The Portland daily press., 1865-02-24
ORIGTNAL AVID Sci agCyED@

81 Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas has laid aside
her mourning. and goes to the opera like other
women. o'-''-
% Forrest, the actor, has an income of about
S22,644, and Edwin Booth has an income 90 on
900. VIZ
q James E. Murdoch, the celebrated dra-
matte reader and actor, wilt return to the
stage.
30 The rebellion is shell with Grant OUT
side and Sherman inside of it. Even this shell
cannot long maintain its form.
- Report says the appointment of Minister
to Russia has been rendered vice-P President Ham
LIN, and has been positively declined.
- General military orders direct that here
after ration of fish shall be issued to all troops
once week, in lieu of fresh beef
~ What is the difference between President
Lincoln,s sayings and the Affections of the Pa
!riarch one Is Old Abe's jokes, and the other
is Old Jobs aches.
H"Would you think it ?" said A to B, s.Mr.
koscius has taken week to study Prologue
which wrote in day. Ellis memory is EVIL
IDENTIFY not so good as yours" replied B.
.E Sterne used to say, sThe most accom-
phshed way of using books is to serve them as
some people do lords, learn their titles and then
Drag of their acquaintance"
~ The first flag over Sumter was raised by
captain Henry NJ Bragg, A. D. c. ON Gen.
Gilmores staff, having for flagstaff an oar
/ and boat-hook dashed together.
81 The lot for the new Universalist Church
in Lewiston-a very eligible one fronting the
City Park-was presented to the society by N.
W. Farwell, Esq
80 The bells were rung and salute fired in
Bath, on the 22d, in honor of the day, and by
way of demonstration over the recent bloodless
victories in the South.
| 81 Capt. Stanton Shales, probably the last
survivor of the battle of Lake Erie, in 1873 died
in Columbus, Ohio, last week. He was an Off
Ger under Commodore Perry.
R Of twenty officers dismissed from the ar
my few days since, only one was from New
England, and he captain in n H. regi-
ment.
u Mr.. Solomon Nash of Jay, has Just sold
one pair of oxen to Mr.. Pompilly of Auburn,
for $500-weighing 1850 lbs, girt feet inch,
and said to be the fattest oxen ever bought in
this county.-[ Journal.
H"You had better ask for manners than
money" said inely-dresscd gentleman to a
beggar who asked for aims. ri asked for what
thought you had most off, was the cutting
reply.
H"Oh, dear, Mr.. s., you jest when you say
| my baby is the handsOmest you ever saw; you
must be soft-soaping. Jewell, madam" returned
the blunt old gentleman, 81 thinkit needs soap
of some kind.'
81 The letter from Col Gilmore, from which
we made an extract yesterday, was received from
that gallant officer by Horatio G. Quincy, Esq,
andnot by Mr.. Henry Quincy as stated in our
columns
90 The Richmond Enquirer of recent date
said that the value of the rebel paper dollar was
just two cents in specie, Its value will very soon
be represented by very vulgar fraction of
cent.
- marine stationed on board the Mime
sofa, at the Kittery Navy Yard, was seriously
if not fatally injured on Saturday evening last,
by falling through the main hatch and fractur-
ing his skull.
% The next Fourth of July will find the Un-
ion flag floating in every rebel seat of govern
ment,-Texas, perhaps, excepted land Yankee
Doodle will be played in their Capitols. Mark
| that.
- The friends of the Rev. A. Bryant pas
tor of the Baptist Church, Livermore alls,
made him a visit last w ednesday evening, leav-
| ing with him about $120 as token of the ap-
probation of his labors in that place. Jour
nah
R-Some of the papers complain because the
iohite ministers in Savannah, do not pray for
the President. We are glad they do not pray
for Mr.. Lincoln, because we should mistrust the
| motive, and do not think their intercessions
would be heard.-[Bat Times.
~ On Friday night last, an insane son of
William Rice, a farmerin Concord. Mass, shock
ingly beat and bruised his father until life was
extinct. The son has twice been in the insane
hospital and is twenty-six years of age. The
father was some sixty years of age.
% The Boston papers for two days have
been literally filed with the Trade Sale; long,
solid, mortal columns full of the merest details
of an auction sale, and the heading set off in
the sensation style of a New York penny pa
per.
u The fall of Charleston it an advantage to
the rebels. They do not have to use a large
force for its protection. So when Lees army
surrenders or capitulates, they will argue that
at will prove advantageous to the Confederate
cause, as they will save the expense of feeding
them.
"A new petroleum company in boring for
''le," struck vein of pure old Bourbon, worth
$500 gallon. A molasses well is in full opera
ton on the same claim. A few shares left for
sale. Inquire of Turnkey. Holden & Paste
board, office of the Skylark and Porcupine,
Gull Alley.
e The detective police in Savannah have ar
rested man by the name of Wright, notori-
GUS desperate and rebel, charged with the crime
of setting fire to the building that started the
great fire few weeks since, and resulted in the
loss of life and an immense deal of property
The proof is strong against him.
81 At the late FIRE at Hilton Head, Gen. Gil
more threw off his coat and worked with a will
to stop the conhagration. He saw fellow
standing by and ordered him to go to work, but
the fellow, not recognizing him in his shirt
sleeves, refused to obey, when suddenly he found
himself knocked heels over head on the sand
He was glad to go to work.
81 Peter Sinclair, the t'Scetch reformer."
who visited this State few years since ON a
Temperance mission, and who is well remember
ed of the most effective lecturers, especial
ly to children, that ever stood upon a platform.
is now in the West, lecturing on the subject Of
emigration. He lectured in the Capitol, at
Jefferson City, Missouri, on Saturday evening,
Feb. 18th.
80 While the nation was rejoicing over the
fall of Charleston and the restoration Of the old
flag on the ramparts of Sumter, our neighbor of
the Argus contrived to sweeten the unpleasant
draught by exulting over the redemption by his
party, of the little obscure town of Amsterdam
on Lake Champlain Amsterdam Nor +be
only dam our copperhead friends are doomed to
share as the reward of their doubtful patriot
ism.
8 One D, e. Cook, a trial justice in Aroos-
took, has sued Mr.. Stickney, editor of the Sun
rise, and claims $4,000 for damages to his char
nata da,,a h. -