The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-07-02
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

lrOn the first page-Copperhead Demon
stration in Brownfeld; Fryeburg Loyal to the
Core.
.g-On the fourth page-Miscellany
~y-The merchants of Bath are taking
measures to open Merchants Exchange in
that city.
sg- The true name of the late rebel gener-
al jackson it is said, was not Thomas jefferson
Jackson, as given almost everywhere, but
Thomas Jonathan jackson.
nY-Gen. Grant in one of his recent letters
from Vicksburg, remarked that he had $4,000
prisoners in front of him who are temporarily
boarding themselves.
sB- The Union League of Philadelphia
have abandoned their preparations for grand
commemoration of the coming anniversary of
American Independence.
An excellent Autographed map of the seat of
war in Maryland and Pennsylvania has been
published by Mr.. B. b. Russell, 515 Washing
ton street, Boston.
-p- If you want to find out Just what the
Copperheads mean, and sometimes incautiously
say, read the report of their proceedings in
Brownlield, printed on the first ipage this
morning.
ga dispatch has been received from
New York stating that the Journal of Com
merce has "the highest authority" for saying
that the rumor of the suppression of Gen.
Haitoatr he MaCtoila
sEThe late hour at which we received our
report of the proceedings of the State Conyen-
ton, l.30 A. NJ, compels us to abreviate it,
and to omit the resolutions until tomorrow,
in order that we may get to press in season for
the morning mails.
sB- The Bangor Times says there is band
Of gpsies encamped in the vicinity of Winter
port Frequent raids have been made on the
hen roosts and other exposed domestic proper
ty, and an expedition is fitting out to dispense
the depredators.
sB-Isaac II. Trask of Orrington, Maine,
e.of the barque Helena, was examined
Tuesday, before United States Commissioner
Hallett, in Boston, for assaulting Lewis Nor
ris with dangerous weapon on the high seas,
and held for trial in the sum of $500.
sg-H. f. Carter, Esq, at Pembroke, is
putting up frame ola ship of 700 tons,
for New York firm. Messrs. Wadsworth
are building vessel in their yard and Messrs.
Russell have two building in their yards. This
with the large business in the Iron Works
makes Pembroke a lively town
~rIt is said that the main point in the
Presidents reply to the Vallandigham Com
mittee is that they shall agree in writing to
obey and support all the laws, and that
they shall pledge yallandigham to do the
same, when he shall be allowed to return and
remain at liberty.
svWe exchange with the Christian Mir
ror and give them our daily for their weekly.
We should like TO see perfect copy of that
paper, or one that can be read. For more than
two months past we have received blurred and
imperfect sheets, that are disgrace to any
decent printing office.
LEA son of Hon. John c. Talbot, of East
Machias, last Thursday had his left hand near
~ ctNtlSu at iiS niict, ny bioddiAC III tiC
hands of a man who twas driving a wedge.
The man was at work on Mr.. Talbot's farm.
The boy came up unobserved behind the work
man, hence the accident.
gg- A spirited base ball match was played
in Providence on Saturday, between the Har-
ward Freshmen Club and the Sophomore Club
of Brown University, in which Harvard came
off victorious. The occasion was one of great
excitement among the students of thei two
colleges.
sV-Abner G.. Emery o, Co. ii, First Maine
! Cavalry, son of Joseph Emery of this town,
was fatally wounded at the battle of Aldie.
He was pierced by five bullets, one of which
went through his chest from oneside to the
otherHe was alive when last heard from, but
no hopes of his recovery were entertained
| When being taken off the field he said, 'Tell
my friends that was wounded at the 'front.'"
| -[Skowflegan Farmer.
gg- The degree of Doctor of Common Law,
solicited for the Rev. Charles Kingsley, author
of"Alton Locke" and other novels, by the
| Prince of Wales, has been refused by the Heb
domadal Board of the University of Oxford,
| at the instance of DIR. Pusey, DIR. Mansel, and
others of like tenets. They charge that Mr..
Kngsley's works, and especially "Hypatia,' y
| are of "a heretical and immoral character!
.B-A st. Petersburg paper publishes the
note of Prince Gortschakof to Mr.. Clay on
Mr.. Stewards declination to join the diplomat
| ic Intervention in favor of Poland, which con-
cludes as follows: "Such facts draw closer
''the bonds of sympathy between Russia and
"America. The Emperor knows how to ap-
| "preciate the firmness with which Mr.. Sew
Gard maintains the principles of non-interven-
| "tion."
| s- The Providence Journal says that the
rebels find that Maine is not so good theater
for operations as Pennsylvania. Those down
casters do not wait long after the appearance
of the enemy in their waters before stirring
around. The attempt of the privateers was
audacious enough. But the capture of them
and Of their vessel was in the highest degree
| crpdtahla IN tho anthor;tiac aud tho cifi1aus