The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-04

says that q mare Is the maiden name OF
horse -----
BRobert Small, The colored hero of the
steamer Planter, has made $4,000 during the
war. ia .s55as .s44sa lssid
EIt is said that talented Frenchman has at
length discovered the process of fixing the natu-
raj colors Of any object photographed
W The friends of General Simon Cameron
are at Washington pushing his name for Cabi-
net position. ~. sss---rr l8
q There are now packed away in the differ
emit storehonses on the banks Of the Hudson
about l53 900 tons of ice, gathered this season.
81 Drafting has commenced at Bangor, for
the I'd district. 1t has also commenced at Bel
fast, forIthe 9Th district "a
ii - At q recent levee in Gardiner for the
Sanitary Commission, the net receipts were
$500. ss,l % q, e - bs.aii.o5 IA
~ Rev. Mr.. Whitcher has removed from
Phillips to Winnegance, to become pastor of the
Free VIII Baptist church in that place.
R-Perhaps the Lewiston Journal did not
know the article in its columns in relation to
Mr.. McCulloch, was written for the editorial coll
umns of the Press 4ag4o
~ Prentice wishes that every bounty jumper
might be made to jump high enough to get ]
his head entangled in moose suspended over
him. 'iss7ie TO- asla'' 70 1h 81 a'o-l NJ
H-In two districts of Savannah, containing !,
twelve hundred families, only seven were found
who did not accept tickets for thsproyisions con
tributed by Boston and New York.
BA chap in Saint, Joseph knows how to
keep hotel. Hekeeps q lot of pretty girls in
his house, and gets his male boarders in love,
and then he says 'sthey don't eat anything" 9R'
81 factory in Boston has made its steam
whistle musical by anoyelarrangemento of pipes,
through which the escaping steam plays cheer
full tune to call the workmen.
There are several colored men in New
York city who are worth from $500, 900 to
$500, 900 each. Poor fellows Can't take care
dof themselves, and need master O. q
EVA bill has been introduced into the Mis-
souri, legislature for the appointment of an in
spector Of oils, with especial reference to poor
and dangerous grades of kerosene.
~ Recruiting must be good at Washington !
recruiting for the Union cause if not for the 1
Union army. On Wednesday last ITO deserters
arrived there from Lees army, and on Thursday
13S arrived. 1Ri ei
EThe Lewiston Journal understands that
Mr. Pierce of this city has leased the hotel build
ing at Mechancic Falls, owned by Messrs Deni-
son & Co., and viii open it for public travel in
the course of few weeks 49,. .ErsY
EMiss Helen Westerns room at Philadel-
phia, was entered by false keys one evening this
week, while the actress was at the theatre, her
wardrobe broken open, and some Of her most
valuable costumes stolen. She estimates her
loss at about $500. us e-.is5 a sal
BThe proprietor Of the Charleston Courier
demonstrated with the military officer who con-
fscated his Office, urging that he opposed nulli-
fcation in 1880. - The soldiers say this is the
nearest aoproach to loyalty which has yet been
met with among the white population of Charles
ton.
RrThe Harris Beaten Hay Press is an effec-
tivemachine. 1t congresses about 400 pounds
of hay into bundle but little larger than bale
of heavy sheetings The bundles are as imper-
vious to blows or even to an auger as so much
wood. The press is moved by two horses and
presses Eve tons daily dag Hsa w
sa 80 We are sorry TO see SO good paper az
the Concord Monitor lending its columns to the
factlonists in the LIST N. 81. District, who are
making diversion which can have no other re
suit than to aid the copperhead candidate for
Congress. The men who vote for Sawyer are
the allies of copperheadism in this fight, and |
every disinterested person will SO regard them.
B-Mr. Nathaniel T. Allen, a school teacher
in Newton, Mass, is on trial before the Superior
Court at East Cambridge on charge of a serious
and aggravated assault on Alvin D. Emerson, /
one of his scholars, on the SOth of November
last. Young Emerson subsequently, died, it is
alleged from the effect of the injuries received
at the hands of Mr.. Allen. It's understood that
the action is brought by the parents of the de-
ceased. A9 N 5s
% The last number of the Bucket has SEN
sible article on the Labor Reform movement,
and suggests that one of the best ways to eles
vate and dignity the laborer is to labor for the
removal of those evil habits which stand in the
way Of all true progress. The Bucket refers
specially to the evils of intemperance. It is safe
to say that many a man spends more daily for
the support of injurious or at least useless
habits, than is required to meet the real wants of
life, .2ii15s 9iag ~ 81 ~
RThe Richmond Enquirer is on the ram
page. II advises JEFF. Davis to arm the slaves
in the absence Of law and in spite of the rebsI 4
congress- It says: 'sWhen the assumption of
extraordinary and ppru-constitntional power
is in accordance with the will Of the people, and
exercised for the protection of the government
and the defence of the public liberties, it is right
and will be justified. 1t may be said that this is
revolutionary, dictatorical. But it would be
revolutionary only in form, not in truth
EWhatever else may be said of the 18th con-
gress, it has-be it spoken to its praise-been
free from knock-downsa and drunken fights; it
has had no bowie knife displays, no bludgeons,
no reyolvers, no plantation manners of any
kind. A few; nights since Senator Salisbury of
Del, got tipsy, SO that he was not allowed to
participate in debate, but that was only to let
the country know that the slave-loying gentle
men of his state are fairly represented in the
Senate. .sselssss@s }5s $50
Z EWithin two or three days A.. c. Dennison,
Esq, of Mechanic Falls, the great paper manu-
faeturer, has written to thecustom house in this
city for instruction as to exporting paper, as het
had received an order for about Thousand dol j
lsrs' worth to be sent to British province.
VIII some one who has clamored for the abol-
ton of duty on foreign paper as the means Of
relief to our own newspap er publishers, explain
why foreigners who have no such duty in their
way, should import their paper from Maine
We think one ounce of such facts as this out
weighs whole ton of theory.
B-The Saco Democrat, to show 'the won
derful prosperity of the country under the reign
of Abraham" gives the figures which it costs to
carry on the government, and the amount of the
public debt. This only shows how much it has
cost to put down democratic rebellion, got up
by the Democratic States because, in a fair cleo
ton, they got handsomely whipped and lost the
reigns Of government That's all. There is
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