The Portland daily press., 1864-03-18
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

w ou hlst pdge,-ouHuay at the Reform
School; Letter from an Officer in Bakers
Cavalry.
sy On fourth page,-Ode for the Times,
poetry; Lonesum;" A Word to my Fat
Friends; Josh Billings on Pigs; Items.
sV- Friday evening.
sg-The farming interests of Missouri are
suffering from the scarcity of labor,
sg-A. j. Thomas, company E, I'd Maine
Volunteers, has been arrested as deserter.
sB-The amount ofbounties paid by towns
and cities in the State, to yolunteers,is $4,000
600.
sTThe small pox is prevailing in the large
cities. In Ohio, Cleavland, there are 1900
cases.
aH-Rev. DR.. Chaplin proposes to give the
avails OF lecture to the Sanitary Fair in
New York.
~Counterfet 500 bills on the Pawtuxet
Bank, Providence, have been put in circula-
ton.
GB~At public ball given by the wife of
the Project of the Seine, at which 5000 per-
sons were present, no crinoline was worn.
nvThe Bath Sentinel and Gardiner Jour-
nal are decidedly opposed to the restoration
of the death penalty.
lE-The editor of the Gardiner Journal has
been handed hens egg girting 1-2 by 8
inches. Hens can afford to lay large eggs at
thirty cents dozen.
MIR. Darius Forbes of this State, has been
removed from 81 300 clerkship in the PEN
sion Office, by Secretary Usher, of the Inte-
rior Department
sE- The clothing store of Mr. l.. II.
Peary, of Belfast, was entered on Sunday
night week, and SIG in scrip, and about $500
in clothing.stolen therefrom.
GVWe learn from the Gardiner Journal
that the dwelling house, carriage house and
shed of VIM. C. Watson were destroyed by
fire on Monday forenoon.
p-The Office of Mr.. Russell is at, No POS.
Fore street, instead OF Free stree as errone-
ousy stated, in our notice of Smith and
Deane's Journal.
HID-O ne of Gen. Kilpatrick's sergeants was
asked ifthey released any of the Union pris-
oners in Richmond. "No,' he replied shut
we reinforced themr'
sB-Prof. Walter Wells is to give series
of Lectures in Meonian Hall, Augusta His
subject will be "The White Man and the
Black Man." The first of the series will be
given this evening.
EXPEDITIONS are in circulation in New Y
asking the Legislature to enact law that no
person shall be obliged to pay for seat in
public vehecle unless the passenger is favor
ed with seat.
SB-Onr regular" correspondents were
not referred to in recent request that CORE
spondents should study brevity, but OCCASION
al correspondents, not SO much accustomed
to newspaper writing.
Information has been received at the
Consulate Department of the death of Roscoe
ritius, Dec. 18th, of fever. He was on the
ship Zephyr, of New Bedford.
gg-It is said that boys made their appear
arce in Philadelphia on Saturday with bun
dies of green mint, the fruit of the season,
and that the air was sufficiently balmy to give
editors pleasant anticipation of spring lamb
and mint sauce.
sErThe Tamany Hall democrats are very
anxious now to ignore the slavery question
as there is no longer any political capital to
be made out of i. They declare slavery as
a political issue, dead, and might have said
that with it died the democratic party that
SO long sustained it.
gBrEastern Bank bills, of Bangor, have
been extensively counterfeited in the West,
it seems, but it must be a clumsy counterfeit
The genuine bills have a checked back, which
it would be impossible to initiate, Remem-
Der this fact, and you can at once detect
counterfeit on the Eastern Bank.
sB-The Maine Farmer says that Mr.. G..
w. Hysson, of Bristol, Me-, has now in the
army four sons, three OF whom have re-enlis-
ted for three years or during the war. One
of the sons is attached to the I'd Maine Bat
terry, aud has been in ten pitched battles and
five skirmishes, and came out of them all I'M
harmed.
rE-According to the New York Herald,
Mcclellan has been elected President by an
overwhelming majority of The invalids in a
certain hospital This is according to the
fitness of things. An in-rdl-id hero may APP
propriately become the standard bearer of
inudiid troops. Able-bodied men will de-
termine the next Presidential question as they
will the fate Of the rebellion.
sB-The Maine Farmer says the track of
the Portland and Kennebec Railroad is to be
entirely relaid during the Summer, the bridg-
es thoroughly overhauled aud repaired, and
large additions made to the rolling stock of
road. including locomotives, passengers and
freight cars. Tho road is to be completely
renovated and put in first class condition for
business.
sy-The Attorney general Of New Bruins
wick, in accordance with the imperial iustruc-
ton, has ordered the apprehension of the
Chesapeake pirates, on a charge of piracy and
infringement Of the Foreign Enlistment Act.
1t is quite probable that similar instructions
have been sent 10 other Provinces, so the on
ly safe place for them will be the Confeder-
ate States, where they will doubtless find en-
ployment congenial to their taste.