The Portland daily press., 1863-03-07
AND SELECTED.

oh GAu"oiuihaTy shdtiIS &C., WS'
~ A company of colored volunteers have
just gone into camp in New Bedford.
sB- When is charity like a top? asks
New Yorker, and replies, when it begins to
ham.
ry- The friends of the Union have nomi-
mated Samuel H. Dale, Esq, for Mayor of
Bangor.
sg- VIVA. rifle carries the maximum dis
lance? asked lady of an oificer.) The
minnie, mum, twas the reply.)-lN. Y. Ex-
press.
% Henry Foster, young man ~ years
ofage, was fatally shot in the streets of New
York, Thursday night. He refused to say who
was his assassin, though he lived several hours.
av- Hon. Albert g. Jewett, Union Demo-
Graf, has been nominated for Mayor Of Belfast,
by the supporters of the Government and IN
ion.
svr John S. C. Abbott, the distinguished
the voters of Connecticut to heartily sustain
the Government in this crisis of the national
history.
sB- If we never see copy of Adj. Gen.
Hodson's Report we shall not tellwhat it con-
tains-that is all. 1t has been published some
time, and yet few of the papers have been ia
vored with copy.
sB- About $50 tons of Connecticut river
tobacco have recently been shipped from
Springfield, Mass, to house in New York for
the French Government. The average price
was about II cents.
u The falls of snow in the Alps this win
ter have been extraordinarily heavy. The
passes of the simplon were blocked up,and sew
eral terrible avalanches have overwhelmed viii
lagos. In the hamlet of Locarhoa church was
crushed and fifty-three lives were lost
gy- We agree entirely with the Lowell
COURIER of the 4th instant, about the sanitary
and moral condition of the army of the Poto-
mac. Indeed, we held the same language as
3ne Courier, rerbatim ct tiberatim, a few days
before.
LIZ Rev. Mr.. Hawes' church in Waterville
Sabbath, and have also increased the pastors
salary 500 year. We could understand
the logic OF this action did we not know Mr..
Halves to be an able man, who does not deal
In sleepy sermons.
sy- The Augusta Journal says that Mr..
Kingsbury's reply to +. o. J. Smith, on Tues
day last, is conceded by all to have been all
that his friends or lovers of the loyal cause
could ask. 1t was short, spirited, terse and
eloquent, and squarely up to the demands of
the occasion.
nT The Princess Alexandra of Denmark
is expected to arrive in England to-day. She
will be married to Albert Edward, Prince of
Wales, next Tuesday March 10TH. The
sum of 10000 per anDum is secured to her,
in half yearly payments, and 100000 annually
in lieu of dover, should she have the misfor-
to become a widow.
u The Bath Times says that on Thurs
dap afternoon a car on the K. &. p. X. Rail-
road, loaded with hay, and which had just ar
rived at the station, was discovered to be on
fire, supposed to have caught by sparks from
the engine. The hay belonged to Messrs.
Rice & Weeks. The loss could not have
been far from $50.
sg- The Biddeford Union is draped in
mourning in honor of it's late editor and pro-
prietor. Capt. Cowan was in the 51st year OF
his age when he died. He was borL in Angus
ia, Oct. Z, 1912. He started the Union in 1916,
and has been its sole proprietor ever since.
He leaves a wife and seven children,-five
daughters and two sons.
GIT is said the copperhead leaders are as
busy as certain parsonage said to be largely
interested in the birthstone business is in
highly excited state of the atmosphere, in can
wasting the city and correcting and manuiac-
turing voting lists preparatory to the spring
election. We need not remind our loyal citi-
gems that 1t was while men slept that the enc
my sowed tares.
IL Mr.. Geo. Coburn and wife, of this city,
spent the beautiful moonlight evening of Sat
urday last skating. On their return they were
somewhat surprised to find that nice baby
had been left on their door step. A note ac-
companied it, saying that the child was five
months old, and was as good as the next
one" 1--WE do not feel quite sure whether this
is an assurance that they are to be similarly
very respectable RECONSIDERATION Journal.
sB-One of the copperhead papers in this
State, which talks about "the Union as It was
and the Constitution as it is !" which condemns
the war and clamors for peace; which finds
nothing in the administration TO commend and
little in JEFF. Davis to condemn, said Immediate
~ after the result of the last presidential
election had become known, "That the fifteen
Southern States will secede in body there is
no doubt. Their Honor, their Integrity, and
their Independence ALIKE DEMAND TT"
T Lieut. ]. II. Nichols of the Maine Goth
was in the cars yesterday, on his way from
Falmouth to his home in Brunswick. He has
u fnrlough Of twenty days. Lieut.. n. assures
us that the army of the Potomac never was in
better spirits, never more anxious to be led
against the rebels, and he is confident that in
three weeks, at its present rate of improve
ment, 1t will be in better condition than it has
ever been at any stage Of its past history.
sg- The Bangor Wing says that a day or
two since while stage coach was standing In
front of the Express Office man with horse
and pung drove up behind the coach, got out
and deliberately hitched the horse to the bag
gage rack of the coach, and went off about his
business. In few moments the driver of the