The Portland daily press., 1864-03-09
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


@B-A grand military dress ball was had at
Meonian Hall, Augusta, last evening.
cI-A fire occurred at Camp Douglas near
Chicago, on the Goth ult., destroying three
barracks and other property.
nY-Nearly all the Union members of the
Ohio Legislature have sighed a paper favoring
the re nomination of President Lincoln.
I-The estimated proceeds Of the Brook
lyn Sanitary Fair, which closed on Saturday,
is 100000.
srThe New Haven Courier says that Mr.
A 7. Stewart of New York, is the man who
has given $4,000 for new building for Yale
College.
1FThe Richmond Examiner has come to
the conclusion cotton is the curse of the
South. 1t will find yet that hemp will be its
salvation.
GV-H Hon. VIM. P. Fessenden has laid us I'M
der obligations for copy of the Congressional
Directory, with diagrams Of the House and
Senate Chamber.
VrGov. Yates of Illinois, has written a
letter warmly approving the movement to
raise fund for the education of the children
of soldiers.
gB-Some of the leading merchants of New
York and New England have recently or
ganized Mediterranean company, with de-
sign of establishing line of steamers to
southern Europe.
GTIn a recent debate in the English
House of Lords, it was stated that the Ameri-
can claims against England, for depredations
by the Alabama, amounted to two million
pounds sterling.
eT-It seems that the naturalized voters in
Ward 4, did not feel disposed to Harmonic
on plan SO Fdrrfetched as that proposed by
the copperhead caucus ON Saturday evening
and SO they concluded to Fling it away.
GVThe Augusta Journal says ito those
who have been familiar with Mr.. Blaine's pre-
ferences on the Presidential question and his
ton that he is hostile to Mr.. Lincoln, is simp-
ly amusing.
TPhineas Davis, the engineer on the
Concord and Manchester Railroad, and the
fireman whose name is not given, were
killed on Monday, near Salem, N. H., in con-
sequence of the track bedding being washed
away.
cB-" You cannot get us on string as easy
as that" says the editor of the Argus. If he
don't improve his politics and political action,
he may find himself on the end of string
that will produce very disagreeable sensa-
ton about the throat.
G~The managers Of the "Home of the
Friendless, in New York city, rejected the
application of worthy, well qualified and
well recommended young lady, for teacher in
the first rudiments of English, because she at
tended Rev. Dr. Ballows' church.
sBDr. Isreal Putnam, is reelected Mayor
Of Bath, aud Jacob Smith, Judge OF Munich
pal Court. Mayor Putnam has been elected
six successive years. We see that Bro. Lin
coin is reelected to the Common Council
from Ward A..
GEBeauregard wrote letter in August
last in which he said, "We will yet have to
come to producing this "a war to the knife
when the quarter will be asked or granted.
l believe it is the only thing that can prevent
recruiting at the North"
sg-In case of William S. Grant, formerly
of Farmingdale, this State, against the United
States for the recovery of certain property
destroyed by United States troops in Arizona,
in July, 1861, the court of claims at Wash
ington has awarded Mr.. Grant Sal 800.
sY-It is said that the Board of Political
Doctors at 81 Exchange street, on Monday
evening, sitting in council over the dead body
ofCopperhead Democracy, decided that it had
been too much mangled during the day, and
particularly in Ward A, to Justify ary attempts
at embalming.
TrTheodore Parker writes in his Diary
for April, lS43:-"Went to Medford. Saw
Thos. Starr King - capital fellow, only 10.
Taught school three years = supports his
mother. Reads French, Spanish, Latin,
Italian, little Greek, and begins German.
HE is good listener.)"
ngThe Argus would like to see us at
tempt TO prove that "the democracy of An
drew Jackson and of Thomas jefferson, is not
found in the party now styling itself Demo-
cratic" 1t is not usual to attempt TO prove
either self-evident proposition, or PROPOSE
ton almost universally conceded.
sD-We learn from the Manchester On. H.
Mirror that an organization exists at Wolf
borough, in that State, called the Wolf
borough Young Mems Democratic Club"
which is supposed to be one of the chain of
associations known in some OF the Western
States as Knights of the Golden Circle.
ev-The Boston Post seizes with avidity
the first instalment OF the Vallandigham
acrostic, and evidently thinks it a smart trick
to impose upon an editor by an offensive acros-
tic. Has the Post forgotten the smutty trick
perpetrated at its expense a few years since,
in relation to noted and beautiful donseuseS
The spirit of old Tammany is up. She
goes for no ignoble peace. The old wigwam
was to be opened for a war meeting on Mon
day evening, over which Elijah +. Purdy was
TO preside, and the speakers announced were
Gen. Hancock, James T. Brady, Judge Dean,
Gen. Viele, Gen. Meagher, Gen. d tx and John
Il. Hoffman.
eB-The Catholic Telegraph says that men,
bers of that denomination who, within few
months, would not think ON the--subject of abb
clifton, are now most anxious for its success,