The Portland daily press., 1865-02-25
ORIGINAL AND sULKoTED.


81 An organ has just been put up in the
Corliss Street Church, Bath.
% The recent Catholic levee in Lewiston re-
suited in product of 81, 100
% Some racy lines on domestic matters will
be found on the last page.
BOne of Barnums giants was at Central
Park, New York, the other day-realizing the
expression Of "a big thing on ice.''
BThe Country Parson'' whose books have
had SO wide popularity in this country and
England, is DR. A. K. H. Boyd.
% The rebels are looking up. They are so
nearly fat upon their backs that they cannot
without difficulty look any other way.
% A woman in Germany gave birth to four
daughters at once. Her husband fed the country
in despair.
The experiment of making gunners for
the navy of the contrabands taken into the SER
vice, is proving decided success.
81 Reports have come to hand that the Union
troops have left Newborn, and are pushing for
ward into North Carolina.
20 The Brunswick Telegraph says General
Chamberlain left for the front on Tuesday, suffi-
GENTLY recovered for active duty.
% DR.. Thomas II. Brown of Paris has been
appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, an
examining surgeon.
20 A recruiting Office for the 18th regiment is
to be opened at South Paris. Col Kimhall is to
resume command of this regiment.
80 A very old English lady Mrs Eliza Hughes,
of Northampton, died lately in her 102d year.
She retained the whole of her faculties up to the
day of her death.
81 English jewellers are now setting small
Brazilian beetles of green and gold color, which
are found in immense numbers in Bahia, in gold
and silver to form bracelets. brooches, etc.
RA petition is in circulation in New York
asking for the appointment of General Butler as
Provost Marshal of Charleston and South Caro-
lima.
81 Mrs. Elizabeth Cushing, mother of the
Hon. Caleb Cushing, died at her residence in
Newburyport Thursday morning of pneumonia
Her agewa 80 years.
10 The damage caused by the Hoosac Tunnel
riot is estimated at $40, OOO The large engine
house was blown up by gunpowder, and there
will consequently be a suspension of work.
ETA small whale of the grampus species, l6
feet long, was found dead on Wampassac Point.
near Stonington, Conn, on the 18th inst. 1t
made "A gallons of OIL
EF Capt. Robert 7. Lincoln, son of the Presi-
dent, left Washington on Tuesday for the front,
under orders to report to Lieut.. Gen. Grant for
service upon his staff.
50 A bridge one hundred feet long on the
Providence and Worcester Railroad in Sutton,
Mass, was burned on Wednesday, igniting from
locomotive.
% The tunnel under the lake at Chicago is
making very rapid progress. The estimate for
the tunnel was fixed at the rate of three and a
half feeta day, but they are making as much as
twelve feet every twenty-four hours.
- The rebel House has passed the bill for
approved by all the papers. The Wing says
that some brigades of white troops have voted
in favor of arming the negroes.
80 The last papers printed in Columbia, s. c.,
before its evacuation, allow that Sherman en-
forces strict discipline, and Furnishes with the
utmost severity any of his troops who are guilty
of outrages upon citizens.
G8 AhS fANOW = jim L tOUHc L Oils COEFcc-
pondent says NJ. Chateaurenard the new French
Minister, will soon leave for Washington, and
that he is said to fully sympathze with the North
in itsstruggle to suppress the rebellion.
BWe understand that the Workingmen' 8
Reform meetings are quite fully attended and
the speaking spirited. Messrs. Joshua T. Emery
and L. F. Pingree are said to have made very
a. he
EOyer three million two hundred and four
teen thousand dollars of United States inter-
nal revenue tax were received by the several col
lectors in New York city during the month of
January ultimo.
THE life of the Rev. Eliphalet Mott, D. D.,
long period of sixty-three years, is drawing to
its close. His infrmities, always great for the
past five years, seem to increase.
RA deserter in irons at Gallop's Island was
finally enabled to release himself by the inge-
nuity of one of his female friends. who procured
key to unlock handouts, placed it in her
mouth, and dropped it into his mouth while
giving and receiving parting kiss.
II Bishop Crowther, the black bishop of
Niger, has writted to England satisfactory ac-
count of his first expedition up the Niger, in
August last. He had obtained a grant of land
frsm the King of the Igara, for the purpose of
forming new missionary station
HA Parsonsfeld correspondent proposes to
have the poll tax question submitted to vote of
the people. The suggestion comes too late, for
the bill has become a law. and there is no time
to change or modify it this session, even were it
desirable to do SO. s..
They recently had mysterious murder
case in Scituate, Rhode Island, and now, to cap
the climax, the murdered man, like Capt. Scuttle
in Poor Pillicoddy, has ''turned up" in good
health and spirits, and will not hear a word to
his being dead and mangled
RA hundred guns were fired in Biddeford on
Wednesday in honor of the fall of Charleston,
and the bells of Saco were rung Not bell in
Biddeford wagged its tongue, and the Union in
Inmates that their silence was owing to pre-
ponderance of copper.
20 lit is worthy of note that the states OF Eu-
rope which boast of having been ruled for the
greatest number of centuries by Divine right,
and whose courts are still surrounded by the
most gorgeous royal pageants, are the very
powers which are the most decripit and de-
caying
81 The United States owns upwards of l ,OOO,-
600 900 acres of public lands susceptible of cult
walton. They own at least 2,0OO, 600 acres OF
| gold and silver-bearing lands. The arabic lands
are worth at least $1,000, 100000 and the
mineral lands are worth at least SIS, 900 900 900,
making together total OF $4,000, 5000
- The last story about the rebel senator
Foote'S this: ''He looked SO seedy when he got
within our lines that one of his former acquain-
tances said to him, why, Foote, I can scarcely
recognize you. Wait till I turn my coat, and
you will all know me again. was the sardonic
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