The Portland daily press., 1865-03-20
ORTGINAL AND SELECTED.

Est Patrick's Day was observed in Boston
with more than usual attention.
20 The Richmond Examiner saws an ordi-
nary breakfast in that city costs fifty dollars
HA car load Of hay on the K. s.. P. Road,
was burnt on Friday last, near Freeport.
e. The Louisville Journal advocates the DOC
trine of immediate emancipation in Kentucky
EReport says President Lincoln will visit
New York about the 1st of May,
R-It is reported that Vice President johnson
has signed the Temperance pledge.
Charleston has played the deuce-and it
wasn't trump.
gThe city of Calais has taken possession
of the Lewy's Island Railroad by virtue of o
mortgage. la4 sa =
RThe Bangor Times says the newspaper
press of Boston are just now troubled with
billiards on the Brain" What next?
B-We have taken Columbia, the capital Of
South Carolina, and all the capital she has left
is in confederate shin lasters
9 Sivori, the violinist, was upset while
travelling in Vienna, and broke two of his best
violins.
81 The Boston papers are talking earnestly of
the necessity for increased hotel accommodations
in that city. ~
~ Bowdoin College conferred the honorary
degreeof Master of Arts on Secretary McCul-
loch, in 1863.
EVA bill has been reported in the Massachu-
sets Legislatureto unite the cities Of Boston
and Roxbury, the question to be settled by
majority vote of the two cities.
HThe Boston advertiser is authorized to
contradict the report that delegation from
Blind Asylum was to visit the city to see the
great billiard tournament. M
gProfessor H. E. Peck of the Oberlin Col
lege, Ohio,has been appointed commissioner and
consul general to the republic of Hayti, vice B.
F. Hidden. resigned. 5a5 fs htao4
RParson Brownlow has got verdict Of
$4,000 against some of the Knoxville rebels
who prosecuted him during the early part of the
war.
HThe maple sugar season has opened very
favorably in Franklin county. J & B. M. Tit
comb have commenced with 400 or 500 trees in
| Pennington.
RThe City Marshal of Bath reports the
whole number of arrests in tina; city, for the
year ending March LIST, at 1873, of which SO
were for drunkenness.
B-The Belfast Al says that business is quite
lively in that places hay and potatoes are brought
in, in large quantities; the former sells at IS
dollars o ton, and the latter at rs cents a
bushel.
R-A few days since we referred to the "rebel
organ" in Portland, and forsooth the Advertiser
f,ioLo - kLo4
concern. Very we'll; it is no fault of ours that
| the saddle fits.
~ Exeter, the home of Gilman Marston,
gave him plurality of 346. Portsmouth, in
which Daniel Marcy resides, gave plurality
| against him of eco; and his own Ward, which
two years ago gave him majority of "a, now
gives majority against him of "a. Such facts
as these show that the Union sentiment is grow
ing strong in the old Granite State.
% The dainty, lily. fingered editor of the
Springfield Republican. who serves up political
lavender water for the readers of that journal,
styles Andrew Johnson-aside from any alleged
evil habits-s'a weak self-made man" Self
made men, men cast in natures rough mould,
and educated in the hard school of experience,
do not suit the Springfield gentleman, whose
porcelain Bowles seem to be the only measure
of greatness that he acknowledges.
% A paper before US, whose editor by his
treason has shown himself fit only to fraternize
WIN tnssouenefn tss>--s y oe A ndrew John
son as coarse vile BLACKBOARD, and contrasls
him with ''that accomplished gentleman, Geo.
H. Pendleton.'' The cream of the joke is that
in 1860, before the Charleston convention as
sembled, this same editor was urging the nemi-
nation of this 'scoarse" Andrew johnson for the
Presidency, upon the attention of that conven-
| ton.