The Portland daily press., 1864-07-21

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
II Lincoln mass meetings are being held in
the large cities of the West

II Lincoln mass meetings are being held in
the large cities of the West.
81 John Bell is said to be at Atlanta. Ca,
shaking in his shoes, with nobody to pity him.
3 The monument to Senator Douglas, at
Chicago, will cost half million dollars.
S9-The annual camp meeting at Hamilton,
Mass, commences on Monday. Aug. Is.
- Lakes into which large streams flow but
having no outlet, are always salt.
- The canny Scotch are claiming Lee, the
rebel General as countrym
- The Lewiston Journal says the rise in pa
per last week will add from 81 500 to $4,000 to
its annual expenses.
ga foundation for a Catholic church in
Lewiston is to be laid at once. 1t is to be the
largest church in Lewiston.
: ~ The payment of $500 Communication, if
made previous to last February, exempts for
three years.
.g-In the late Ashantee [Africanl expedition,
fifty per cent of the troops employed succumbed
to the climate without striking blow.
a Not less than fifty tons of grass on
meadow in the town of Cutler, was destroyed
by fire a few days since.
n The President is not coming North this
summer; pressing duties will detain I'm at the
Capital.
p Horne Tooke, when asked by George III.
whether he played at cards, replied: 81 cannot,
your Majesty, tell king from a knave.''
q Among the soldiers who we're killed at
Fort Stevens and buried where they fell. was j.
Pickett, Co. F, 7th Me.
-g-It is estimated that the number Of rebel
prisoners is about 90, 900, of whom four hum
dred are officers
EE~A barnacle-nosed old fellow gave as
reason for taking his liquor clear, that since
the food water had always tasted of sinners.
sg-The aggregate of losses by the late fire at
Portsmouth is estimated at from $50, 900 to
$50, 900.
- An inveterate old bachelor says ships are
called 'she" because they always keep man
on the lookout.
81 Menhaden oil is being manufactured in
Rhode Island ON an extensive SCALE Three hun
dred thousand gallons have been made the pres
ent season.
gThe Mayor of Bath is cooperating with
the Governor in providing such defences for the
kennebec river as any emergency may de-
mand.
= The City Council of Portsmouth, having
been warmed up by an extensive confagration,
will undoubtedly take the necessary steps to
procure steam fire engine.
B-Denmark, having but little hope of assis-
lance from England. will be very likely to ac-
cept terms of peace rather than risk the conse-
qnences of war.
q Mr.. Garrison says the course pursued by
Rev. Mr.. Conway, in England, is calculated to
damage the American government abroad and
help faction and sedition at home.
y hundred factory girls from England
whose passage money had been paid by the Law
renee mill companies. arrived in Lawrence few
daysago.
S-Brigham Young says he shall keep such
Christian institutions as billiard tables and
drinking saloons out Of Utah as long as he
can.
n What is the use of talking of deprecated
paper to printer? Every newspaper man
knows that it has not deprecated; that it was
never worth more; that it goes up with gold al
most daily.
y Jacob Stanwood, Esq, of Boston, former,
ly of Augusta, has subscribed one thousand dol
lars towards the fund for erecting new Con-
gregational church ON the site of the one Just
burned
81 Another effort is being made to secure
general exchange of prisoners, which it is be
leyed will be successful. The conditions have
been agreed upon by the commissioners, subject
to the endorsement of government.
- During the recent fire in Portsmouth, n.
H., the States and Union Printing Office was
considerably demaged. The Chronicle says Pen
hallow and Linden Streets presented desolate
appearance ON Tuesday morning
q An exchange, noticing the marriage of
Mr.. James Hogg and Mis- Ella Beane. says
pork and beans form u natural union. but
thinks one bean to single hog is small allow
ance.
% An old lady whose son was about to pro-
coed to the Black Sea, among her parting admo-
nitons gave HIM strict injunctions not to
battle in that sea, for she didn't want him to
come home "nigger."
~ Among the candidates for graduation at
the State Normal School, Salem, Mass, we no.
tice the names Of the following from this State:
HID al LII n
West Auburn.
-G-A country girl coming from the field,
told BY her poetic cousin that she looked as fresh
as daisy kissed with dew, said, ''well it wasn't
any fellow By that name, but it was Steve Jones
that kissed me. | told him that every one in
town would find it out -
ES-The Bath Times says fire has been raging
in the woods in the southern section of that
city, since Sunday, doing considerable damage
1t increased however, to such power on Tuesday
afternoon. that an alarm was raised and the
engines called out
Rfhe Daily Poughkeepsian, an able and
spicy newspaper, started in Poughkeepsie. N
T., about year ago, has been suspended on
account of the pressure of the times This, We
fear, viii be the fate of many excellent papers.
that would be able to outride ordinary storms
q The Bangor Wing says the horses of Amos
NJ. Roberts, Esq, ran away with him on Ex-
change Street, on Tuesday afternoon, smashing
the carriage "a new and valuable "Rockaway''),
throwing Mr.. Roberts out, bruising and stun
ming him considerably, but doing him no serious
damage.
b Capt. Edgar A. Burpee, Co. |, 10Th Ne,
is reported a prisoner, having been captured by
the enemy while engaged in pieketing an ad-
vanced position of our lines He had been de-
tailed upon the staff of Gen. Gibbon, as Acting
Adjutant General, and was serving in that ca
pacity when taken prisoner
n The 3lst Maine regiment, in recent