The Portland daily press., 1865-02-04
oRIGINAL AND SELECTED.


ETC. 600 for foreign egge.
EGov. Gilmore Of N. H., is suffering from
severe attack Of erysipelas.
The vintage Of California for the present
year is estimated at 3, SOC, 900 gallons.
RA sheep was brought into the Portsmouth
market, Tuesday, from Stratham, the live
weight of which was stated at 100 pounds.
RrGen. CAN'T is on the stump in New Hamp- !
shire, for Union ticket Election takes place
there, Tuesday, March 14th.
% Edward Tuck, Esq SON of Hon. Amos
Tuck, Naval Officer at Boston, Mass, is now
acting as Vice Consul at Paris.
V The York Manufacturing Company of
Saco, have declared an extra dividend of Is. per
cent, payable Feb. LIST. issa .ss
- Hon. 7. J. Southland and H. s. Hagan,
ESQ.,, of Richmond, are preparing to put up
ship each, of one thousand TONS -
EThe dismissal of Capt. Thomas Pearson of
the 18th Mass Battery for defrauding men en-
listed by him of their local bounty, has been
confirmed.
% The Methodists in Indiana propose to es-
tablish 6rst-class college for the education of
females, at ouch place as shall offer the greatest
bonus for the erection of buildings.
HA meeting of loyal Georgians in the North
is to be held in the Cooper Institute, in New
York, on the 10th inst, to consult as to the best
means of restoring their State to the Union.
V The Senate Military Committee have now
eleven hundred and ffty-four nominations be-
fore them to be acted upon, from Major Generals
down to Lieutenants.
~ Messrs. Stetson Brothers, BID. Metcalf 8
Son, E. Norris & Co.. and Capt. Samuel Hall,
all of Damariscotta, have each ship in process
of construction or are preparing to build.
RThe Chippewa Falls (wisconsin) Union
says the thermometer was 38 degrees below
zero there ON the morning of the 18th of Jam
uary.
ga digger for oil in Nevada lately found
sixteen feet in the earth. Petrifsd soft heads
will probably be the next deposit penetrated.
q The Brunswick Telegraph says Rev.
Daniel F. Potter, Congregational, of Topsham,
is in quite feeble state of health, and has been
compelled to giveup preaching for the present.
R-Some Of our exchanges say the only OBJ
ject of our neighbor, the editor Of the argus, in
late libel suit, was to vsndicate his character.
He didn't more than half succeed at any rate.
There is much talk in the southern part Of
England about the severe frosts this winter, for
which the memory has to 60 back many yearsto
find parallel.
HA ship somewhat larger than the one re-
Gently launched of $50 tons, has been contracted
for by Messrs. A. 8 E. Perkins at their shipyard
/, in Biddeford, for the Messrs. McManus of Bruns-
wick. A.4
q In Newark, N. j., a number of wealthy
citizens, including the Mayor, have determined
to purchase large coal tract in Pennsylvania,
to supply the inhabitants of Newark with coal
at cost.
EGen. Sanborn commanding the District Of
Southwest Missouri, has banished 4s families
and 100 other men and women to distance of
fifty miles outside of his district for feeding and
harboring guerrillas and bushwhackers ils
The female population of Union Village in
this state, recently turned out en- masse, and at
lacking liquor saloon which had just been
opened in the town, decanted all the bad whis-
key into the gutter.
E correspondent of the Cincinnati In
quirer says that the recent convention Of the
Fenians held in Cincinnati was unanimous in
sentiment. and intimates very clearly that their
plans bode no good to England. 81
-B The Oldest clergyman in England recently
died. He was very nearly setting at rest the
vexed centinarian question, for be had attained
the age of Iinety EIGHT years. He had been
seventy years clergyman and forty years an
archdeacon.
There will be another international Ex-
hibition at Dublin this year. 1t is wholly I'M
dertaken by Irish gentlemen. One special fea-
ture of this exhibition, not attempted on any
former occasion, will be an international display
of musical instruments. F gfH
HThe Philadelphia Press says in reference
to the oil fever: "We are now in the sitting
time. In hundred days we shall probably see
ene-half the petroleum companies disappear.
Probably it will be smash and somebody will
get hurt"
RMr. Marcy Of New Hampshire did not
dodge the constitutional amendment vote, as
some papers have stated, but was at home sick
at the time the vote was taken. 1t is reported
that, had he been in his seat he would have
voted for it. hcss u n1gf eng0 &
EThe York Co. Quarterly Meeting of the
Free Baptists, held its session with the Cedar st.
Church in this city, this week. Rev. Mr.. Yeo-
man was chosen Moderator of the conference.
The reports from the several churches showed
good degree of religious interest among them,
and the attendance at the meetings was large
lBiddeford Union. Esw gAgEeF
B"Perley" telegraphs to. the Journal that
those who should be wellinformed are confident
that the terms presented to the rebels will be
Union and Emancipation. And there are those
who believe that these terms will be accepted,
provided that the confscation act can be re-
pealed. -.
EThe Hartford Press says Col. F. D. Sewall,
for several months Acting Assistant Provost
Marshal General of that state, has been relieved
from duty there, and left recently to take
command of the first brigade. Veteran Reserves,
at Washington. Col. SeWall is a citizen Of Bath,
in this state.
B-A Boston paper says; SIT is in contem-
plation to establish, in the northern section of
our city, home for poor and Observation-Disclosures,
similar to those which have been in operation at
the Five Points in New York for several years.
The sum of 1000 has been pledged by three
gentlemen. ~ aaiaa II
/ .RItis stated that if ex-President Pierce, now
journeyiug about the country, should include
Washington in his tour, it will be the only in
stance on record of any ex-President visiting the
national capital after the close of his term, ex
cept in the case of John Quincy Adams, who
resided there several years as member Of Con-
gress.
n John H. George, demagogue of Concord,
N. H., who has. as copperhead orator, had
much to say about arbitrary arrests and the
freedom of the press, made q fruitless attempt
in the Supreme Court at Concord, the other
day, to have an editor arrested for commenting
on the verdict Of jury in a road case. Consis-