The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-03-18
ORIGINA AND sELECTED

SB- On the first page - The Brunswick
Telegraph on the Rappahannock; Captain
Spiller's Discharge.
sg- On the fourth page - Napoleon the
Magnificent, a translation from the French;
Miscellany.
% The Bangor Wing learns that on Sat-
urday morning the mercury stood SO degrees
below zero in Lincoln, 80 below in Mattawam-
keag, and % below in Bangor.
sE The meeting house at Rumford Point
was destroyed by Ere on the evening of March
18th, as the Lewiston Journal learns from a
correspondent.
sB- Prof. E. Whittlesey, of Bowdoin Col
lege, excused temporarily from the active du-
ties OF his professorship and attached to Gen.
Towards staff, is at home enjoying brief
furlough.
- Lieut.. ]. H. Nichols, OF Brunswick,
will return to his regiment, the Twentieth, in
afew days, as we learn from personal inter-
view. He Is full of hope and courage for the
coming-let us say, conclusire campaign.
sg Camden and Levant have elected full
boards of Union officers, notwithstanding the
efforts of the Copperheads to carry the day.
In Avon the Copperheads got up ticket and
boosted they were going to elect it, but they
failed most sgnally.
SE- Gen. Hooker has been written down
by the penny-a-liners as hard drinker. The
army correspondent of the Springfield Repub-
lican goes so far as to assert, in substance, that
he driaks like a fish, for he drinks only cold
uateri
pr Augustus Heard, senior, and John
Heard in behalf Of himself and brothers, ma
tives of Ipswich, Mass, but resident in China
recently placed $4,000 in the hands of trus-
tees to be devoted to the mitigation of the
sufferings Of soldiers from that town, and the
needy families of soldiers.
sH Gen. Stoughton, recently commanding
the I'd Vermont brigade, and now prisoner,
is no great loss. He had his headquarters at
Fairfax Court House, five or six miles from
his brigade, and was on terms of intimacy with
Delilah named Ford, who probably betrayed
him to the Virginia Philstnes.
sB- The Lewiston Journal says Mr.. Hor-
ace True of Turner came to that city to do
some shopping, and left his horse unhitched
The night was cold, and the horse discovering
that this is a free country turned on his heels
and made swiftly for home, so that Mr.. True
had the felicity Of cdlking all the way home,
distance OF eight miles, on one of the rawest
nights of the season.
sV- The various denominational newspa-
pers are again teeming with intelligence of re-
ligous revivals, which are said to be taking
England States, New York and the West
Hitherto they have been mainly confined to
the rural districts, differing in this respect
from the revivals OF 1873, which originated
4. in the large cities.
II Ex-Governor Hoppin of Rhode Island
has declined the nomination of the Democrat
ic and Constitutional Union Conventions of
that State as candidate for Governor, his sex
pectations Of uniting the Democratic and Con-
sentative strength of Rhode Island in support
realized by the proceedings of the Conven-
tions."
sB- The gross receipts Of the Pen. & Ken.
and Androscoggin q Kenpebec Railroads,
lnow consolidated into the Maine Central)
from June /, 1862, to Feb. l, 1868, were
s22O.l66 70
For same time from 1861 TO 1862, 173,2e4 O6
Gain over last year, S56,902 10
IF The Methodist Chapel on Union Street,
Bangor, caught fire Monday evening from one
of the pipes OF the hot air furnace, which was
too near the woodwork. Fortunately the fire
was discovered in season to be extinguished
with buckets of water. A few moments later,
says the Wing, and the beautiful structure
would have been seriously damaged If not en-
tirely consumed.
sY- The following military designations
have been received through the War Depart
ment under date Of March 9th
Colonel +. i. Sewall, 10Th regiment.
Lieutenant NJ. c. Burgess, 80 Battery.
Captain ii. &. Snow, 9TH regiment.
Captain +. A. Snow, 10Th regiment
Captain Alonzo p. Lamb, 23d regiment
Captain w. K. Brooks, 10th regiment.
Lieutenant +. A. Wildes, 10Th regiment.
Bangor Whig.
sE- The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Herald says that parties who have
an interest in the matter are making strenuous
efforts to induce the Secretary of the Treas
ury to recede from his recent decision that
foreign vessels may compete for the traffic be-
tween San Francisco aud New York; but the
decision was caused by careful consideration
of the law and will not be reversed. 1t is I'M
derstood that under it a line OF English steam
propellers will soon be placed on one of the
transit routes.
sy- An action has been commenced in the
Chancellor's Court, Oxford, against the Rev
b. Jowett, NJ. A., Fellow and Tutor of Balliol
College, and Regus Professor Of Greek, on ac-
count of opinions expressed by him in his
commentary on the Epistle to the Romans
and in the article on "rhe Inspiration OF Scrip
ture," in the famous Essays and Reviews"
The appellants are the Rev. DIR. Pusey, Regi-
us Professor of Hebrew; the Rev. DIR. Heurt-
ly, Margaret Professor of Divinity: and the
Rev. DIR. 0gilvie, Regius Professor of Pastoral
Theolog y--ail canons Of Christ Church.
sy- The examination at the Boys Boarding
School, at Readfeld, is 10 come Off on Wednes-