The Portland daily press., 1864-02-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ES-First page-A Singular Custom; A
Good Institution; A New England Kitchen.
sB-Last page-Lines from the Battlefield:
Growers Income Tax, story by T. S. Ar
thur.
10 Saturday evening-Feb. 10Th.
Ey| Gen. Burnside has been invited to visit
Augusta at his convenience.
sB- A Cornet Band has been organized
in Belfast.
70 Rev John Allen, is doing good service
among the soldiers of the army of the Poto-
mac where he is holding camp meetings.
lB@ DIR. A. NJ. Peables, of this State, has
been appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 3Oth
United States colored troops.
sg-Rev. Charles Packard, pastor of the
Congregational Church in Biddeford, died
suddenly on Wednesday.
ag-A large ship house at Kttery Navy
Yard was moved several feet from its founda-
ton during the gale on Wednesday
DIR. F. Scammon, formerly of Halo
well, died at his residence, at Chicago, on the
18th inst, aged 81 years.
Washington's Birthday FEB. 22d) will
be appropriately observed in several towns
and cities in the State
sV Petitions are In circulation in Massa-
chusetts asking for the adjustment of capital
punishment in that State.
sB-About 30 counties of Arkansas will
take part In the state election. There will be
no opposition to Judge Murphy for Governor
sy-Dr Silas L. Condict, the Junior P. NJ.
W. p. of the National Division of the Sons of
Temperance, died suddenly at his residence
in Jersey City, on the 9th inst.
sB-A young man named William STAN
wood, in Amherst, committed suicide by TAX
ing stryehnine, on Wednesday last, as we learn
from the Bangor Wing.
u Prof Grover is lecturing on Phrenolo-
gy and the laws of our being, in various towns
in this vicinity with entire success. He is
spoken of by the press as an accurate delinea-
tor of character.
sY- The debate at Mechanics Library
room last evening was exceedingly interest
ing. The crowded state of our columns will
not permit US to give 4 full report this morn
ing.
-Gov. johnson, of Tenn, tells the Pres
ident that the only difficulty with his amnesty
proclamation is that il is too liberal inveterate
rebels take it and stlll prosecute the old Union
men.
sB- Important news may soon be looked
for from the Southwest Gen. Grant has goue
to the front. His advance has already COM
menced, and he has never been known to re-
treat.
sg-The Boston Transcript thinks that the
true reason why Gen. Neal Dow did not take
the opportunity to escape with the other pris-
oners was because he twas so much of a tenn
perance man that he disliked to go through a
tunnel"
- The Philadelphia Press says mark
| Tapley, at the head of respondent body OF
emigrants, could scarcely have addressed them
with more galyanic cheerfulness than JEFF
ferson Davis has exhibited in his proclamation
to the rebel armies"
| LEA Portland officer, just returned to the
field after thirty-five days furlough, speaks
| of the ladies in camp-wiyes of oiicers-but
says, 1.-THE sight of calico floating round here
and there is, find, very poor tonic for those
who have just parted with young brides or
newly found sweet-hearts."
E- A lady correspondent of the Press re-
Gently wrote out Fowlers chronological de-
scription of Gen. Mcclellan, and it is going the
rounds of the papers, without credit of course.
The Philadelphia Press says it was given in
one of Fowler's lectures in "Sfaine recently"
Our Boston correspondent may feel compli-
mented in finding her articles stolen by papers
of so high character.
L. Rev. Cyril Pearl is working faithfully
for the soldiers, under the auspices of the
Christian Commission, in the region of Har-
per's Ferry. We have quite long letter from
him, dated Feb. u, giving an account of his
labors, aud we regret that the pressure upon
our columns does not allow us to give it a
place. lie is faithful worker, instant in sea-
son and out of season, and his presence must
be like ray Of sunshine in the camp, in the
hospital, and especially at the bedside Of the
sick and dying.
L. The Portsmouth Chronicle says, few
days since, Mr.. Albert Preble of York, Me-. a
carpenter employed on Portsmouth Bridge,
met with severe accident in the following
manner: he was returning home with a lot of
sharp tools upon his shoulder, when he Stun
bled and fell to the ground, striking upon the
edge of an adze, nearly severing his arm at the
elbow. The next day he was seized with the
erysipeas, which together with the severe cut,
his life.
s- The Pennington Chronicle says the
water power at Liyermore Falls has been pur-
chased by an enterprising company who con-
template establishing factory for eondens-
ing milk, apple juice, sc, in which they in
tend to use the milk from 1900 to 1000 COWS,
and the Juice from $4,000 to $4,000 bushels OF
apples, and that Mr. B. +. Sturdevant Of Bos-
ton, the inventor of the principal machine for
pegging shoes, has leased part of the water
power and is putting in machinery for manu-
factoring pegs, which will use up several cords
of wood annually
,B- The next meeting of the Cumberland
County Temperance Society will be held at
the Congregational meeting house in Gorham,
n