The Portland daily press., 1865-01-25
ORIGINAL AVID SELECTED.

0Ohb Il LnnCA "oS PCtACotlJ 1STTt-0C.
49, ~ The Stockholders of the Rockland Bank.
Rockland, have voted to make it National
Bank - rF-
~ A young damsel of Troy, who had been
Tilted. sent back to her faithless swain his pic
ture on a carte de .yisite, with the eyes picked
out. EFgi-f.ss
ga public lecture has been delivered in Ber-
lin, before crowded audience, in fashionable
assembly room, the subject of which was ssThe
Recent Judicial Murder of Franz Muller"
e. Tanners are using petroleum in prepar-
ing their leather. 1t is said that they find it
quite as good for that purpose as fish oil, which
is generally used.
n Six hundred and forty miles of the new
Atlantic telegraph cable have been completed,
and are coiled away in tanks ready for paying
out
has recently been enlarged and improved, the
whole cost of the improvements with a new
gan being over $4,000. sWE W
81 The Maine State Press will be issued this
forenoon-price five cents. Never from its first
issue has this weekly paper been increasing its
circulation SO fast asat the present time.
81 subscriber in Bowdoinham writes
s'Please credit mswith the enclosed So, and con-
TIME sending me the best paper in the State of
Maine" Thank him for that. I1il .u5ss
~ The Argus travelled all the way to Ban
gor to copy from the Times Of that city short
article of interesting news prepal ed by us few
days since, and published in the Press.
GB The Water Power Machine Shop of Bid
detord received last week an order for worsted
machinery for new mill, which, with previous
orders, makes $3.50, 900 worth of the above ma
chinery contracted for.-[Saco Democrat.
V Is it because of the bad effect of carbon
upon animal health, that charcoal dealers
horse, nine times out of ten, is SO poor that he
looks as though he had swallowed q barrel, and
every hoop stood out in bold relief R rgg-. ] q
R They have man in Ellsworth, A years Of
age, who has never used an ounce of tobacco
nor drank a drop of tea, coffee, beer, cider,
wine nor any kind of intoxicating liquor in his
life - ae ssns
R Gen. Butler has great deal of the cat in
him, that he isalmost sure if he falls to strike
on his feet, but just at present Grant seems to
have got him down and to have placed Fort Fish
er on top of him. 8F H Ma&fR
e Western papers give currency to rumor
that MARRIAGES. likely to take place ere long be-
tween the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the
House Of Representatives, and Mrs. Douglas,
the widow of the lamented Illinois Senator.
u One of the chief blessings of q ''oorner
lot'' in our city at the present time, is the de-
lightful privilege, every other morning, of SHOW
cling out a dozen rods of sidewalk, with the
snow drifted two feet deep.
e Inconsequence of the death of the editsr
of the Saco Democrat, that establishments offer
ed for sale. I. is well-stocked Office, and has
large run of job work. For practical printer,
of he Democratic persuasion, the situation is a
desirable one.
R The Bath Times learns that Rev. VIM.
Ross. Of Illinois, who has been laboring for some
weeks back in this State as Temperance ectur-
er, has been obliged to return home in conse-
quence of severe sickness of members of his fam
lily. ehopes soon to return. asa toaa
- The Legislature is doing up its work in
earnest. The members seem disposed to close
up taesession in fifty days and go home. Let
them set an example SO worthy to be followed,
and their constituents will profoundly thank
them. III Us hlfB iDAiRH aasisa eGoC F58c
- Mrs. General Lander, better known to
the public as Miss Davenport, will commence a
theatrical engagement in New York on the 9th
proximo. For several years she has been one OF
the most active volunteer military nurses in the
Port Royal hospitals.
B- Dr. Samuel Merritt, of San Francisco,
has had two fine vessels built at Bath the past
season. One of them he loaded and cleared for
that port some time since, and the .other is MOI
loading. An advertisement of her sailing will
be found in this paper
~ reduction has been made in the cost of
kilograms in Paris. A message can now be sent
to any part of Paris for fifty centimes (ten cts J,
and the administration guarantees that it shall
be delivered within half an hour from the time
it is desp atched. =. r a
q One day, just as an English officer had
arrived at Vienna, the empress, knowing that he
had seen certain princess much celebrated for
her beauty, asked him if it were really true that
shewas the most beautiful woman he had ever
seen. 81 thought SO yesterday, A." he replied
R The standing army of Brazil numbers
about 10000 men, and in addition there is a ma
tional guard of about lOO, 900 men, similar in its
character to the American militia. The Brazil
ian Navy consists of about one hundred vessels.
over thirty of which are gunboats.
% BY the census Of 1850 the number of car
pet manufacturers in the United States was esti-
mated at l4Sl.F Of these Pennsylvania. has the
largest number, alta, and Vermont the smallest.
2; New York has $50, and Massachusetts 2O3:
Ohio has IS, and Maryland SO, while Connect.
cut has but IT, Vse fns
- IL the notice for Bishop Burgess to Off
ciate at st. Luke's church last evening, had been
sent direct to our Office instead of through the
postotiice, it would have appeared as desired
In consequence of the detention of the evening
mail the postofice was not visited by us, and the
rotice was not received till yesterday morn
ing. Is iliR .ss 3 sl
- "Suppositions and Queries" it seems to
US, is too obscure to be of general interest IT
depends too much, for its sharpness and point.
upon matters of which the readers of the Press
as such, have no information For this reason
we do not think its publication in our columns
desirable; and then we do not wish to get too
many ecclesiastical questions ON hand at the
same time. ,6s5 eee
80 AT the present high rates of labor and ma
terial there is no margin for commission to news
paper agents. We cannot sell the Daily Press
at less than $s. year, or the Maine State
Press weekly for less than $2-absolutelyt IN
Advance. To any person sending us ten new
aOeekiy subscribers, cash in Advance, we VIII
send an additional copy free for his trouble
This is our highest commission
- The duty of three per cent ad yalorem.
which the bill just passed the House imposes mn
on printing paper, in place Of the present duty
OF 20 per cent, is designed, probably, to of .et
the three per cent. tax upon domestic taper
which the manufacturer has to pay under our
internal revenue law. A leading manufacturer
told us few DAYS since that he shnnid NJ. =,