The Portland daily press., 1863-04-18
ORIGIN AL AND SELE c T f ID.

sg- On the first page-Reviews of the
First and Eleventh Corps of the Army of the
Potomac.
sH- On the fourth page-The Old ship of
State, by David Barker; A. Ward and Boz
leau; &c.
srWe are indebted to the Eastern Ex-
press Company for late copies of st. John
papers.
syAccording to the Clarion, Skowhegan
is TO enjoy more than usual business activity
the present season,
sgWe copied an item from the Argus in
full, verbatim ct literaiim, and that paper ac-
cuses us of "garbling' it.
eg- At the late levee given by the ladies of
Augusta in the State House, for the benefit of
the Sanitary Commission, the gross receipts
were $500, and the net proceeds 5000.
sy- Capt McGilvery, of the 9th Maine
Battery, has been promoted to Major of Ar
tillery for gallant conduct at the battle of Ce-
dar Mountain and during Pope's retreat.
sg-The King of Denmark is famous
sportsman. In recent hunt he killed with
his own hand fifteen foxes, eight bucks, and
a number of smaller game.
- The Oxford Democrat says Col. KIM
ball. of the Maine 18th, is an acting Brig Gen.
in Gen. Growers Division. He is in command
at Donaldsonyille, point between New Or
leans and Baton Rouge.
The Transcrin, allrdae IN n ,popdarf,,l
"red beat" raised in California, five feet long
and foot in diameter. We have heard of
"drum beat" and dead beat; but this "red
beat" is certainly new variety.
IF The Brunswick Telegraph says that
about 9 o'clock on Wednesday evening, an I'M
occupied story and halt house, belonging to
Gen. Humphreys, in the Cove, was set on fire
and burned. A family had but just moved
from it. Quite crowd Of people was present,
the engines turned out, and a stream of water
was played upon some adjoining buildings.
svThe Summer Term of the Eaton Board
ing School, at Kent's Hill, will commence the
second Monday in May, three weeks from next
Monday. The prospect for the next session is
as good as usual. During the last summer the
school was filed TO the maximum number
This is a family school, every scholar becom-
ing one of the family and being treated as
such. The friends of the school are numerous,
and found wherever il is known.
sY-Mr. Potter, who met with the unfortu-
nate accident in our Office short time since,
was taken home to Westerly, II. l., on Monday
evening last. A letter from Mrs. p, who was
with him on his return, says he suffered very
little inconvenience on board the boat to Bos-
ton, and made the trip by cars, not without
discomfort ii is true, but without serious in
jury, arriving home under quite as favorable
circumstances as could have been anticipated.
Though in the midst of strangers in this city,
Mr.. p. found himself surrounded by friends,
the recollection of whose kindness will be long
and lovingly cherished in the mind of himself
and family.
eyThe Argus says Mr. Garrison "made
speeches in New Hampshire Tor the abolition
republican party at the recent election" We
are informed by gentleman who was in New
Hampshire during the canvas, and who knows
the facts, that Mr.. Garrison made no speeches
in that State for the republican party. He
spoke once only in the State-in Nashua-and
that was by invitation of his old abolition
friends, without any reference to political
parties or the then pending election. But sup
pose he had spoken in favor of the election of
Mr.. Gilmore. does the Portland copperheaded
champion of a free press and of free speech
deny his right to do so?
gB- This weeks Transcript contains, be-
sides other good things, spicy Washington
letter from Florence Percy, an interesting war
sketch by Sergt Major w. C. Manning of the
LIST Massachusetts, regiment, and synopsis of
Emerson's lecture last Sunday on Immortality.
"The only book which he did not quote" says
the Transcript, twas the Bible" TX" says, he
may be in error; it is with the utmost diff
dence that he ventures TO differ with the re-
porter for the Transcript; but really he did
not hear Mr.. Emerson's citation from the
useful collection known as the "Complete Let
ter Writer"
sH-Gen. Neal Dow has been fined by a New
Orleans court fnr an act committed in time of
war, whereat the tory papers of this city seem
greatly rejoiced In 1915 one Andrew Jack
son was fined about the same amount, for a
military act, by court in that same city, and
the tory papers then exulted over the act; but
time in its wondrous workings, has indicated
the stern old hero, and encircled his brow with
unfading garlands, while the names of his ex-
ultant enemies have rotted and persisted from
the world of memory. SO it may be with
those who exult over Gen. Dow, while the
people-the real democracy-will yet do him
| full honor.