The Portland daily press., 1864-04-04
pEfGINAL AND SELECTED,


neous Items.
l-Rev. f.. II. Chaplin will lecture in Lew
iston tomorrow Tuesday evening.
ng-The State election in Connecticut takes
place to-day.
sH-The st. Croix Herald says the rowdy
element is increasing in Calais. Sorry to hear
it.
lB-President Lincoln denies that Secre-
rotary Chase wrote the concluding paragraph
of his emancipation proclamation.
III Gov Cony leaves home by the train
to-day for a brief visit to the Army of the
Potomac.
% The attention of gentlemen owning
Gardens and Graperies, is called to the ad-
vertisement Of A. Dirwanger, in another col
umn.
ly-Rev. j. S. C. Abbott, who is writing q
history Of the Rebellion, has gone to visit the
military posts on the Atlantic coast, so as to
be correct in descriptions.
LEA new secret order has been organized
in Illinois, whose object is the election OF a
eopperhead President, aud falling in that, civil
war in the North.
1g-Rev. Mr.. Smith, Episcopal Clergyman,
of Calais, preached his farewell sermon on
Sunday, 9th ult. He expects to locate in the
State of New York.
ss- Remarkable The Argus used Fred
erick Douglas name in its Saturdays issue,
without coupling with it the word miscege-
nation"
s~The Bath Times says that Mr.. Cyrus
Lehman a former resident of that city, was
killed in a fight with Apache Indians on the
oath of January.
rY"Lieut. Col. Hyde, of Bath, the Times
says, has been appointed Provost Marshal and
additional Ad-de-Camp in the staff of the 9th
corps
sB-The ladies of Calais haveS withdrawn
their offer to the City Council of $1,000, and
are negotiating with the monied men of the
city, to have hall built by joint stock. They
are not willing to give it up so.
GrIIarnum in his lecture on "Money-mak-
ing, or the art of getting rich," names adver-
Using as the first step in business He knows,
as does everybody else who has tried it, the
value of judcious advertising.
10 The wife ofGeneral D. NJ. Frost, of the
rebel army, recently appeared at the office of
the Provost Marshal in St. Louis, and took
the oath of allegiance to the United States
government, giving bond of s., 900 for its faith
ful observance.
nY-Counterfet fyes on the Bank of Cape
Ann, are in circulation, altered from ones. A
little caution will easily detect them, as the
word "fve" in large letters at the bottom OF
the bill, is printed green in the counterfeit,
while the genuine is red.
rThe Gloucester Telegraph says Ira
Stinson, about twenty-five years old, and be-
longing in Deer Island, this State, was drown
ed by the capsizing of the schooner Ella Fran
ces, of Gloucester, on Georges Bank, in q
storm, on the ed ult.
LIZ 1t is stated in the New York Evening
Post, on the authority of Mr.. Lincoln himself,
rnar ne wrote the rrucranarIon OF EmancIpa-
ton with his own hand, including the closing
sentence which by some has been attributed
TO Mr.. Chase, and by Others to Mr.. Seward.
sy- The town Of Lebanon, N. H., elected
two cergymen to the legislature, Rev. Chas
A. Downs, pastor of the Congregational So
ciety, and Rev. George w. Bailey, pastor OF
the Universalist society. Does not this show
an intensified Union feeling
SBeThe Courier is understood to style the
Union members Of the Legislature political
hacksters." How sadly that body deteriorat-
ed in the estimation of our neighbor after it
made choice of the State officers, early in the
session. Perhaps it was because the Legsla-
tive grapes proved slightly sour.
gge In 1856 Theodore Parker wrote to
John P. Hale concerning the Presidential
campaign OF that yeaS, and in the course of
the letter says: " If Buchanan is President,
/ think the Union does not hold out his four
years. 1t must end in civil war" How true
those words.
eB-The Bangor Times says young lady
threw herself into the Kenduskeag, near Nor
ris's Mills, a few days since. She sunk once,
but on coming up gave an involuntary scream,
which called the attention OF persons near by,
who rescued her with some difficulty. Disap-
pointed affection is the alleged cause.
~ lady pianist has appeared in Hol-
land who enjoys the peculiar advantage Of
having six fingers on each hand, all of which
are brought into requisition in striking the
keys. She has also six toes upon each foot,
but whether the supplemental toes add to her
advantages over the pedals of the instrument,
we are not informed.
s8-The Providence Press says that large
number OF the people there have pledged
themselves to abstain entirely from the use of
butter so long as it is held above 80 cents
pound A general movement of this sort
throughout the country would bring the spec
ulators to terms and the price Of butter to 4
reasonable figure.
lY- A Scotch traveller in Africa drank
bottle of brandy and then laid down in the
jungle TO sleep off the effects. A swarm of
driyers-a kind OF ant-fell in with him, and
in twenty-four hours left nothing but a clean
picked skeleton and few boot nails. They
deVoured even his boots and clothing. Bran
dy suckers will take notice and govern them
selves accordingly.
Gg@On Tuesday last, says the Bangor
Wing Willie O. a little child of Elijah A and