The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-01-16
OBTgrNAL AND SELECTED.

America succeed, and England goes to democra-
cy by express train.''
80 The Garter, made vacant by the death of
the Dukeof Newcastle, has been conferred upon
Earl Spencer.
VA line of telegraph is open from St Pc
tersburg to the frontier of China, distance of
5,328 yeists. A verst is fveeighths of mile. q
% DR.. Franklin said ga good kick out
doors is better than all the rich uncles in the
world. -"
gY-The NoyaScotia Legislature viii meet on
the oh of February. The Legislature of New
Brunswick viii probably meet on the 9Th.
p Captain Semmes made speech the other
day in Mobile, in which he claimed to have
wiped Yankee commerce from the sea 0ea
EVA church in New York is said to have
made S,40O by substituting horse hair for cot
ton in pew cushions and backs.
EIt is suggested that Lord Wharncliffe g.
Co. send the English rebel prison fund to the
thousand starving people in Newfoundland.
EFT is said that cotton can be raised in
southern Illinois for eight cents pound. This
years crop in that section has proved very
profitable. s9s7= 81
EE.The London Morning Star, on the Presi-
dents Message says: History does not record
more striking instance of retribution than has
fallen upon the South in the matter Of slavery"
- About one thousand muskets per day are
now made at the Springfield arsenal, employing
twenty-six hundred men. 1t is said to be the
largest establishment of the kind in the world.
ETwo of the large cotton mills in Woon-
socket, r. T., are soon to change their machinery
and make wooden goods. A wooden mill is also
to be started a: Putnam, Conn.
RA Connecticut man has invented watch
which is simpler in its mechanism than ordinary
watches and will run three hundred and seven
ty-eight days with once winding. g
aETA young woman named Decoff. employed
as cook in the hotel at Newcastle, N. H., was SO
badly burned by her clothes taking fire few
days since, that her life is considered in danger.
We are indebted to Hon. Sidney Perham,
of the House of Representatives, for neat
pam phlet containing theaddresses made in Con-
gress on the decease of Hon. Owen Lovejoy.
WRev. VIM p Merrill from Deer ISLE has
been settled as pastor of the Congregational
church in Lyman, formerly occupied by Rev.
Mr.. Lewis.
sandy johnson is reorganizing Tennessee
for the Union. An election of governor, legis-
lature, members of congress, and senators will
be had early this year. -
- The gold shipped from San Francisco, last
year, amounted to $56,OOO,ooo. 1t was not all
from California, but part of it from Nevada,
Oregon and New Caledonia. "a
The Lewiston Journal,says VIM. G. En-
mons Of that city, has received a letter bringing
the sad news of the death of his son, Thomas A.
Emmons, who was shot at the battle of Cedar
Creek, Va, Oct. 18th.
g Democrats who assert that slavery is dead,
refuse to amend the Constitution when the only
effect according to, their own logic, will be to
keep it from coming to life again. Are they or
are they not in favor of slavery?
gEA companyo of Yankees have obtained ax-
tensive salt grants in st. Domingo, and of course
are building railways and storehouses and APP
plying costly machinery, to get it to a northern
market = a.
The Newburyport Herald publishes list
Of the incomes in that city. The largest is that
of C. A. Coffin, $33, 900. Caleb Cushing, hith-
erto regarded as one of the rich men of the day,
is taxed on an income of 81, 20S.
R-Apples at Savannah were quoted at high
figure in our telegraphic columns Saturday
morning. A barrel Of apples OF $4,000 is
rather extravaganza. Drop off the last cipher
and it will make more taste-y price. yog
The Toronto Globe says "the protection of
the frontier will have cost Canada not less than
one million of dollars by the first of May next,
all in consequence of the rebels who have striven
SO assiduousIy TO embitter the American people
against US. = f.5a f1svres. ~ --ee- -,
q The forthcoming report of the Adjutant-
General of New Hampshire is to contain the
names of every soldier from the State, with the
most essential facts in regard to him. This,
however, is no more than the report Of our Adj
ant-General has done for three years past.
B About fifteen miles above st. Joseph, near
the Missouri River, m extensive bed of very
peculiar clay has been Discovered. When first
sired and surface made as smooth as glass. In
few hours it hardens, becomes hard as a rock,
and has. Wilderness equal to snow
lB-The N. III. Democratic State Convention
voted down, by a respectable majority, radical
resolutions opposing the war, denouneing abn-
lition, and obviously endorsing the right of Sc
cession, and adopted as its platform the pream-
BILE of the Federal Constitution. This is one
step in the way of progress. r,Fre~-v
B-Thest. Johusbury Caledonian says that
the four first men who headed the escort at the
funeral of Ex-Governor Fairbanks Of Vermont,
had been employed by the firm of which he
was the senior partner, an aggregate of one hum
drsd and twenty-one years-or over thirty years
each. M 'Ss
- The Newburyport Herald says, s'the pros
poets of Hop. George s. Boutwell, to succeed
Mr.. Fessenden in the Treasury department. are
said to be fstteriug Mr.. Boutwellis the ablest
representative we have in Congress, and take
him all in all we might look over several States
before we found his equal" ots I'd
VGen. Banks is hard at work in Washing
ton to have Louisiana admitted to the Union,
Three-fourths of the population of the State
were within our lines at the time of voting, and
erage vote for the ten years previous to the cleo
tson, though he thinks the population has de-
creased from 70s,o0 to $50 600. y y
90 Mr.. Seward is hard pressed by delegations
from Canada and the West to secure a revoca-
ton or modification Of his passport order A
Hamilton, C. w., paper suggests that the ope-
ration Of this order is likely to convince some
gentleman in that province that they are more
dependent upon the q. s. States than heretofore
they have seemed willing to admit. .4,
% The Taunton Gazette says that John
Gallin, q superintendent at the Eagle Cotton
Mil, was brought before the Police Court in
Taunton, Monday, charged with bruising and
maltreating George Smith, a boy about ten years
Of age, employed in the mill, in such manner
as to cause his death. The case was continued
for further evidence
81 The election of Hon. James Guthrie to the
Q. S. Senate from Kentucky, is hopeful sign.
Il shows that the Kentucky Democracy are not
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