The Portland daily press., 1865-01-27
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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81 Gen. Banks expects to leave for New Or
cans next week. t
W ole Bull recently appeared at q concert
10 Berlin, after aretrement Of many years.
% 1t is reported that Gottschalk is going to
WISH Mexico next spring, -with piano forte ac-
compartment
4 80 patent has been issued to Hon. Charles
Jarvis, OF Ellsworth, for root cultiyator and
weeder.
80 The health of Major General John E.
WOOL United States Army (retired), is said to
be fast falling. AZ R-a w
q VIM. Wilkinson, Both Maine regiment,
and :. >. Wentworth, I'd Maine cavalry, were
drowned in the steamer North America.
20 The best quality of gas is said to be man
ufactured from petroleum, at a cost of only 81 so
per thousand feet g5se&1k 5e8E -
81 General Mcclellan and wife sailed from
New York for Europe in the steamship China,
on Wednesday last a 6alaae t.
/ ~ On the first page is an admirable Educa-
tional article, addressed to the members of the
Legislature. M o e4
| - fractional currency, printed on a new
material as strong as parchment, will shortly be
issued by the Treasury Department. sg
81 The Connecticut Republican State Con-
vention is notified to meet at New Haven, Febu-
airy 18th, to nominate candidates for State off
GERS. 90 9aa'1ea
- Our friend of the Gardiner Journal NAV
rest assured that we have not Intentionally mis-
represented his views, nor do we see wherein we
have done 50. eo Atai as8 4as
| 81 Ten of the bounty jumpers who escaped
from Augusta Friday night, were arrested in
Lewiston Saturday forenoon and lodged in Au-
burn jail. ID ssss m ess .lIlR 3.e
R In one of the sheep grazing counties Of
Ohio, yearling ewes have lately been sold at $500
to $3.50 dollars piece. A two year old buck
sold for $25oo. and one of five years for $4,000.
~ John W. North, ex-judge of Nevada, and
formerly resident of Syracuse, N. Y, has COM
menced a 800, 900 libel suit against the Terri
torial Enterprise, a Nevada newspaper. as
/ q General Dix has ordered the suppression
Of the personal notices" in the New York
.Ne,cs, which are made the medium Of commu-
nication between rebels South and North H
81 General Meagher and his brigade, seven
thousand strong, passed through Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, on Sunday, for New York, where
they will embark for Savannah to join General
| Sherman. 4eoa G0t4L47a
II John Steel, of Philadelphia, lately died
from the effects of the kick of horse. He was
! the wealthiest man in Pennsylvania, and his re
ceipts (from the oil business) were $4,000 q
day. 44lsa L II
81 The Aduertiser takes strong ground in
favor of repeating the existing law which pre-
vents the laying of third rail from this city to
Boston 1t argues that the extension of the
broad gauge to Boston will benefit this city. "a
RIn the navallist Of casualties at the storm
ing of Fort Fisher, we notice the name of Lieut.
Commander Charles H. Cushman, son of Judge
| g. G. Cushman, of this city, reported wounded.
Lieut.. Cushman is the chief officer on board the
Y. 8. Steamer Wabash. Bangor Wing.
~ Rev. DR.. Blagden preached a sermon at
the Old South Church, Boston, Sunday after
noon, for moderate use, instead Of total absti-
nence, as to liquors and other creature comforts.
The reverend doctor is supposed to speak exper-
imentally.-lSp Springfield Republican. .
~ How is it By the returns of the Grand
Trunk for the last week, its net receipts are
shown to be ST. ,097 90 more than for the CORES
ponding week last year. How, then, has the
passport system ruined the business of the
road? .atA &
- The Bangor papers say that 1t. Col. C.
P. Mattocks of the 18th Me. regiment, and Capt
Litchfeld and Lieut.. Hunt, after escaping from
prison at Columbia, 8. c., were recaptured when
4 near the Union lines, and to Danviiie, Va,
where they now are.
81 The Minnesota House of Representatives
cnns;sta ,f FORTY ona mn baro f,,rta., - ~ho,
are from New England. The Senate consists OF
twenty-one members, twelve of whom are from
New England, four Of the latter being from
Maine fsa y 81 is ~ ssrSA
81 The brutal assault upon Judge Kelley by
one of the claimants for q seat in Congress from
Louisiana, has served only to prejudice the ques-
ton of admitting the delegates from that state.
j Plantation manners do not take at the national
capital under present auspices. aAus
h. 81 The Albany Epening Journal has a story
of business man in that city who was supposed
to be very rich, but who returned such small
income to the United States assessor that the
banks have refused to discount a note for him
on his own security. NJ.
81 A train Of cars on the Rome, Watertown
and Ogdensburg railroad left Cape Vincent, on
the St. LawrenceI river, on Tuesday morning of
last wrek and reached Watertown-twenty-fve
miles distant-on Thursday night. The snow is
deeper in northern New York than it has been
for several years. rs
H The Richmond Sentinel of recent date
says, 1--WE violate no confidence in stating, as we
do upon adequate authority, that the House of
| Representatives has not devoted thirty minutes
of all its secret sessions since the commencement
OF the present term, to the consideration of peace
/ propositions Ri
81 This year there will be six eclipses-two
of the sun, two of the moon, one of JEFF. Davis
and one of his rebellion. Theeclipses of the sun
occur on the 18th of April and the 18th of Octo-
Der; those of the moon ON the 18th of April and
21st of October, and the other two at conven-
lent season, not long to be deferred. s0 s
/ n The Raleigh IN. CO. Progress says Gen.
Terry was within eight miles of Wilmington and
had demanded of Bragg the surrender of the
city, giving the latter until the 10Th inst to de-
eide in, The removal of public property from
the city was going on. The general impression
was the city would fall. a5
80 The court room yesterday and the day be-
fore was pervaded by decidedly sleepy atmos-
pierre The attention of court, bar, jury and
parties was occupied in listening to the reading
Of old files Of the Argus. We pitied Bro. Ad-
ans, for it is a terrible ordeal for an editor to
sit and be bored with the evidences Of his youth
ful indiscretions. bab
81 The article inrelation to Mrs. Browns
proposed marriage is capital, and makes its
point as distinct ass carbuncle on toper's nose;
but if we should publish it we should be almost
sure to be misunderstood, and suspected of max
ing fun of matter regarded with special rever-
ence by many of our best aud truest friends
For this reason only we decline it. 81,
81 The Smithsonian Institution, which was