The Portland daily press., 1865-03-14
ORIGINAL AND sELMCrHD.
- The quota of Bath is full.

AAc 4Uoto Va hdtu IL
n philadelphia wants a city park like the
Central park at New York
ETA young New Yorker has daily income
of $4,000 from the oil business.
Suicides are plenty at Chicago One
week regularly and sometimes two.
EYThirty volunteers were obtained in Ban
gor on Saturday, for the quota of that city.
81 Hon. Hannibal Hamlin arrived at his home
on Saturday evening from Washington.
Last Friday was observed in Richmond
as day of fasting and prayer.
HMr. Charles Dickens is preparing to issue
a peoples edition of his works.
B-st. Louis is to build new Jail at a cost
of $500 900.
R-All the aldermen in Savannah have taken
the oath of allegiance. NA
70 The coasting trade of Chill will be opened
to vessels of every nation on the first of May
B-It is asserted that at least seventy-five
persons were murdered in Havana during the
late carnival.
B-The breaking up of the ice in the upper
Susquehanna has caused serious destruction TO
property.
AEUlucE StAICA 40 pAdCcu dt tuC utSpOcdl Vi
the British premier by the lamented death of the
Duke of Northumberland.
RAustria has $50 900 mobiles; indolent rich
men, whom the common people have to sup
port.
- The American people are taxed vastly
more by extravaganza and other bad habits,
than by their Government.
% There are 43 reigning sovereigns in Eu-
rope. In this country, before the war, there
were nearly 80, 100000
% Thirty-one of the soyereigns of Europe
are Professionals, nine are Catholics, one belongs
to the Greek church, one is Mahometan and
one is the Pope. making 43 in all.
git is proposed to establish an overland
camel line between the Missouri frontier and the
State of California, by way of Nebraska, Kansas
and Colorado,
q Capt. Julius B. Litchfeld of Rockland,
who has long been incarcerated in the rebel
prisons of the South arrived, home on Thursday
evening of last week.
BrIn New Zealand the boys and girls swim
rivers and climb mountains for the sake of 60
ing to school. Here they do the same to keep
! out of school.
THE Boston correspondent of the Spring.
field Republican, says: "The author of Emily
Chester is no Baltimore girl as first stated, but
Miss Osgood of Fryeburg, Me-
B At the recent examinations of the severa
classes at Newport Naval Academy, about
twenty of the ''middies" were allowed to resign
because they were found wanting
20 The Toronto Board of Trade, at specia
meeting, last week, passed resolutions recon-
j mending that all descriptions of American
silver should be paid and received at a uniform
discount of four per cent.
/ % The last words of Cardinal Wiseman ar
noteworthy. Opening his eyes, after shor
respite from pain, and with smile playing Oh
his features, he said to his attendants: swell
here am at last, like a child from school, goins
home to spend the holidays"
81 Capt Usher of the cutter J. C. Dobbin,
few days since seized $4,000 cigars on board tn
schooner Atlantic, of and for Bangor from Car
denas, which put into Edgartown, the seizet
property not being entered on the vessels mani
fest.
BA cave nearly as large as the Mammot
Cave of Kentucky, has recently been discovers
about ten miles from Fort Ruby, California
1t was found to be an immense subterraneal
lake of clear water, with high walls of limeston
on either side. The ceiling or arch is fifty fee
high.
Three companies are now being organize
at Augusta, for the 18th Reg't of Me. Vol;
Two of the companies are nearly full, and ar
expected to leave this week. This regiment
in the 1at Division of the 10th Corps, statione
near Winchester, Va, and is on duty at Corp
Headquarters
B The election in New Hampshire, for stat
and county officers. and members OF Congress
comes off to-day. 1.-THE Union ticket triumphs
and we think it will it will do so in spite of tn
ss Of GS 70 S ihFST teg gd s biz eNecS
heretofore honored them into the hands of tn
opposition.
Our neighbor of the argus, as an Ameri
san citizen feels, shockingly disgraced, becaus
the Vice President drank TOO much wine befor
his Inauguration. We offer no apology for an
excess committed by Mr.. johnson, but the fir
gas''regard for the honor of the country woul
be more apparent if he had had even one wor'
of condemnation when his own Democrats
President and Vice President were both DRUM
with treason against the Government
20 Col. Woodford, the military commands
at Charleston, when called upon by one of tn
citizens committee of Charleston charged Will
the distribution of rice, and requested to ISSUE
an order requiring the colored people to meet a
specified places on one day and the white peopI
on the succeeding day, is reported to have re
plied:-''Sir; When man approaches me will
the shield of loyalty before him, he seems 81
bright that cannot see that he is black; ant
when he comes with the shield of disloyalty, b.
looks SO black that cannot see that he il
white ~ 'fi-.4 ~li''k 'ias-s'