The Portland daily press., 1865-06-15
ORIGINAL And SELECTED.

~ Gen. Davis Tillson has arrived home at
Rockland.
80 The Free Masons are 10 erect great hall
and asylum at the corner Of Grand and Crosby
streets, N. Y. -
80 a Lieut.. Col was recently paid who had
risen from the ranks. and had not received o cent
of pay till that day.
"A member of the English Parliament has
hsdto pay $50 900 for not keeping his promise
to marry young woman.
the last page WILDE found some beau
tifui lines by Mrs. Barstow. suited to the tune
Star spangled Banner
H New Hampshire butchers and cattle deal
ers are said to be stocking the mountain pastures
of that State with Canadian cattle.
B-John Minor Bolts, alexander Il. Riyes
and other distinguished virginians protest
against Gov. Pierpont's government.
5 HSeveral ex-rebel Congressman from vir-
ginia have notified Gov. Pierpont of their de-
termination to support him.
B-A vessel has arrived at Washington from
Morehead City, N. c., and reports great suffer-
ing among the people of the Eastern portion
Of that State.
H Maj. Gen. Lowell II. Rousseau has been
nominated in caucus Of members Of the Ken
lucky Legislature as . candidate for U. s. Sem
ator. FAsNta
" General Halleck has replied to General
Sherman's report relative to him. He says that
all his orders were issued by direction Of Gen
eral Grant
E Ex- Gen. Don Carlos Buell. has bought
into an oil well out West He was an immence
bore as general, and win perhaps do well in
his new enterprise. s se ai9t
81 The Boston papers are troubled with
worms,-and SO are the orchards in that vicini-
ty. They remind one of the locust plague in
Egypt rs
"a Admiral Farragut is to be in Boston ON
the Fourth Of July and participate in the fes-
tivities of the OCCASION by invitation Of the City
authorities.
RItis hoped the city FORESTER will not
prune away all the beauty of our fine shade
trees. In some cases he has carried his good
taste to the verge of vandalism. SSH
81 According to copperhead ethics loyal
negro who has fought and bled to defend his
country is less worthy Of honor than a white
traitor who has fought to destroy his country.
RThe Newbern Times, . paper of unques-
toned loyalty, speaks in the highest terms of
Provisional Governor Holden Of North Caro-
lima, and says he is the man Of all others best
suited to the position.
H A boy employed about the stable ,of
Messrs. Lancaster, Mitchell and Parker, in Bel
fast, stole package containing $500 from the
stable Office on Wednesday last He confessed
the larceny, and was sent to Jail.
EDemand for lumber is limited; none ex-
cept light orders from NeWYork. Our manu-
facturers are saving and piling, waiting for a
demand ct remunerating prices - [Machias
Union.
~ Mrs. Sigourney, the charming poetess
whose death has just been announced, has for a
long time been in feeble health, but she was
confined to her bed but three weeks prior to her
death ~ ~ 49, N 31f
U Railroad bonds to the amount of 81 900
were stolen few days since from the office Of
VIM. II. Rollins, esq, in Portsmouth, but they
have since been returned by the family of the
person who took them. The purloiner is sup
posed to be insane.
| RThe Calais .ddUertiser states that mill
owned by Granger, esq, was swept away in
the late freshet, also that the mills of Messrs.
Hall, Waite and others were greatly endan-
| gered. The freshet in the St. Crox was
heavy. al
ID The Prince of Wales is to open the sIn-
ternational Dog Show at Agricultural Hall,
in London. Fourteen hundred specimens have
been entered for exhibition, and over two hun
bred rejected, as the show was |" all full in
side" .r- "a
ID When the Jew Benjamin parted from
Davis he is said to have perpetrated a ticklish
joke. eve are both going to the same place,
said the Jew. Chow is that 7" asked Davis.
"Well,' said Benjamin, s'I am going to Europe,
and you're gsihg to your rope"
B-An artillery officer says that the amount
OF war material now accumulated by the gov
eminent, both Of its own manufacture and that
captured from the rebels, is almost incredible.
The cannon, caissons, ambulances, and army
wagons with their teams, would make column
reaching from New York to California. 81
90 The Lewiston Journal says that on Mon
day while loading q heavy stone, a young man
named George Phillips of Turner, was fatally
injured. The stone was heavy mass, and the
derrick gave way. The stone fell across Phillips
leg, and the derrick across his back He
lived in great agony for about fifteen min
utes.
- The .Hermitage. Y the last dwelling place
Of Gen. Jackson, is in a very dilapidated condi-
ton. 1t was purchased by the State of Tennes-
see in 1856, for $4,000. Mrs. A. Jackson, widow
of the late proprietor, has appealed to President
johnson for permanent home at the Hermit
tage. The President referred her application to
Gov. Brownlow. s-s
- Encourage your own townsmen is o
motto which every citizen should keep in memo
ry. If there is any work you wish done, or
any article you wish to purchase, look about
among the mechanics and business men of your
own town and give them the preference So ad-
vises the Newburyport Herald, and the advice
is as well suited to this meridian as to that Of
Massachusetts. a.@a