The Portland daily press., 1865-04-03
ORIOINAL AND SELECTED.


attending public schools in Charleston, s. C.
R The Portsmouth Journal says small
houses are much in demand in that city.
20 Ex-senator Grimes of Iowa is on visit to
Concord, n. H.
9Advertising in the New York Herald is
Sl.00a line for each insertion.
II Rev. John Pierpont completes his soth
year on the 9th of April
EThe total receipts of the American Board
for February were $39,1s5 SIS.
The Congregational church at Rumford
Point was dedicated ON the 18th ult. Sermon
by Rev. q. Balkan of Lewiston.
BMr. and Mrs. Brewer of Wayne county,
KY, have % children. This is said to be the
most extensive brewery in the West
- Government is to have 18 900 tons of
coal per week from Philadelphia for So rs per
ton.
~ The Boston Transcript suggests that
South Carolina may now be classed among the
extinct volcanoes.
Sidney Smith wrote to friend, 'I have
seven or eight complaints, but in all other re-
spects am perfectly WELL"
H-flowers, some one has said, are the sweet
est things that God ever made and didn't put. "a
soul into.
81 Hallowell has filled her quota, showing
that she is not quite so dead as some of her
neighbors often represent her to be.
q Rev. Mr.. Karcher, late Pastor of the Uni
tartan Church, Nantucket is about to take or
ders in the Episcopal Church
9The Rockland Gazette says the Univer-
yersalist church in that city is undergoing re-
pairs.
- The report that ex-President Fillmore
had gone to City Point, Va, was without foun-
dation.
RThe Second Adventsts have opened new
chapel in Bath, and are to have regular sabbath
services.
- Jay Cooke of Philadelphia recently
made donation of $250O to the Christian Com
mission.
| The first Hebrew free school is to be
opened in New York on the 18th of May, with
three Instructors in the English branches, and
| two for the Hebrew.
| B Hon. Sidney Perham and Mayor Frye of
Lewiston, have gone to Washington, on basi-
ness connected with the quota for the second
| district.
V Deserters from the rebel army are daily
ON the increase. Gen. Grant recently required
$4,000 to pay the cavalry deserters for their
horses, given up. Ia
BWe are indebted to Hon. John p Hale for
a copy of his late speech in the Senate on the
"Frauds and Corfu otions in the Navy Depart
ment."
20 Nearly every city in the Free States is
suffering for lack of room for its population
In Philadelphia real estate is said to pay better
than it has before for long series Of years.
9The new revenue law imposes tax of $40
per thousand-one cent apiece-on cigars We
have one satisfaction; it will not affect our ex-
penses.
ETA very healthy report of trade at New
York is reported for January and February
the imports off nearly one-half while the ex
ports are much larger.
- Mrs. Stephen A. Douglrs and Mrs. Gen.
Sherman are to be the managers of the tables
supplied by Roman Catholic contributions at
the Northwestern Sanitary Fair, to be held at
Chicago in June next.
E Ex-Gov. Kirkwood, Gen. Fitz Henry
Warren and Congressman Kasson are mentioned
Senator Harlan of Iowa, being appointed Score
tary of the Interior.
BA letter from Melbourne, Australia, dated
Jan. 26th, says, ga fine comet is visible in the
southwest. 1t is supposed to be that of 1858,
predicted by Herschell as returnable in twenty
one and three quarters years."
~ When Judge Smith announced his de-
cision discharging the st. Adams raiders, says
the Montreal Witness, there was loud applause
which could not be quelled, and the cheers were
taken up by crowd on the street.
Jacob Little, one of the most prominent
stock brokers of New York city for forty years
past, and at one time the acknowledged skiing
Of the brokers" died in that city on Tuesday
last.
VThe citizens of Concord, N H., at pub
lie meeting recently, voted to solicit subscrip-
to proceed with the remodelling of the State
House.
B The ship builders of Mystic, Connecticut,
who have been engaged, almost exclusively,
on side wheels and screw steamers for the past
three years, are now giving the preference to
sailing craft.
H-The Boston Heraldis now published by
E. e. Bailey & Co., the Company consisting of
several gentlemen who have heretofore been en-
gagged on the different departments of that
paper.
R-The Bangor Wing says that on Friday
at Messrs Browns Bakery in that city, son of
Mr.. John D. Pierce, a lad of fourteen, had two
fingers almost entirely crushed in the cog-wheel
of the kneading machine
I RT The New Orleans True Delta of the 18th
states that refugees from Texas have informa-
ton from home making it almost certain that
the Confederate officials there are preparing to
secede from the Richmond government and re-
| turn to the Union.
~ Tie New Bedford Mercury says, Gov An
drews' reasons for Withholding his signature
frem the Jury Bill seem entirely satisfactory to
the press, which think reflects, in this regard,
the sentiment of large majority of the
people.
HJeff Davis last demands upon his Con-
gress tella terrible story-he not only demanded
the suspension Of habeas corpus and an almost
unlimited CONSUMPTION, but that provisions and
every thing necessary for defence might be
seized without even price to be affixed.
V Judge Smith of the Supreme Court of
Canada, has decided in effect that Canada is at
war with the United States. Upon no other
possible hypothesis could the extradition of the
st. Adams raiders have been refused. wewait
to see how Lord Monck's government regards
this decision.
RWe hear it said that the opinion of Judge
Smith in the case of the st. Adams raiders was
mainly the work of FIX Senator Wescott, formerly
of Florida. At any rate it sounds like him,
and we think we see the twinkle of his roguish
eye as he chuckles over his fooling of this mod
err poghsrry. e
q Report says aDHd Clay" of Gardiner, pro-