The Portland daily press., 1864-02-11

kets.
rFred Douglass, lectured at Lewiston
on Friday evening of this week.
1E-1here are 65 large vessels building in
Quebec.
nBThe Lewiston Journal is printed on
paper, rs per cent. straw.
gH-Danvers, Mass, has filed her quota
under the Every latest call of the President.
sH- The State of Iowa agrees to fill its
quota by volunteers.
@y- The law depriving colored persons OF
the right to settle in Iowa has been repealed.
ay- Attention is being called to the suffer
ing OF the Union people Of East Tennessee.
srThe Wing says man named Low
from Robbinston, has been arrested in Bangor
for enlisting men to carry out Of the State.
aTJohn Gilmore is the name of the man
lately found dead near Bddeford. lie died of
heart disease and was from Bangor
sYMr. BENZ. T. Sanborn, and Mr.. Chas.
Guild, were ordained as Evangelists at Ban
gor, on Thursday evening last.
sE-The students of Bates College, at Lew
ston have had jubilee, on account of the re-
cent endowment.
sy-During the quarter ending Dec. 3lst,
1863, there were sent from the Lewiston Post
Office, 40346 letters.
nY-The logging teams on the Machas rlv-
er have been doing large business this win
ter
sJ-St. Valentines day, FEB. l4th,) falls
on Sunday this year, as will be seen by refer
ring to the almanac.
R-Artifcial limbs are now provided by
the government. for all soldiers in need of
them, free of charge.
sH-Short dresses, it is said, are coming
into fashion, an evidence that there are yet
women Of sense.
sR-yhe Machias Union says the new steam
boat route now talked of tol cannect Portland
and Machias, is attracting some attention.
sH-The State of Connecticut has but 1926
men to raise to ill her quota under the last
| call.
gH- The New York Herald favors an
amendment of the Constitution prohibiting
slavery forever. The world does move.
sH- A Newbern N. G. correspondent says
the birds are now singing merrily, and over
coats and furs are laid aside.
~ A proposition is before Congress to
pay Postmasters' salaries instead of allowing
them commissions.
|
sY- The Emancipation Convention bill has
passed the Missouri Legislature by vote of
80 to 34
CO. Reverdy johnson, before club in
Washington few nights since, pronounced
slavery shell born.' 1t is probably bound to
the place of its nativity.
gp The veterans have begun to return to
have more efficient force in the field than
ever before.
LEA freedman who was working with
great energy, being asked the reason of his
singular industry Its only the difference OF
letter" he replied, formerly worked for
Massa Lash-now l work for Massa Cash.
B-Manifest destiny appears now to point
with an answering finger, to Abraham Lin
coin as the next President. The conflicting
elements among loyal men are gradually be-
coming harmonized.
hT- The New York Express says "Artemas
Ward" Charles f. Brown is lying danger
ousy i'll at Great Salt Lake City, Utah, Of ty-
phoid fever, and but slight hopes arc enter
tanned of his recovery.
gV- The production of cotton in other
countries has been SO far stimulated by the
high prices that it is estimated 2,7s6 900 bales
will be imported into Great Britain the pres
ent year. This is hearty enough to supply the
current demand.
sH- One of the most disgraeeful occur
rences of the war was the capture of the Fed
oral gunboat Underwater, with forty soldiers
including Brigadier General and staff, by a
smull force of rebels who crossed the stream
on West Virginia river for that purpose.
gg-Mr Stevens in his eulogy of Hon. John
w. NOEL OF Missouri whose death was Of
fcially announced in Congress on Friday
said, Seeming from slave State, he neverthe-
less acknowledged slavery to be an evil, and
insisted upon immediate and not gradual
emancipation. With such a record, who
would not(as Mr.. Stevens pointedly said rath-
err take his chance before the Father of us all
than the chance of ordained hypocrites, miser-
able wretches, who, protesting to hold COM
mission from on high, impiously proclaim sla-
very a divine institution
sTThc annual meeting o; the York Coun-
ty Agricultural Society was held in Saco, on the
9th ult. The following are the Officers cleo
ed for the ensuing year. President-Dimon
Roberts, Of Lyman; Vice Presideats-Elijah
Hayes, of Berwick; John Eden, Buxton; Ira
C. Doe, Saco; Samuel X. Roberts, Waterloo
rough. 7reasVer-William Noyes, of Saco.
Corresponding and Recording Secretary
John Hanscom. of Saco. Trustees-Charles
Twambley, of Saco; Nathan Dane, Jr., Ken
nebnnk; Lawrence Jordan Saco Charles II.
Milliken, Biddeford; Cornelius Sweetser ,Saco.
Librdridn-A. A. Hanscom, Saco