The Portland daily press., 1865-01-26
AVID SELEOTRD.

y Senator Morganis understood to decline
the nomination of Secretary Of the Treasury.
~ General Butler is said to be on his way
home from Washington.
R-Edwin P. WhippIe lectured in Augusta the
other evening, on 'Shoddy."
R' poor family in Cincinnati has fallen
heir 10 a fortune Of seven million dollars.
81 A young lady in Lewiston was recently
arrested charged with stealing cloud
E Small Pox is prevailing to an alarming
extent in New York and Brooklyn.
e While dancing at "rafHs'' at house in
Hartford, Saturday night, Peter Condron sud
denly fell to the floor and expired.
~ Rev. Mr.. Bulkley, pastor Of church at
Winsted, Ct, has been dismissed, simply from
the fact that he tcouid skate!
q The Department Of the Ohio, commanded
by Major Gen. Scho6eld, has been added to the
command of Gen. Thomas. Al3 50 ~
81 The late snow storm was very severe in
central New Hampshire-the seserest of the sea-
son. e asHe aefs & IS 8
B Il is said that Gen. Butler will resign his
commission Is heis not assigned 10 duty He is
not the man to be drone in the army hive.
q Manufactures are developing on the Pa
cifc slope. In Oregon City the ediice for an
extensive woolsn actory is going up. aga
~ The Chickering'S piano forte trade is now
worth two millions per annum. They are max
ing fifty pianos per week. ~
- Wateryille, Brunswick, and other towns
are paying $500 for volunteers. Jonesboro has
raised $500 per man. sne ld e9dsil11<s n
q Butter is accumulating in New York city,
there being no shipping demand to keep down
the stock. A -. "a w.
q The stockholders of the Frontier Bank,
PASSPORT, are considering the question of re-or
ganizing under the National system. ~
% Three dollar bills on the "Lincoln County
Bank" of Wiscasset are in circulation in this
State. There is no such B4nk. Fe q iih4
q The citizens of Cherryfield held a Town
Meeting the 14th inst, and voted to raise Sc, 900
to procure substitutes ior, the men that may be
drafted, under the last CALL si.,sf 7a4
g The Bangor Wing says the storm Of
Monday night was the heaviest of the season in
that section-about fifteen inches of snow hav-
ing fallen. ba ~ dsu asars srse s.
81 General Butler humorously suggests for
his own epitaph, "Died of the Regular Army
The Post says the regular army nearly died of
an attack of him. 81 =. ~
~ The recent catastrophe at music hall, in
Dundee, Scotland, by which about twenty lives
were lost, was the result of an insufficient en-
trance to the building 4 ~ &
The Springfield Union says that since the
war tax struck the whiskey in that place, it has
e0 hot, =. =
frozen, and sold by the stick -
I u We have got more long articles on hand
than we can find room for in the Press for q
month to come. If correspondents expect to be
accommodated they must study brevity.
e. In the town of Lyman pine tree, seven
feet through at the stump, and which made
three thousand feet of lumber, has been cut the
present winter. a.o5-as .1iis i7aq.as4
E - Jersey man was lately arrested for fog
ging woman, and excused the act by saying
he was near-sighted, and thought it was his
wife. ,1nel ae 8 saaa
e Senator Wilson's amendment to the en-
rolment law introduced Wednesday has thea
proval of Mr.. Stanton in all its essential fea-
lures. ss&e
- The colored citizens of New Orleans own
real estate to the value of $50, 600, 00O and
they now have daily newspaper--the Tribune
printed and edited by colored men,
81 The rebel House of Representatives have
passed o resolution authorizing the seizure of
sll tobacco and cotton in the Confederacy fr
government use ah se aat7rs
81 Lewis A. Ball Esq, barrister Of Thor
| old, C. w., was found frozen to death in his
slsigh, near st. Catharines, on the 10Th ult He
was respectable man, of forty-ive years of
age. iss1ss dfEo.Hsa is "a tlstlifaf sal {
e. General Gilmore dedicates his recent re-
port to ''The Honorable Elwln NJ Stanton, for
his truth and candor as a man, his purity as a
patriot, and his wisdom, energy and justice as q
public Officer v-rgNrr. : =
- The Unitarians propose to raise 500 900
for UNCONVENTIONAL purposes, at an early day
and it is expected that tbirty-6ve churches in
Boston and vicinity viii contribute $7U,o OF
that sum. .4ossiqqo49 .sGHREU Is 3
81 A telegraph messenger boy in, Newport
recently fshed out of the water at a wharf, a
small package, which contained fine gold
watch in good order and stilIrunning, the ms de
beng perfectly dry. d a5sIa 81 nv a5i. ,55-s
sR The population of California, including
Cinnamon and Indians, is about 400 900. ortwo-
thirds that Of this state. OF this population
nearly 1900 are in the two State insitutons---the
Asylum for the Insane and the State Prison. II 3
h - Mr. John Snnet hostler at D. B. Mitch
| els stable, while Leading horse to water Tues
day afternoon, stopped to adjust the blankef,
/ when the horse whe eled and kicked at him, strk-
| ing him in the face. He is doing well.-[ Bath
| Times. 'AlssAA ~ 81 5AAssA@ NJ t''N'
/ e. We, through mistake, placed the heads of
the marriages and deaths last week vice rersa-
| An old Batch at our elbow remarks that it makes
no difference, that be should rather have his
name under the deaths than under tho mar
riages Cruel brute II Hallowell Gazette.
81 The doctors in Burlington, Vermont, are
jubilant over the adoption of the city charter.
| The Times says; rUpon the well recognized
principle that it is healthier to live in the coan-
try than in the city they anticipate lively work
| now.'' ,xm v
Il % A beautiful and finely matched quilted bed
| quilt has been made by Mrs. Sarah Currier, of
| West Gardiner. aged eighty years, and given by
her for the benefit of sick soldiers. in token of
her love and generation for the heroic defenders
of the dear old flag which tells of freedom
| Augusta Journal. 1e 81
" Arthur Leech has written q communities
ton to the London Times. complaining Of the
dissertation of the tomb of John Runyan. The
recumbent statue of the most Immortal of
dreamers,' he says. has been mutilated, parts OF
the nose and mouth being completely gone, evil
| IDENTIFY the result of ruthless violence. s
~ Letters of the 18th from Charleston har-
Dor say that three rebel iron-cads are distinctly
visible at the mouth Of Cooper River, while a
large number of men are busy about fourth
one, from whose pipes smoke was issuing as il
she had up steam. This one is much larger than
the others. 5aa sa ed atsas1rnstl
~ An ingenious New York speculator saw
the names of Ex-President Pierce and Caleb
| Cushing on the register of the Aston House ON