The Portland daily press., 1865-03-22
ORIGINAL And SELEOTED.

EThe new British Minister to this country.
like his immediate predecessor, is bachelor.
GTRey, DR.. Chaplin will lecture in Augusta,
ON the evening of the 3oth inst.
r. The number of deaths in Bangor for the
wear ending March LIST, 1865, was 33l.
a The Address of Mayor Dale of Bangor,
makes five solid columns in The Whig.
R-The small pcx is quite prevalent at New
Orleans. '@1 = NAi-t fzs
The number OF arrests in Bangor during
the year ending March LIST, was 1856, of which
4Os were for drunkenness. 1F
The portsmouth Democratic paper con-
cedes Union majority Of 5000 in New Hamp-
shire. < AA A54N 31J AEAJ
R-The new City Governments of Bangor,
Bath, Bddeford and Lewiston were organized
on Monday last. - ~ ~
e The number of deaths in Castine for
the year ending January 1st, 1865, was one
hundred. IHSllNi HHN1
E"Parenta," said solemn lecturer, sfyou
may have children; or, if not, your daughters
may have" r1gz qw-gI Ncug1
H-Instead Of "pouring oil on the troubled
waters" the recent great food has, in the petro-
leqm regions, poured o great deal Of troubled
water on the oil,
EMr. Greelsy's book, The Great American
Conflict, 2 has been translated into German and
published for the benefit of citizens of Teutonic
extraction.
H0n the 9Th instant the students of the
University of Naples burnt the Encyolical and
Syllabus Of the Pope under the statue of Gior-
dano Bruno, 8u5 50 rIg otaf
RsTomorrew, on the last page, we shall pub
lsh poetical article entitled" Petroleum on the
Brain" after the style Of Longfellow's eek
celsior." 1t will bear reading. I'D Gw
RIt is announced that the Rev. John F.
Mines, formerly rector of the Grace Church,
Bath has been deposed from the Episcopal min
istry, by the bishop of Maine.
80 Fancy" said Sydney Smith 10 acme
ladies, when he was told that one of the giraffes
ct the geological Gardens had caught cold, ga
giraffe with two yards of sore throat'
EVA small flock of the finest American Span
ish merino Sheep sent by DIR. George B. Loring,
President of the Massachusetts, Agricultural 90.
ciety, to the Emperor Of Brazil. go with Pro-
fessor Agassiz's expedition,
gThe captain Of Norwegian vessel, going
into the harbor of Limerick, recently, was COM
PEELED to remove his 6gurehead, bust of Gar.
ibaldi, lest he should excite the evil passions of
the Meb,
HWendeil Phillips asks: '.Can you conceive
bitterer drop that Gods chemistry could mix
for son of the Palmetto State, than that
Massachusetts, flag and q colored regiment should
take possession of Charlestonr'
RMr Towle, who was fatally injured at
Brunsw wick, a few days since, in attempting to
jump upon moving train, was till recently q
citizen Of Saco, and has in former times held
several important Offices in York county. His
| age was 70. ola 81 ettgi
RHon. George Brown ofthe Toronto Globe,
it is said, has sold 5000 acres of the Boutwell,
estate, containing oiLwells, to an American
Company, for the sum of $2s0,Ooe. The pur-
chasers belong TO New York, and intend to COM
mence boring the wells Immediately. s.a .a sa
YEA Miss Van Horn of this city, islecturing
in Lewiston on Temperance. The Journal says
she is a modest but forcihle speaker, and speaks
of what she knows, having been for some years
City Missionary in Boston,, where she had
painful opportunities to witness the workings of
rum.
1--WE are indebted to Hon. VIM. P. Fessen-
den for full set of the bound volumes of the
Congressional Globe, for the first or long session
of the ssth Congress, These volumes are in
valuable for reference, and we feel duly grateful
to our distinguished townsman for SO kindly re-
membering us. ..,--~
s.-a Eenian has been arrested in Belfast
ireland, Ior using LEeas~----li- a,d sod;s;ons
language. The language in question is said to
have consisted in saying that men were coming
from America who would make the police hide
their heads, and that he did NOT care for the
Queen. ~ s9tl s4
~ The New Workers. have three railway
projects under consideration underground,
overground, and in the air. One proposition is
to run railroad along Broadway; another is to
run 1t under street through tunnel, and the
third is to build it above the sidewalks, on q
level with the second story floors. M
- England has copied the models of our
yachts aud clippers, has taken to our sewing
machines, our mechanical reapers, our steam
plows, even the Times itself is printed upon one
of Hoes lightning presses, while another is now
being made for its rival, the Daily Telegraph,
which is to give $4,000 impressions in an
hour.
~ The Bath Times intends to hit somebody
in that city, by saying ia the following singu-
l,rly negative paragraph, s'We reckon it is not
in good taste, to say nothing of its being none
of his business, for Priest of any church to
urge his congregation to strike for higher
wages, assuring them they can get 1t and should
have it,
81 Miss Mary W. Thompson, only daughter
of W. g. Thompson, ESQ.,, of Sangerville, died
suddenly at City Point, Md, on Sunday, March
18th. She was on visit to her brother. J. II.
| Thompson, Surgeon Volunteers in charge of
Rebel Camp, and at the time of her death had
been there but four days. After her arrival she
was taken violently ill with pneumonia, which
IS years of age.-[ Wing 81
! 81 We forgot to mention yesterday morn
ing in our notice of the Theatre, that at Mr..
Murray's benefit on Monday evening the hall
was literally packed above and below, seats and
aisles, there not being even standing room left.
It was splendid ovation to talented actor,
which Mr. Murray appropriately recognised in
brief speech when called before the curtain at
the close of the first piece. ef
50 The Chariot Of Wisdom and Love-
successor to Hackers Pleasure Boat--comes
out fat-footed in favor of destroying the Gov
eminent as the only means by.which to inaugu-
rate true Christian condition of society. The
editoris very frank, and thinks Mr.. Lincoln
should have hung himself before going 70 war
to save the Government from overthrow. Mr..
Hacker is one of the ..Progressives" who has ad-
vanced so far beyond the mortal sphere, that he
holds converse with angels, and breaths only the
rarifed atmosphere of the upper spheres, yet
he begs his friends for SO gross a thing as money
to enable him to run his "Chariot.' "a