The Portland daily press., 1865-02-21
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

OF massachusetts,,
The Everett Monument fund has reached
$so,167.>
W Inc purified righteous man has become
com OF the Lord land has the impress of his king
stamped upon him.-[Tertullian.
% Jay Cooke reported $685., 900 ofthe 7-30
bonds subscribed for Saturday. How the credit
OF the Government is going down
- The tables of mortality indicate that Bos-
ton is less healthy than London or Philadelphia,
but more healthy than New York.
- during the late cold weather Mr.. Frank
Shores of Portsmouth, froze his feet so badly
that one of them had to be amnutated.
ID Keep the skin, stomach and bowels in
good order, and GU may laugh in the doctors
face throw physie to the dogs, and look for
death as the result only of old age or accident.
B-The Metropolitan Hotel in New York, is
owned by A. 7. Stewart, the merchant prince"
and it rents for $36, 600 year, or about 500 a
day.
81 We admire to see man remove from his
mouth a twenty-five cent cigar, to allow him to
ind fault when charged five cents for morning
paper. It shows his economical habits.
% There is much talk in the southern part of
England about the severe trosts this winter, for
which the memory has to go back many years
to find parallel.
% The Commissary- General makes report,
which is approved by the Secretary of War, to
the effect that no change is needed at present in
the army rations
% The Peekskill Democrat says that Hon.
Robert P. PARROT of West Point Foundry, has
paid the taxes of all the widows and soldiers alb
sent to the war living in the town of Phillips
town, Putnam county.
90 II is estimated that $50 vessels and 1900 men
are employed in dredging for oysters in the wa
tiers of Maryland, while twice as many men are
engaged in the search after the bivalves, with
rakes and tongs, in open boats.
- General orders show that General Foster
has not been relieved in the command OF the
Department of the South, but has simply been
granted leave of absence on account of disability
from wounds.
GYA man went into Gunsmith's shop on
Exchange street few days since and inquired if
they bought old gold. On being told they did
not he said he bad two old steel pens he wished
to SELL
B-Col. N. G. Taylor, the eloquent East Ten
nessean, who electrified our people about year
| since, delivered lecture in Boston Sunday
evening concerning the Union refugees from the
South. 5a
- There are four sorghum mills in Milford,
Conn, and they manufactured IA, 1000 gallons of
sorghum molasses last year, worth now 81 IS
per gallon. One man raised, on go rods of
ground, cane which produced 1903 gallons.
MS9@Dr Holrnnc eavc in hio v,nxu Jao+ura ~
| should be no reproach to New England that she
has many insane persons; the persons who fight
the battles of thought will have most killed and
wounded.
- Mrs. Washington Remington of Smith
field, R. l., has recently woven so yards of linen
on an old fashion hand loom, spinning the
thread from fax raised by Olney Aldrich 40
years ago.
% In an exciting debate in the rebel Congress,
Mr.. Orr of South Carolina, was opposed, to
arming the slaves, stating that 900 out of 1000
would join the National army if given their
choice.
R Jamaica papers deplore the dearth of
labor in the British West India colonies, since
efforts to obtain free negroes from the U. s., or
supplies of coolies or liberated Africans, have
wholly failed. 3oaaa8g
- Three-fourth Of all our discomforts come
of intemperance; = over-eating, overwhelming
or other gross violations of the known laws of
life. The glutton is as far from the kingdom of
Heaven as the drunkard.
R Mr.. John A. Poor was quite indignant be-
cause we spoke of him as citizen of Bangor,
but one of our city contemporaries intimates
that he has not paid tax here for series of
years. 1t would be interesting to know if he
has paid anything else
BA complete biography of the late Rear
Admiral Foote is in preparation by Rev. DIR.
Bacon of New Haven, who has undertaken the
work at the request of the family. Admiral
Foote was communicant of DR.. Bacon's
church. 10
gFWe admire to hear great, bloated, lazy
loafer, who never did work enough in his life to
| pay for the salt in cup of cruel, expressing
his very great concern for the interests of labor
and the laboring classes. Such louis = mere
drones in the hive-are the worst foes to indus
try known to free people.
80 1t is understood that Dr. Livingstone is
determined again to devote himself to African
discovery, and is now planning an exploring ex-
petition from the east coast of Africa to the dis
trict lying between his most northern point on
Lake Nyassa and Burton and Speke's southern
most on Lake Taganyka.
81 The booksellers and newspaper publishers
of Buffalo have petioned Congress for a repeal
OF the impost onchemcals, lettings, wire cloths,
and other articles used in the manufacture of
paper, and also, the abolition of the excise tax,
on the ground that lis virtually tax on knowl-
edge. This is a sensible and practical method by
which to reduce the price of paper
% In the State Democratic Convention of
Connecticut, 1t was resolved that the PROPOSE
ton now submitted to amend the Constitution
was blow aimed at the destruction of State
rights, forgetting that of the rights of States
waste adopt, or reject this very proposition
Thus we see that Copperhead Democracy goes
Ior slavery, and consistent Republicans go for
Freedom. This is just the difference. -[Ports-
mouth Journal
20 Bierstadt has just completed painting of
Mt. Hood in Oregon. This mountain is Is. 900
feet high, about forty miles from Portland and
Vancouvre from both of which places fine views
are obtained, and twenty-five miles south of the
Columbis river. Like our own Katahdin it ap-
pears to rise to its full height from surroun-
ding plain. 1t is one of the peaks of the Cascade
range.
% Some lobbyists would persuade the world
that pork is but another name for poison, and
that the squeal of hog is as fatal to human
health as the blast of sirocco How does this
idea tally with the fact that, in Kentucky, where
hog and hominy" are the great staple of life,
and swines heshin some form is found on almost
every table three times day, we find race of
giants, proverbial for their robust health, their
great physical endurance and their long lifee
80 There is no possible way in which a coun-
try paper-or any other-can be made so inter
estlng as by careful attention to local news.
The neglect of this can be atoned for by no