The Portland daily press., 1865-08-07
ORTGINAL AND .sELECTED.g

B- The Portsmouth Chronicle saws the
iron-clads Dictator and Agamenticus and tba
steamer Vanderbilt are in the Lower Harbor
BB-. Chief Justice Chase took passage from
Boston to Portsmouth in the iron-olad D;cta-
tor.
The steamer Dean Richmond. nm tho
Hudson, is pronounced the finest of her cl.ss
in the world. s-Afe mo- - -,
EB- On Tuesday, son of Mr.. Daniel ant
ler, OF Gottstown village, N. H., was drowned
while bathing in stream near BlaisdelPs min
in that town. He was about, eight years If
age.
GB- An excursion party OF sixty has left
Concord, n. H., for Lake Memphremagop.
GY- The New Orleans correspondent of the
Boston Post says the property of John sidell
comprising Sl2 lots and squares of ground. with
stores, dwelling houses, and banking house
were sold for $10O410. Before the war II was
estimated at $SO0,O00 Had the war NOT. taken
place it is estimated that Mr. slidell would
have been worth $20OO,O00 Std Hsa
BB- Superintendent Conway reports less than
30 freedmen maintained by the government in
Louisiana. No rations are issued excent To the
sick and helpless. 70 ss1si sdi b sls4ss has
g9-Two Pennsylvania papers, finding news
matter very scarce, are playing game of chess
IN print, making q move each week. It will
not take more than three years to finish the
B Four highwaymen on Tuesday night
attackeda gentleman who was crossing Charles
town bridge, robbed him of his watch and be-
gan to beat him, but his cries brought the DO
lice; the scoundrels took to their heels and one
of them in attempting to escape jumped into
the water and was drowned. Ish
| VS. The New York peach crop promises to
be larger this year than it has been for several
years previous
| 4 B8 The number of patients in the hospitals
of Washington and vicinity, has diminished to
! about two thousand.
BB- Byron. Dixon, formerly Governor Of
Rhode Island, died at Bristol in that State, on
Tuesday evening, aged70. lsaa is5stss Il
B A facetious philosopher says that a brisk
walk will cure the, blues IN less time than YOU
can slaughter bob-tailed fly with a flat-iron
B8- A new hotel, the largest in the country
is to be erected at Saratoga, which win accom-.
modate 1000 guests. "a lea5 ss ssl
BY- The Siamese twins have published a
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card stating that the ravages of civil war have
swept away their fortunes, and that they are
again forced to appear before the public.
The Baptist College at Lewisburg, Pa.
has made Simon Cameron an LII D..
BY A duel fought near New Orleans about
an actress, resulted after tcelUe shots in the
death of one, and the mortal wounding of the
other. The last shot was fred by one of the
duellists on his knees, being unable to stand
from the loss of blood & sgxr
4 A man in Minnesota has made a fiyihe
machine which brought him safely to the
ground, but how to rise inthe air is the difficult
| ty he cannot surmount
BB The Saratoga tribe of Indians is reduc
ed nearly to minimum. 1t consists this year
tits stated, of six or eight Canadian French
men, q candle-eating Labradorian, two octo
genarian squaws, and North American pa
poose. sens
Va The celebrated Indian warrior s'Bloody
Hand, yof the Seneca alton, died on the Cat
taraugus Reservation, on the 10th instant, near
ly one hundred years old. He was terrible
with the tomahawk and scalping-knife.
"a Houses are exported from Nantucke
to Norwich and New London, Conn, and prove
paying speculation.
gY- Hard money only is used in Western
Texas. The inhabitants have had an expert
ence with rebel money which leads them tt
distrust paper currency.
B9 One county in Illinois will produce I
million gallons of wine this year. BE Ii
% The liquor traffic Of Vergennes, vt.
has been lessened seven thousand dollars in til,
last seven months by the enforcement of the
prohibitory law. Fifty barrels of liquor have
been seized, and several hundred dollars O
fines have been imposed.
gB The collection of coins at Yale College
has been considerably increased withina few
months; valuable Syrian and Egyptian coins
being among the accessions. ess51
j IA The yellow fever is prevailing to ar
alarming extentin Savannah. Vessels are mel.
Their allowed to leave nor approach the city.
BB The Buffalo Sentinel, which was started
to advocate the cause of workingmen, has been
discontinued for want of support. Itpossess.
ed no ability, and the workingmen probably
knew what they were about.
/ ~ Bayard Taylor has written to Mr.. Bar.
mum, promising to look over his souvenirs Of
travel, and try and find something of interest
for his new collection of curiosities.
BB- despatch from Nashville states that
the Hon. John Bell took the amnesty oath on
Tuesday of last week. s1sNg8
BB Mr.. Erskine S. Allin, master armorer
at the Springfield armory, has been commits
stoned by theW War Department to visit the va
rious arsenals in England, France and Switzer-
land, and to be present at trials of breach-load-
ing firearms soon to take place in England and
Switzerland. .elia o