The Portland daily press., 1863-04-18
ng-Theodore Parker's Works, in two vol.

sE-A A meeting for the formation of a I'm
ion League in Bath, was to have been held last
evening.
sB-George Manat, boy of ~ years, COM
mitted suicide, in Upper Canada, by shooting
himself A troubled conscience'was the cause.
sB-Gen. Shields has gone to California,
having resigned his commission in the U. S.
Army.
sB-Pauperism continues slowly to decrease
in the distressed cotton districts of Lancashire
and Cheshire.
sB-Out Of 1915 soldiers votes in the Wis
consin regiments i'm the recent judicial election.
6l5S were cast for Judge Dixon, the Republi-
can candidate
sgThe Houlton Times-one of our very
best country exchanges-has entered upon its
fourth year. Bro. Cary is the right man in
the right place in its chair editorial.
sB-It is said that there are now laying in
Charleston harbor six English steamers and
sailing vessels, all loaded with cotton, waiting
for some chance to run out
IF The Bath Times says the steamer East
ern Queen is now undergoing repairs and re-
fitting, and will be put on the route to Boston
in a few days.
- Mr. Stewart, the princely New York
merchant denies through the Ledger of that
city the report that he has been buying up
cotton goods, butter, &c, for purposes of spec
ulation.
~ Mr.. A. T. Stewart, of New York, has
chartered the brig "Jessie Banfeld," and is
now loading her, entirely at his own expense,
with full cargo of corn and provisions for the
suffering poor of Belfast, Ireland
gBeA correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writing from Carthage, Tennes-
see, April s, says there is a strong Union sem
timent in Middle Tennessee. A majority of
the people in the Congressional district lately
represented by Col. Stokes are unconditional
Unionists.
sB-The lady editor Of the Bridgton Re-
porter, having been asked if she should adopt
the "spring STYLE" referring to street counting,
says: snow we might as well acknowledge
what everybody will suspect, and say that it
won't be a matter of choice if we don't follow
the fashions"
gE-on Tuesday last family whose house,
just outside the lines of our army at Suffolk,
had been burned, sought safely by fleeing to
our .troops. They were pursued by a rebel
squad, who ordered them to halt, and then fired
upon them, killing the mother, but without
arresting their fight. The father took up the
dead body of his wife, and with his children
arrived safe but broken-hearted in the Federal
camp.
sy-In reply to an invitation to attend a
meeting Of the National League in New York,
Gen. Scott wrote, "With an undying attach
ment to the Union, to which have given fifty
odd years of my life, my heart viii always be
In all meetings called to sustain it; but proba-
bly, shall in person never again be present at
another public assemblage, even for that noble
purpose"
rH- The propeller Iron Age, which has
been running between Boston and Pembroke,
and owned by the Pembroke Iron Company,
is reported to have been sold TO the Govern
ment, and is to be converted into gunboat,
10 carry one l00-pound gun, four 32-pound
rife guns, four 24-pound howitzers, on the up
per deck, and four 32-pound rifle guns be-
tween decks.
| rcAt the General Term of the Supreme
Court of New York, held in Rochester, it was
decided, on the 4th inst, that the U. S. legal
tender notes are constitutional as to debts con-
tracted before the passage of the law making
such notes legal tender Au the four judges
concurred. This decision will stand as a
precedent in the case OF John II. George u.s.
the City of Concord, recently mentioned in
| these columns.
LEA man with half an eye can read the
indications of the times, and see that only two
| parties are hereafter to exist in this State,-at
least until the rebellion is suppressed and the
authority Of the general government is re-
stored. Those who are Internationally in
favor Of the government win act together;
those whose Unionism hinges on conditions
whether they will or not, have got to stand
with the rebel sympathizers and open seces-
sionists.
UNIoNIsM IN VIRGINIA.-The Richmond
Examiner accuses the Wing of Virginia of
acting in the spring elections in accordance
with their old Union views. 1t says they eu-
deavor to seduce Democrats by appealing to
the "old Union sentiment" by attempting to
| lhc' dsaiisS DthloCIdtic itdueIs, as
the authors of the present war, and by saying
that they 1.-THE Whigs) could have prevented
dissolution, and are now the only party capa-
BILE of restoring the ancient order of things
sg- The Bath Times pays high compli-
ment TO Judge Walton, who has presided for
the first time in Sagadahoc County. 1t says
he has given evidence of clear legal mind
and thorough knowledge of points of law;
and those who have had business at the court,
or have been present portion of the time dur
ing its sitting, have been much pleased with
the promptness aud impartiality with which
he disposes Of cases, and the kindness and alta
bility with which all are met.
sB-The Boston Journal says, "while every
body is drawing practical lessons from the ex-
traordinary encounter in Charleston harbor,
and some of them upon very superficial con-
sideration of the facts, it is well not to over
look what Mr.. Ericsson says, to wit: The his
tory of war may be searched in vain for an in-
stance of such costly preparation, kept up at
such vast expenditure, as Charleston now re-
quires TO ward off the blow from half a dozen
small vessels, manned, provsioned and coaled
at less cost than an ordinary first class screw