The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-07-13
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| gp-On the fourth "Sojourner Truth
speaking the Truth.
NV- 1t is said that over a thousand drafted
men, whose names have been published in the
Boston papers, have left for the British Prov
inces.
sH% The number of arrivals of vessels at
this port during the past year, says the Price
Current is about one third of the number at
Boston.
% In Boston, no less than ten persons,
connected in one way or another with the
| Journal, have been drafted and twelve from
the Herald office. Each of the other newspa-
pers has furnished Its quota, but no other so
many as these.
B- A correspondent informs us that Ralph
Waldo Emerson will deliver the Grafton, and
S. K. Smith, of Newton, Mass, the poem, be-
fore the literary societies of Waterville Col
lege, at the approaching Commencement. The
| graduating class numbers fourteen.
sp- Owing to the lateness of our return
from the South Paris meeting-2 O'Clock Sun
day morning-we shall defer our account of it,
as well as some other matters of local interest
to the people of that place and Norway, until
tomorrow.
nI- The Rev. l. S. Kalloch, of New York,
was visiting last week in Rockland, where he
was formerly settled as pastor. The Gazette
says it is understood, that he is preparing a
sketch of the life and services of the late Gen.
Berry, to appear with portrait in the next
volume of the Rebellion Record.
schooner Northern Light, at Boothbay,
reports July Sd, twenty-five miles off Halifax,
spoke U. S. steamer Honduras, who told him
there were rebel cruisers in the vicinity. The
next morning, nearer land, was chased several
hours by long clipper barque, painted black.
| The schooner finally escaped in the fog, the
barque in the meantime firing several heavy
guns. -
When tho recent glorious news was
received at Belfast, the streets were at once
filed with rejoicing people, and three flags
were run across the square-the Republican
flag, the Douglas flag and the Bell and Everett
flag, side by side, thus testifying las the loyal
Age Of that city says) to the union OF the true
men Of those parties in the great cause Of
saving our country. The spectacle created
most pleasing sensation.
IF at is recorded" says the Chattanooga
Rebel Of the 26th ult., "that 4Eneas on his ,cay
"to Hell, threw sop to Cebcrus. Let us not
"disdain to throw little sop to the restless
''ghost of Democracy. 1t may be quite as eff
''cacious as upon the formeIoccasion, and is
"fairly worth the trial. 1t is pleasant to no.
tice that the Rebel seems to be aware of the
direction, which the affairs of the Confederacy
are taking
q Col. Walker, 4th Maine regiment
reached home in Rockand, last Wednesday.
He was wounded in Thursdays battle at Get
| tysburg, by a musket ball, which passed
through the left leg, below the calf, but did
notehatter or injure the bone. His regiment
went into the fight on that day with 300 men,
of whom IS are missing. Major Whitcomb
was very severely wounded, after which Capt.
Libby assumed command OF the regiment
Lieut.. Col. Carver was not with the regiment,
having been sick in hospital, and had just ar
rived when Col. Walker left.
sB-No American clergymen Of the Episco-
| pal Church can hold pastoral charge in Eng
land or her provinces without taking the oath
| Of allegiance. In England no Inconvenience ar
rises from this regulation. In Canada howev-
er, it has become aperplexing question. wheth-
er the courtesy extended TO clcrgymcn of the
English Church in the United States cannot
be reciprocated in Canada 1t was there fore
voted unanimously at recent meeting of the
Montreal Synod, to prepare memorial to the
Imperial Parliament, asking the removal Of
the disabilities now affecting the American
Clergy, so far as Canada is concerned.
IL Commodore Porter has transmitted an
official report relative TO the surrender of
Vicksburg, in which he speaks in the highest
terms of the conduct of the army. The navy,
he says, has necessarily performed a less
conspicuous part in the capture of vicksburg
than the army; still it has been employed in a
manner highly creditable to all concerned.
There has been a large expenditure of am
muniiion during the siege. The morters have
fired 1000 mortar shells, and the gunboats L.
500 shells, and 1890 have been fred from
naval guns on shore. We have also supplied
over 6,0oo to the different army corps.'
sB- Grave questions may yet arise out of
the exploits in our harbor on the "eventfnl
Saturday" We learn that an ex-post-master
In York county, as well as hitherto influen-
tial gentleman of this city, gives the opinion
that the proceedings to recapturc the cutter
and to arrest the rebel crew, were entirely il
legal and without constitutional warrant; and
it is therefore presumed that Collector Jewett
aud Mayor Mcclellan will be held to strict ac-
count; that the rebel prisoners at Fort Preble
will be set at liberty on a writ of habeas cor
pus, and that, should the Democrats come in
to power, one of their first acts will be to raise
and rebuild the cutter, and politely return her
to Capt. Reed, that she may afterwards be pur-
sued and captured according to the mode au-
thorized by the Constitution.