The Portland daily press., 1864-03-08
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

GS wednesday evening, March 9th.
EE Gen. Scott is now busily engaged in
completing his autobiography
ly -Messrs. Weeks & Potters extensive
drug store in Boston, was destroyed by fire on
Saturday morning.
Hon. Michael Hahn, the Governor
elect of Louisiana is native of Bavaria and
is "a years of age.
sB The ship Typhoon, 1911 tons, built at
portsmouth in 1851, has been sold at Singa-
pore for $4,000.
Gv-A new division of the Sons of Temper
ance has been organized in Bath. 1t is call
Long Reach Division, No9.
Sg-Mr. Charles A. Weed, of Stamford, Ct.
purchased the estate of Secretary ]. P. Benja-
min, oil the rebel confederacy, on the Mississ-
ippi river, near Baton Rogue, for $4,000.
sBThe electors of New York are IN vnte
to-day on the question of SO amending the
Constitution as that soldiers in the army can
vote.
9B The Argus and Advertiser are reoues
ted to copy that Acrostic in its corrected
form in justice to the writer, inasmuch as they
have copied it in its mutated state.
1fThe March Term of the S. J. Conrt
ior oxford County, will commence on Tuesday
oil this week. 1t lis expected that Judge Dick
erson will be present.
EB- Carlyle praises Mr. R. w. Emerson he
-raott l..
ne is one OF those rare men who have the in
valuable talent Of sitting still.
~The Democrats have pitted Miss En-
ma Webb, formerly an actress, against Miss
Anna e. Dickinson. Anna has the advantage
Of having truth and justice on her side
aVThe difference in time between Bos-
ton and San Francisco is 3 hours, 25 minutes.
and 33 seconds. Consequently when it is IL
o'clock M. in Boston, it is 81 minutes, p sec
onds past eight A. NJ, in San Francisco.
EElection in New Hampshire occurs to-
day. AS we shall probably get sufficient re-
turns by tomorrow morning to indicate the
result, we will not give an opinion OF the
Union majority.
sB-The New York democratic papers say
that Troy has increased its democratic vote
600 since last fall. This is true. but at the
same time the Union vote has increased more
than 900!
sI-The Bah Times says the body of
male child, apparently not more than two or
three days old at the time OF his death. was
found in the dock, at Houghton's ship yard,
on Saturday last.
sB-The copperhead papers in New York
claim that in All town elections they have
gained four Supervisors, but they prudently
omit to mention that they have lost forty-t,co
making net loss of thirty-eight. Yet such is
the fact.
sB-The Cape Ann Advertiser has again
made its appearance, having arisen Phenix
like, from the ruins of the great confiagration
In Gloucester. 1t advocates the introduction
OF steam fire engines as means of preventing
another such calamity.
u A citizen of New Hartford tells that the
first time he attended church, he, a little four
year old, was seated in pew. Upon his com
ing home he was asked what he did in church
when he replied, Il went into cupboard and
took seal on the shefn
svDuring search at house in Glouces-
ter for goods stolen during the recent fire.
ready made coffin was found (stolen from one
Of the dealers) with the top knocked of and
rockers upon the bottom, making seryicea-
bic cradle, in which babe was comfortably
snoozing.
B-The Bangor Wing is informed by
returned soldier that man named Pennell,
Of Co. X, 10th Me. Reg, was accidentally kill
ed few days ago by the discharge of mus
ket which one of his comrades was swapping.
supposing that it was not loaded We find on
the Company roll of Co. K, the name of VIM.
b. Pennell, Of Harpswell.
Election of State officers takes place in
New Hampshire to-day. If the friends of the
Union should be defeated it will be owing in
large part to the timid manner in which the
issues have been met in that State. Our friends
there have not, as in this State, met the issues
of Slavery and Freedom square edged and
without tinching, but have shown too much
disposition to blink the real issues.
erThe Troy Times of Feb 10, says "John
Tibbetts was in town to-day, and celebrated
his birthday by having his picture taken. He
is one hundred years old, but having been
born on the 10th of February, in leap year, he
has only seen twenty-five birthdays 1t may
also be stated that Gen. Wool was born on
the 10Th of February, and his birthday only
occurs once in four years"
sV-Itis reported that ARENAS Ward. DR..
Kingston, his agent, and Mr.. Irwin were at
tackled by party of Indians, near the Great
Salt Lake and after desperate fight were oy-
empowered and the two former taken prisoners
and the latter escaped. They were released
through the agency of Gen. Conner, military
commander of Utah. ARENAS will no longer
be obliged to resort to fiction, facts is stranger
sr Count Rossi, known in this country as
the husband of Sontag, the singer, has lately
died at Brussels, where he has lived in retire
ment educating his children, since his wife's
death. Sontag it will be remembered, died in
Mexico over ten years ago, almost simultane-
ously with Pozzolini, a young tenor of prom
is,they both died, as it is stated, of colora but
unpleasant rumors of jelousy, love and poison
were afoat at the time.
Ex-senator Hale, of New Hampshire said
in the Senate on the 10Th of February, az will