The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-14
ORIGINAL AND SNLEc1ED.

10 The Everett Monument Fund had reached.
on Saturday night, $40 ,667. ar
20 The Boston Sunday Leader has been dis
continued for lack of patronage.
w The mercury was twenty degrees below
zero at Bangor, an Sunday morning l.st
70 Rev. James W. Hunnicutt, refugee from
virginia, well known in this state. lectured in
Newburyport last evening. I EfT8I
~ Fernando Wood has been formally read
out OF the peace-at-any-prce party, BY the N.
Y. Metropolitan Record. sass6 80
W The Brazilian Government have excluded
the rebel pirate Shenandoah from the ports Of
that empire. 70 Ff03 < svsss y, -
HThe police of Baltimore report 1861 houses
OF hi-fame in that city, and the number Of in
mates to be $50. ,olE Seg msFr4
~ The Boston Commercial Bulletin is pub
fishing a series of " Petroleum Papers, or
Sketches in OIL r. y s8sos 8
RIhere was another Cyclone in. India, on
the 2ad of Now, 300 miles north of Madras in
which SoO lives were lost. ua asissa3 70 80 -
q Arrangements have been made at the
Michigan University for the celebration Of Wash
ington,s birthday. Geo. w. Curtis will deliver
an address, 80 isss9lsoa4
| 80 Messrs. Cohen and Jones, accused with
Col North Of fraud in the New York soldiers
votes, have been released, the commission hay-
ing acquitted them, S. .5ssa ~ = is ~
Efhe Troy FINES contradicts the report
that DR.. Mott, the president Of Union college,
is in failing health His prospect for life is still
4 good, ,A se e si.a, 3 ao9- a44oa a
! William B. Fowie, for many years school
teacher in the eastern part Of Mass, and author
| OF several educational works, died at Medfeld
on the 9TH Isggge Assse aszf'
EFA refugee from Texas estimates that 1000
wagons are employed in taking cotton to the Rio
drande, and carrying back implements of war,
&c., into the interior Of Texas for the rebels.
- The latest reported present to Mrs. Gen.
Grant is a fine piano, valued at $1,000, in rose
wood case. It will form part of the ifarnitare in
her Philadelphia mansion e-eAt
81 VIM. Lloyd Garrison is to deliver an
GRAFTON in Newburyport on the cad instant.
on the subject of the constitutional amend
meat e.3 ~ ~ e. e9is sl'' issal
a bill has passed the National Senate
making the bridge over the Ohio a post route,
provided tits built 100 feet above low water mark
and with a 1000 feet span bsr abas HFFy
BT The rebel Senate. on the I'd inst inst. voted
thanks to John Lancaster Of England, for res
cuing Capt. Semmes in the yacht Deerhound. at
the time the Kearsarge sent the Alabama to the
bottom of the sea-
gY- The ice in the river at Albany is twenty
inches thick, Asudden thaw would produce
most damaging freshet. Ice on the Potomac, at
Washington, twelve inches thick, was cut fort
right ago. o.
RRy order Of Gen Grant, all officers on
leave Of absence. who take passes on govern
ment transports for the front, will be required to
pay established rates of fare, the same as though
they were citizens. 7lsls asVa 81
" Chief Justice Chase presided Sunday eve
ming at great missionary meeting at one of the
Washington churches, at which Senators Harris
and Wilson, and Representative Patterson of
N. H. were speakers. A0&
80 The papers tell of lady in Boston who
was recently delivered of bouncing, hearty
boy He probably spurned the usual diet of
such young gentlemen, and called for roast beef
and plum pudding.
% - T. A. Plaisted, of Gardiner, has two
buildings so feet long by 40 wide, three stories
in height, for the manufacture of stone ware. He
employs thirty hands and consumes 500 cords of
wood annually. 5 ssi. ssS S 5Iss.sa ss.
s4tg3r OF the land given by, Congress for an
agricultural college in Massachusetts,, scrip for
99,2OO acres has been sold for $79,325.
There remains to be sold scrip for 224 900
4 acres. 81 M s ~ y ~ .
L. % The mouths delay to the st. Adams raid
ers having expired without their having an op-
portunity to communicate with Richmond, they
applied for delay Of month longer, but their
a request has been denied sian.i aa
z - We thank the Waterville Mail for its kind
word, and hope we may never forfeit its good
opinion. Itsays: 1.-THE Press is bold and able
a champion OF FIRE dom and right and the loyal
people OF the State do well in giving il cordial
4 support ts ~ 81 AZ ssIaa
- When the war began Beauragard asser-
ted that he would die in the last ditch. The
other day, in Mobile, be notiaed the people Of
that city, that she intended TO fight to the bitter
end-and that if he failed he could beg passage
to some foreign country rrgg
HFOn the 23d of March the Rev. DR.. Benton
Of Concord, N, H, viii complete the fortieth
year of his pastorvte of the North Congrega-
tional Orthodoxy church in that city. His
parishioners propose to make it the occasion for
substantial token of their regard.
HLuther G, Tibbets, q member of the New
York Corn Exchange, has brought suit for de-
famation OF character against sixty-four mem
bers OF that association, claiming 81 ,OOo, 900
damages from each of the sixty-four persons
named Fsfa s
~ John Mcdonald, who robbed Mr.. Weston,
the Expressman, while driving from Lynn to
Beverly, about Christmas last. has been ON
trial before the Superior Court at Salem. and
Friday afternoon the jury brought in verdict
convicting him is'els@ te15FGet A
u Branchville, occupied by Gen. Sherm an ia
about 10 miles northwest Of Charleston. on the
North Edisto river and at the junction of two
4 OF the most important railroads leading into
Charleston. It commands the main artery nv
which the city is supplied. sa.s a
% The Boston Post says the President had a
right to suppose, before he left Washington for
Hampton Rosds, that his basis Of peace-retprr
to the Union--had been accepted by JEFF Davis.
The Post comes to this conclusion from reading
the documents contained in Mr.. Lincoln,s late
special message. se 81 UP as.fw le M
% Referring to the passage in Congress of the
Constitutional Amendment, the Manchester
Union says; "Mr. Sweat, of Maine, stood up
to the work like man, and gave the proudest
vote New England ever cast-solitary and alone
against the Abolition amendment" Mr.. Sweat,s
friends here ''don't see il. - -
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% Isaac Funk, Senator in the Illinois Legis-
lature, died in his residence in Bloom;n oton
January 18th, of erysipelas. On the 18th of
February, 1868, Mr.. Funk delivered speech in
the Illinois Senate, the intense patriotism and
broad humor OF which caused its extensive
publication and made him generally known. u