The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-28
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Slavery is dead in Virginia"
gThere are now 34I 900 guns in the Spring
field Arsenal
% Milk has declined two cents quart in
Philadelphia.
80 sheep belonging to Mr.. Kittridge Friend,
IN Carmel, recently gave birth to six lambs.
81 large emigration of Chinese is flowing
into British Columbia. sfaz ae.e
q Four hundred families have been rem
dered homeless by the freshets in Pennsyl-
vania qh-5 -
BThe people of Concord, N. H., had ninety
i've days of good sleighing during the winter
just closed. -
81 There are some indications that Robert
Dale Owen will be placed at the head of the bu-
reau of freedmen affairs. sof 81.
81 The rebels estimated the damage done
by Sheridan's raid to amount to fifty millions of
dollars. et asG s1I wa
RrR. NJ. T. Hunter, late Presidential the
rebel Senate, publishes card in the Richmond
papers. declaring his opposition to ga recon-
struction of the old Union" -
BHon. John q Goodrich has been reap
pointed Collector of Boston. 1t is probable
very few new appointments will be made except
fer cause 81 i. 81.
B Clark Mills declared the letter purporting
to have been written by him to the Governor Of
South Carolina, proposing to lend his aid to the
rebel cause, a forgery.
EA magnificent comet was discovered at Rio
de Janeiro. Jan. %. Its length was between
eight and nine degrees, its breadth forty or fifty
minutes H'' stel4 s-Ea
~ The rebel papers are complaining that q
full regiment could be made up any day from
the officers to be seen lounging in the streets of
Richmond
~ 1t is estimated that two square miles of
the city of Rochester were under water during
the recent food 1t is thought that the city was
damaged to the amount of $4,000, 900.
81 eight itself is matter" says a learned
contemporary, oracularly, though the idea has
been long exploded, and is no longer received by
the best scientific minds.
90 The Turkish government is said to have
sent note to the protecting powers of Syria
proposing general amnesty in favor Of
those implicated in the Syrian instruction Of
1860. sa2ti s3 81 m
~ Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson has been
directed by the President to raise the stars and
stripes on the battlements of ort Sumter OF
the 18th of April, 1865, the fourth anniversary
of the day he consented to cvacuate the place.
~ twenty-five national banks were organized
last week, six Of which were in New England
None of them were in this state The Who'll,
number now organized is nine hundred and
thirty-iye. us5 srfs 81
HWe learn that unanimous invitation hal
been extended to Rev. L. ]. Fletcher of Brook
1yn, N. VT become the pastor of the Univer
salist church and society in Bath.
BThe investigation into the origin and his
tory of the Knights of the Golden Circle, il
Illinois, shows that five of the editors and re
porters of the Chicago Times were members o
the Order. - ~ IN, s-
B-It is said that some of the churches il
England have been provided with pews fo
deaf people. These pews are connected will
the pulpit by means of tubes, which have trum
pet-shaped mouths in convenient positions TO
the ears CT the listeners.
BA writer in the Lawrence american score
a theological student for disturbing Camill
Urso's concert, by keeping up conversation dur
ing the execution of some of her most exquisit
performances. He evidently needs few lesson
in good breeding. ea
81 Referring to the recent decline in gold th
lNew York Atlas says, ia crash will come whic
Will rum many, but the gre,ls .a,.sass NC ~.
! pie, and the poor especially, will have no caus
to complain at a result which must greatly re
duce the cost of all the necessaries of life"
All the cotton captured in Savannah
1 now at Staten Island, in New York harbor. @
on shipboard, and it amounts to tbirtv.eiet
thousand and seventy-six bales-several thou.
ands more than tile highest estimates wbe
Savannah fell into the hands of General She,
man.
RIn the Supreme Judicial Court at Concord
N. H.. on Thursday, the celebrated sGreenbacl
case of Col. John H. George .. the City of Cor
cord, was decided in favor of Concord, leayin
Col. George to take paper money instead
gold, and to lose the interest on the claim frol
the commencement of the suit.
% The wealthiest revenue district in Ii
Union, according to the report of Commissions
Lewis, is the first district of Illinois, compose
of Chicago and the county of Cook Frol
September, 1862, to June 80, 1864, the first di,
triet of Illinois paid $4,471 ,503 So The ne,
vealthiest district is the fourth New York, whic
paid for the same time 81 ,421, 674 16.
R Parson Brownlow-soon to be known 9
Gov. Brownl jw-says, "The only way to touc
the tender sensibility of the southern woman
to take away her negroes Kill her husband an
she thanks God that he has enabled him to di
for the good cause; but take away one of he
negroes and she screams and bewails herself q
if the devil himself were after her."
H-The paragraph in the Argus yesterda
aboutSherman's fight with Hardee, and the re
pulse by the rebels of five assaults, afforded on
neighbor fine opportunity for fling at 18th
authorities at Washington, but the cruel tele
graphic dispatches in the same issue must bay
made the writer fele very much as tbouob N
wrong passenger had been awakened.
| 10 % In the American Watch Company,s work
at Waltham, Mass, there are employed over 60
| persons, more than one-third of whom ar
females. The product of the works now ar
about 100 watches per day. and the Compan,
expect in the summer to increase the capao
ity of the concern SO as to produce $50 pc
day. 1sy
80 We are told that recently an artist photo
graphed skunk, and, "marvellous'' to relate
he found the free electricity of heaven had trans
ferred to his printed picture the peculiar odol
of this little travelling perflmer. Here is
question for the savuns Can they explain thi
electromagnetic transfer, T" and show tn
modus operamdi by which the char aeteristic O
the live skunk was transferred to the dead or
ganism of the chemically prepared paper. 20
RThe Philadelphia papers are filed with
advertisements of Petroleum companies. will
capital stocks reaching in some instances to /
quarter million dollars, and the shares at tventl
cents each Who believes such eoneer rs de-