The Portland daily press., 1864-03-07

scans, acknowledges the receipt of about
$4,000 day from persons in Boston and vi
cinity.
sVMr. Geo. Elliot, OF London, n Y, has
given thousand tons of coal to the Sanitary
Commission, to be sold for its benefit. The
value of this gift, at present prices, is about
$4,000.
1A Western paper thus happily closes
poetica description of cold day when Old Sol
struggled frutlessly to thaw the ground, ''But
the suns rays were as futile as the dull reflex
of painted yellow bull dog"
sY-The Bangor Wing says Leander w.
Mccoy, aud Calvin Stevens, have been arrest.
ed and pleaded guilty to the charge of robbing
the house Of Joshua Chamberlain, in Brewer.
on the 18th ult.
u Several musical gentlemen and ladies
Of Waterville propose to raise, by concerts, an
amount sufficient to erect monument to the
memory Of the fallen soldiers of that town.
A noble object and we wish them success.
sg- Mr.. p. S. Gilmore, of Boston, gave
| grand open air concert at New Orleans on the
22d of February, which was attended by Ma
| jor Gen. Banks and staff, the military officers
in the city, and at least fifteen thousand spec
| tators.
sB- The Witness says Montreal should
not be slow 10 acknowledge the hospitality
shown to the suffering passengers on board
the Bohemian, and to express the thanks,
which are felt by all, for the kindness shown
to their citizens and emigrants.
| bI~In his admirable speech at Indianapolis,
Gov. Morton characterized Copperheads as the
| guardians of slavery, left on duty in the free
States, while the rebellion is seeking to work
| out the destruction of the Government This
is at once true and most felicitous.
| by-In the Police Court, Boston, on Thurs
day, Charles f. Morrison, who was brought
from Bddeford on Thursday, by detective
Calder, was held in $500 for trial, On the
charge of stealing clothing and other proper
ty to the value of $40, belonging to VIM. Y.
Prescott.
| sE-Fillmore aged IA years and Peter aged
IL years. sons of John (French) Gilman, at
Kennebeck, Machias, were drowned Feb. 25th.
They were playing on "cakes" of floating ice
Both got onto one piece ice and. drifted
from the shore To. deep water, becamefrigh-
tened,t Jumped off and were lost. One body
was recovered shortly after death.
sD-The Augusta Journal says that the
great OK Hercules" has been purchased for
the shambles by Frank Davis. This OK now
weighs four thousand four hundred and ninety
pounds. He was raised in New Sharon by
Mr. WEIGH, and was purchased two years
since by Henry Baker, Esq, of Sidney, who
has given him the best of feed.
rThe Manchester n. Ii. Mirror says,
"Never but once have we known business to
be SO good in this city as now, and If it in
creases as it has since January it will be lar
ger than in 1857. The payroll for labor in
our leading corporations is now over one hun
dred thousand dollars per month, and in
| creasing. There is demand for hundreds of
more laborers, male and female, than can be
obtained, at high wages
cB-The Dover, N. H., Inquirer says, Lewis
Barker, Esq, of this State, has been doing
| good service in that State for week or two
past, by addressing the Union men in various
| towns. He has spoken at Pennington and
Rochester, and on Friday evening he spoke at
the City Hall in Dover. Mr.. Barker is an old
line democrat, and always voted the demo
cratic ticket until that party struck hands
with the rebels and commenced the war upon
the Union. He is ready and pungent
speaker, as all who have listened to him can
| attest.
sz-The Calais Herald says person calling
himself johnson, cor any other NAME" came
to that city a few days ago and enlisted. He
was from st. Andrews recently, and is believ-
ed to be one of the men that came through
from Canada with Marshall Kane and other
noted confederates. He has with him letters
for parties in Richmond, and intends to go
through our lines at the first opportunity.
The acting Provost Marshall at Calais deferred
arresting him, but as the man has been for
warded to Augusta he will no doubt be taken
care of there.
sB-The Lynn Bay State says the sale of
shoes in that city, in the month of January
last, was greater than that of any other month
since the Internal Revenue Law went into
effect, and probably the largest ever known
in the city. All the indications now are, that
the shoe business of Lynn will, the present
year, far exceed in amount that of any other
year in its history, aud although the country
is suffering the great calamity ola civil war,
that city will exhibit all the indications of
prosperous and rapidly increasing community
both in popRlation and wealth.
Mason Jones, who visited this city and
lectured about year ago, has taken strong
ground for the North In his lectures in Eng
land. He declared the cause of the war to be
''wholly and solely slavery" For all the
misery that has been caused" said he, "and
all the blood that has been split, Jefferson Da-
Wis and his compeers are guilty, ard their con-
demnation is sure The rebellion is a con-
spiracy against the rights and liberties of man
kind" He further said: "There is moth
Ing more noble in the history of the world than
the attitude and action of the Northern people
since this war began As a moral spectacle it
u unique He predicted a complete tri-
umph for the North.