The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-18
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

81 The Medical lectures commence at Bow
dom on the oath inst. ~
RThe ice crop in the Androscoggin at Bruins
wick, is twenty-one inches thick.
EThe Jersey City Times says Rev. Foratio
Stebbins is meeting with great success in his San
Francisco pastorate.
RSeven Baptist churches have been erected
in Newark in the past fifteen years, and two more
are proposed. E#
The corner stone of the new UDiversalist
Church in Lewiston will be bid with appro-
pirate services on Wednesday next, the 22d.
~ The fire companies of Biddeford pro-
pose to celebrate Washington's Birthday in fine
style. M borFB avyra
R-The roof of barn owned by Burleigh
Pease, Esq, of Bangor, caved from the weight
of show Thursday afternoon. The damage is
about 5000. SIS 4La y
HA Town Meeting in Brunswick has voted
to pay bounties of $500, $500 and $500 to one,
two and three years men, to fill her quota, with
increased bounties to veterans. ot
e. The Argus seems to be filed with lamen-
tations because the terms of Messrs. Stephens,
Hunter Co., rebel peace commissioners, were
not met by the President.
p Several enterprising capitalists have COM
bined to establish line of frst-class steamers
between New York and Providence. hecapital
is to be $4,000
B-It is said that Henry Ward Beecher has
received permission from the Secretary of War
to preach the gospel in Charleston when that
city comes into Federal possession.
- A bill to punish strikers who interfere
with workmen, by fine of 500 each and six
months imprisonment, hos passed the Legisla-
ture of Minnesota.
VIM. C. Huff, workman in the Shaw &
Clark Sewing Machine Factory in this city, was
very severely injured on Tuesday last by the
bursting of an emery wheel which was running
at the rate of five thousand revolutions minute.
Biddeford Union.
20 The Belfast .Age, in remarking on the
cold weather OF Sunday last, says the bay was
frozen over to Castine, for the first time during
the winter. The high winds broke up the ice
and it is now clear again. o.aI Foz
RGeneral Butler has been invited by some
thirty prominent citizens of Dover, N. H., to
address the people of that city and vicinity on
questions of political interest, and has accepted
the invitation. The address will probably be
delivered on Monday next M
80 An effort has been made in the Illinois
Legislature to pass bill appropriating $685.
600 for the purchase of the ground in which
Stephen A. Douglas is buried. The committee
to which the question was referred are divided
in opinion.
THE late Dr. Holmes of Winthrop, was in
politics an old-fashion Free Soiler, and was at
| one time the Free Soil candidate for Governor
In religious faith he was Swedenborgian. His
| funeral was attended by Rev. Samuel F. Dixie,
pastor of the Swedenborgian Church in Bath.
BThe leader in the yddpertiser Thursday
seems better fitted to the Southern than the
Northern side of the Potomac The waning
credit of the Government is spoken of, when the
Government skies are selling at twelve per cent
premium, and the Seven-Thirties are selling to
the tune of four millions daily.
HThe Richmond Sentinel, referring to the
condition of things in the Confederacy, says
s.the country is going to ruin under gross and
palpable administration. Reform, instant and
thorough, is vitality essential; and the Executive
that has caused this urgent need rises up, refu-
SEES to institute reform itself, and denies the
power anywhere to enforce it."
81 We have to record this morning the con-
version to the doctrine of ultra peace and nom
resistance of the Advertiser of this city, At
least, 50 we interpret its leader of yesterday 1t
opposes all war, all forced dominion, all gov
eminent which comes in contact with the free
will of any citizen, and winds up piously with
the declaration that ''He who lives by thesword,
shall die by the sword, SO sure as God liveth."
" There are some smart people in the world
and occasionally they attempt smart trick.
For example: Thursday nights dispatches con-
tanned regular advertisement Of the great
Trade Sale to come off in Boston, but the
gauge" broke here and it didn't find its way
into our city papers. If gentlemen can't pay
for their advertising they had better not at
tempt Trade Sales. eyA
R"Perley," writing from Washington to the
Journal, says it was secret there, in July last
that Mr.. Chase desired to have Mr.. Hooper al
his successor in the Treasury Department, but
that Mr.. Lincoln selected Mr.. Fessenden, in or.
der to secure the election of Mr.. Hamlin to the
Senate. The result was exactly opposite, and il
is believed that the declared kind feeling of Mr.
Lincoln towards Mr.. Hamlin will prompt him tc
offer the retiring Vice President the naval port.
folio-if New England has not been otherwise
provided for. sa5
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