The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-08

of the emancipation acts of Missouri and len
nessee.
eve notice that our Bangor contempGa-
ries invariably speak of the "broad" and narrow
guagc Their photography as well as theirSAli-
cy seems to have got out of fix
B-A Vermont paper says the rumor thai the
high price of eggs is owing to the fact that we
hens have to ssstamp them is without any2 =
dation.
R-It has been decided that hereafter libel
guerrillas who may be captured shall not BECK
changed, but be held as prisoners until the I nd
of the war.
BThe Congregational Church located al she
Head of the River, near New Bedford, was -
tirely destroyed by fire on Monday afterA m
No insurance
~ Advices from Tennessee state that a q
siderable number of Tennesseans who desA
from Hoods army have enlisted into Thom rs
army.
90 Twenty-one national banks were oran-
lied last week. The national bank circulation il
now eighty-seyen million three hundred thpas-
and dollars.
RIt has been decided that the 1st Mpne
Cavalry is entitled to bear the names of til. \
actions on its regimental standard, which as
eight more than can be claimed by any othercAv-
airy regiment in the Army of the Potomac.
RThe Oswego Advertiser says that 3he
rebellion, crushed, bleeding, dying, cries aIead
for us to let up and spare its mangled Oorps"
That is very lively corpse which can cry alsud
so DANGEROUSLY.
- Correspondents = especially those ckn-
tributing poetry must be patient We re@et
the necessity which frequently compels us.to
delay the publication of such favors until thy
become untimely.
81 We are receiving lots of expressions in h.
lation to an evening edition, which we shall Int
into form, perhaps, and publish at an early al
for the purpose of showing the outside feeli :
upon this matter.
B-Ihe Bangor City Council has repeal,
its order to pay bounties to recruits &c., bys
stallments, and passed an order to pay in full. a
the mastering of the recruit into the U. s. sef
vice.
% The opinion prevails in Savannah that the
recent great fire in that city was kindled by
members of Wheeler's rebel cavalry, who had
succeeded in eluding our pickets and getting
inside our lines.
- Senator Sherman authorizes a direct de-
NAL of the report that the Senate finance com
mittee had discovered any loss of bonds in the
Office of the Register of the Treasury during
last year, other than that mentioned in Secretary
Fessenden' report.
The Boston Churches are renowned for
their liberality. They propose to pay $50, 900
this year to the American Board alone The
Old South gives $4,000; Essex street $4,000;
Mount Vernon $4,000; the Park street and Shaw
nut about So 900 each
81 The pro-slavery democrats talk about
giving dinner to MIR. Sweat of Maine. the
only congressman from New England who
voted against the anti-slavery amendment to the
constitution. Better postpone it till after re-
construction, and give the southern brethren a
chance to unite in it. Springfield Republic
can. s
E Dixon telegraphs to the Boston .Hdper-
tiser that the opposition elements of the House,
under the leadership of Mr.. Winter Davis and
Mr.. Blaine, made strong and determined effort
to get vote censuring the Navy Department.
but the three days contest closed With their sig
nal defeat, and the department is sustained by a
handsome majority.
81 A company of forty-three women re-
Gently attempted to flee from the bonds of Nor
monism in Utah, but they were overtaken and
carried back to their masters. 1t is said that
the females in Utah are becoming SO determined
to escape from their degrading bondage. that
a crisis in Mormon affairs will necessarily come
soon.
80 A marble slab has been erected in front of
the house in Corn market, Wexford, Ireland,
where the mother of the poet Moore was born.
After stating that Mrs. Moore had been born in
the house, the legend in the slab recites that ON
the Doth of August, 1885, the poet returned TO
it Gin the zenith of his imperishable fame to
render homage to the memory of his mother.
whom he venerated and loved.
RThere are only two newspapers published
in Persia, the Rouz Nameh Elmirjah (scienti6c
journaD published in Teheran, and the Journal
OF the Nation, published at Tauris. Both
papers are Autographed, letter press PRINTING
not being practsed in Persia. The Pers;ans
fancy their style of printing the finest in the
world, and prefer it to the pure Arabic charac-
tiers from which it is derived
e Wonders never will cease. Fernando
Wood betrays signs of returning sanity. In a
speech few days since in the House of Repre-
sentatiTes, he said che was opposed to dissolu-
ton of the Union, and it had been one of his
complainst against the administration, that so
far from making overtures, it had prevented
of peace by denying the admit
lance of commissioners from the Southern eov-
eminent; but if the door had now been thrown
open by the President, and if the answer to
that was that they would accept recognition
and separation, and nothing else, then he de-
sired to say, with his humble efforts he should
aid the conquering armies of his country to
obtain by force what it has been unable to OBJ
tain by peace"
80 Mr.. Robert Athon West died in Wasbino-
ton few days since He came to this country
from England many years ago, and commenced
his life as journalist, upon the Commercial
Advertiser, then under the management of Mr.
VIM. L. Stone, and continued his connection
with that paper until 1858, when he went to
and became editor of the Chronicle
Of that city. This position he relinquished for
place In the War Department, where he was
head of the bureau of military justice In poll
tics, Mr.. West was Wing, during the existence
Of that party, when he united with the party
now IN power, defending with ability and ener-
gy the doctrines which make up its creed. To
the periodicals devoted to the interests of the
Methodist Church, of which he was member.
ne contributed largely, and was justly regarded
rs one of the ablest of the lay members Of that
,hurch.