The Portland daily press., 1866-01-11
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General of the Army, shows that during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1865, that the sum
actually disbursed, and in process of disburse-
ment at the end thereof, was $780, ,946 37.-
Nearly $1,000 900 have been discussed since
that time. About $27oOoO,OOO of this gigantic
sum has been paid to disbanded troops, mus
Tered out of service. go 4t,ss
E- Tho Chaplains Of the Massachusetts
Legislature are Rev. J. B. Miles, a Baptist cler-
gyman of Charlestown in the Senate, and Rev.
N. M. Gaylord, Universalist chaplain from
the army, who has been in the service during
the whole war, in the House.
U.s. We have received very neatly printed
pamphlet cooy Of sermon on the "Moral
Grandeur of the Proclamation of Emancipa-
ton" delivered on Thanksgiving Day, Dec.7,
in the Plymouth Congregational Church, Pitts
burg Pa, by Rev. Henry D. Moore,-late of
this city,-Pastor.
Ey- A man has been sentenced to three
months imprisonment at York, England, for
attempting to hang himself The English law
regulating apprenticeship and the mechanical
trades is very strict and intended to prevent all
botchery. Probably this man was punished
for not doing his work better.
| GB Mistrust the man who finds everything
| good, the man who finds everything evil, and
/ still more, the man who is Indifferent to every
thing.
! U.s. There are 4,911 street lights in Boston,
of which 1912 burn gas, and 1880 are oil lights.
EY- Philadelphia is enjoying bitter dis
cussionl on the Sunday question, growing out
| Of the issuance of Sunday morning edition of
the Press, and the running of the street cars
on the Sabbath. The clergymen generally go
against these innovations The Press and those
who side with it, insist, truly, that paper Sun
day morning allows nearly all the work to be
done upon it Saturday, while Monday morn
ing paper, to which no objection is made, is
necessarily worked up very largely on the Sab
bath. If the street cars are stopped, they say
that the private carriages of the rich should be
stopped; that the rich may walk to church as
well as the poor. = fa : srfqT
EB- The last order Of the War Department.,
mastering out volunteer troops, relieves Vir-
ginia of all white volunteer troops and oficers.
EB-The Evening Posfsspecial dispatch says
that the Congressional Joint Committee on
Reconstruction has agreed NOT to divulge any
OF its proceedings for the present Any state
ments made will therefore be unworthy of ere
dence until the committee makes its report to
Congress. 9lre rslla.sf llif
E9- The following hints for the restoration
of frozen limbs are given on medical authority:
Donot beat the FROST bitten limb; do not put it
into warm water The water used should be
cold, and of about the temperature of thirty
two degrees. Some persons are in the habit of
rubbing the frozen or benumbed flesh with
snow. The danger is that this will be too cold.
Ii used at all, it should be when the air is not
excessively cold, or in room in which the tenn
perature is moderate.
GB- Mr.. David Lyman, of Middlesex, Conn,
says in the Agricutturist, that finding the can
ker-worm moth was passing his mica protec-
tor, he applied mixture of equal parts of kerr
osene and castor-oil, and no insect has yet been
seen to go over it. sls eEo& a3f j,AJE3fE8
GY- Three million acres of the surface of
Ireland,are covered with boys; yet only about
one acre in three is deep enough to be cut
proitably for fuel.
vs. The Evening Post of Monday says
"The intensity of the cold this morning was
demonstrated by very singular phenomenon.
1t was snow storm formed by steam. At the
Fulton Ferry house pipe of the heating ap-
paratus carried the exhausted steam into the
air; the end of the pipe pointed upward, and
the force with which the steam issued caused
it to ascend thirty or forty feet. While in the
air it was not only condensed but CONCEALED,
and came down in beautiful flakes of snow"
| - The Washington Chronicle says: - The
receipts from internal revenue during the past
week have amounted to the enormous sum of
nearly $10OOO000. This increase over the ex-
hibit of the previous week-$$4 ,679, 796 63-is
owing to the energy with which the officers of
the bureau have prosecuted their duties in dis
| covering articles which have hitherto escaped
taxation. One Of the greatest success of the
revenue is cotton. EIrT
BB There is to be an entirely new issue of
fractional currency, the notes to be of an oval
shape. @ .l