The Portland daily press., 1865-06-24
oRTGLvAL AND sELECTED.

gr'The Maiden's Dream" has some pretty
lines, but is defsetivein measure andrhythm..
4-The people OF South Paris are making
arrangements for celebration on the a4,h."
BOn Monday at Montreal the thermometer
was nearly 100 in the shade, without a breeze
stirring. ~ - ~ = " = ~ gl5z
-. - John c. Breckinridgeis described BY one
who has seen him at Havana as stall, thin. and
greatly sunburnt'' n
W-Mr Henry Leslie crossed the Niagara ON
tight ropelast week, for the first time, in about
seven minutes. bs
RThe police force of New York, have douned
new summer uniform Of blue flannel, which
costs only $50 per man. q aas ~
BSMr. Charles o. Conof is spoken Of as
prominenta among those who are seeking to OBJ
tain the release Of John Mitchell Il es--e
RA petition is circulating in some counties
OF Minnesota praying the Legislature OF that
State TO give the suffrage 70 women. or
ga correspondent sends us a commun;ca-
ton covering ten foolscap pages, to show that q
newspaper should exclude long articles We
! commence with his. S Is 4 ss5 9n
G"The Last Ditch Found' contains some
good hits, but we have not been able to find a
place for it, and the occasion for it seems now
past ssa ,s.,.g.s,..ss s, s'..7.'....s.s..s..-.--
BA fond mother in Ohio died with sudden
JOY the other day at the return from the army
of her only boy whom she had not seen for three
years. asaRaags = e.of li~ h4 og-5ai
gT correspondents would bear in mind that
we take no notice of anonymous communicas
tons they would either give US their real names
or save their postage stamps
BFhe Peucinian Society of Bowdoin Col
lege will celebrate its SCH Anniversary on Mon
day evening. Grafton by Joseph E. Moore !;
Poem by John B. Cotton. "
81 A man in Derbyshire, Eng. attempting to
initiate the Davenport Brothers lately tied a
knot from which he was unable to extricate him
self and died of strangulation. ha 8
% Who can inform us where to ge. milk for
eight cents quart We will willingly pay that
price, and consider il cheap; but mind, it must
be milk--not diluted chalk aud pump water.
~ The President has pardoned the witness
Hyems, who was sent from Canada to Washing
ton and elsewhere by Blackburn, to introduce
yellow fever, on condition of his giving his tes-
timony in the conspiracy trial.
~ Among all the vast number of applica
tionsfor pardon filed at the White House, there
is nota single instance where the applicant does
not assert that he opposed the Inauguration Of
the rebellion
81 Noticing the report that in one ravine in
the White Mountains the snow is from Eve TO
seven hundred feet deep, the Oxford Democrat
suggests that the former figure {fye) may be
may be near the truth.
B "A postscript to letter from Southern
Union man, long refugee, says: "Old JEFF.
and his glorious southern confsderacy' have
gone to- the devil in. his wife's petticoat
| Umph - laa ss.7bea IS ~ iia5 sae
The Mobile Daily .Nsws comes to us in
large quarto form-as large as the New York
quartos, Our former townsman, Mr.. Halle
seems proud of his enlarged sheet, and doats
upon its appearance like a young mother upon
her new baby. Well, we don't blame him.
The statement that the President refused
to. allow the colored people at Washington to
celebrate the Fourth Of July in the Public
Grounds, is contradioted. 1t appears that he
personally granted permission for such gath.
ering. a1 81 a 81 IS aseas5 III.
- Yesterday we saw one Of our "brave boys
in blue"--one of the returned and paid off SOL
diers, who had laid aside his gear and purchased
scythe with which he was about returning to
his rural home. This was pleasant sig hit,
showing how readily our ''bravess adapt them
the spirit of their dreams, and how true it +
that swords shall be beaten into ploughshares
and spears into pruning-hooks.