The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-06-13
ORIGINA AND ELECTED

the Worlu IN iiiZ-nlnety years slnce-lS now
at Demarara, waiting cargo of sugar.
GgrTwo interesting children, daughters of
Capt W. b. Smell, of Kendall's Mills, aged 5
and 10 years, died recently within few days
of each other, of diptheria
g- The reported death of Capt John B.
Hubbard, son Of exGov. Hubbard of Hal
lowell, is confirmed. He fell before the rebel
batteries at Port Hudson.
IY- The Bangor Times says Mr.. James G
Kent was lost overheard from the schooner
Norman, of Bangor. of which he was mate, in
the Potomac River, on the Sd of June.
sE- The Maine Medical Society is to hold
its annual meeting in this city on the 10th inst.
With so many professors of the healing Art
in our midst, doubtless the health of the city
will be at its highest figure.
GB- The Governor of Ohio has authorized
a battalion to be formed of rebel prisoners at
Camp Chase, in that State, who take the oath
of allegiance. Forty-iive joined on Thurs
day last.
sBr The statement which came by tel
egraph that one of the rebel spies recently
hung in Tennessee was a brother of General
Seth Williams, and consequently a son of Dan
iel Williams, Esq, Of Augusta, was false as
Mr.. Williams had no son of that name.
lH- The flag of the 18th Maine, which it
is claimed, has been borne nearer Richmond
than any other Federal flag, has been received
by the Adjutant General at Augusta. 1t was
Literally torn in tatters at Fair Oaks.-[Augusta
Journal.
sy- The State Prison at Concord n. H.,
pays about $1,000 above current expenses; the
Prison at Thomaston costs the State about
$4,000 annually. In New Hampshire the
rogues pay; in Maine they run the State in
debt.
sBr little son of Mr.. Cyrus S. Smith of
Athens, three years of age, swallowed kerr
mel of corn which lodged in the wind-pipe and
the child's life was saved by an incision made
from the outside, through which the kernel
was removed. So says the Clarion.
Ggr The Brunswick Telegraph says, Miss
Mary L. Merryman returned to her home in
that town a few days since, having spent sew
eral years in teaching about fifty miles below
Vicksbnrg. She had to run the blockade aud
take passage at New Orleans.
Joseph Eaton, Abner Coburn, Samuel
Robinson, Ezra Totman, Eben Frye, Samuel
Coney, James w. Bradbury, Llewellyn w.
Lithgow and John Mullikin, we're elected di-
rectors of the Somerset and Kennebec Rail
road at the meeting on Wednesday, at Angus
ia.
sg- Bro. Dingley of the Lewiston Journal
reeds looking after We fear for his morals.
Referring to certain fellows who have ske-
daddled to escape the draft, he says they will
probably bring up in Halifax or some other
place that begins with an IL!
TEA. c. Raymond, Esq, of Bath, passed
through this city on Wednesday, on his way
to Washington, to bring home his son John
H., of the Sd Maine regiment, who was wound
ed at the battle of Charlottesville. The Bath
Times says the son arrived home on Thurs
day, having passed his father on the way.
gE- The Paris Democrat says the fires
have lately run through the valuable pine tim
Der land on the plains in that city, owned by
Ezra F. Beal, Esq 1t will have to be cut
next winter to prevent total loss. The fire
was probably set by sparks from a locomo-
tive.
sBr Among the daily exchanges that come
to our office none are more highly priced than
the Philadelphia Press, the Chicago Tribune,
the Buffalo Express and the Montreal Wit
ness. The latter, in the midst of an anti
American feeling is warm in its sympathes
for the cause of our loyal people, and is doing
| in Canada East in this regard, what the To-
ronto Globe is doing in Canada West.
-" All reliable accounts agree that the
negroes in the slave states are almost wild
with joy at the prospect of proving their 10y
atty, and desire for freedom. In the account
| given Of the recent raid of Col. Montgomery,
among the South Carolina plantations, it is
stated that hundreds of slaves more than
there was means of transporting, be gged to,
return with the expedition.
Sg-The Kenebec Journal says, Scan it be
that the Democratic State Committee hope to
escape their Waterloo by changing their Con-
| vention from the 18th of June, the anniversary
of that battle, to later day?' Report says
the copperhead sachems are in trouble
about candidate. One section is for throw
| ing overheard their old candidate and the
! other isn't. Union men will settle the question
by throwing them all over.
sB- Is Boston slightly jealous of her i'm
perial rival? The Post says, "The Great Ca
"nal Convention was calculated most essen
"tially to leave New England out in the cold,
"and those members from this State who did
mot perceive it must have had their senses be-
numbed." Milwaukee growled in the Con-
vention at Chicago, through fear that the lat
ter city would receive inordinate benefit from
the canal. We hope Boston is not to play a
similar part in relation to New York. 1t is
poor patriotism that would oppose great
national advantage to spite or to benefit an
individual city. There can be but one New
York on the Atlantic coast, and Boston can
no more eclipse her than Portland can eclipse
Boston.
Nr When one intends to do handsome
thing by a friend or to compliment particu-
lar class or interest, it is not a little annoying
TO find the good intention subverted by the
types, and the compliment converted into a
sneer or unkind fling. In the Press of yester-
day morning, what we had written as kind