The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-12

sH-The "local' OF a morning paper lays
down rules for the regulation of Fort Preble,
and tells the officer in command how he
should proceed to bring vessel to. Is this
a bid for Mr.. Welles place in the Csbinet9
sH-The Oxford Democrat says Elisha T.
Cotton, of Brownfeld, was arrested a week
or two since on the charge of enlisting desert
ers, and sharing the bounty. He appeared at
town meeting on Monday, and at night was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Rice, but was for
chilly rescued by some individuals, and sent of
with smart horse. Mr.. Rice gave chase and
recaptured his man, after an exciting run.
eyWe learn from the Oxford Democrat
that Mrs. Mary A., wife of Chas. G. Holt, Of
Waterford, aged % years and months, was
very suddenly killed in the new factory at
Craig's Mills, on Thursday afternoon. Her
clothing caught in belt, and she was thrown
around one OF the main shafts many times
with great force, before the machinery could
be stopped. Her body was badly mangled,
and the sight most distressing.
fTOne fellow, the other day, down on the
Cape, when compelled to give up the booty he
was carrying away from the wreck, was terri
bly, indignant with the officer, and denounced
him as id black Republican. When asked
how he knew he was Republican, he said no
Democrat would be guilty of such mean bust
ness as that of interfering with poor mans
privilegesl
nHrCol. George II. Hawks, superintendent
of negro labor in Gen. Banks Department, says
in his report:-"Free labor is perfect sue
cess. The negro comprehends it, and his
former owner is just awakening from his le-
thargic slumber. All that remains for the
officers of the government to accomplish is,
to enforce system of education which shall
elevate the laborer, and qualify him for his
new position"
lTThe Hon. Joshua Dewey, who gradu-
ated at Yale College in the year 1887, died in
Westchester, n. Y, on Wednesday the oath
of February last, at the age of 96 years. He
was the oldest in graduation but not in age,
as the Rev. Daniel Waldo, of Syracuse, N. Y,
OF the class of 1885, is still living at the age Of
90 years. The case is similar at Harvard
College. The Hon. Josiah Quincy, of the
class of 1890, the oldest surviving graduate of
was DOIH III Do5touy Tic All Oh TtD-
ruary, 1772, and was 90 years old last month,
and DIR. Matthias Spaulding, of the class Of
1898, who is still living in Amherst, N. II. was
born in Chelmsford, Mass, the 18th of June,
1859, and was "a years old last June. When
in College he was in such feeble health that
it was thought he would not live to graduate.
Il Boston Adv.
sg-The Belfast Age says a man by the
name of Henry S. b. Lombard, who proposed
to be Methodist clergyman, hired horse
sleigh and fixtures in that city for a short
| journey. He was gone so long, that the owner
concluding the team had been stolen, started
in pursuit. He found that one of the robes
had been sold in China, but obtained no fur.
Their information until he reached Augusta
where he learned that a man answering the
description, had sold horse blanket to pay
for his lodging, in the vicinity of Lewiston
Starting in that direction, Mr.. Parker found
his horse in New Gloucester, and the Sleigh in
West Minot, where they had been disposed Of
= the sleigh having changed hands three
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