The Portland daily press., 1865-04-01
ORIGINAL AND SELECTEO.

g The best OF butter is selling in Oxford
County for IS cents per pound.
REx-Gov Wright Of Indiana. has begun
an electioneering tour in Connecticut.
EMr. and Mrs. Charles Kean have arrived
in New York from Havana.
EHon Amos Tuck, Naval Officer at Boston,
has been recommissioned for four years.
ESheridan is reported in a few days to have
cut the Danville railroad.
EFifteen hundred will cover Sherman's en-
tire losses in the.fghts in North Carolina
EMiss Anna E. Dickinson was to lecture in
Lewiston last evening.
VWe learn from the lions .Hdrocate that
quite revival has been enjoyed at Buxton
Centre, and that the interest still continues.
RThe Provost Marshal at Goldsboro', N.
c., is receiving about forty deserters per day
from Joe Johnston's army.
- The rebel mails recently captured show
the utmost dependency throughout the
South.
BDr. Chaplin of New York, lectured in Au-
gusta, before the Williams Fraternity, Thursday
evening.
BThe spring trads-sale of the book trade
begins in New York on Monday, and will last
one week.
RJohn G. SAKE, the Vermont poet, has been
afflicted with long and severe illness, from
which he is now fast recovering.
gParan Stevens, the great Hotel Prince, is
building magnificent private residence at New
port, R. I.
~ The Sanitary Commission agents at
Newbern are busily engaged in sending stores
to the front.
HA very handsome residence in Indianapolis
has been purchased for Governor Morton by his
friends.
81 The York (Pa.) Democrat thinks the
aggregate damage throughout the State by
the late freshets cannot fall short of $40 ,OO0,
600.
80 The special treasury agent at Wilmington
has seized and sent to New York already, one
hundred and twenty-five tons of tobacco and
two hundred bales of cotton
% The colored citizens of Rhode Island,
dissatisfied with the illiberal course of the
republicans of that State upon the school ques-
tior, have nominated separate State ticket.
~ The Eastport Sentinel says Rev. Mr..
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teresting address in Prescott Hall, in that town,
one evening this week; - subject-''Loss and
Gain"
~ The Union candidates for town officers in
Eastport were elected on Monday last with
out opposition. Not democrat of promi-
hence in the party made his appearance at the
polls during the election.
81 The Pennington Chronicle says the
sugar making business in that region has been
thus far very profitable, and that even the shade
trees on the street have been laid under contri-
button.
90 The Pennington Chronicle speaks of an
unfortunate in that region who, in fit of de-
spondency, swallowed dose of Spanish flies
The cause of his low spirits, says the Chronicle,
is heart-disease-love sickness, we infer.
% The French Emperor has sent magnif-
cent chalice in gold to the priest of the small
church of Hoboken, near New York, where his
majesty lived as private gentleman during his
stay in America.
RBy law of the last Congress, acopy Of
every book, map, musical composition, engrav-
ing, photograph, etc., which has been copy
righted, must be sent free of expense to the Ii
brary of Congress at Washington.
V Four men have been brought before the
municipal court of this city, charged with rob-
bling bank in Scarboro'-a clam bank. If
convicted and fined the presumption is that they
will shell out.
u The Boston Herald learns from the Fall
River .Nsios that all the cotton mills in that
city, twelve in number, have suspended opera
tons for the present, in consequence of the rapid
decline in the price of goods
~ The Herald says that from all accounts, a
most important movement is going on in the
Army of the Potomac, of which we shall be
kept in ignorance till Stanton's bulletin announ-
ces the rest.
RA son of DR.. Livingstone, the African
traveller, is a member of the Sd N. H. Regiment,
but was unfortunately taken prisoner just as his
fathers friends were about to communicate with
him.
~ The Boston Transcript says Of Mr.. Gar
rison, that since the war began, he has shown
that the tenacity, intensity and ntrepidity of the
reformer can be combined with the moderation
of the statesman.
- The dwelling-house of Mr.. Samuel D.
night last, between six and seven o'clock. The
stand is that known as "Dea. Marshal place"
The fire is said to have taken from the chimney.
4 Democrat. aE a8g 8
- The Boston advertiser very warmly COM
mends Gov. Andrews message yetoing bill Of
the legislature SIN Relation to Jurors bill
framed with view to secure convictions, and
convictions in special catalogue of offenses -
offenses against the liquor law. 4. .. -','
20 The bridge for the railroad over the Sus-
quehannah at Havre de Grace, Maryland, will
be finished this year. The piers are about done,
and rise through water rs feet deep. 1t will
be the largest and finest bridge on this CONT
nent
9The Banner says that Of the four gentle
men in this city each of whom subscribed $4 900
towards the erection of the new church in. Con-
gress Square, one has subscribed $500 and the
others 5000 each towards the SIC, 900 being
raised for the benefit of Westbrook Seminary.
HrThe New York Legislature has passed a
bill to punish the offence of defaoing ''scenery,
fences, monuments or buildings" with adver-
tisements, such as are to be seen daubed on
every conspicuous rock or board fence, along
any line of railway. ~ sa.assa ssr .s
20 Kennedy, previous to his execution, con-
fessed that he set fire to Barnum's Museum,
Lovejoy's Hotel. Tammany Hotel and the New
England House. The scheme of burning build
ings in New York was concocted among the
rebels in Canada, to retaliate for Sheridan's
victories in the Shenandoah. e4
BG Gov. Brough of Ohio, recommends in a
special message the transfer of the public print
ing of the State to the pupils of the Deaf and
Dumb Institution. He argues that these unfor-
tunate persons are capable Of performing the
work, and that it will furnish them q comforta-
Bile subsistence. 49a III
% The Young america is the title of new
paper published at 131 Middle street, by Curtis