The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-27
o RIGINAL AND sELECTE
sB- On the first page-The Bible Presen

gECol Grierson, the famous cavalry hero
Of the Southwest, was born in Pittsburg, Pa,
in 1927, and is therefore SO years old. He has
resided in Ohio, and lately in Illinois.
B-The Chattanooga Rebel says that "the
democratic ladies of New York have pur-
chased magnificent sword, at cost of $1,000,
as present for Gen. Lee, of the rebel army"
ag- Rev. Mr.. Blake of Pennington, Chap
lain of the Maine 18th who came home with
the remains of his deceased son, has started
to rejoin his regiment at New Orleans.
gan exchange tells story of a hogs
bristle being taken from young lady's foot.
That is nothing. Many young lady has had
a whole wisp of hogs bristles taken from her
lips.
sE-Capt. Brinkerhoff, of Augusta, very
eloquent speaker has been invited to address
the Loyal League, of this city ON TOMORROW
cepted the invitation.
sBThe Confectionery and Fancy Goods
Store, OF Mr.. T. Il. Ellis, on Factory Island,
Saco, was entirely burned out inside, between
i and 3 O'Clock, on Monday morning last
poous III store were entirely consumed.
Origin Of the fire unknown Democrat
sE-The Bangor Times says that on Satur-
urday, about II o'clock, Mr.. Charles W. Pear
son, while preparing to extend a cord across
the street from the third story of A. NJ. Shaw's
store, No. As West Market Square, for a
flag, in honor OF the reception of the I'd
Maine Regiment, walked backwards. and fell
through the scuttle striking on his head and
breaking his neck. He died instantly. His
age was about 35. He leaves a wife and one
child to mourn his sudden decease.
IvThe number of foreign immigrants ar
irving at New York and Boston was probably
never so largea as atthe present time. BY almost
every arrival from Europe a new swarm is
landed. On Monday last seven sailing ships
arrived with passengers at New York. Two
of them the numbers are not given, and the
other five landed 1854. Besides these there
were steamer arrivals. The Great Eastern, on
the way, has 1900. At this rate we shall have
no lack of settlers either for our new land, or
for the confiscated estates of the South.
eY-Judge Hiestand of New Orleans recently
made speech in that city, in which he said
81 have been a slave holder ever since l was
able to own a negro, and have never enter
te.ined conscientious scruples in the matter, and
do not now. Three years ago in Lafayette
square l told the residents of this city that
the first attempt to defy the power of tho ma
tional Government would result in the down.
fall of slavery. Tonight l rejoice to inform
you that from the Rio Grande to the ST. Johns,
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, slavery is
doomed.
y-Yesterday afternoon, the sluggish blood
on change, was suddenly started to fever
velocity by a dispatch, that gold was up to
54-ten per cent. advance upon the last previ-
Gus quotation. All sorts of speculations were
rife. Some thought Grant had been defeated
before Vicksburg; others that the Govern
ment was in possession of bad news, and few
suggested that the bottom of things generally
was tunbling out. The fever suddenly abat-
ed when the operator discovered that he had
overcounted in the column of tens, and that
the rate was A instead of "a.
- Capt. A. l.. FoGG, Co. II, nth Maine,
writes home insisting that he was not killed,
as reported by Major Dill in a list of casual
ties furnished to the Press. 1t is contrary TO
military etiquette for captain to give ma
jor the lie; it may be question however,
whether dead captain, as Capt. Fogg GER
tainly is according to Major Dilrs report, is
any longer subject TO the army regulations.
We give him the benefit of this doubt and
print his statement. Capt Fogg writes in
good spirits, says he feels more like fighting
it out than ever, and expresses the utmost
confidence in the ultimate triumph of the
North.
.B-The Bangor Wing says the body of an
unknown man was picked up Sunday morning
floating in the river about mile below Hamp-
den Corner. 1t had apparently been in the
water several weeks. The body was that of
man about forty years of age, aud five feet
four or five inches in height, dark whiskers on
the chin and throat. One of the front teeth
was gone. The dress consisted of striped
shirt and drill frock, with a blue frock over it,
a pair of wooden pantaloons with blue over
alls. There was wooden sock upon one foot,
the other foot bare. Marks and wounds upon
the face furnish grounds for the suspicion of
foul play.
rB-We recently mentioned the rumor that
Mr.. L. p. Harvard, son of Thomas Harvard,
Esq, Of Bath, had been drowned in the Black
Sea. A private letter from Mr.. Jacob En-
mons, Jr, of London, formerly of Bath to the
friends OF the deceased, says, "Mr Harvard
had been on board the ship Holyhead, Capt.
+. Swanton, at Gudava, and started from there
for Redout Kale, about twenty miles, in a
'leuca,' with five men. They must have got
nearly there when the boat capsized; they
succeeded in getting on the bottom. 1t blow
ing quite fresh and being cold, they dropped
off one by one, till only one was left The
current setting towards Gudava, the boat
drifted near the 'Holyhead,' and was discoy-
cred by her. Capt. Swanton went off himself
and picked off the man from the boat. after he
had been twenty hours on the bottom, and
learned from him the sad particulars
sB-We have sometimes been censured for
publishing notices of accidents, ETC., in which
attending physicians received complimentary
notice. We have been told, even by physi-
clans themselves, that such notices, being
somewhat in the nature of pufls, were often
nothing more or less than impositions upon
the public. Now let us set ourself right on
this point. If an ordained clergyman comes