The Portland daily press., 1865-03-14

/ !, - Many OF the rebel forces get SO little salt
That they have the great advantage of being al
ways fresh troops. Louisville Journal
~ One thousand four hundred and thirty
seven children were restored to their parents by
the Brooklyn police last year.
aB- Mr.. O'Reilly recently stated in Parliament
that out Of 10000 men recruited for the British
army during the Russian war, there were 20 900
desertels les ilrlr ~
- The Louisville Journal saws SO MANY
dirty guerrilas have passed over the soil of
Kentucky thasthe Federal troops ought to scour
/ the State.
10 Who wants to increase the value of his
ialm when he gets ready to throw it into the
narhet just set out young orchard Few
men will now look at farm which is destitute
OF an orchard Pennington Chronicle.
10 The old South Sea islanders thought that
the Vaior OF the enemies they conquered PASSED
INTO their own bodies. If the vaIor of South
OaroIna were to pass into Gen. Sherman we do
not think that The world would discover the
difference -lLouisville Journal
80 The Real Estate Journal says: "We firmly
believe that the supply of oil alone, before the
expiration of Mr. Lincolns new term, will
make up all that was lost in cotton, when he first
took his seat f5a shfes
G3. At an evening party an elderly lady was
oanclng win young partner. A stranger ap-
preached Jerrold who was looking on and said
FRAY, sir, can You tell me who is the young
gentleman dancing with that very elderly ladyfo
one OF the Humane Society, l should think, -
replied Jerrold.
Il wish, revered father,' said Curran
TO- rather oLeary, that you were St. Peter, and
had the keys of heaven, because then you could
let me in" ''By my honor and conscience
replied OLeary, sit would be better for you that
had the keys of the other place, for then could
let you let" 4
- For more than a third of century we
have not had new Presidential term commenced
with SO small a set of the offce-seeking tide
towards Washington. The Inauguration has
scarcely made ripple upon the surface of the
political waters.
80 One man, of nervous temperament, drinks
glass of champagne and his face becomes
flushed, his tongue thick, and then some old
inert hard-head, with quart of brandy in his
stomach, holds up his hands in holy horror, and
talks about the evils of intemperance
20 The household furniture of an English
barrister, then recently deceased, was being sold
in country town, when one neighbor remarked
to another that the stock of goods and chattels
appeared to be extremely scanty, considering
the rank of the lawyer, their late owner. cit
is So" was the reply, s'but the fact is, he had
very few causes, and therefore could not have
many effects.
So The st. Paul Press says it is wonderful
how clear question becomes when it has once
been settled Ten years hence the wonder will
be, not how to dispose of the negro in our polit-
ical system, but that there should have been the
least trouble in disposing of him. The whole
difficulty, indeed, is and always has been, not in
the way but in the will. Hed
% 1t is amusing to hear some of our young,
aspiring genuses talk, in their fippant way,
about negro equality. They seem to think it
would degrade them, when everybody knows
that, to lift them to an equality with Robert
Small and Frederick Douglass would require a
greater miracle than it did to give life to Ezekies
valley of dry bones. ',tsE
| % Referring to the fishing bounties, the New
Bedford Mercury says, ''The original reason
for the bestowment of bountes long since ceased
and the reason subsequently assigned for their
continuance applies with far more force to the
whale, than the codishery. At the next session
of Congress, the whole system will be abolished
/
q Elihu Burritt ascribes much of the power
ty of English laborers to the inordnate quantity
of beer they drink. He proves by figures that
three years beer money of an English farm
labourer would pay for five acres of rich prairie
land on the Illinois Central Railroad, his fare
by sea and land to them, and leave thres
pounds in his pocket to begin their cult iyatior
with. ~
There are in Wilmington large number
of churches, considering the populaton--abou
ID 900 in the most prosperous period Of its his
tory for the last five years. There are thre'
Episcopalian, two Presbyterian, three Baptis
Zone Afrcan), two Methodist, one Lutheran
and one Roman Catholic-twelve. 1t has been {
place of great liberality, 50 far sustaining re
lgious, missionary and benevolent operations
| is concerned.
CT The sewing women of Cincinnati have ad
dressed memorial to President Lincoln, il
which they say:-'.We are unable to sustain lift
for the price offered by contractors, who fatter
on their contracts by grinding immense profits
\, out of the labor OF their operatives. AS an ex
ample, the contractors are paid one dollar ant
seventy-fve cents per dozen for making grs.
woolen shirts, and they require us to max
them for one dollar per dozen. This is sampl
of the justice melted out to us, the willing labor
ers, without whom the armies could not b
promptly clolhed and equipped"
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