The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-25
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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Infdel; Heroic Conduct; Item.
% On fourth page,-Lament of the Maine
Copperheads, poetry; Honor and Generosity;
Memory Acquired by Practice; Miscellany.
nB- Friday evening-25th.
GB-A small steamer is being built at Ports
mouth, to run between that city and the
Shoals.
GB Thaddeus Bolton, alias Charles Clark,
a deserter, was arrested near Belfast on Mon
day.
W-The Bishop of Algers has issued a
pastoral letter against spiritualism. "Vel,
vot of it."
g-It is said 100000 persons on every
business day in London, enter the city by
the various approaches, and leave 1t the same
day.
gV- The Sanitary fairs recently held at
Chicago, Boston, Cincinnati, Albany, Brook
| Ign, Cleveland, and Buffalo, have realized
| Sl,O02000.
sBrThe Committee of the Metropolitan
Fair, to open in New York on the 2Sth inst,
request the ladies to attend without hoops.
Let few of the upper tendon set the exam
pie and nothing more need be said.
sv-The Augusta Banner speaks very high
ly of the concert recently given in that city
by Mr.. Shaw, Miss Cammett and others of
this city. The Banner says 1t was the best in
that place for many months.
sV-The idea of driving away the black man
in order to abolish slavery, is rapidly becom-
ing unpopular. All or nearly all are now
ready to admit that the free and paid labor
of colored Americans is indispensable to the
prosperity of the country.
sV-In the list of paroled prisoners received
at Annapolis, from Richmond prisons, we find
the names of II. T. Henley, LIST Maine Caval-
ry, H. Carpenter, 9th Maine Infantry. p.
Sullivan, 18th Maine Infantry, was taken from
the flag of truce boat, sick.
aI-The Lewiston journal says new
wooden mill is TO be erected this season at
Little River Village, by Oliver Moses of Bath,
and Z. Plummer and &. G. Tebbetts of Lisbon
The mill is to be built OF brick, for which a
contract has already been made.
TEA German girl, who was busily engag-
] ed in counting some money she had stolen,
/ while crossing the Penobscot at Veazie, fell
| into hole in the ice, and was rescued with
much difficulty. She was snatched from the
jaws of death and taken to the Jail.
sB Labor is so scarce in Missouri that
good farms are offered, in eligible locations,
at five dollars, ten dollars, and fifteen dollars
an acre, their owners being glad to dispose OF
property which they cannot make available
at almost any price.
g-The Delaware and Hudson Canal Co.,
has issued its schedule of contract rates for
coal as follows: -Furnace lump, 81; Steamer
lump, 81; crate, $40; egg, 1925; stove $50;
chestnut, $3.50. Spectators will be obliged
to conform to these prices.
To- A New Orleans letter writer says
| Gen. Banks took the field on the 9th inst,
leaving for Franklin to direct the operations.
The force is composed of 1900 cavalry, with
"a light guns, in four brigades, under Gen.
Lee, and will sweep across the country and
thence into Texas.
WI ploughs, sows, / reaps, / mows,
gets up wood for winter; digs, / hoes, and
taters grows, and for what knows, am in
debted to the printer. l do suppose all
knowledge flows right from the printing press,
so off goes in these'ere clothes and settles
up, guess-and pays next year in advance.
~We have very polite "devil" in our
Office. Yesterday he called at the sanctum
for "copy," saying he wanted it for the Iady
that had been setting reprint. "Lady." said
we in profound admiration of his politeness,
"then You are one Of the gentiemenln "Of
course l am" was his prompt reply.
V- Upwards of one thousand free color
ed men of Louisiana have addressed petition
to the President, setting forth their readiness
to sacrifice their lives for the preservation of
the Government, asking in return simply the
acknowledgement of" those inalienable rights
which belong TO the condition of citizens of
the great American Republic"
GA Citizen" complains OF the undemon-
stratiye character of the Portland people. and
suggests that, though not lacking in enthusiasm
or in interest they don't know how to cheer
well. He calls 1t zone of the crying sins" of
the city. We should rather denominate it a
silent SIM if it be sin at all. "a Citizen"
should have given his name. and then his
communication would have appeared.
sB-The celebrated Dean Swift, in preaching
an assize sermon, wasIsevere upon lawyers for
pleading against their conscience. After din
ner, young counsellor said some severe
things against the clergy, and added that he
did not doubt, were the devil TO die, a parson
might be found to preach funeral sermon
Eyes," said Swift, 81 would and give the
devil his due, as / did his children this morn
Ing"
GfThe local reporters of Buffalo were in
their element on Tuesday last, their columns
containing reeordd of shooting ARRAY an in
fanticide; riot snd terrible assault ncendia-
rism, by soldier; case of burglary and
ROBBERY; funeral of health Inspector; a case
of poisoning; violent assault on a policeman
and rescue ola prisoner; death from the
effect of wrestling; soldier killed by street
cars railroad convention; a great rise in
rents; and another draft"
Y-The Louisville Journal demonstrates
against the injustice of enrolling slaves in
Kentucky, while it appeals to the government
to defend the State from the menaced rebel