The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-01-15

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

sH-On the first page Conclusion Of the
reply Of Messrs. Gasparin, Cochin, Laboulayc
and Henri Martin, to the Loyal National
League in New York.
sE-On the fourth page--The Poor Sewing
Girl.
sE- The State Bank in Augusta is to re-
organize under the National banking law.
TEA new sign for tavern has recently
been inyented-Dewdrop Inn lido drop n).
Il The friends of Freedom in Arkansas
feel confident Of majority of votes within
their borders.
gI- Gen. Heintzelman has been assigned
to the command of a new department, COM
posed Of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.
nH-We learn that Capt. Mcclure has au-
thority TO raise three full companies Of Sharp
shooters in this State.
sH-The mercury at Machias went down to
IA degrees below zero, on Thursday of last
week.
nK-The unyersalist Church at Mechanic
Falls was dedicated on Wednesday of last
week. Sermon by Rev. Zenas Thompson.
H-It is estimated that 10000 colored
men are now in the employ of the Govern
ment, armed and unarlned
ly-The Lewiston Falls Co. (wooen Mill
paid a dividend Of 10 per cent, on the nth
inst.
H-Gen. ]. d. Marrow, of Dixfeld, paid
his thirty-sixth annual payment to the Ken
nebec Journal a few days since.
~ A joint resolution continuing the
bounties heretofore paid, until the first of
March, has passed both branches Of Congress.
nV- Col. McGilvery, formerly of the 9th
Maine Battery, is to be appointed Brigadier
General.
TO- 1t is believed that Bishop McCluskey
of Albany will be chosen Archbishop of New
/ York, to succeed the late Archbishop Hughes.
He is a native of Brooklyn, n. Y.
H- President Lincoln has received letter
from Gen. Banks assuring him that he Gen.
Banks would soon complete the organization
of the State government Of Louisiana.
eTThe Market Banklo Bangor,w which has
surrendered its charter now becomes Ma
tional Bank with $4,000 ofcapital invested
in government stock.
The Lewiston journal suggests that
Maine should have military school, The ex-
pense need be but $4,000 or 5000. 1t would
help make efficient officers.
liza house recently occupied by Mr.. Eli
b. Davis, at Pennington Falls, was destroyed
by fire, last week, as we learn from the Chron-
icle.
aE- A remonstrance was presented in the
House of Representatives yesterday morn
ing, against the right of Mr.. Blaney of Bris-
tol to hold his seat in that body.
sB-Rey. Mr.. Burlingame has become pas
tor of the +. w. B. church in North Berwick;
A. p Tracy Of the church at Rocklend and
f. r. Fernald of the church at Kittery Point
sy-The mackerel fishery OF Gloucester,
Mass, amounted in 1868 to 153s92 barrels.
The catch last year was the largest for ten
years.
aI-The receipts of -four and grain at Chi
cago for 1868 were equal to 56,07o,O0S BUSH
els. Since the first of October last, there have
been packed $4,000 hogs.
sE-Miss Anna Dickinson will speak for the
benefit of the Freedman's Aid Association, in
the House OF Representatives at Washington,
ON Saturday next.
sy- Mr.. T. S. Small of West Watervile,
has sent to the Office of the Maine Farmer
some specimens of his skill in raising, curing,
and preparing tobacco.
rK-There are now at Port Hudson, in
Gen. Banks Department, nearly thirty regi-
ments of colored soldiers, under Gen. Geo. l..
Andrews. Nine hundred applications for
commissions in these regiments are on file.
s1Samuel Sears, merchant, and native of
Massachusetts,, died in New York on Wednes-
day, from congestion of the lungs, induced by
the administration of laughing gas for the pur-
pose Of extracting tooth.
LEA lady with two daughters, Is and 10
years OF age, recently arrived in Boston, hav-
ing escaped from Georgia. They give thrill
ling account OF their adventures on the route
between Rome, Ca, and Nashville.
eFThe Portsmouth Chronicle says that
unless something soon turns up to employ the
men in the Navy Yard, there win be general
suspension of mechanical and other descrip-
lions of labor there.
l"Spurwink" wasmistaken insaying the
Hollis contested case was assigned for hear
ing on Wednesday last. 1t was the Standish
case that came up then, and was postponed
till yesterday.
sF-TheIe are four members of the Legisla-
ture who have seen service in the field, during
the war yiz:-Col. Stone, OF Kennebunk, Col.
Varney of Bangor, Capt. Deering of Rich
mond and Mr.. Daggett of Greene.
sFThe Lewiston Journal says Rev. Mr..
Balkan intends TO leave for the Army of the
Potomac to join the 10th Regiment as their
Chaplain, the first OF next week. =. Mr. b. will
carry with him the best wishes of his people
and the citizens generally.
sTThe Newburyport Herald says, in
speaking of the proposition to repeal the law
of this State in relation to capital punishment:
"We have hanging enough in Massachusetts,
but ii does not seem to diminish the number
OF capital crimes
sE-The porringer of Bro. Littleileld of the
Clarion has been flied with oysters. Esti-
mating its capacity from the quantity of po-