The Portland daily press., 1865-03-01

the secret sessions of the rebel congress the
cause had been given up as virtually lost for
three months past.
E-It is surmised that hereafter colored men
engaged ON board foreign and northern vessels
will not be imprisoned when they enter the port
of Charleston =. - ~
q For starving his horse to death, brute
named John Rogers of New London, Conn,
was recently sentenced to thirty days imprison-
ment.
R-We know Of few individuals who ought,
by all means, to go into the ''ile" business
Their success would be almost certain. As
borers they can't be beat. h3ai
B-The LIST day of March is ordinarily con-
sidered the 6rstdayof spring, but this is a mis-
take. Spring commences with the vernal equi-
nox, the 2lst of March.
" The Bath Times says some of the citizens
of that place have recently invested 100000 in
the ''ile" business. They intend to do some big
boring. lfaIeal,
Seventeen hundred rebel deserters have
arrived at Washington this month. Two hun
dred-and sixty-iour came in last Monday morn
ing.
EThe Raleigh IN. CO. Progress openly ap-
plauds Sherman, and says that terms of an
honorable peace were submitted by President
Lincoln to the rebel peace commissioners.
RLast week four men in the employ of the
Lewiston Steam Mill Co., manufactured 1000
box shocks, working 5 Ia days. The boards
were all cut by one circular saw. Who can beat
this ri Journal Q faa@@ 9-da
6 UThe Bangor Times says Mr. John Dris-
coll, of that city, workman in Stetson's Mills,
Saltwater, was found dead on Saturday evening
beneath one Of the wheels of the MILL, When
discovered life was extinct. 0 DI01D96
% The Boston Courier calls upon New Jer-
sey to defeat the constitutional amendment,
contending that it hinges on the action of that
state; and the two Democratic (!) papers in this
city applaud and commend the Courier. .,a
~ Right is gloriously triumphing. A COL
ored man-Dr. Martin Delancy-has been COM
missioned as a Major in the army, and ordered
to report to Gen. Saxton for organizing colored
troops.
HA soldier fell from the mail train from
New York on its way to New Haven ON Saturday
night, and was killed. The man was picked up
by the next train going down the road, and taken
to Fairfield. .ss1rIl- slsslr ,IosVl
~ The Portsmouth Chronicle understands
that the railroads running east into Boston are
about to raise their fares in consequence of the
high prices of labor and fuel, and the great in
crease of all other expenses.
RThe Bucket" suggests that it is not SO
much owing to want of public sentiment that
the temperance law is not enforced, as ga lack
of public officers of the right sort, with back
bone and an honest heart"
81 Chief Justice Chase presided at the ami
versary meeting of the National Freedmens Re-
lief Association in Washington, on Sunday eve
ming last. Theodore Tlton made the annual
address. 1Ecf ross aaHa
ROwing to the high price and scarcity of
coal, the Laconia Manufacturing Company of
Biddeford have decided to heat their mills for
the present with wood, and have already con-
tracted for $50 cords.
~ Miss Rachel Noah, the ''Naid Queen Bos-
ton, and Mr.. Shirley France were married at the
Shawmut Uniyersalist Church, on Sunday last.
These parties played in our city a short time
since, in Warrens Combination Comedy Com
pany. 5s-s s,,. -.ssi.ss .
H Rev. c. H. A. Buckley of Brooklyn, N.
Y, has ieen engaged to supply High Street pull
pit through the month of March; the first Sab
bath in April completing the 30th year of Dr.
Chickering'S ministry, when according to pre-
vious announcement, he expects to close the con-
nection.-[M Mirror.
% Richmond papers of Saturday are received.
They state that the three gunboats of the con-
foda nhau1
Cooper river when the city was evacuated, and
! that all the other vessels were destroyed. The
government stores were brought away and the
cotton burned.
4 R President Lincoln will be inaugurated, for
his second term, on Saturday next. 1t is thirty
two years since Andrew Jackson's second term
commemorative last president who has had a
second term till now. The senate will convene
in extra session at IL o'clock, to confirm the
members of the new cabinet and for other exec
utive purposes.
- Mehemet Pasha, the best friend of Ameri-
ca in Turkey, is dead. He was Grand Admiral
and Secretary of the Navy. In 1858 he visited
this country and will be remembered as the Tur-
kish Pasha. He was received with distinguished
honor both by our government and the citizens
generally. He afterwards said, and evidently
from his heart that he regarded every American
as bis brother.
e A man was killed at Grafton fMass. J
station Monday afternoon. There is o double
track, and the trains were approaching from op-
posite directions. He was walking on the track
of the train approaching in front, and not
knowing that train was coming the other way,
he stepped directly before it, and was instantly
killed. When the train was brought to a stop the
body was found on the cow-catcher, to which
the hands had convulsively chung. "a
20 Mr.. L. E. Chittenden, ex-Register of the
Treasury, publishes card in reply to the state
ment of the Savannah correspondent OF the
New York Commercial, that tile cargoes of
steamers sent there from New York and Boston
were one-sixth for free distribution, and the re-
mainder sold on account of owners of the ships
and certain privileged merchants Mr.. Chitten-
den says this assertion is wholly and unqualified
ly false, SO far, at least as concerns the Rebecca
Clyde, which was the first steamer that arrived
with relief and with which he himself went.
B-The Ninth NATIONAL BANK of the City of
New York-Joseph U. Orvis, President-has
been of the most enterprising and successful
agents for the various Government loans. Over
my million dollars have been placed in the
nsnds OF the people through its agency within
nine montns' and it now advertises to furnish
'ne '-oo Notes by express, free of charge, in all
parts OF the country Its object ia patriotic, and
the high reputation of its officers "a we'll az its
capital OF million dollars, is sure guarantee
that the 1905 subscribed for through its agency
viii be promptly forwarded. -
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