The Portland daily press., 1869-04-03

LOtnl uumucr VI peiSOuS, utJWecH dyts
of and 81 eligible to attend school, by the
general law of the State, in June 1868 was TO-
463. In this city no person under JJfUs years Of
age is permitted to attend the public schools.
The last census of the city in 1865 made the
population 3O124 The population this year
(1869) is calculated to be 80, 800. This estimate
differs from that of Mr.. Poor, who thinks the
population less than 10000. Number of dwell
ing-houses in the city, june 1868, was 1903
This does not include the barracks, erected
after the fire by the city for temporary purpos
es, more than 250' families being accommodate
ed by them.
One of the most valuable historical
features on the Directory is the list Of
buildings burned during the great fire.
From it we find the most valua-
BILE single piece of property destroyed
was Browns Sugar House, estimated at $780,
900, and the least valuable house estimated at
5000. The most valuable price of public prop
erty destroyed was City Hall worth $500, 900.
The largest non-i esident loser was Georgianna
W. Ray to the extent of $4,000; the smallest
nonresident loser f. O. j. Smith, to the ex-
tent of $4OO.
The territorial extent of Portland is about
1865 acres. The islands attached to the city
make about 1850 acres more, so that about
1900 acres is the sum total of territorial extent
Of the city. There are ten newspapers and
one magazine published, of which 2 are relig-
ieus, political, literary, temperance, 1 ma
sonic, and one Sunday paper. The magazine
is educational. There are 20 churches Of
which 3 are Baptist, 9 Catholic, Congrega-
tional, Episcopalian, 1 Free-will Baptist, ]
Friends, 4 Methodist, Ministry at Large
(Unitarian) Second Advent, 1 Spiritualist,
1 Swedenborgian, 2 Unitarian, 2 Universalist
The employees of the Post Office number 26
The Internal Revenue z.
There are the following business corpora.
ticns in this city. Board of Trade; Ocean In
surance Co; Portland Dry Dock Co; Portland
Glass Co; Portland Sugar Co; Forest City
Sugar Refinery; Eagle Sugar Refinery; Port
land Gas Light Co. Portland Kerosene Oil Co;
Portland Co. (manufactory of locometives)etc;
Casco Iron Co; Portland Rolling Mills; White
Lead Factory; Atwood Lead Company; For
est City Lead Company; Cahoon Manufactur-
ing Co; Fullsr's Varnish Factory; Portland
Stone Ware Co.; Portland Cement Drain
Pipe Co.; G. P. Kimball Jump-Seat Carriage
Mandatory; Star Match Co; Portland Grain
Warehouse Co.-twenty TWO in ALL
The Scientific and Literary Associations in
clude Portland Natural History Society; Mer-
camille Library Association; Portland Horti-
cultural Society; Portland Ath@neum; Port
land Institute and Public Library; Portland
School fer Medical Instruction; Cumberland
County Medical Society; Greenleaf Law Lii
brary; Cumberland Bar Association; Burns
Association; Portland Band; Forest City
Band-twelve in ALL
The Charitable Associations include Port
land Benevolent Society; Widows Wood So
ciety; Portland Marine Society; Relief Asso-
citation Portland Fire Department: Portland
Provident Association Samaritan ssociation: !:
Female Charitable Society; Female Providept
Association; Bethel Flag Society; Association
for the Relief of Aged and INDECENT women .
Portland Dispensary; Female Orphan Asv.
lum; Martha Washington Society; Army and
Navy Union; Maine Charitable Mechanic As
sociation; Grand Army of the Republe-six-
teen in all.
There are 12 Masonic Bodies; 3 Odd Eel
lows Lodges and an Odd Fellows Mutual Re-
lief Association; and 16 Temperance organiza-
tions.
Mr.. Beckett has omitted our two fine Militia
ry companies-the "Light Infantry" and "Me-
chanic Blues"-both of which are in highly
hourishing condition.
Statistics not found in this article in regard
to commerce and other matters have been al
reaoy and recently published in these col