The Portland daily press., 1864-01-26
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

pital.
sY-ou the fourth page-Song of the Sol
diers; The Grave of Douglas; Miscellany.
sV- Green hard wood is selling at Show
hogan for $3.50 cord. Very reasonable.
SHeThe January term of the S. j. Court,
Androscoggin County, will begin to-day at
Auburn.
srThe Philadelphia Corn Exchange have
extended an invitation to Miss Anna +. Dick
inson to lecture before them.
sHr Charles A. Dana, formerly of the New
York Tribune, has been appointed Second AS
sistant Secretary of War.
ny- The men who compose the State gov
eminent Of North Carolina are doing all they
can to get their State back into the Union.
aY-The Southern press is out against their
new CONSUMPTION law. 1t makes clean
sweep.
r. Fernando Wood, "Perley" says, COM
menced life as cigar maker, then became a
merchants clerk, and now he is a millionaire.
sH- Raw cotton and castor oil are said to
be an excellent application for frost-bitten
limbs.
sR-Rev. G. burlington, chaplain of the It'll
Maine, is at home at Msysville on short fur
Tough.
ay- epsilon" has been in type several
days, but unavoidably laid over. 1t will APP
pear soon.
eg-The sloop-of-war Ino, which has been
at Belfast for q few weeks recruiting, has been
ordered to Hampton Roads.
IL Fifteen dollars an hour is the price Of
the use OF horse and sleigh In Washington.
An inch or two of snow affords rich harvest
for stable keepers.
~ Aspecial dispatch TO the Boston Jour
nal says Gen. Scholheld has been ordered to
East Tennessee, and Gen. Rosecrans to Mis-
souri,.
sy-Thaddeus c. S. Berry has been appoint
ed one Of the County Commissioners for
Aroostook County, in the place of Parker p.
Burleigh, resigned.
TIA report OF the debate in the Mechan-
ic Association, at their last meeting, was pre-
pared for the compositor, but has been una
voidably crowded out.
sy-Dr. John A. Tarbell, homeopathic
physician, fell suddenly in the streets of Bos-
ton, on Thursday, and died almost immedi-
ately.
TGen. Curtis was received with great
enthusiasm on his arrival at Lesvenworth, TO
take command of the new Department of
Kansas.
sE-It is said that "Phernandiwud" will
give great ball in Washington next week,
and that jenkins is going on from New
York TO attend it.
sR-An American missionary in Turkey
writes that there will be at least two hundred
thousand bales Of cotton, of this seasons growth
shipped from Adana and the immediate vicin-
| ity.
sy-Rev. j. f. NJ. Wright, pastor of the Con-
grcgational Church in Rockport, recently en-
listed as private in the quo.a of that town
but was not passed by the examining sur
geon.
Messrs. Bayard and Salisbury, the two
Senators from Delaware, persistently refuse to
take the oath of allegiance. A resolution
will be introduced to expel them, which will
very probably induce them to change their
purpose.
eY-The net proceeds of Miss Dickinson's
lecture in Washington, were 81 $50, a check
ssf wKfsSrSssx isf<SSi = TIC nalds OF
the Vice President, to be delivered by him, in
behalf of Miss Dickinson, to the Freedman's
Relief Association.
TA recently issued Life of Archbishop
Hughes, has upon the title page those enthu-
siastic words of st. Paul, Il have fought the
good fight; have finished the course; have
kept the faith" &C., credited to Bishop Nc
Closkey's Funeral Grafton.
nF- Col. c. w. Kitteridge, Of the Both
Iowa regiment, formerly OF Maine has had
manufactured in Boston, an elegant silver
pitcher and cup, to be presented to companies
for high attainment in military skill and disci-
pline.
eEThe Legislative Agricultural Commit
tee is inquiring into.the expediency of making
the legal weight of oats 30 lbs. or 2slbs. 1t
is now 80 lbs. In Iowa SO pounds make a
bushel, aud in Minnesota and other western
States, 80 pounds.
eTThree men, a father and two sous, nam
ed Scott, were burned to death in single
camp, near Lynniield, n. b., one night last
week, from q fire which they left burning
when they went to sleep. They belonged to
ST. David's.
nB-Nearly fit ypersons in Manchester have
been detected as participants in an extensive
system of stealing from the Manchester and
Amoskeag mills, and eight have confessed
guilt and been fined. Many of them were
girls whose reputation had before been ire
proachable.
CT The n. Y. Tribune says the govern
ment is in possession of the most undoubted
evidence going to show that the rebels would
give up the contest at once were it not that
they are induced to believe the success of the
copperheads possible in the next Presidential
election.
nBThc frigate Alabama, alias New Hamp-
shire, that has been on the stocks in Kit terry
Navy Yard ever since 1918, was launched on
Saturday forenoon. The Chronicle says it was
beautiful sight and an entirely successful
launch, and crowds of men and women from
far and near were present to witness it.