The Portland daily press., 1865-10-25

taEsE ksg.E IA
BB Lowells SO cotton mills employ 948 males
and / $50 females, and last year produced ST.
125,753 worth of fabrics; two calico and muslin
delaine mills employed 1888 males and II
females, and turned out $3,167,122 worth of
fabrics; 10 woollen mills employed 500 females
and thfAed out Sp,62Oy2i4 worth of fabrics;5
carpet mills employed 1872 males, 573 females,
and turned out $3.57O.45S worth of carpeting.
,E7 A boyln Detroit only fifteen years of
age shot a steamboat captain who had COM
mitted an atfoefous offence upon his sister put
ting three balls into his body. The boy then
walked into the court room where his victim
hadbeen undergoing examination, and gave
himself into custody. ~ nNnf
GR- A few days since Mr. Samuel Alexander
of Blackstone, r, l., was found dead in hog
pen, while the hogs were literally devouring
and tearing him to pieces in most horrible
manner. + Tits supposed that he fell into the
pen while in cit. He was IS years of age and
of strictly temperate habits. H9U haA
% The Savings Banks of San Francisco
have at this time on deposit the sum Of $57O2,-
7Q8, and are no other Savings Banks Jon
the Pacific coast The depositors receive about
one per cent. per month interest thereon, Or for
the year 1864, 324 - r.srF~s
BB Frederick Douglass is to deliver the I'd
lecture ofthe Fraternity Course, in Boston,
this evening. Subject, 2The Assassination and
its Lessons.nl s94s13 ,es aait0 .slie49 1niFg
-The New York. World, which alw5iaaygsde-
nouneed the war and all its supporters and did
its utmost to hinder its progress and prevent
its success, now lauds General Slocum to the
Democrats as their schosen captain--captain.
too, in the grand campaigns which bles sed the
nation with unity and peace-captain now in
the struggle to9establish forever that unity and
guard that peace p i'7l rs ~ 1871 tii 9i92
!BY& terrible ARRAY occurred on election
day att Madison Precinct, Fremont County,
Iowa, in which William Blue. was stabbed in
the abdomen, and Jack Blue shot in the spine.
One man, by the name Of Hale, received five
stabs and a shot in the back. Another man of
the same name was knocked down and severe
lyinjured, man badly stabbed and several
others more orless injured None of the in
iured are dead, but all are in critical .condiL
ton. The quarrel wss not a political one, but
resulted from an old family grudge sar~4ss
BB-A man in London, by suit at Law, recov-
OAOA OlAO h0LtiACu pOuuOS 1IOLu d QfupQlSG VINO
prescribed and gave him mercury pills; where
as he should have administered rhubarb. The
man fell SIGH, and recovered as above. a9s'ssA
ga, lady, writing to the Penasylvanian,
says j" Speaking of beauty, Il wish people
would dress pleasantly, benevolently. ! saw a
lovely girl to-day looking unloyely and unIote--
able, because her muslin dress was stifaly
starched, to keep clean longer h Ny. laundsess
tries to persuade me into the barbarous custom.
To my mind, 'awoman should always look as
soft to the touch as a flower, and as pure, An
her garments should be made of the finest and
softest material 9 possible that win dispose
itself into fold, falling gracefully around her,
and not by being liable to betruflied every mo-
ment, compel her to stiff attitudes and starched
demeanors denying her luxury of lounge and.
lell why, my very words would grow eprim and
precise, were to wear dress which depended
on fiouro potato forts proprietg.sI .ETIW
.GR Rev. pr, Norman Macleod, the clebra-
ted Scotch divine, said recently at a Glasgow
meeting, in reference to the abolition ef -Slay-
cry in America - Whsnst the. resdltto6k place
the emancipation of four millions of the hu-
man race, he was anazedy he was ashamed he
was huHpleu, Unat no greater demonstration of
thankfulness had been had been had bV this
country i Scotlandl. IF we had had a day of
living in Britain 1t would have been wor-i
thy of the land, but hardly had there been any
recognition of it," 20 s5neahaa e. ssssaas -
gaf1 The Indianapolis Gazette is disposed to:
offset Iowa against Connecticut. The New
England state voted against equal Esufffhgc;
and the western state voted for it on
square issue and after. a Straightforward battle.
The cause Of freedom hassnot lest any ground,
it is only the point of vantage that is changed.
We confess it seems to us a very pardonablei
pride with which cur Indiana ceatemporary
points out the fact that while certain. sections
of Now England have been pleased to sheer at
what has been called the cowardice Of the
West upon this issue, it is Western State
that proves faithful to human rights, while a
New England COMMONWEALTH turns her back
upon Them But we. have not lost faith even
in the blue Law"state. She will redeem herr
sell yet, gTlW q W % ggaoid y Il
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