The Portland daily press., 1864-03-31
ORIGIN AND SELECTED.

90 On first page-Letter lrom the Amy
oi the Potomac; A Fixed Fact; Reduce Exr
penditures; The Late Frederic Tudor; JEFF
laws 10 MS Returned Prisoners, etc, etc.
V-on fourth page-welcome to Gen.
Neal Dow poetry.
gENo passes are issued TO visit the army
OF the Potomac. This looks like work.
SB1One hundred and eighty Germans,
who have seen service, have enlisted in Bos-
ton.
B-Dr. Sunderland, Chaplain of the SEN
ate, has accepted call to the American
Chapel in Paris.
8B There is to be an exhibition of sheep
at the hall over the Boston and Maine Rail-
road on the 9th Of April next.
SE-The Telegraph announces that the
Navy Department is in want OF new side
wheel steamers
IB The average wages of male teachers
in Massachusetts, including the value of board,
Is s44,s7 per month; of female teachers,
$3.50.
GA citizen of New York who is ex-
tensiyely engaged in the telegraph enterprise,
received on Jan. LIST an annual dividend on
his investment, of $4,000.
sB- The consideration by the House of
Representatives OF the joint resolution pro-
hibiting slavery by constitutional amend
ment, is postponed two weeks.
sB- 1t is estimated that the crop of maple
sugar at the North for the present year will
reach 25,0o0,OOO pounds. Fifteen cents per
pound is low estimate of its value.
sBPhladelphia follows New York with
great soldiers fair. 1t is to Gil one of her
| squares tLogan), To be held in June, and to
beat all predecessors in brilliancy and green
| backs.
SB- robber who was seized for stealing
snuff out OF tobacconist's shop, by way of
excusing himself, exclaimed that he was not
aware OF any law that forbade man to take
snuff.
IL Butter, in Montreal is quoted at IS to
% cents-eggs per dozen, IA cents aud lard 0
to 9 l-2 cents. There is no reason, within our
knowledge, why as much butter will not be
made this year as last
Mamma" said little girl, pointing to
the telegraph wires, how do they send mess
ages by those bits of wire without tearing
them to peces?" They send them in a auid
state, my DEAR" was the mothers reply.
B-Wendell Phillips is not as severe on the
Administration as he has been. The worst
thing said about Mr.. Lincoln, in his recent
speech at Brattleboro', was that he was born
in Kentucky, for which he will not probably
hold Mr.. L. personally responsible.
% Peremptory orders directing the i'm
mediate transfer of ten thousand seamen from
the Army to the Navy, have been issued by
the President, and it is expected that they
will be carried into execution in the course
of the week.
sRey. j. w. Hanson, who has been
spending several months among the Massa- =,
chusett Soldiers, in the vicinity of New
Orleans, has returned to his home in Hager-
hill, Mass. We regret to learn that his wife
is quite low from hemorrhage of the lungs.
EAt convention of the Union mem.
beers of the Legislature from the 18th Congress
sional District, held in Augusta. March 18th.
Hon. VIM. MeGilvery Of Seaport, and Hon.
L. Il. Wadsworth OF Pembroke were chosen
as District Delegates to attend the National
Convention to meet at Baltimore on the 7th Of
June next.
GBGovernor Cony has appointed Hon.
Edward Kent of Bangor, Hon. John Hubbard
~ Ill 4 sNNv
ofPortland, Commissioners under the resolve
inviting the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
to cooperate with Maine in extending aid TO
military road from Bangor to the ST. John
River.
GTAn expatriated Illinois copperhead, who
has been neglected in the matter of manners
aud education, writes from Kingsville Cana
da, to his friends at home, long and profane
episte, in which the following sentence oc-
ours: ii expect to liv her til JefIlavis and the
suthern confederracy whip old abe and his
army"
0rMr. Washburne, of ILL.,, in his remarks
in the House Of Representatives, in relation
to the late Owen Lovejoy, said, his last public
effort was an address delivered at Portland
during the holidays, and 1t was one worthy of
his name and his fame in his palmiest DAYS.
and the news of his death would reach that
delighted auditory before the accents OF his
eloquent utterances will have died away.
90 Louisiana soldier who enlisted ip a
Connecticut regiment, and is now on a fur
Tough with his regiment to that State, recent
ly said:-"Since | came here have heard
more reasonable talk, and read more treason
able articles, than | did for months in the
South among southern men before left there.
The Union men of the South didn't permit
such talk within Union lines"
sH-The Muscatine Journal says the Val
landigham family do not all entertain the
same feelings in regard to the negro, as do
the admirers of the Ohio martyr. Perley
Valandigham, "a youth to fame and fortune
unknown" but nevertheless nephew of the
great Ohio martyr, is married to and lives
with negro woman in that city. His broth
er, living on the opposite side of the river. is
also married to a negress.
&E- The quadrennial General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, composed
of delegates from the State Conferences.