The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-13
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companies will be received.
= Recruiting throughout the state amounts
to about seven hundred week.
y 1t is announced that Mrs. Charles R.
Thorne (formerly Miss Emily Mestayer) has
finally retired from the stage.
- Hon. B. W. Norris, late Land Agent of
this state, has been confirmed as Paymaster of
Volunteers
81 The six largest corporations in Lawrence,
Mass. have combined capital of seven mil
lion dollars.
GgrBoston is rejoicing in Strawberries, cucum-
bers, lettuce, radlshes, rhubarb and dandelions,
raised in the suburbs under glass
| BThe telegraph has announced that Hon.
John z. Hale of Dover, N. H., has been con-
trmed as u S. minister to Spain
% Rev. Edgar H. Gray, the recently elected
chaplain the U. s. Senate, abouttwcnty years
since was paster of the Baptist church in Bath
20 At the Inauguration ball Mr.. and Mrs.
Lincoln did not dance, neither did the members
of the cabinet. rfsdaa5 has
- Abraham Lincoln is the only Northern
man ever reelected President of tae United
States. ~ q
g The editor of the Portland fdpertiscr
talks of Andrew johnson as ''a reckless inc
briate''
- When landlords raise their rents 100 per
cent, ought not the assessors to raise the valua-
ton of the rented property in like ratio The
New York supervisors sly they had
/ % Mr.. Watts Sherman, of the banking
house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., of New
York, died on the Island of Madeira on the
Goth ult. !. l
i BM Mr.. Lindsay, NJ. P, the notorious Anglo
rebel ship-builder, is ILL., and it is considered
doubtful whether he can ever resume his place
in Parliament
- Theologians are requested to consider the
question wheter Job s'struck ile,'' that led him
to say Dob 90: 81 .sWhen l washed my steps
with butter, and the rock poured me out rsvers
Of oa.''
81 A correspondent at the front writes,
March A, 1865: Thomas J. Long, q Portland
Boy, of the LIST Me- Cav. Band, has won prize
of $780, He is called the champion Tenor
Drummer of the Army of the Potomac.''
Hon. Geo. F. Talbot, U. s. District Attor-
ney for this state, went to st. John by the
Steamer New Brunswick, on her first trip, to
represent our Government in the case Of Seeley,
arrested as one of the Chesapeake pirates.
20 The new City Government will be organ
lied to-day at 10 O'Clock. The subordinate off,
GERS will probably be chosen this evening To-
morrow morning we shall give the Mayors adj
dress and the list of officers chosen.
Il - Captain Harry NJ. Stinson, who left BAN
gor, in 1861, as private in the 5th Maine, and
was afterwards promoted to position on Gen.
Towards staff, has been recommended to the
Senate for promotion to Brevet Major, and
without doubt will receive it. s,
HThe Augusta Constitutionalist of Feb 81
J says ''There are 5000 locomotives and cars
penned up at Charlotte, N. G 1t says Sher-
man Will, OF course, destroy the stock. They
were heavily laden with stores. The South
ern Express Company saved all its valuables,
but the mails have been lost everywhere .
% dispatch from Washington to the Bos-
ton advertiser, Saturday, says, ''Viee Presi-
dent johnson is confined to his room at the coun-
try residence of Francis P. Blair, and so pros
trated in body and mind that some apprehensions
are expressed as to his recovery. He is visited
twice daily by physicians"
V-The British blockade runner Fox, with a
valuable cargo, ran into Charleston harbor after
the occupation of the place by the Union forces,
as she had often done before, and triumphantly
came to anchor before suspecting the great change
which had taken place. The Fox 6nds herself
nicely entrapped. :.
- The Concord IN. H. Democrat says,
"We saw ex.President Pierce in the street, the
other day; it just after the fall of Charleston
and Wilmington. He looked blue and was
evidently thinking about the 'coercive instru-
mentality of the military power which, on the
4th of July, 1868, he told the Democracy
couldn't accomplish anything
4 sAlsCs III tnls
state, in the eye of the law, between the white
/ and colored people. A colored man is eligible,
legally, to any office, and his child has every
legal right in our public schools alongside of
the child of the millionaire. Is not this as it
should be !? Would any true Democrat have
the law changed in this regard
Col Charles S. Bulkley sailed from San
Francisco on Tuesday with company of Collins
overland Russian telegraph workmeu, for Sitka,
an island west of British Columbia. They will
leave working party at Victoria, Vancouvers
Island, which will commence building at
Frazer River. The telegraph line will soon be
completed between San Francisco and British
Columbia.
j 10 AT least one thousand additional tenements
are needed to accommodate the wants of this
tcity. With proper accommodations the popula-
ton of the city would increase enormously be-
yond the present ratio of increase. Not day,
scarcely, passes that we do not hear of business
men who wish to come into the city to carry on
their business operations.
90 Miss ANGELA King, who read to such
large and delighted sddience in this city last
week, read the evening previous at Portsmouth,
and the venerable editor of the Journal of that
city says of the entertainment, eThe sister of
Rev. 7. Starr King is sufficient announcement
to draw out good house; but after being once
heard Miss King may depend upon her own
reputation for multitude of hearers
70 Says the Concord Democrat, "We have
some Copperheads here in Concord, who said,
last fall, that if sOld Abe was elected they
should leave the country, for they wouldn't
live under his rule another four years. sOld
Abe was elected, and has been inaugurated, and
yet we don't see any signs of their leaving their
country for their countrys good We begin to
be too apprehensive that we shan't get rid of the
fellows, after ALL"
THE fishermen ofProvincetown, Cape Cod,
recently petitioned Congress for the repeal of
the fishing bounties. TIE Gloucester Teleqraph
says this is opposition to the sentiment of
the fishing interest generally The New Bedford
Mercury says upon this matter, 'swe have the
frmest faith that the interests of both Cape Cod
and Cape Ann would be benefited by the repeal:
and weare not at all sure, that majority of the
people of both would not so declare"
R Gov. Bramlette does not acquiesce in the
rejection of the constitutional amendment nv the
Kentucky legislature. He has sent in message
telling the legislature their action is mot final:
that the question is open and the right to rat;fy