The Portland daily press., 1864-06-20

The Daily News, newspaper, has recently
been started in Ottawa. Canada.
RENTS in Halifax are ten per cent above the
rates Of former years, and a disposition 10
shown to grumble at landlords.
HAILsroSEs sometimes fall at the rate of one
hundred and thirteen feet in a second, and rain
at the rate Of forty-three feet in q second.
Mn. John Campbell of Pembroke, has been
bereft of three promising sons during the late
battles in Virginia.
SEVERAL owners Of cotton mills in Rhode Is
land contemplate stopping their works soon,
unless the price Of the raw material reccdes.
In Is said the gratuitous services rendered the
Sanitary Commission by Adams Express Com
pany, reaches the large sum Of 100000.
HoRaIBLE stories are told Of the outrages
committed by French troops in Mexican towns
which are contumacious towards Macmillan.
The rebels don't like Gen. Grants persever-
ance; it is what they have not been accustomed
to. The dignity Of Mcclellan was much more
to their liking.
THE Quskers are establishing a college in
Shhoy i'nhio. ~ uno occu W
the name Of Swathmore College; and about
$1,000 have been paid toward the enterprise.
THE Times says that Frank Gay OF Bath. of
the 7th Maine, was killed at the battle Of Spott-
sylvania Court House. He was shot through
the head, the ball entering just over the right
eye.
COLORADO, Idaho vnd Arizona will yield one
hundred millions in gold this year, and as yet,
the riches Of the new mining regions have
scarcely begun to be developed. The vast de-
posts have not even been skinned.
THE commissioner Of agriculture at Washing
ton has just received lot of native African
plants and seeds. among which is new kind Of
corn, much esteemed by the natives as food for
man and beast.
THE sale Of con6scated cotton at Cairo on the
sth brought 5000 900. the largest government
sale yet. Large prices were realizsd-6s Ia to
Sl.o3 Ia per pound, although the staple was Of
very low grade.
COTTON is now beginning to be cultivated
through all the southern portions of Italy, and
great interest is felt in its production since this
great staple is cut short in the United States for
the present.
A GENTLEMAN who has visited the sick and
wounded soldiers in the hospitals, and has be-
come familiar with their peculiar wants, says
that slippers with leather solss are in great de-
mAnd.
CoLERIpGs, the poet and philosopher, once
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dine here collectively or individually" "Sir,"
replied the knight Of the napkin, I'VE dimes at
six"
THERE is . tenement in the city Of New York
having si1ty-eight rooms eight by ten feet.
containing seventy families Of one hundred and
forty-four adults and one hundred and thirty
eight children and forty-three cats
A NEW railroad pass has been recently dis
covered over the Sierra Nevada on the upper or
eastern hesd-waters Of the Kern River. 1t is
said to be much lower in altitude than any yet
discovered.
In the list Of patents issued within the last
two weeks, is one for r. W. George, Richmond,
for improvements in barrel machines, and one
tef <hipcAs II. VI lOf llii-
provement in the mode Of lubrcating the bear
ings Of spindle frames.
Tx 1860 the product OF labor for each person
in Massachusetts, was s23s; in Maryland, 500;
in South Carolina, $50. Thus in free and edu-
Gated Massachusetts, the reward Of labor is more
than double that in Maryland, and four times
that in South Carolina.
IT HAS recently been discovered that certain
old guns used as posts on the quay at Peel. in
the Isle Of Man, were rifed. The British Gov
eminent has ordered them to be transported to
Woolwich, where they are to be preserved a,
the earliest specimens Of riAed ordnance
ANDREW JOHNSON is the man who, in the
United States Senate, N one Of his speeches de-
nouncing secession, said, as he pointed his I'm
! ger In the direction Of JEFF Davis, II were the
| President, would arrest you as traitors. try
| you as traitors, and hang you as traitorai"
AL South America is in fame at the Span.
ish attack on Peru. The Peruvians are collec.
ting material supplies everywhere, building al
iron-clad at Callao, and throwing up works
and Colombia and Chilli make common caus,
with them.
THE great elevator to be built this summer il
Milwaukee will have a capacity of one millior
three hundred thousand bushels. twin be pro
vided with nine receiving and FIVE shipping ele
vators with AZ. 900 bushels taking and q, 900 Civ
ing capacity per hour.
A SON Of Mr.. George Eayres, Of rittsford, VT
shot his sister, aged six years. last week. H
had taken up gun which had been loaded IN
known to his father, snapped it. and shot tn
little girl through the head. She died insts mt
y.
From observations made in Havana, il ap
pears that the number Of shooting stars in tn
northern hemisphere is double that in the south
ern. In the northern the largest number fal
between one and two O'Clock, in the southern
between two and three.
The side-wheel steamer De Soto, from Kc
West, arrived at Kittery Navy Yard on Thurs
day morning; where portion of the crew vii
be discharged and the remainder removed I
another vessel There are several cases Of feve
on board and four Of the crew have died.
Anh HA"ehinS ANcPuohcoh louSc VI In
Order Of Good Templars has been organized il
Cherryheld. and is in q lonrishing condition
weekly Temperance meeting is also held i
that place, to which old and young are wei
coined.
The first American organ-builder was Edwar
Bromheld. Of Boston. He was graduated a
Harvard in l742, and died at the age Of twenty
three. His organ la d two banks of keys an
several hundred pipes. Its workmanship wa
said to exceed anything Of the kind which ha
been imported from Europe.
A CLOCK has been recently invented which n
sembles an ordinary thermometer. Its progre.
il marked by the indicating scale on the sid
When it has run down the whole instrument
reversed, and it is ready for another twel,
hours work. 1t is said to nearly equal the be-