The Portland daily press., 1865-02-13

children Is recorded in the Irish papers.
RIt is proposed to change the name of Tenn
pie Place, in Boston, to Everett street.
HThe Indians call the telegraph the whis-
p ring spirit. ..--...-.-~-s..-
y Public lecturers in France receive only
from $40 to $40 a night, according to their rep
utation hsA stt E4ff-l&4 X
70 dov. johnson, the vice president elect, is
seriously indisposed, having been confined to his
bed for several days
B-It is said that $50, 900 will repair the dam
age to the Smithsonian Institute building occa-
stoned by the late fire. @
ES petroleum fever has broken out in Con-
necticut. Some enterprising Yankee has con-
trived to 'sstrike ile.,' lss5e 81. ,iaees
% The appointment of John C. Breckin-
ridge as Secretary of War was confirmed hy the
rebel Senate on the 9th inst. Ff p
% Belle Boyds husband has been uncondi-
uonally released by order of the War Depart
ment, and sailed for Europe ON Wednesday.
~ Rev. G. P. Headley has been invited to,
the pastorship of the Congregational Church
in Waterville.
% The Augusta Journal says Rev. Cyril
Pearl of Freeport, who has been actively en-
gagged as an agent of the Freedmen's Association,
has returned home sick and exhausted.
RChicago pays 100000 year for hand
labor IN grain shovelling. 1t is now proposed
to save time and labor by employing machinery
for this work. T.
q A New York coal company has been
formed, five of whose directors are mayors or
ex-mayors of neighboring cities. 1t may prove
mayors nest.
4The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
of Manchester, N. H., have received an order
for second-class steam fire engine for New
bern, N. C. 70. g e
80 The colored citizens Of New Bedford are
making arrangements for grand celebration
in honor of the Amendment to the Constitu-
ton Ia sa8 g dH
- Vice President Fsmlin passed through
this city in the cars on Friday on his way home
at Bangor. He proposes to start on his return
to Washington to-day or tomorrow.
% Mr.. Frank LAWYERS letters from Rich
mond to the London Times are SO often inter-
cepted that each published is said to cost the
proprietors of the Times e750. 2
az Burnley, the Lake Erieraider, was in Wash
ington two years ago, trying to get into rebel
dom with plan for torpedoes, invented by his
father in Scotland.
% Senator Wilson is preparing and will soon
introduce a bill recognizing the Veteran Re
serve Corps and making it part of the regular
army. H s5i
RThe barn of Mrs. Pratt opposite the vii
lage of Caribou, in the town Of Lyndon. was
consumed by fise on Wednesday evening last.
The stock was saved, but considerable
quantity of grain, &C., was burnt Pioneer.
application has been made to Jay Cooke
& Co. by Boston banking house, to grant
wealthy firm in Bombay the privilege of plac-
ing ten millions of the 7-S0 loan among the
Hindoo and Parsee capitalists at par.
80 Secretary Stanton refused to let the New
York supervisors examine the enrolment records
on which their quotas are CHASED, and they went
home, satisfied that New York must stand the
draft. s5aat teis dlA
BThe Ohio House of Representatives is dis
cussing the question of electing young lady as
clerk Of that body. The subject was referred to
the Judiciary Committee, to report whether
such an act would be constitutional.
90 The Argus has lapsed back into its old
fault-fnding grumbling spirit, complaining of
everything done by the Government and indul-
ging IN apologies for the rebels. You can no
more makea truly loyal paper of that sheet than
you can make the leopard change his spots.
80 Hon. R. C. Winthrop, in his remarks be-
fore the Massachusetts, Historical Society on the
death of Mr.. Everett, stated that at the time of
his death, Mr.. Everett was engaged inpreparing
a Life of James L. Pettigru, of South Carolina,
and volume of Washingtons private letters.
RThe friends of Hon. joseph Eaton, says
the Waterville Mail, will be panied to hear that
he has been for some weeks dangerously i'll at
his home in Winslow. We hear, within few
day that he is gaining little, with improved
symptoms. ~ g1 s3A9
EConnecticut income lists show that Hart
ford has 154 persons with incomes of over $4,000,
New Haven 100, Nor wich 81 and New London 20.
The largest income in the State is that of Col.
Colts estate at Hartford which is reckoned to be
$l55,018
90 It is said that many lives were saved at
the recent Philadelphia fire by the device of
pelting the upper windows of tenements with
snow-bals, which, breaking the glass, awakened
the inmates in time to make their escape, which
few moments delay would have rendered inn
possible. A sa
9Commodore Vanderbilt while driving fast
in Broadway, ran over woman, and was arres-s
ted and taken to the Toombs. The Magistrate
released him when he saw who he was Later
in the day, an Irish hackman was fined 50 for
fast driving only, BY the same magistrate. This
is a sample of New York justice.
G. The Bangor Wing says VIM. 7. Preble,
private in the Sd Maine, was frozen to death
within few rods Of his fathers house in Wins
low. He was on a visit to his home, on fur
Tough, and became bewildered and died almost