The Portland daily press., 1865-03-31
ORIGINAL AND sELECrED.

past year amounted to the large sum of $4OO, 900.
Over 81 900 per day.
20 M. Blot, the trenchman who proposed to
open school for cookery in New York, has be-
gun with twenty pupils.
20 The President has appointed Prof Peck
Of Oberlin College. to be Commissioner and
Consul General of Hayti. Salary $500.
HTwo hundred and eighteen rebel deserters
took the oath of allegiance at Washington on
Wednesday last
81 Rev. J. G. Fletcher has sailed for Brazil
with Professor Agassz, in the steamer Colo
RADIO.
% The clam banks are discounting very free
ly this spring, and their issues are embarrassed
by no suspicious of counterfeit
e e. The farmers in the vicinity of Norfolk,
Va, are complaining of late spring and un-
precedented scarcity of farm laborers.
Howell Cobb, with rebel force, now has
his headquarters at what is left of Atlanta,
Georgia.
gin a list of forty seven dismissed and cash.
Tered army officers, published $780, Angton on
Wednesday, not one was from New England
% The receipts from internal revenue for
March, will be about fifteen and half million
dollars. 4sj
1 A libel suit is pending at Washington,
brought by the head of bureau in the Treasury
Department against prominent newspaper in
the interior of Massachusetts,
ETA little girl in a metropolitan city was
heard to exult over the decline in gold, because
corn balls would no longer be two cents
apiece.
a The wheat prospects in Indiana and ILL
nois are said to be better than usual. The amount
OF seed sown was very large, and the fields are
remarkably free from signs of winter killing.
During the last month the losses to In
surance companies in Canada are estimated at
over $500, thirds computed to be from
iucendiarism.
20 The sum of $3l, 794 has already been re-
ceived by the treasurer of the fund for the
erection of statue of the late Hon. Edward
Everett.
% The Secretary of War states in his report
that over two hundred flags captured from the
rebels, have been received, properly labelled and
deposited for safe keeping.
70 Rev. Michael Carleton, Baptist minister.
and most faithful missionary among the
poor in Salem, Mass, died recently in that
place. 4e
VThe Maryland Legislature has passed
law enabling the state and local banks to become
National Banks without invalidating their char
| tiers.
% Thirty thousand pairs of shoes, immense
clothing supplies, and many ambulances are
being shipped to Sherman from Washington and
Baltimore.
% There is a resolution before the Nova
Scotia Legislature to establish an asylum for
the cure of confirmed inebriates, the expense
of whichis to be borne by tax upon the liquor
traffic.
Fat Haverhill, N. H., Monday evening,
three barns, two sheds, one horse, one hundred
and twenty sheep and twelve cattle, beside
large amount of hay and grain, belonging to
Ex-Goy. Page, were destroyed by fire.
gin Palmer, Mass, hay is ten dollars ton
cheaper than it was week ago. In Connec-
ticut, at Essex and Saybrook, eggs go begging
for 20 cents, and butter is heavy at 80 cents a
pound
ID Gen. Robert Anderson was at Washington
on Tuesday en- route for Fort Sumter, to raise
on the fort on e14th of April the same U s.
flag that foated over it at the time of the rebel
assault. w------
90 The Boston Courier is distressed, because
Judge Lowell of the United States District
Court, ordered that all who practice at the
Bar of that Court shall take the oath of allie
glance.
BA negro in Richmond, who recently mar
ried white woman has been ordered to receive
lit lashes well laid on. The lordly, high-born,
white master is determined to enjoy monopoly
in mixing blood. He allows no slave to inter-
fere with his prerogatives.
If slavery is a good thing for the black
man and freedom would be his ruin, is it not
the height of meanness in the rebels TO tell the
slave they will free him if he will fight for
them Is it not diabolical to return evil for
good?
" Flour in Richmond has gone up in price
to $500 per barrel and everything else in pro-
portion. A general order has been issued re-
curing country people visiting Richmond
on business, to bring their victuals with
them.
VTwo hundred and eighteen deserters from
Lees army arrived at Washington on Tuesday,
and took the oath of allegiance. With them
came one hundred and forty-nine prisoners who
also desired TO take the OATH Their cases were
referred to Gen. Halleck
81 1t is stated that within short time the
treasurer of a large manufacturing corporation
made an offer for a lot of cotton, which was
refused. Last week he purchased the same
cotton, and that the difference between what
he once offered and what he paid was $780,
000
B Sarah E. Mitchell, political prisoner in
Fitchburg, Mass, Jail for some months past,
was recently released by order of Government.
Upon reaching City Point, on her route home.
she refused to take the required oath: where
upon the guard returned with her to her old
quarters at Fitchburg.
81 The circulation of the Maine Former is
II, 200; of the Transcript of this city, 1900.
The political paper having the largest circula-
ton in the state is the Press-6024. There are
eleven or twelve papers in the state with less
than / 900 circulation EACH The smallest circu-
lation of any paper is 800.
1.-THE screw steamer Stettin arrived few
days since at Boston from st. Helena Sound.
The Stettin, during cruise of 20 months, has
been under steam 300 consecutive days, and has
needed repairs but twice During the cruise
she has captured three valuable steamers. There
has been no death or casualty on board.
R Rebel deserters report that Gen. Early has
taken selfimposed pledge to not drink any
more until he shall have whipped Sheridan. This
is considered by Sheridan's officers as equivalent
to the rebel Generals having taken the temper
ance pledge for life, to the no small damage of
the Confederate distillers, and corresponding
fall in the price of corn.
H-A dispatch to the Boston Herald says
there has been no fighting before Richmond and
Petersburg since Saturday. The President y;si-