotted fever in Raymond
Cumberland County. remedy recommended in
Penusylvania is to steam the patient, putting hem
lock boush. in the water, and also giving adeeoc'
ito. of the hemlock a drink.
BALLou's MoS1nLY for Nay is before us
This is a good number, as, in fact, are each and
every one. Little Mary and her Chicken "a
blow for Liberty" and The Traprers Peril
arc articles worthy Of higher priced magazine
Price oni, S. 90 per year; 10 cents single. Eli.
oft, Thomas L Talbot, Boston.
DZNoRrsrs ILLusTnA1ED NEWS We have
eeived one copy of an illustrated paper published
In New York, bearing the above title. 1t pre-
.snts fine appearance; is printed on good paPer'
from new type and prsfes.es to be Irrational
and family paper" II we receive it regularly
NC shall give it further notices hereafter.
UAprges wrxKLr for April 10th contains cuts
Of some Of the principal textures Of the Great
Sanitary Fair now being held at New York, The
Ne.r.. Harper are always forchandei in gettin-
up representations for their publications., ani We
commend the u tekig TO all people WHO wish to
sec grand isAts aul cannot be present TIE
spot.
a correspondent to the Leet,tan Journal IN
III. 5lst regiment writing from Augusta, say:
We have So men Ia camp tend stu they eaiee)
seycn companies or .anfte aud mustrfed lat1 tho
L :. service sad Two companies more aear.y read!
10 be mustered.
Wttu'vFfsx lAta.
John c Rives, publisher q tae ezz,r n q.
fHIt died ut nj rc.iieIcr II tuts cz3y t4-i4s,
after protIacttd itlaes', at the age {. G. years.
Pnr,prIrHtt, 10th
W. p. Ticknor, E-l th' on'io' 4 i'e-'"n pub
Usher u. tie finn OF Iiekuot Fts.is. diet he.e
suddenly this morning at the { influential Hotel
YIN. Small. fs7., Of Furt Fsirfsll, has re
r.iyed tn. appointment ot judge OF Probate Tor
M, County wee lion. Il T.. entspsta resiSust
Nr Small h,. resi- -ucd the ofa,e ot >AsnI to taxi
saec, On the 18th lu.:-- H.@.sa Ii"eS.
marriage has j1s, taken Pltce in Scw
burvport in vhieh the ceremony f j i#i1s bands
was omitted, the hsiie groom havtos 10 htht& t.
use lie had is arms tl9wn OF at the saonidsf-
by powder explosion, not even siumPs being 1917
10 which artificial AIMS can he ait1caei
-wcl,arr th., orders have been received 10
erreo, forthwith two large buildings at ca,ss-
port ono barracks for soldiers in the Battery. the
other for officers quarters. Both TO be com .ieted
an Nsy.
Th. eompauie. for the Batteries at Eas,poFt and
M.chasport are nearly or quite iul-t"'on.
-steamer peMolay, with a portion of the
I'd Maine Cavalry and Chandler's Band for tie
18th Maine sailed yesterday tor New Orleans.
The remainder of the Cavalry, aud the recruits
intendel for the Department oi the Gull, Wal
come up from Augusta to-day and embark On
board steamer MetrInllc anu snip LaHsAsteI.-
They will sail on Sunday-i'FesI
-rb. Bangor WAC say. Gsssmany of our
yonns men in Maine going to Idaho. They
70 by rail ant water TO II. Joseph and leave there
With their teams and provisions for nine months
for their destination From there the TIP Is over
fourteen hundred miles overland. king them
one hundred days with luck ali On their side
May are going an easier though more expensive
way, to Oregon first, and from there direct. Ida
hor.. a mart OF Washington Territory, and IL
bounded north BY it, ives, by Oregon. south BY
Nevada and Utah, and east by Nebraska.