The Portland daily press., 1865-04-04
ORIGINAL AND SELEOTED.

VThe April Term of the 8. ]. Court for
sagadahoc will commence in Bath to-day.
- lady in Hartford is building church at
her own expense.
- The city debt of Rockland, upon the
assumption of bounty monies, will be about
$3.50, 900.
0The frame of the new Universalist Church
In Lewiston, is raised and nearly boarded. twill
be fine structure.
- The Springfield Republican chronicles an
extraordinary railroad accident,-the arrival Of
all the trains on Thursday, on time
20 The total receipts of the American Mis-
slonary Association for the month of February
were S11 ,O5O IL.
20 In England and Scotland there are 1921
Catholic bishops and priests, 1882 churches and
stations, $50 nunneries, and IL colleges.
% Napoleon has paid the Inperial printing
once IL 700 francs for revises and corrections of
the first volume of his Caesar"
II The military pass regulation between
Washington and Alexandria, has been abol-
ished.
% Thomas Sims, whose rendition to slavery
caused so great commotion at Boston, is now
at huntsville, Ala, recruiting colored troops
for Massachusetts
% The steamer Eastern Queen takes her place
on the Kennebec and Boston route on Friday
night, arriving at the Kennebec Saturday
morning.
ID The editor of the Brunswick Telegraph
recommends kerosene oil for harnesses, and says
it has an excellent effect in softening the leather,
and is easily applied.
RWm. ]. Harris, guerrilla and highway
robber, was hung at st. Louis on the Oath nlt.
He protested his innocence and declared that he
wasa regular soldier of the rebel army
% "God," said an intrepid and devout cler-
gyman (secesh) of Raleigh, ''has hook in
Shermans nose and is leading him to destruc-
ton" We don'tsee it up this way.
V The American Bible Society employs, for
its printing, fifteen of Adams celebrated plat
ten power presses. During the year 1864. the
society printed, of all varieties, 500 900 copies
of the Scriptures.
- Rev. DR.. Guthrie of Edinburgh, who
through age and in6rmity retires from his public
duties in the ministry, recently received mag
nifcent testimonial from his friends, amounting
to about $25,OOO, from TIA subscribers.
g Rev. DR.. Massie, who came to this country
two years ago, to bring the address of the min
listers of England on slavery, has published in
London a volume of notes of travel. chiefly re-
lating to the slavery question in America.
THE Legislature of Ohio has removed the
last restriction upon Black Suffrage in that
State. Henceforth the Negro of Ohio will go
to the polls on the some terms as the White
man.
RThe tree under which Grant and Pember-
ton held the interview which resulted in the
capitulatien of Vicksburg, has disappeared, root,
branch, trunk and all, carried off by souvenir
hunters.
9D DR.. Alden D. Palmer of Orono, Surgeon
of Volunteers, died at Wilmington, on the
10th ult, Of fever, induced by severe and
continued labor in the care of our recently
returned prisoners in hospital at that place.
VAmong the new post roads established by
Congress at its recent session is that from Bel
fast through Brooks, Knox, Thorndike, Union
and Benton to Fairfield. The mail will go daily
each way.
gThe Mayor of Albany, N. Y, has been
arrested, and has filed recognizance to appear
at future day Tor examination, on charge of
making fraudulent returns of his income for the
year 1868.
B-A Paris feIon recently made little French
| speech from the gallows as follows; young
men, take warning by me. Falling in love with
woman was my first downward STEP" tits a
satisfaction to know that the fellow was imme-
diately swung of.
Col Gilmore of the Goth Maine Regiment,
has been recommended fora Brigadier General
by brevet, ON account of his eminent and long
continued services, and particularly for his
gallant conduct at the battle of Hatcher
Run.
B-The Augusta foundry is now engaged in
filling large contract for patent beaten hay
presses for a New York Company. There are
over two tuns of iron castings in each of these
hay presses and they weigh completed about
four tuns
- We haven't yet seen an appropriation by
the Massachusetts, Legislature for the E. & N. A.
Railroad, as an equivalent for the removal of
the restriction upon the 'sthird rail-" We hope
appropriation is made.
| RThe demands of the Sanitary and Chris
| tan Commissions are now imperious Their
treasures should be kept full at an hour like the
present On Saturday twenty-five merchants of
New York contributed $40 900 to the Christian
| Commission.
- The New England Soldiers Aid Associa-
ton of Philadelphia, held its annual meeting on
the 10Th ult., and elected J. B. Smyth, Presi-
dent; johnson Tolman, Vice President; I. P.
Wendell, Secretary, and A. C. Alvord, Treas
urer
81 The Putnam Machine Company have lately
made at their establishment in Fitchburg, Mass,
tive Blakely guns, each weighing AZ 900 pounds
The breach of each gun is clad with a mass of
steel about ~ inches thick. The guns are
for the defense of Boston Harbor, and cost
$4,000.
90 The Newburyport Herald of April LIST,
says, "Eighty-fve years ago to-day Hon. Jona-
than Greenlesf left this town on horseback, to
reach the Continental Congress of which he was
a member. The snow was SO deep that he did
not see fence or stone wall in the whole distance
to Boston,
ESome philosophical citizen of Worcester,
who modestly withholds his name from the
public, has given the liberal sum of one hun
dred thousand dollars for establishing free
school of industrial science in that city; pro-
yided that others furnish the lot and necessary
building.
EMr. Jacob Haskell Of West Gloucester,
Mass, committed suicide on Monday morning
week by shooting himself with musket The
charge entered just below the breast, killing him
instantly. He was subject to fits of insanity,
and was laboring under one of these attacks at
the time the deed was committed.
~ The Westminster RevieW speaks of the
sermons of Henry Ward Beecher as "forcible
appeals from what may be called the demo-
cratic pulpit, sometimes partaking too much of