The Portland daily press., 1864-03-24
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


svFlax raising is now very profitable.
srCamp Berry Band, is to have a bene-
fit concert at Biddeford, this evening.
sB-The Lewiston Bakery was discovered
to be on fire on Sunday morning, but the
fire was exlinguished with trifling loss.
UC. b. Stetson, Esq, as we learn from
the Lewiston Journal, has been confined to
his room for some time, in New York.
g-We learn that Mr.. Rowel, editor of
the Halowell Gazette, has been appointed
Paymaster in the army.
grChief Justice fancy was eighty-seven
years old on Thursday last. His lower limbs
are paralyzed, but his health is good.
IYWe regret to learn, that in consequence
of i'll health, Judge Tenney will not be able
to resume his seat in the Senate, this session.
lB-Five bills of enforcement were decreed
at the late session of the Supreme Court in
Oxford County.
sB-Mr. NJ. L. Stevens is writing a serial
history of the Sons of Temperance,for the col
umns Of the Temperance Journal.
gThe statue of the late Hon. Horace
Mann, has been executed at Rome, by Miss
Stebbens, a young American Artist.
R-Illinois is the only State which has al
ready furnished an excess over all the quotas,
without counting the reeulisted veterans.
W-Rev. Jared NJ. Heard, pastor of the
Unitarian church in Fitchburg, died at his
residence, Monday morning of diptheria.
egVThe Supreme Judicial Court for Ken
nebec County, commenced its session Tues
day-Judge Cutting on the Bench. The whole
number of entries is $50.
~An extensive glass mandatory is
about to be started at South Boston. The
company are expecting 400 workmen to ar
rive from England.
spPoiatoes, beans and onions, are the
most profitable crops to raise, as during the
war they will command the highest prices
and there is no limit to the demand.
rVThe sales of the Methodist Book Con-
Germ at New York, for the year 1853, amounted
to S539,6SS and yetit was difficult to fill the
| orders.
Samuel +. Smith, Esq, of Wiscasset,
has been appointed County Treasurer of
Lincoln County, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of E. B. Bo wman, Esq.
sY-Mss Sally Bradley, in a fit of mental
ALTERATION, jumped into the river in front of
her fathers house in Haverhill, on Saturday,
and was drowned.
>-A ,nonbar IF 10 n ond Maina raroirv
has been arrested on suspicion of having set
fire to the barracks in Augusta, on the 18th
inst.
gY-Dr Franklin Bache, the eldest son of
Benjamin Franklin's eldest grandchild, died
in Philadelphia on. Saturday, in his seventy
second year.
sB-For two days past the Argus has been
copying and commencing extracts from the
Press. We hope we have done no wrong
that the praises Of the wicked should follow
| us.
sY-The Lewiston Journal says, a lad nam
ed Harrison l.. Graham, son of Mr.. w. H.
Graham, accidentally fell into a hole in the
ice in the canal just below Main St., and was
drowned, on Monday last.
sY-The store of Mr.. L. G.. Wilson, Bath
was entered between Saturday night and
Monday morning with false keys, and a
small amount Of change taken from the draw
er, as we learn from the Times.
lg-The National Bank of Augusta has
been organized as follows: Director, George
w. Stanley, Joseph II. Williams, Joseph A,
Sanborn, John l.. Cutler; President, George
w. Stanley; Cashier, WIN. r. Smith.
srThe New York evening Post hears from
private sources that it is intended by loyal
men to appeal to the President, and if neces-
sary from him to Congress, to annul the Lou
isiana election, on the ground that it was not
Tree election.
sB- The fishing business promises well this
season, notwithstanding the high wages and
great cost Of running and victualing a. vessel
Everything in the shape of fish is taken as
soon as offered in the market, and at exorbi-
tant rates.
The amount received in cash, by Hon. Ed
ward Everett, in aid of the loyal sufferers OF
East Tennessee up to Friday OF last week
was 81 ,40S,Sl. A large amount of clothing
and other articles of value hayei also been re-
ceived.
sH-The Maine Farmer says, Mr.. L. d.
Chadwick, ofWeek's Mills, while at work on
Thursday last at picket saw in his mill, was
struck in the head by flying picket, frac-
turing his skull in three places. Little hope
is entertained of his recovery.
CIT is said only about one man in 700
owns property in the soil in England: con-
sequently l1.400,000 acres of arabic soil lie
idle, and millions of bushels of grain are i'm
ported annually. John Bright has commence
ed an agitation forthe abrogation of the pri-
mogeniture law.
sE-An unprovoked attack was made by
several lrishmen upon a small party of ne
groes, in Portsmouth, on Sunday afternoon
when the negroes turned upon them with
boat hooks aud other weapons, and gave
them more than they bargaiped for. The
cowardce of negro can no Bnger be pre-
sumed upon with safety.
sBrWe understand that Frederick Doug
lass will lecture in Lewiston on Tuesday eve-
ming next, and in Augusta on Wednesday
evening. Subject-The Black Man in the
White House." If the people of our two sis
ter cities do not give him a crowded house
they will do themselves more injustice than
| they will him