The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-02-16
ORIGINAL AND sELECTED.


gy-Solomon Poole, Calais, caught snug
Cling, was fined $500 and goods confscated.
gD-Frederic Douglass lectured at Central
Hall Lewiston on Friday evening. The hall
was fnll by seven o'clock.
GET. NJ. Roy, Esq. of this city, recently
delivered a lecture before the Bridgton Lyce-
UNI, OF which the Sentinel speaks highly.
nrIn the list of deaths at Beaufort, we
see the name of Melvander Pacard, 9th Maine
Regiment.
sY-Hon. Henry Y. Cranston, one of the
most distinguished men Of Rhode Island, died
at his residence in Newport, on Friday last.
srThe Richmond Examiner says 'Old
Abe's' reelection would be very unfayorable
to the prospect Of the South.
sy-Mr. Home, the noted Spiritualist, who
had taken up his residence in Rome, has been
ordered to leave the Holy City within three
days.
John Bright, in his speech in Briming-
/, ham, on the land question, eloquently pointed
to the unparalleled advantages which the
United States offered to all emigrants.
g-Among the patents issued for the week
ending Feb. 9th, is one to Enoch Whttemore,
North Paris, for Improvement in folding saw
| horses.
lE-There is a place in New Hampshire
| where they never have any old maids. When
girl reaches the age Of twenty, and is still
unmarried, the young fellows club together
and draw lots for her. Those who lose the
chance pay bonus to the one who gets her.
len. P. Banks was once refused posi-
ton at the disposal of the late Governor Nor
ton, on the ground that he was too smart
man and too good mechanic to occupy the
place.
! gg-The annual State election in New
| Hampshire is on the Sth of March. Its i'm
portance is we'll understood by the Union
men of that State, and no effort will be spar
ed to secure a large Union majority.
sB-We learn from a gentleman in Wind
ham, that Mr.. Jackson, alias JEFF Davis
coachman, has given four lectures in that
place with entire satisfaction. He viii lee
ture at Gorham, this Thursday evening, and
at Grey, Wednesday evening.
sV- The Advertiser has removed from the
rear of the International Hotel, to the fifth
story in Fox Block, directly over our printing
room. 1t has not only got the upper side Of
the Press, but has got higher in the world than
any other daily in Maine.
sV-The Portsmouth Chronicle learns from
Col. Goodrich of Boston, that Col. Taylor, the
eloquent Tennessean, will by invitation al
dress the Legislatures of Maine New York
and Rhode Island. Why not give him au in
vitation to visit Portland?
sE-Gen. Butler has commenced the estab-
| lshment of the free school system in Norfolk,
| Va. This New England institution, when
once in operation in the South, will be per-
feet guarantee against the introduction of
slavery.
ga fishing schooner arrived at Glouces-
| ter on Monday, from Georges Banks, bringing
$1,000 pounds Goldfish, which sold at $2,65 per
| cwt it. bulk. 1t is the highest price ever
paid, netting nearly $1,000 for the trip. She
| left thirty vessels at anchor, fishing on the
| banks.
mY- The Bath Times contains very able
article against the revival of capital punish
ment in this State. 1t contends that while
capital punishment has been enforced with
more rigor in Massachusetts, than in any other
New England State, no State has had so many
frightful murders according TO the population.
aT-A soldier in the army of the Potomac
says he can remember when the army of
Abraham Lincoln was a bye-word in that
army, and his proclamation scof: now the,
feeling is almost unanimously in favor of his
reelection, and they are in for emancipation
confscation, or determination If necessary.
LEA soldier inquiries what has become Of
the proposition TO receive soldiers wages.
Those who are now in the field receive but,
thirteen dollars a month, unless they have the
good fortune TO carry sword instead of
gun, and that amount will perchace only as
much as eight dollars would when they enlist
ed
nEThc largest man in the United King
dom, is a bar keeper in public house in Liy-
erpool. He is seven feet four inches in hight
weighs 233 pounds, and his strength is in
proportion to his size. What waste Of
power; such man hasn't the common excuse
that he is not capable of making living at
some other employment
E The Toronto Globe says frightful ac-
cident occurred on the Grand Trunk Railroad,
on the bridge over Credit River, on the 9th
inst. On account Of the breaking of an axle
the two rear cars of freight train were
thrown from bridge, distance of 125 feet,
to the water. The conductor and two brake
men were instantly killed and the cars smash
ed to atoms
lFThe new enrolment act provides that
ascertaining and filling the quota of each pre-
clint, there shall be taxed into account the
number Of men who have heretofore enlisted
in the naval service of the United States.
This State has sent large number of men in
to the naval service-about one thousand Of
whom are from this city. If this number, of
men are to be passed to the credit of Maine
her quota will be full, and some over.
gvThe Belfast Journal says that gentle
man of that city was feeding his pigs the 9th
er day, when his pocket-book, containing sew
eral hundred dollars in government bills, fell
from his breast pocket into the sty. He did
not notice the loss at the time, but was soon
made aware of it. Repaing with all conve-
nient speed to the stye ,he found that the swine
had rooted open his treasures, and carpeted
their quarters with them, as well as circnm-