The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-17
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

se" Might Have Been and Grown Old,
poetry; the Silent Reformer; Slave Defines
Honesty; Item.
V- Drovers are in Aroostook county buy
ing cattle and paying almost fabulous prices.
g-About 900 a month is required to
pay the employees at the Kittery Navy Yard
ny- Vermont has sent fifty clergymen to
the war in various capacities, from colonies to
privates.
gB- The Unitarians of Houlton are about
organizing Parish and establishing public
worship.
iston on Tuesday under very favorable auspi-
ces.
sI-No one ought to complain of hard
times when from SO to S. day can be earned
digging clans.
sY-The total number Of students at the
Bangor Theological Seminary during the past
year is fifty-two.
s rEAbout 600 men have been enlisted for
the new 3lst regiment and 500 TOR the 3d.
Enlisting is progressing very rapidly at the
present time.
lY-The mill-owners at Lewiston are great
ly troubled about operatives, and many of
their best hands have gone to other factories
which have resumed operations.
sE- Edwin Noyes, formerly Superintend.
ent of the Maine Central Railroad, is now en-
ployed on the Portland and Kennebec Rail-.
road, as Road Master.
sB-Among the resolutions passed by the
Colorado territorial convention was one in ia
vor of an amendment to the constitution abol-
ishing slavery throughout the Unite d States.
gY-Franklins corps, in which are the
Maine Doth and Both regiments, will compose
part of the new Red River expidetion, which
is to begin with early spring.
g-For the first time in thirty-two years
the Washington Globe failed on Wednesday
to print any of the Congressional Debates
Scarcity ofcompositors was the reason.
grJohn E. Cook was arrested at Boston
on Saturday for numbering a passenger on
the ship Victory, during recent passage of
that vessel from Liverpool to New York.
He was taken 10 the latter city for trial.
gTSecond Lieut.. Charles M. Duren, of
Bangor, has been commissioned LIST Lieuten-
ant of the oath Massachusetts,. In the battle
of Olustee, Fla, Lieut.. Duren was in COM
mand of Co. d.
gE-Some idea of the large amount of mon
ey which passes through the hands of the
State Treasurer, may be obtained, from the
payments made daily for bounties. On Fri
day last nearly 100000 was paid out, most
ly to re-enlisted men of the Sth Maine.
sE Sias B. Warren of the 18th Illinois
Regiment, son of Mr.. Asa Warren of Bangor.
was captured by the rebels on the 18th ult.,
near Meridian, and is now in Cahawba Prison,
Ala. The rebels robbed him of his money
and everything but his clothes.
gTGovernment has stopped the exchange
of prisoners on the basis arranged between
Gen. Butler and Robert Ould viz: seventy
five of those in their hands for one hundred
OF those in ours, Exchanges must be made
man for man without regard to color.
vThe financial year of the American
Bible Society will close on the 3lst of this
month, and its receipts for the year will ex-
coed five hundred thousand dollars. The en-
tire receipts, it is thought, will be about one
hundred thousand dollars over any former
year.
aTIt is said that, in view Of the large de-
mand for houses by persons of moderate
means, a company of capitalists in Philadelphia
proposes to erect some three hundred houses
In haf itu ri ha
have bought land on East Capitol street,
where it is said, the first operations will be
inargurated.
sYAsylums for the children Of deceased or
disabled soldiers, where they can be well TAX
en- care of and educated, are to be established
in several cities of New England. 1t is certain
lythe duty of the State to provide we'll for the
children of thoes who have fallen In the
defence Of this. country. A people who won't
do that, are no entitled to the blessing secur-
ed at such vast expenditure of human life.
syThe Legislature has passed resolve
that this State will pay to the Foreign I'M
migrant Association" of Maine for each able
bodied foreign immigrant between the ages OF
fifteen and fifty years, whom they shall within
the next five years introduce into this State
and cause to remain for the period of one
year after such introduction without becom-
ing chargeable to any town of the State as a
pauper, the sum of S25. This association was
incorporated the present winter, and is CON-
posed of some of the leading men Of the State.
rThe Manchester Mirror learns that
Capt. John E. Herbert, native of Ports
mouth, has escaped with his brother from the
rebel army and arrived at Brownsville, Texas,
after travelling 500 miles. Capt Herbert is a
lawyer by profession, and at the breaking
out of the rebellion held commission as cap
tain of company Of Texas Rangers. He
was; offered commission as Colonel in the
rebel army, but refused it. He resided at
Hampstead in Guines Co., Texas, and had
amassed considerable properly, which he was
compelled to leave in charge of his wife,
Previous to his departure, party of seven
attacked his home, but with the assistance of
his brother, they were driven off with loss OF
two killed.
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