The Portland daily press., 1865-06-26
ORIGINAL, AND sELECTED.

% Another rising In Poland is faared
4Why Is it absurd to expect a nretty girl
ose candid Because she cannot be plain.
1.-THE Treasury Department will berin the
payment Of the July interest on coupon bonds
tomorrow.
10 AN emigrant steamer which arrived at
New York from Liverpool on Wednesday.
brought thousand passengers.
u They caught . bear in Somerset county
last week, which measured six feet in length.
and weighed 400 pounds.
RThe planting of memorial tree" is to
make part Of the ceremonies of the Fourth at
Waterville.
RThe Waterville Mail notes the death Of
Dea Burgess of that town at the advanced age
Of 90 years.
GIVE learn that Hon. Lot M. Morrill, Of Au-
gusta will deliver an GRAFTON in Dexter on the
Fourth.
4Gen. Grants congratulatory address to
the armies is noble and just tribute to their
yalor and sacrifices for their country.
4The people of Bath are earnestly agita-
ting the matter of locating the Agricultural
College in Topshsm.
VThe magazine fashion plates all have quite
wide rims to girls hats. Why do they make
them rimless here By the way. the hat is the
prettiest head gear younglady can wear.
81 An exchange says that the company at
Fort Popham have been relieved from duty, and
will 60 to Augusta and be mustered out at an
early day. 4
- The Hallowell Gazette says: ssWe deny
the ibellous accusation that passengers by the
Eastern Queen are fearful of dying of old age
before they reach this port from Boston
20 The body of man named Rhoades was
found floating in the water near one of the
wharves III Rockland on Thursday. Cause Of
death, neighboring grog-hole.
| 80 The Eastport Sentinel says the Revenue
| Cutter stationed at Castine has seized two yes
sells hailing from Rockland, for violation of the
Revenue Laws.
EAllpapersin the eastern part of the state
complain bitterly of the ravages of worms.
Orchards, currants, every green thing is being
destroyed
81 All restrictions being now removed, trade
with the South is gradually commencing, and
the great Northwest will soon send new life into
New Orleans
| ~ Col Walter Hartman, late commander Of
thereturned N. Il. Eleventh Regiment, has been
elected Secretary Of State by the Legislature Of
New Hampshire. r
| gThe Boston Courier comedies that presi-
dent Lincoln deserves high honor ssas the man
who brought great nation safely through a
great war;
0Tne Providence Journal says that what
has shocked Professor Agassiz more than
anything else he has seen in Brazil is the electric
i eel. s
4It seems by the inaugural address of Gov.
Smyth that New Hampshire alone--smal1 as it is
lncomparisen with some commonwealths-sent
80, 427 men to the war. m
W The Navy Department was to sell Satur-
DAY at the Washington Navy Yard over thirty
steamers A large number of persons \ ere
there from the North to take part in bidding fol-
the vessels.
% The Rockland Gazette reports the suicide
by drowning of Mr.. Sylvanus Banks of North
Haven, aged about6o. Disappointment in re-
gard to business arrangements is assigned as
the cause of the act. ssa
~ The Wing states that Mr.. James w.
Rogers, formerly Of the 9th Reg't Ne. Vols,
attached to Engineer Corps, was drowned in
i the James River on the 9th Of June, while on
duty in boat. He belonged in Calais.
&H Saturday morning We wrote pa ragrapb
about returned veteran whom we had seen.
who had "laid aside his gun and purchased a
scyths." The compositor drew the charge from
the gun by making it read ''gear."
B-1tnow appears that at Cabinet meeting
in 1862, Mr.. Lincoln told Mr.. Chase that he had
made solemn VOW, that eff Lee was driven
from Pennsylvania, he would crown the result by
Declaration Of freedom for the siaves !!
5rA man between 80 and 40 years of age, in
attempting to cross the track of the Boston and
Maine Railroad at Lawrence. Mass. q few even-
I iaes since, was run over and killed. the whole
train passing over him.
| ~ The Mobile .NsWs complains bitterly Of
the filthy and unhealthy condition Of that city.
and predicts the most fatal consequences Il
measures are not soon taken to purify the lanes.
courts and byeways now breeding all manner Of
| pestilence.
SB-The editor of the Portsmouth Journal is
informed that nearly forty years ago, (probably
in 1927 or 49, there was season like the pres
emit, when green peas were brought into that
market from Elliot on the 18th of June as they
were this year. go IS s
| aIThe original Secession Ordinance. of vir-
ginia, is now in possession of Sergeant A. s.
Twitchell, 7th Maine Battery, who bought it Of
a rebel officer with bread and butter. Henry A.
Wise and Jubal EARLY are among the AZ signers
to the document.
0Vhe Portsmouth Chronicle says that there
is soon to be an extensive sale of public proper
ty at the Kittery Navy Yard. consisting in part
of two fine barks and fast steamer adapted to
packet line, also sale of white oak knees and
other timber. s4 ts
VThe ceremonies attendant on the presen-
tation of the wooden spoon at Yale College took
place on the 10th. c. ?. Brown of Newburg,
N T., was the fortunate recipient of the spoon,
an elegant affair of rosewood, deliberately
carved.
- Rev. s. F. Smith, D. D., has accepted
an invitation tc deliver the poem before the
Athenman and Peucinian Societies of Bowdoin
College, commencement week. DIR. Smith is
theauthor of the hymn, my Country lis of
thee, >, Co., al Sal $ IS -
~At Moderation village (Buxton) Mr.. A..
<. P. Lord is erecting three story brick build
ing requiring about $50, 600 brick in its compile
ton. The first story is designed for stores, and
the third story will be finished for large hall,
much needed for the place. Union. =
- Over the door Of small saddlery in Ga
lena, Illinois, still hangs the sign "Grant and
son." The senior member Of the firm is now
living in Covington, Kentucky, and the junior
member, now busy ON national affairs in
Washington, will visit him there sometime NEXT