The Portland daily press., 1865-04-05

UThe Hamilton &c. wy Times is in favor
of separation from England. 1t says: "Our
selfinterest demands separation, for it is almost
alone through England that our safety can be
perilled love of England demands separation,
for it is only through us that England can be
placed in danger of suffering defeat
RAgood story is told of clergyman not
far from Ttusville. who had lately invested con-
siderable in s'ile." In giving out his text one
Sabbath morning, he said it would be found
in the last chapter of Acts, the last verse,
and last half of the verse, and one-third of the
oil. -s .si, Sal.
The Illinois legislature. at its recent ses-
sion. made an appropriation of five thousand
dollars to found an ex ,erimental school for
idiotic and imbecile children in that state, and
entrusted the disbursement of the fund to the
trustees of the institution for the Deaf and
Dumb at Jacksonville.
RA New York lady writes to the Evening
Post of that city, that there are certain places
in the most frequented streets of New York,
where idlers gather for the purpose of staring
at females as they pass, and she calls the places
by the unclassical but nevertheless opposite
name of monkey roosts."
RThe Lewiston Journal regrets to learn
that Judge Redington of that city, in attempt
ing to get upon the platform Of the cars, Mon
day at Winthrop, fell and received severe
shock which rendered him insensible. He was
able toreach his home on the train, but his stu-
alton is regarded as very critical.
VThe Rev. D. A. WATSON of Worcester,
Mass, has under advisement a call to settle
as pastor of q church in Cincinnati, and also to
become minister Of the Twenty-eighth Congre-
gational Society in Boston, Theodore Par
kers.) 1t is doubtful if he accepts either posi-
ton. $40
" Fernando Wood sailed from New York on
Saturday. in the City of London, for Europe.
After a brief stay in London he will proceed by
way of Paris, Florence and Rome, to Athens
and Constantinople, returning by the northern
route to Great Britain, and spending the sum-
mer months in England, Scotland and Ire
land. n
- During the month of March we had the
satisfaction of adding about ITO new names to
the subscription list Of the weekly Press. This
paper is acquiring very large circulation, and
we confidently commend it to the people of the
state as the largest, cheapest and best political
paper-all things considered is published
in New England.
e The Bangor Times says: ga few days
since COW belonging to Mr.. Ephraim Stevens
of Scion, got choked with piece of turnip
three inches wide and one inch thick. After ex-
hausting all efforts to extract it from the throat,
it was taken out by making an incision from the
outside. The wound was sewed up and smoked
with old shoes and wooden rags. The COW eats
and drinks as well as usual and is apparently
doing well.''
- The London Times is helping onward the
union of the British American provinces, by
giving the people there to understand that thew
must protect themselves hereafter against the
attacks OF an aggressive. .-nsnaoing, and
new warlke republic: canada. says the
shrewdly add, this frontier is endangered only
because it lis British. "Canada must defend
herself, says the Times; so we would retort the
Canadians, in our own quarrels, bat if we are
attacked it will not be as Canadians, but as
Englshmen.-[N Y. Evening Post.
% The Methodists of Massachusetts have pe-
titioned the legislature for the incorporation of
a Theological Seminary of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, with power to hold property to
the amount of three hundred thousand dollars.
1t is understood that the foundation Of the in
stiution is the Biblical Institute at Concord, N.
H., to be removed to the vicinity of Boston, ON
Pledges of subscriptions to the amount of one
hundred thousand dollars, which sum has nearly
been made up.