The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-02-06
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ment, delivered In the House OF representa-
tives Feb. 3, 1864.
nE- On the fourth page Thinking of
Charley, poetry; Miscellany.
Saturday evening, Feb. 9th. ct
sD- The U. S. Post Office Department has
become self-sustaining.
g-A young lady from Pennsylvania enlist
ed at Oswego, in this state, a few days since.
CO. Henry Tilley has been appointed post
master at Castle Hill, Aroostook, in place OF
Smith, removed.
LEE. S. Fowler of Caribou, Arootook, has
been appointed drputs sheriff in place of DIV
Adams, resigned.
sN- The Bddeford Journal learns that
there are one or two severe cases ofsmall pox
in Saco.
ag-The press generally in the State favor
the increase of the salaries of the Judges of
the Supreme CouIt.
sy~ A child of Mr.. Morrison Rowe, of st.
Adams, was badly burned by. its clothes tax
ing fire, few days since.
rTThe citizens of Buffalo are making
preparations for fair in aid ofthe United
States Christian Commission. 1t is to be held
on the anniversary of Washington's birthday.
cgThe Territories of Nebraska and Ne
vada, will probably be admitted into the Union
as States at the present session of Congress.
Colorado is also knocking at the door.
gr the shoe factory of Messrs. A. & F.
Shurtleif & Co., at South Paris, is to be en-
larged to twice the size of the present build
ing, as we learn from the Democrat.
sg-The Lewiston Journal learns that Hon.
Job Prince of Turner, lies dangerously i'll at
Lincoln, Penobscot County, whittier he went
on a visit.
iV Mr.. Seabry, of Parkman, had three
sheep killed and eight wounded by dog a
few nights since. No reasonable man would
object to capital punishment in that case.
gH- Rowland Hill Stearns, son OF Dea. B.
Stearns of Lowell, died at the Benton Bar
racks, st. Louis, on the first day Of JAN
uray last. He was in the siege Of Yicksburg
under Gen. Grant.
nEThe N. Y. Times is of the opinion that
if any serious disaster should happen to our
army in East Tennessee, that somebody would
be censurable. Very likely, but let US not
censure any one until the disaster occurs.
To- The Journal of commerce demands
that the Sanitary Commission officers shall
render an account Of their stewardship. This
is perfectly proper and right, and no man con-
nected with the Commission will object to it.
svThe Ladies Independent Sewing Cir
Gle at Hodgdon's Mills, Boothbay, recently
raised $3.50 at Fair. The Methodist Sew
ing Circle, at the same place, in the same
way, raised $3.50. This, for the size of the
place, is a big thing.
sHThe Kennebec Journal publishes two
tri-weekly editions, instead OF a daily edition,
and inserts the legislative proceedings,
speeches, editorial, ETC., in both, but Mr..
Lynch's speech on the removal question was
carefully left out of one OF these editions.
ng-On the first pags, speech of Mr.. Lynch
of Portland, on the removal of the seat of
government, to which careful attention is in
vited. 1t was struck off before the corrected
copy was received from Augusta and contains
one or two immaterial errors.
LEA man who had called himself John
Fisher, was found dead in the woods near
Biddeford on Tuesday last. The name of
John Williams was marked with India ink
upon his arm, with an Amerscan eagle and
strains upon his hands.
~ Appropriations for Notifications in
this State have been reported as follows: For
Fort Knox, Penobscot river, 100000; for
Fort Popham, Kennebec river, 100000; for
Fort Georges, Portland harbor, sl50,000 for
Fort Preble, Portland harbor, $4,000; for
Fort Scanned, Portland harbor, 100000.
eT The Belfast Age says in relation to
the removal of the State capital from Angus
ia to Portland, there is evidently a stronger
sentiment growing in favor of the removal ev-
cry year, and there is no doubt but consid-
cradle part OF the State would be better con-
vened at Portland than at Augusta.
ga Wiscasset correspondent of the
Rockland Free Press, in urging the Importance
of railroad along the shore route, to the
Kennebec and Portland road, says route
has been reconnoitered, striking the Kennebec
at Twing's Point nearly opposite Abidagas-
sat Point, below Swan Island, and seven miles
from Wiscasset.
GV- The Bath Times calls it villainous
transaction, for man who is able to take a
newspaper TO go into store where papers
are left for subscribers and appropriate their
contents to his own use, cutting out para
craps before the individual to whom it be-
longs has had time to read it. We are of the
same opinion.
sB-The statement that one of the returned
Pennsylvania regiments was allowed to re-
main two nights in the open air, without even
shelter tents, we do not believe. Reports of
that kind are passed along from one grum-
bling, fault-iinding press to another, until it is
quite generally believed by those who think
the management Of the war to be all wrong.
% The net increase of our subscription
list for January, over and above all losses, was
for the Daily Press, 57 for the Weekly Press,
l65. The Weekly is now the largest political
paper in New England, and is afforded at the
price Of papers of two thirds its size. The
columns are of the same width and the same
in number as the New York Tribune, but in
the aggregate " inches more in length, or
equal to nearly four columns of that paper.