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Fort Pillow. 107 Last Page-Wanted-A Wife, anoriginal story. 10 Brigham Young's new theatre wil cost $270,000 and hold 3000 people. W Flogging is still a part of the discipline in the British army and navy. 10 A revival of religion is in progress in the Baptist church, in Brunswick. 10 A telegraph line is to be extended from Portsmouth to Manchester, N. H. Nebraska is to become a State. The President has signed the enabling act. The late election in Kansas is considered agriumph of the friends of Lincoln. 17 It is said Farraguti is about to attack Mobile. IT Petroleum is being substituted for coal on board steamboats. A veritable soap mine has been discovered in California. It is rumored that Gen. Halleck has W resigned, and will return to California. April term of S. J. Court commences at Machias the 29th, next Tuesday. 107 The library of the Historical Society of Boston now numbers 16,000 volumes. Butter has declined in New York from fifty to thirty-three cents per pound, or thirtyfour percent. 107 The Journal says there are fifty rum shops in Lewiston. The boys of twelve years get drunk. Where is the missionary Mrs. Folsom, of Augusta, caught her hoop skirt, in Gardiner, fell and dislocated her elbow. The Kennebec Journal utters some sensible remarks against a postponement of the Union National Convention. They run a donkey steam car between Augusta and Gardiner, for the accommodation, we suppose, of the "Capital" donkeys. The next session of the East Maine n Conference will be held in Bucksport, about the middle of June. The Orono Bank has voted to surren07 der its charter. Its liability to redeem its bills will expire in March, 1866. George W. Allen, Esq., an old and much esteemed bank Cashier of Augusta, died on the 18th at the age of 60. There is a whiskey shop in Richmond, called the "Bragg Saloon," which the Enquirer thinks ought to be an excellent "retreat." 17 Dr. Solger, Assistant Register of the Treasury, was struck with paralysis last week, and has remained speechless ever since. Garibaldi was received with great enthusiasm at Southampton, and will go to London in a few days. A pair of calves sold in Hartford, this State, a few days since, py Mr. Joseph Benson, for $105. Perley" says Mr. Sweat, of Maine, has received ten days leave of absence to visit his home. The amount raised by the Excise Act, in Maine, for eighteen months ending Feb. 20, 1864, was $1, 361,584, 58. DT Henry W. True, of Poland, sends the editor of the Transcript a beautiful specimen of cotton raised by him. Rev. A. K. Potter, of South Berwick, has commenced holding religious services in Union Hall, in Springfield, Mass. W Many of the New England farmers are preparing to raise a crop of tobacco the present season. IT The Boston branch of the Sanitary Coinmission has furnished lodgings during the year, to 6305 soldiers. The Pennsylvania Senate, by a vote of 19to 10, has decided in favor of removing the State capital from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. The Journal says "thespiritofimprovement is apparent on the east side of the river" at Augusta. We presume the ardent spirit is on the other side. We do not think it proper to publish "Ipecac's" article. Its publication would do no possible good, and it might do much mischief. The nineteenth day of April, a day memorable in the annals of Lexington and Baltimore, was properly observed in both those places. The Washington Chronicle congratulates the country on its having a General-inchief who knows how to keep his own secrets. The friends of Rev. Mr. Stebbins will 07 be glad to know that he was able to preach twice last Sunday, in the church of Rev. Dr. Bellows, in New York. Asa H. Pomeroy, of Levant, was found dead in the road, near Mr. Spooner's in Levant, yesterday morning-supposed to have fell from his wagon on Tuesday morning.Whig 21st. W The Saco Democrat says Mr. Edward Chase, recenily keeper of a public house in Alfred, Me., has leased and is to become landlord of the Union House at Kittery,-Navy Yard village. The Fourteenth Quadrennial Session of the general Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will commence on the second day of May next, in Philadelphia, and contnue to the first of June. 17 A "Brown Society" exists in Glasgow, composed only of members by the name of Brown. Each member contributes a certain sum to be applied to the relief of the indigent "Browns."