The Portland daily press., 1865-01-09
goRIGINAL AND SELECTED.

The Lynn Bay State has been footing up
the shoe business of thatcity, fer the last year.
~ Several Of the newspaper publishers in
St. Louis now employ female compositors
- ETA patent has been granted to VIM, Stacy,
of Kittery for improved anchor trippers
n RAugusta pays 5000 bounty for troops to
fill her quota. y fAAa Is sEf u SlS&k
HOne firm in Westmoreland county, Pa,
pays $So,eeo tax annually on the whiskey it
manufactures HAGFaE
. The shoe business has been dull in Lynn
for the past year, but is regiYing, and there is
better prospect. y ~ gA.A iA.iA -
|. RIn Baltimore, last year, two hundred and
twelve new buildings were pat up, and ffty-six
divorces were granted.
B-The Suez Canal Company are now having
built at Ismail, in the centre of the Isthmus,
large Roman Catholic church. grs SFoI
~ The venerable editor Of the National In
telligeacer, Col. Seaton, has retired from the
newspaper world.
- Nearly all the rebels abroad in Cuba and
Europe are respondent, and consider the rebel
Lion failure. = -as-- g. s@*-- sA
RPennsylvania brewers can hardly keep up
with the demand for ale, though the price is now
Sill barrel saas e go eoasA
30 Rev. A. K. Potter, late of South Berwick,
was on Thursday evening installed pastor Of the
First Baptist Church in Springfield, Mass.
~ Notwithstanding rumors that the Dutch
Gap Canal was to be given up, it was when last
heard from in full blast. a ~
- Congress proposes to make a new Terri
tory called Wyoming, to be carved out of Utah
and Washington, another mountain state
BIt is reported from Norfolk that Sherman
proposes to make a straight march through the
Carolinas into the back of Richmond. ssaIs
H-To avoid the. s"'draft" our quota must be
filled by the 18th Of February. Is anything
being done to fill itY5 slo ais si g re
% Anna E. Dickinson will deliver lecture
on the War at the Cooper institute, in New
York, on Tuesday evening, Feb ID.
/ 1.-THE Congregations Society of Alfred re-
Gently made their pastor, Rev. Mr.. Orr, a hand
some donation of over 5000.
80 The Brunswick cotton mill, says the Tele-
graph, runs only part of the time and a por-
ton of its machinery, owing to scarcity of
stock.
~ Hon. james w. Patterson of New Hamp-
shire, Union, has been renominated by acclama-
ton for Congress, and will be reelected, of
course, as he should be. sgs .FSB-8S4s
BThe Portsmouth Journal says Mr., Hamlin
is sterling man-but Maine has few men who
can SO well discharge the important duties of a
Senator as Mr.. Fessenden. s& Els 3 s.,.s, IS
81 Gov. Fenton's Message is about two
thirds as long as our Governors, and about
half as long as Gov. Andrews; but, then New
York is one Of the small states !-s g ss''oF /
10 Rev. D. A. WATSON, one of the contribu-
tors to the .aauntic Monthly, has been invited
to take chargs of the First Unitarian Society in
Cincinnati MIHAa&0 DMIQ5I1
IL. ~ Emma Adams of Lowell, left a babe in
Biddeford and departed westward. But officers
caught her and brought her back to her unwel-
come issue.
% THE Augusta Journal suggests that per-
son cannot be expected to know much, who
does not know enough to shut the door after
him. 70 d . - % ~ ECgr8resct +
B-The Bath Times says Charles ,McQuarrie,
who was severely wounded while out cunning in
West Bath, on Wednesday, died Thursday night,
after much suffering.
D Sherman is using every possible means to
oonciliate the people of Savannah They admit
the capture Of heavily laden blockade runner
bound for Charleston, on Saturday last.
81 The Newburyport Herald says &c New
Hampshire has stopped paying bounties for SOL
dlers." This is not so-sbe only declines longer
to pay high prices for worthless substitutes-
Portsmouth Chronicle
80 The Oxford Democrat thinks it can tell a
bigger hog story than anybody. Its last is
Rufus Trafton of Alfred, who killed nineteen
months old hog weighing sup and dressed" 800
lbs 81 z, s Z, p U.s. g gs5A2 e hq4 wy
WThe rebels are refusing to pay their troops
unless they win agree to serve four years longer.
1t don't make much difference any way, for their
money ism worth a cent, and there isn't to be
four years more Of Confederacy. m9R
20 The Washington Star learns from a per-
son who saw Mosby on Sunday last, that his
wound is believed to be mortal, and that his
friends have abandoned all hopes of his re-
covery. U 9i9ltM sN1 GN3 III
ex-senator McDougal and an ex-captain of .
California regiment had dispute in the bar
room of Wizards Hotel, the other evening, and
the soldier clinched his arguments by knocking
down the politician. ssasS -s4gsrysrs III s,5T
BGov Andrew has beat Gov. Cony all hol-
low on the length of his message. 1t occupied
two hours and ten minutes in its delivery. 1t
is nearly four times as long as President Lin
coins Message.
~ The Richmond Ssntinel- undertakes to
prove that the North is bankrupt, and that no
more soldiers can be raised In view of such a
condition of their enemies, the Sentinel exhorts
the people 10 "'cheer up, and no longer heed the
ISLANDERS of the opposition panic-makers.''
I RA man who had brutality assaulted his
wife, was lately brought before Justice Cole Of
Albany, and had good deal to say about get
ting justice. Justice % replied Cole; ssyou
can't get it here. This court has no power to
hang you."i isste 42sl 1aa ,9gnH eo5i Is
Is ~ The Senate has killed the bill dismissing
unemployed Generals, which was what the mill
tary committee desired. Several leading sena-
tors will now unite in urging the President to
take immediate action upon the subject, and at
once dismiss at least twenty of these unem-.
ployed Generals. OK
eve are glad to welcome to our table again
the .NsD England Farmer, published in Boston.
It was SUSPENDED about year ago in conse-
1 quence of the high prices Of material, but it
now reappears, looking beautifully. and filed as
of old with racy and instructive matter. 1t is
unmistakably one OF the best Agricultural pa
pers in the country. R. P. Eaton Co., Pub
| fishers. 'a7a ~ s4an ,'8iaaAH
4The Secretary Of War has gone to Fortress
Monroe, Hilton Head and Savannah, to consult
with Generals Grant, Foster and Sherman ON
important matters relating to the service, The
supplies and exchange of prisoners, the organi-
zation Of colored troops, raising the blockade Of
Savannah and opening it to free trade, the
seizure Of rebel property and products, will be-