The Portland daily press., 1863-06-09
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ng-On the first page-the Siege of Vicks-
burg, by the correspondent of the Chicago
Journal.
SB-On the fourth page-Ode to Spring, by
a lawyer; Miscellany.
18-Bragg has yet dared to send over only
400 men to Johnston. Rosecrans is tho
roughly on the watch.
/ aB- Tomorrow morning we shall give
some interesting particulars concerning the
recent Canal Convention at Chicago.
nYMr. Chandler, the new Speaker of the
House, is % years of age-the youngest per-
son ever chosen to that Office in this State.
SC The overhaulers of lumber in Bangor
want II cents a thousand instead of IA = and
are on strike.
Gf The railway receipts for the month
ending Both May, were 81 ,15S4O, says the st.
John Chronicle, showing an increase over the
corresponding month last year of s5o5.53.
T The attention of health and pleasure
seekers is called to the advertisement of the
Adams House, Old Orchard Beach, very
attractive summer resort.
sp The report, originally appearing in the
Bath Times, that Capt Brinkerhoff is to be
transferred to a Western department, is be-
lieved to be without foundation.
sy-A jam of logs has accumulated upon
the pier of the railroad bridge at Skowhegan,
at least % rods in length, and numbering sew
eral thousand, says the Farmer.
nV Rev. E. W. Jackson, of Gorham, ar
rived at home on Saturday evening. He is at
present Chaplain of Armory Square Hospital,
Washington.
srThe Journal anxiously inquiries of the
Lewiston Common Council, if that contem-
plated 4th of July celebration is to end in
smoke. Pyrotechnic displays are very apt to
friend Dingley.
sy The town of Skiffield, Mass, was visit
ed by terrific hail storm on Sunday week.
Some of the stones measured 1-2 inches in
circumference. Great damage was done to
dwellings, grain, orchards and gardens.
sB- Owing to the detention of mails and
the failure of railroad connections, two or
three of G's letters from the West still remain
unpublished, bat they will appear in regular
order.
gV In consequence of an accident to our
power press yesterday morning part of our
edition was late, and for this reason the car
riers failed in a portion of the city to deliver
their papers as early as usual.
sg The citizens of Fryeburg propose to
celebrate the hundredth anniversary of its set
Element on the Goth of August, by suitable
public exercises, including an Grafton, dinner
and levee.
gV A letter from New Orleans says that
on the 18th ult. there were FIVE thousand bales
of cotton at Opelousas, in Federal possession
and that four hundred bales day were COM
ng in from the surrounding country.
svThe side wheel steamer St. John con-
demned as lawful prize, was sold in East
Boston, on Saturday for $4,000 cash, to the
agent of the st. John & Boston line Of
steamers.
sVPuebla, (City of the Angels) reported
TO have been captured by the French, is the
capital of the State OF Purebla, 70 miles south
east of the city of Mexico. 1t contains pop
ulation of between sixty and seventy thou
sand inhabitants.
Gv We learn from the St. Croix Herald
that Chas. II. Kelley, Esq, has just completed
a barque Of $50 tons which will be launched
in a few days. 1t is one of the best and most
staunchly built vessels that have been
constructed on the st. Croix.
ge Joseph Eaton, Abner Coburn, Samuel
Robinson, Ezra Totman, Eben Frye, Samuel
Coney, James W. Bradbury, .Llewlyn w.
Lithgpow and John Mullikin, were elected d.
rectors of the Somerset d Kennebec Railroad
at the meeting on Wednesday at Augusta.
sv The Eastport Sentinel publishes the
order OF the procession at the funeral obse-
quies of Capt. Thos. P. Roche, of that city,
which took place on Wednesday last. The
expression of regret at his death was very
general. He died from the effects of injuries
received at the battle of Fredericksburg.
sy-It is said that Pierre D'Orleans, son
of the Prince de Joinville, who graduated at
the recent commencement of the Naval Acad-
envy, has applied for active service in our navy
If granted, he will receive commission as
ensign, and be assigned position on board
one Of our national ships OF war.
sVThe st. Louis Republican, from what
can be learned of the subject, is inclined tojbe-
leive that the casualties at and Immediately
proceeding the investment of Vicksburg have
been greatly magnitied on the Federal side.
The whole number of killed and wounded
will not probably exceed six thousand-the
missing is trifing number.
seThe Machias Republican states that on
Thursday Of last week, Mr.. David Farnsworth
Of Addison, fell from the high bluff on the
northern end of Ladle Island, at the mouth of
Pleasant River, striking on his head on the
rocks some seventy feet below, aud killing him
instantly, Mr. Farnsworth was keeper ofNash's
Island Light during Buchanan's administra-