The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-01-21
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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q An abolition society has been organized at
Madrid, in Spain, and in Cuba several news
papers advocate emancipation.
80 The Brunswick Telegraph condemns the
movement to disturb the railroad gauge between
this city and Boston & N ~
| % Inc Ellsworth american says only the
usual number of teams have gone into the log
| ging swamps on that river, the present winter.
ETA new bridge has been built over the Mis-
sissppi at Clinton, Iowa. 1t is $3.50 feet long.
The draw leaves passage ways. each 12s feet
wide, for steamboats, ooB 1gH9OT
B ABOUT 5000 troops are now at Galloupe's
Island, oston Harbor, awaiting transportation
to the front. The number is constantly increas-
ing.
- The Richmond Examiner of the Nth,
comedies that Wilmington will be taken, and
urges the Immediate burning of the large amount
of cotton conferred there 4atTa+.
% A gallant was lately sitting beside his he
loved, and being unable to think of ANYTHING to
| cay asked her Why she was like a tailor Z 81
don Know, said she, with pouting lin. Gun
less itsbecause I'm sitting beside goose
20 According to the Newburyport Herald,
the whole number of births in that CITY last
year was 346,-an increase of IS over the pre-
vious year. The number of deaths was 221, a
decrease of rs.
R The closing up of Wilmington harbor re-
leases 9 considerable number of vessels from ao-
tive service, and the Wabash and Colorado have
already been ordered home, and will be laid nm.
temporarily atleast. a.2'
20 The free list under the so-called Aeciproci-
ty treaty embraces every article that Canada
has 10 sell, but not single article which she has
to buy, except corn which is made into whis-
key, and leaf tobacco
% A young man ct Niagara having been
crossed in love. walked on the precipice and de-
nDerately took off his clothes, gave one lingering
look at the gulf beneath m, and then-went
home His body was found the next morning
in bed. FFAz
% Distinguished Kentuckians are very anx-
ious for the passage of the Constitutional amend
ment abolishing slavery, and say that in that
event Kentucky will Immediately abolish slavery
and take her place in the line as a free State and
support the emancipation policy. aAi y
HThe american says Ellsworth presents as
good opportunities and advantages for ship
building, as most any place down East, and yet
there isprob-bly less business Of this kind done
there, than in other places of its size on the sea
| board. s0 s.duy oa Bs.F 4,.s ,e =.
- The Ken. 8 Port. Railroad is doing a good
deal to put its rolling stock in better condition,
and to meet the demands of thepublic The car
shop OF the company at Augusta will soon turn
out new passenger cars; a new and much needed
branch Of business in this state.. iaetl "a
| a51pTha- u Al.
silver coin in Augusta is two dollars in currency,
AID the tendency seems to be downward. We
have an impression that in this latitude silver
coin is q thing Of the past, few specimens only
being preserved as one saves up the relics of
antiquity and mementoes of by-gone age
II RThe Concord Register and the Courier
are on amiable terms. "Can the Register give
US any information as to the price Of. brim-
stone r. inquiries the Courier. ssIt don't cost
anything where you are going,'' is the sugges-
tive reply. - So ea 5 q "a So sa.
B-A case has just been decided in the Hart
ford court relative to the owners of a grind
stone. The expenses of the litigation are be-
tween three and four hundred dollars A good
many legal tools were sharpened on that grind
| SSOA~s
for turning so steadily and patiently.
EIt is now said that the death of Mr.. and
Mrs. Derfrees, in Andover, Mass, a few days
since, was occasioned by the escape of coal gas
from stove in their sleeping room, the damper
in the funnel having been closed too tightly,
and not from ether as it was stated in the news
papers f w
80 The special dispatch to the Boston .adver-
tiser says Gen. Butler had long interview with
the President on Wednesday, who received him
very pleasantly. A strong delegation will see
the President within week, and ask that he
may be assigned to some command commensu-
rate with his executive and administrative abil-
ity. hes.sg
Opera" suggests that the Boston Rail-
road corporations would do well to issue excur-
sion tickets for q few days. at one fare for the
round trip, for such as wish to visit the Grand
Opera in Boston. If we should publish his
communication we should have nalf-dozen
snarling ours swapping at our heels, for speaking
unexpectedly of Portland taste and enterprise
in the operate and dramatic line.
VOur respect for the political bias of the
Brunswick Telegraph has been expressed fully
heretofore, but as local paper it is decidedly
oneof the best that comes to our Office. and of
late its columns have been unexceptionable in
other respects We give friend Tenney the ben
eft of this notice because we think it deserved,
and because, as he now heads, we wish him album
I dant success ylslsif.,rsisi ,siyirls ~
80 We have suspicion that the European
and North American Railway corporation is
being manipulated by q precious set of spec
ulstors, who, having purchased for song the
franchise of the Penobscot River Railroad
now graded from Bangor to Oldto wn--have no
higher object than to make their speculation
pay. Wesbould be glad to be proved in error,
but the whole thing looks remarkably suspi-
| cious. -
The Erie Dispatch says that probably the
Oldest inhabitant in Pennsylvania was discovered
in stone in that town last Thursday 1t is a
living frog about an inch long, which was taken
from piece of bitumnous coal that one of the
employees of the store had broken for the pur-
pose of burning. His timely escape from tor
turing death was almost providential, and it is
cause of satisfaction that he escaped fate so
ignominious after having lived SO long and
| quietly. sr sv tsse--tlEa "a
50 Says the Toronto Globe, referring to the
passport difficulty, 1--WE can live without inter
course with the people of the United States, and
1T they choose to be fractions we win accept
with resignation all the responsibilities of the
position. But we must first clear away these
st. Adams raiders and Lake Erie pirates,
either by surreudering them, or giving good
reason why we cannot do it, and give Broth
er Jonathan fair chance to recover his tenn
per- esaf
H"S b." Saccarappa, complains of shoot
ing deserters in the Army. We don't see how a
war can be carried on without danger of some
body getting hurt Gen. NJ Clellan didn't sue
coed very we'll in sucl, a N attamnt Wor oax ~