The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-01-11
g0RIGINAL AND SELECTED.

EB new sporting paper called line Arena,
is to be started in New York
- Henry Ward Beecher's salary has recently
been raised to $l2, 500.
| 50 The pork crop of the West, this year, is
| estimated at $40, 900 900.
SY-It is rumored that Gen. Burnside has ten
dered bis resignation. ~rs.la
| The bookseller will tell you that the public
are welcome to end with condemning if they will
only begin with buying. "a III 3 Sg7s ~
+ 80 The Bible says that the race is not always
to the swift, and our young men should remem-
Der that the race of life is seldom to the 'tast.
~ We should not be surprised if we find it
difficult to obtain wine. Even the wine-maker
himself gets it only by a tight squeeze.
! 80 James Parton is the author of the article
in the last number ofsthe North American Re-
view, on Girard College and its Founder.
Thirty members of the class of 1929 at
Harvard College, were present at the annual
dinner at the Revere House, Thursday
~ The American Academy of Sciences is
holding its annual meeting in Washington. Prof.
Agassiz is present. sA AeA s@
RA new planet, of the eleventh magnitude,
has been discovered 1t has been named Alc-
meria, fsr
/ ~ The Springfield Republican says Gov.
| Andrews last message is one of the best of his
official Documents aseEsb Sa86
RGoy. Cannon's message to the Delaware
Legislature occupies two and a half ordinary
| newspaper columns. f 2Esl 9A
: - Gov Yates, the newly elected Senator
from Illinois, like President Lincoln, is native
of Kentucky. aOss,r+g5 ..beg# HAD
| ~ The people in some portions of New
Hampshire are becoming extensively engaged
| in the manufacture of tar and turpentine.
q The divorce laws in Indiana have been
changed. The rule now is years residence or
no separation.
h V-A fire occurred in Wilmington, Dell, re-
Gently, by which colored woman 80 years of
age, was burned to death. I E'Fr Hs
% tits now stated on the authority of the
Richmond papers that the .great multitude in
that city are starving -rse ss.xss-- Il
B-ANew Bedford whaler has taken in seven
teen months an oil and bone cargo worth $780,
| 900.
B-A $4,000 dwelling house on Chestnut
street mas been presented by Philadelphians to
Mrs Gen. Grant.
~ While the flower of the South leaves
Savannah with Hardee, the -four of the North
hastens to enter it.-[Post
e. The President has promised that Admiral
Wilkes shall be restored to service on the fourth
of March. 81
into the legislature of Kentucky for the imme-
diate abolition of slavery wa a&af 19~
eff an old lady is very feeble and very rich,
her dutiful relatives are not apt to forget that
4 great age and infrmity entitle one to every pos
sible attention.
BA man was found in the woods at Woburn,
Mass, on Tuesday last, frozen stiff. He was
thinly clad, and appeared to be about IS years
old. AAfefs>ss A@aAt 4s-' i
BItisnow considered quite certain that the
Constitutional amendment aboiishing slavery
will not obtain the requisite two-thirds vote in
the House tomorrow.
l. EB-Au extra session of Congress seems ineyi-
table, and legislation has been already proposed
to remove the requirement of sixty days notice
before converting an extra session.
gR The Lewiston Journal suggests that
Druid" alias "Dion," the arrested disloyal
newspaper correspondent, will get rardy justice
even if his neck should be stretched.
20 The Philadelphia Inquirer has long claim
ed circulation of 60,000 The Press of that
city has pressed it to the wall, and demonstrated
that it has not 20 900.
BFT The message of Gov. Brough says that
the debt of Ohio is Sl3, SOC, 0OO The receipts
last year were S. $40 900, and the disbursements
S6,679 900; balance in the treasury $4,000 900.
/ 20 The city of Philadelphia proposes to let
out the job of extinguishing the fires in that city
by contract, and to appropriate sum not ex-
ceeding $4,000 per annum.
+ % It's said that Gen. Forrest the celebrated
confederate cavalry officer, has had thirty horses
killed under him since the commencement of the
war. ~ az Tsa @8M& ff&P
81 The Friends are leaving North Carolina
very rapidly. Anassociation is formed in Bal
timore to advise and assist them in their removal
1 hither. a ~
Gov. Andrew declines two things, both
unusual. He declines a reelection, and also de-
clines to have his name used against Mr. Wilson
for the .. s. Senate.
j - Charles H. Robinson of Bath, has re-
ceived patent for improvement in Hay Presses,
and John c. Plummer of this city. has also re-
ceived one for improved Lasts. &c -
BThe election of United States Senators is
| to be made to-day in the Legislature. Mr.. Far
well will be elected to fill out the balance of the
present term, and Mr.. Fessendenlwill be elected
for the six years commencing March 4th.
% Governor Magrath Of South Carolina has
issued Q proclamation, calling upon all free
white men between the ages of 16 and so to
come to the defense of Charleston, willingly, If
they viii, forcibly, if necessary. .rss.- &.
/ R-Hon. W. A. P. Dillingham;, Speaker Of the
House of Representatives, is clergyman, q
graduate of Harvard Divinity school, and the
present pastor of the Universalist Society in
| Waterville.a aol sa saEi lea e9lfA aoaI
! B-The National Bank recently organized at
Richmond lisa new institution, of which Hon.
I. ]. Southland is President, and Capt. james
Carney is Cashier, The Richmond Bank State
! institution--has voted to surrender its charter.
HA dispatch to the Boston Herald says of
Francis P. Blair's, senior, mission to Richmond,
that it is understood to have no official endorse
ment beyond the mere granting of passes to
the rebel lines where similar ones for his safe
escort to Richmond are said to await him.
BrThe Lewiston Journal says the library of
Bates College is growing rapidly. Mr.. Horace
R. Cheney who has been securing subscriptions
the past few weeks in New York and Boston and
elsewhere, has obtained between 800 and 1000
volumes of standard works.
q The Providence Journal, speaking of
the cruel treatment of child by its mother:
says: The child certainly should have the care
full attention Of some one, or it will be prema-
turely added to the kingdom of heaven, and
thus perhaps permanently separated" i.
- "A large lot of Christmas and New Years
literature, in the shape Of poetry, prsse and
conglomerate, has gone into our waste basket
within few days. The supply was greater than