The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-03

distance.
% Inc door between us and heaven cannot
be opened II that between us and our fellow-men
is shut.
3 The flower of youth never looks more
beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of
/ Righteousness. sfFT - : r75lf
! Who was the fastest woman mentioned
IN the bloie Herodias; when she got head of
john the baptist on charger
| RMhy is tobacco chewer like goose in
spit. $500 - -
For the first time in thirty years. the
Patapsco is SO filed with drifting ice as to offer
serious distractions to steamboat navigation. -
% Gen. Meade arrived in Philadelphia on
Friday on flying visit to his family. returning
to the front on Sunday night.
| % Elihu Burritt, "the learned blacksmith ,,
is the United States consul at Birmingham. Eng
land. a. r assoqa ~
% Senator Henderson of Missouri has been
serenaded as the person who first introduced
into Congress the proposition for the amend
ment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. 4
% The Boston Advertiser makes hard hit
in circulating the report that Admiral Porter
has just made requisition on the Navy De-
partment for ten carboys of the best black ink.
q A writer in Zion's .9duocate takes strong
ground in favor of Congregational singing in
public worship, and regards it, when properly
conducted, as powerful means Of grace
80 An official return Of the condition of the
British navy, just published in London by the
medical officers of the Admiralty, shows death
rate of fifteen in thousand Ioe5 1900
80 Two women, a mother and daughter, in
Syracuse, who were supported as outdoor
paupers, were found to have saved about $l400
in coin.
~ The Theatre Royal az Edinburgh, was
totally destroyed by fire on the 18th instant,
and number Of persons were killed and in
jured
q In the reign Of James I, when a person
was invited out to dinner he took his own knife
with him, and on entering the house of his host,
found awhetstone behind the door on which to
sharpen it, lsfia ta aslHlgaW N3a gol hasaay
HThe attorney general of Tennessee is at
Washington, with petition Endorsed by Andy
johnson, that the military rule may be ended in
Tennessee. and the state be allowed to resume its
civil functions, IN i: $500.
- Horace Greeley advises q correspondent,
who inquiries whether the editor thinks it would
pay for "a poor printer" to invest little in
petroleum companies, to put his money into
government bonds.
q Side-wheel steamer Harriet Lane, cap
tured by the rebels at Galveston and since called
the Livonia, was burned in the Gulf of Mexico,
Jan. 18th, probably by rebel sailor who had
not received his pay.
RWe are requested to state that r. M. Ray,
ESQ will deliver lecture before the. Prentiss
Lyceum at Academy Hall, Gorham, this (Fri-
1 day. evening at J 1-2 o'clock. Subject - Wrm.
| Tell. 90 80 nn - m
! BIn Bangor the passageAof the Constitu-
tional amendment by Congress. was observed
by ringing Of bells and general display Of
/ flags. In this city it has been observed by sex
pressiye silence 49, esgas f5.ls ,'T5lgTo1F
50 The amount of the seven and threeltenths
loan passed over to Jay Cooke & Co. for nego-
! tiation, is about one hundred and rninety-six
million dollars. They hope to dispose Of it be-
fore the middle of May or first of June. r
q Rev. H. W. Rugg, who was recently com
PEELED by an affection Of the throat to resign the
pastorate ofathe Universalist church in Bath,
has received a Clerkship in the Postofice De-
partment at Washington.
81 Among other novelties which the season
at Berlin has brought into the way of theatrical
production, is q new farce from the pen OF ex-
King Ludwig Of Revaria. Tho titieef. .he pisse
which consists of hntzonea act, -is- "a Recipe
against Mothers-in-law."
EN-. B. Davis, identified at Norwalk, Ohio,
A,,lo
(Ga. military prison, and who confessed on
arrest to be the bearer of dispatches from Rich
mond to Canada, has been sentenced to be hung
on Johnson's Island, Feb. 17.T'F gTH W1T
BrA painful mistake has just been discovered
in the affairs of the board of guardians of the
poor at Halifax. 1T was reported at recent
meeting that q barrel of the masters best ale had
been distributed among the ipaupers at their
meals, by mistake. sb4soi is,7s. H.. 80,
BThe Boston regaiionalist takes essen
TALLY the same view of ecclesiastical councils
and their powers as that advocated in our col
umns by Rev. Mr.. Walton, while the Christtan
Mirror, the Boston Recorder and the Vermont
Chronicle sustain the adverse view. ig~aila41
! . When Archbishop Laud was on his trial
he was told that if he had not committed one
great act of treason he had perpetrated so many
! small crimes as, taken together, to make him
atraitor. 81 never knew" said the Archbishop,
chat one hundred black rabbits made up a
black horse.'
r A short-sghted professor, in going out
Of the gateway Of his college, ran against COW.
| In the confusion of the moment he raised his hat
and exclaimed, 81 beg your pardon, madam 70
Soon after he stumbled against Q lady in the
street, and, in sudden recollection Of his former
mishap, he cried out, SIS this you again. you
| brute?' sfgBtA gi1e8 8TEaA
EA rebel officer was walking down enc of
the streets of Southern city, clad in dress
coat With; uncommonlyI short skirts, He was
hailed by a bare-footed sentinel with 81 say,
mister, did you buy that ere coat with the old
issue Y e Yes; why do You askf p was the re-
sponse." e"Cause thought So It's docked
about thirty-three and one-thrd per cent"
The sentinel was Immediately taken out and
shot. O." - y - u . q 81 % "a
.ssE Rumor says that Mr. John "A.
Poor's business in Boston has less to do with
the interests of the European and North Ameri-
can Railway than with new scheme he has in
view to build an airline road from the end of
Long Wharf to Cape Cod Light. He is engi-
neering for the right of way through Massachu-
sets Bay. His ~ h# a'tin9ita tlsfd .ssi31aa
HJohn S. Rock, ESQ.,, of Boston, has been
admitted to the bar of the .. s, Supreme Court,
accepted by Chief Justice Chase. and swore in
without objection. though he lisa colored man;
the first ever admitted to that court: Who will
say the world has not moved, since the Chief
Justice of that same tribunal enunciated The
barbaric doctrine thata colored man has no
rights which white man is bound to respect !
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with vehemence, and exhibits zeal worthy Of
its object. We accord to it full share Of sym
patty in the position it takes, but still it strikes