The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-25
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~ Gov Bramlette of Kentucky, has fur
nished all his slaves with freedom papers.
BThe late concert at New Haven for the
benefit Of the soldiers rest Melted $4,000.
~ Frederick Douglass thinks of establishing
newspaper in Baltimore.
20 Potatoes are selling in Skowhegan at
sixty cents busheI. E
% Long John Abbott" has been SENTENCED In
Boston, to one year in State Prison, for forgery.
RThe new State Government of Tennessee
will be organized at Nashville on the Sd of
| April.
p Joseph Halleck, brother Of General
Halleek, has enlisted as private in the Union
army.
RMolasses sold at 10 cents per gallon, and
sugar at 10 cents per pound, at wholesale, in
New Haven, on Monday. G 80.
RC Coal oil. It's said, will cure fevers Judg-
ing from our advertising columns we should
infer that it creates them.
10 The -four mill OF Jesse Small, Farming
ton Falls, was destroyed by FIRE on Tuesday
night. Loss about $4,000. fss H
50 There's serious split among the Consed-
crates 1t ought to be widened if possible.
Where are your beetle and wedges, Old Abe
asks the Louisville Journal.
81 The word husband" is Anglo-Saxon,
and sifnifes the ''bond of the house." or family
"house-bond," as by him the family is formed,
united, and bound together. .,s
EY The Maine Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will hold its 4lst
session at the M. E. Church, in Hallowell, COM
mencing Wednesday, May Sd. at Q O'Clock,
Am.
ga Runaway's Wife, memorializes the
Ohio Legislature in favor of an amendment to
the bill Furnishing runaways from the draft,
providing that their wives shall be entitled to
divorce forthwith upon application. 4
% The New French Minister to the United
States is M. de Montholon, son of the we'll
known officer and personal friend of the fret
| Napoleon who accompanied him to st. Helena,
witnessed his death and published his memoirs. 4
II France has had sixty Queens. Mis-
cradle lives they led Eleven were divorced.
Two executed. Nine died young. Seven were
widowed early. Three crlelly treated. Three
exled. The rest were either poisoned or broken
hearted. g rAtfue rev -o1 asa
THE opening exercises of the First Ma
tional Unitarian Convention will take place in
New York on Tuesday evening, April 4th, when
Rev. James Freeman Clark will preach the con-
vention sermon at Rev. DIR. Bellows church.
Peter Cooper will preside. 6s4a
IS % Rev. Calvin Gardner, whose sudden death
ct Waterville, we chronicled yesterday, was
settled clergyman in that town about thirty
years, but for the past six or eight years. though
residing there, he he has had no pastoral settle
ment. He was man universally respected and
| beloved. Nt58I "a III
@The Bangor Wing learns that Mr.. Geo.
W. Nichols of Pittston, I'd mate of the ship
"Uncle Joe,,' was instantly killed by falling
from the main yard to the deck, on the
18th of February last. The ship was bound
from Cork to Aberdeen, Scotland, loaded with
guano. Mr.. Nichols was % years of age, and
was young man of excellent promise. 9ai
II Rev. Hardy Mobley, a colored man, was
ordained a few evenings since at Brooklyn, N.
Y, as a missionary for The State Of Georgia.
Mr.. Mobley was born slave in Augusta, 6a.,
and about ten years ago bought his own free
dom and that of his wife and children, by the
payment of $4,000, which sum he raised princi-
4 pally by over-work.
The merchants and citizens at Nassau have
suddenly discovered that they have always been
warm friends of the American onion, and have
never had any sympathy for the rebels. The
blockade business has been entirely ruined.
Can the Bath Times inform us whether any
interests in that locality have suffered from the
same cause, or whether the Nassau trade from
that port Is as good as AT l..s.:-s=- aa+au
since the war commenced. wE.R 81 fEt
~ The green houses attached to the residence
OF Mrs Samuel Colt at Hartford, are probably
the most extensive in this country. There is,
in all, ever quarter of mile of glass houses;
varieties of summer vegetables fully ripe -
tomatoes, peas, string beans, beets, radshes,
lettuce, &c.-peaches and grapes far advanced
towards perfection, pine-apples, and plants and
flowers from every zone, and of every state OF
| growth. The whole is fairy land of beauty
and wonder.
The Advertiser which publishes and prai-
ses JEFF Davis message, and lauds the rebel
chief for his honesty, frankness and straight
the Yarmouth Copperheads, and winds up with
an implied denial Of the genuineness of the
Confederate cards with which certain of that
papers friends in Yarmouth were connected.
When any material statement of the Press in
relation to Yarmouth affairs shall be called in
question, it will be ample time to take further
notice Of the matter.
V A communication from Pres. Cheney,
published in the Star, says that an aged chris
tian gentleman has recently made provision in
his will, by which the income on the sum Of
$4,000 is to be set apart, under certain condi-
tons, for the establishment of a Professorship of
Sacred Literature, in Bates College. The income
is to be reinyested until it shall be sufficient to
sustain q professorship, the incumbent of which
is to deliver o certain number of lectures, to be
published. Another christian gentleman has
provided by will for the payment, for ten years,
of $50 year to the college.