The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1863-05-01
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Read the poetry on the first page.
L-Mis ooayia Blame left this city
last "Wednesday morning for California.
Gold was sold in New York Wednes-
day for LAD "a. aoi- gqols mIa
The prospects Of the rebels are look
ing dubious, and, per contra, ours arc looking
we'll. The skies are Frightening oil around.
"A firm adyertisos in tho Bath Times
,-"Galvanizing done to order at short. mo-
ticc." This firm might, perhaps, get a
profitable job in Portland about June 18th.
- Gen. Mcclellan has Joined the church
in New York. Any adpance he may make
against Satan's Kingdom, will DO hailed by
us with surprise and qualification.
Il Is surmised that the Miss Ford,
who inveiglcd and betrayed Gen. Stoughton,
although born in Virginia, could not have
been q Virginian. '' %.
There isa report that Gen. Bragg
was shot and instantly killed by tho traitor
Breckenridge at Tullahoma. We do not
sec it. r.....ir .g
We learn that some of-the farmers
along the Saco River, especially in Limington,
arc narrowing their ground ready to this
week SOW their wheat. 'a'N '..'
Somebody says the skedaddlers have
been heard from. They are in Canada, saw.
ing wood for the colored families for their
board. This last may be mistake, however.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve.
nue. has decided that oil promissory notes,
whether under or over twenty dollars, are
subject to stamp.
The rebels in Missouri, under Gen.
Price, have been badly rcpulsed, and from
latest accounts we learn that Gen. Van Dew.
cr was hotly pursuing them, capturing q
large number Of prisoners, horses, arms &c.
-Wo shall next week publish an ex.
tract relating to Sabbath services. Why our
churches do not more readily adopt the sys-
tenn of only ono general service each Sabbath
VIC do not SEQ.
-T The leak in our military secrets has
been discovered and stopped, or rather, the
means of conveying tho information. 1t
consisted of submarine telegraph running
from Falmouth.
Gen. Banks has been doiag a splendid
business in his Department, as will be seen
by our telegraph column. 1t is expected the
next democratic Convention will declare his
action unconstitutional.
- We are informed that q good revival
is going on in Kenncbunk, between fifty and
sixty individuals having INDUCED hope in
Christ. The different denominations arc
holding union meetings which arc very in.
teresting.
g The Daily Evening Courier comes to
us enlarged and in new type. We judge that
the proprietors,i if they can't "keep hotel,
know how to mako handsome paper,
and ono we'll worthy the support of tho Port.
land people. Success to you, gentlemen!
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY. The May number
of this truly excellent monthly is received.
We have not read all tho articles, but are
always ready to endorse the future by the
past, in regard to tho Continental. 1t is one
Of the most acceptable books that comes to
us. Price Is cents o number. Buy copy
and try it.
Those doubtful men, who not long
since paraded our streets with copperhcads
on their breasts and blockheads on their
shoulders, have not been on the rampage rs
much as usual. Trot out the badge and lot
nil see it! If it isn't the mark of Cain, it
marks the copperhcad, and there isn't much
difference. ...
TRIUMPH ENGINE Co.-Tho gentlcmanly
Capt. of this Fire Company informs us that
out OF roll Of seventy FIVE members forty
have gone to the war. What Engine Co.
has done as well as this2 Their roll Of
membership is made up from the best class
of young men in this city. Hurrah for the
Triumph boys.-may they always triumph!
Union League moctingsaro the order Of
the day in California. A very large one was
held in Sacramento on the 18th, ut which
Gov. Stanford, Gen. Wright, and Conness
1.-THE new United States Senator) made speech
es. Senator Conness improved the occasion
to correct erroneous impressions as to his own
position. He bad been accused Of sympathy
with coppcrheadism. This he Indignantly
denied. and said that no sustained the Union,
the Government, and the Administration
thoroughly.
~ A cutoff has at last been made in the
South West that promises harm for the rob
els. The Navy Department has received n
despatch from Admiral Porter dated Yazoo
River April 10th, in which he says:
Through the cutoff above Alexandria,