The Portland daily press., 1865-03-15

Messrs. A. C. Dennison & Co., at Me-
chanic Falls, are paying about $40 ton for
straw to manufacture into paper, and ind 1t
impossible to procure an adequate supply. Last
year was bad season for straw on account OF
the drought and rust. Rye straw is the best Tor
| their use and wheat straw comes next.
RThe Farmer says the monthly pay roll on
the P. s. K. R. r. is $ls 900. The bridge over
the Kennebec at Augusta is to be repaired, as
well as several other bridges. The new depot
will be erected at Augusta before another winter.
In addition to the above improvements, the new
track leading from Westbrook into Portland is
to be built fEs felt4
~ The town Of Natick, Mass, say the
| papers, has voted to enforce the liquor law.
Pray what right has any town within the juris-
diction of that law, to neglect to enforce it
What better than notification is thenon-enforce-
rnent of any law upon the statute booksf En-
force ali laws, aud if any will not bear enforce
ment without creatingmore evil than they pre-
vent, the sooner they are repealed the better
g5g-T The Blocker Street Universalist Church in
New York city, one of the most conservative
and fossized, silver grey societies, supposed, in
the state, has recently invited Rev. Willard
Spaulding of Salem, Mass, to become its pastor.
Mr.. spaulding is one of the most thoroughly
out-spoken and progressive men in the denomi-
nation, and his invitation is regarded as an evil
denceof growth in Gotham. 8A
a%We assure the Concord Monitor that we
do read it always carefully, and frequently it is
the first of our exchanges that we open. We
FEEL an interest in all that concerns our native
| State; and we assure our friend that error in
its Judgment or departure from the safe and
sure wsy in its teachings, is to our mind as much
out of place as wlrt on apretty girls nose, or
vile oath on herlips. We don't like to see so
good paper leading in the wrong direction.l
~ Late last Fall JEFF. Davis told the people
Of Macon that the great want Of the Confedera-
cy was men. He said that early in the struggle
the difficulty was to provide arms, but the evil
had been overcome, guns were abundant, men
only were scarce. To-day the Richmond papers
are advertising for old muskets for the army
Did jeff fb to the people of Macon, or has the
plugging up Of Wilmington created famine OF
arms in the oonfederacy2
The Lowell Courier takes exceptions to
the morbid taste which prompted the sending to
Boston of the slave auction block at Charleston,
and the ''grand pow WOW over it" and considers
them anything but sensible and credtable to an
educated people. The Courier thinks they can
accomplish no good whatever, and are on a par
with the efforts to 'sire the southern heart by
the leaders of the rebellion. The editor regards
these things as evidence of ''real downright
fanaticism," with which he has no patience
~ L.. T1l, roo
as the .Argus asserts, intoxicated on the day of
his Inauguration, will that paper tell us which
has reflected the most disgrace upon the office
and the country, the intoxicated Andrew john
son or the traitor and drunkard, John c. Brock
inridge? The difference in the two men, viewed
from a Temperance stand point only, is this I:
with johnson excess is an exception to the gen.
eral course of his life; with Breckenridge it was
the rule of life. 3 But then the Democrats are
great. sticklers for sobriety, generally, and the
Argus is their oracle. vaI
4 ~ If .sF. H. who has written us from
Read6eld, is not a young lady, the note sent and
intended for the Press, is gross attempt at de-
ception; if these are the initials OF young
lady Of good standing in society and good edu-
J cation, - then she had better take our advice
and not invite correspondence from q stranger
z 'syoung gentleman for though she may start
with only the idea of ''fun and perhaps matrl-
mony," her correspondent will be very likely to
have anything but an honorable motive In con-
Quoting such correspondence as she proposes
| II she will maintain her ''good standing" she
had better stand upon that modesty which ever
becomes her sex. II she is honest she is evil
F IDENTIFY but poorly versed in the ways of wicked
world.