The Portland daily press., 1865-10-23
.oR1arNAL AND SELECTED.


B3-A dispatch from Washington says Gen.
dent and Secretary of War in reference to mil
itary affairs in Virginia. 1t is understood that
Stanton and Terry both oppose the withdrawal
If the few troops still remaining in that State,
while Gov. Plerpont insists that the only way
to restore amicable relations between the Gem
eral Government and Virginia is to withdraw
the troops. In the meantime the blacks, who
are not consulted in the matter, are in state
of fear and trembling lest the counsels of Pier
pont prevail.
BB-It is stated on good authority, that Col
lector Hamlin does not intend to make any re-
moyals in the Boston Custom House, and that
such vacancies as naturally occur will be filed
by meritorions- soldiers Only one change
has been made since the Collectors appoint
ment.
Gg- The Portsmouth Journal has never
known asummer so free from thunder showers
as the one just passed. The sound of thunder
has scarcely been heard in that vicinity.
The expenses of collecting the internal
revenue in the state of Maine are $13,6S6. In
New Hampshire $9,122-in Vermont only So
9S2; while in the little and compact State of
Rhode Island they are put down $12,104. There
is another item which surprises us all = Yer
mont has kept out of debt though furnishing
her full quota of troops for the war.
BB-G Gen. Howard has received letter from
Joe Davis, brother of the rebel chief, in which
he not only impudently demands the restora-
ton of his own property, but that of his broth
er jeff, which for two years past, hasbeen cul-
tivated bya colony of freedmen. The modest
rebel ven declines to de5ase himself by taking
the oath.
B~ Macmillan invites immigration. All
immigrants viii be exempted from military
service for five years, but they viii be enrolled
as militia to defend their own estates and prov
inces. The way things are managed in Mexico
that viii be equivalent to fighting all the. time.
gTwo men, while racing on horseback, in
Nashville, on Sunday last, came in contact
with a clothes-line which catching one of them
in the neck, killed him instantly.
B5Y- They are taking a registry of the voters
at New York and Brooklyn, and the democrats
say it is scurvy republican trick to cut down
their maorities. Heretofore anybody has
voted who had mind to go to the polls on cleo
ton day This year it viii be different.
EF~ The Superintendent of Education for
Canada East reports that the three normal
schools recently opened are making satisfactory
progress. Five hundred and seventy-fve pu-
pills have received the diplomas, Of whom three
hundred are now teaching. The local boardsin
the province last year licensed six hundred and
thirty-three teachers. OF these six were IL
censed for academies, twenty eight for model
schools, and five hundred and ninety-nine for
elementary schools nga sA
B Some boys who discovered at Sebastopol
an unexploded shell, relic of the Crimean
war, rolled itinto town. 1t happened to have
percussion fuse, and striking against stone
in the middle of one of the principal streets, it
saved the boys further trouble by exploding and
scattering the fragments on llsides Nobody
was hurt, however.
E The telegraph informs us that Mr. Fl.
Stephens condescends to approve of the Presi-
dents reconstruction policy. What very
gratifying circumstance that must be !!