The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-06-12
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tier; The Late Passage of the Rappahannodk.
gr On the fourth page Come Home,'
by :" Mary to the 25th Maine Regiment
GTPine apples are selling for $40 piece
in Mobile
sBIn New Haven they have horse rail-
road from the State Prison to the Cemetery.
Gg-Gov: Gamble of Missouri has decided
in favor of immediate emancipation.
Iy-It is said that the Nova Scotia gold
mines have proved a failure. They don't pay
gTThereis gratifying prospect of a great
decrease in the price of coal before the first
Of Sept.
Ir Messrs. w. V. Moses & Son have
stretched the keel of ship of about 1000 tons
burthen in that city. So says the Times.
sB-Hon. Frank Fuller, of Portsmouth, has
been admitted to practice in the Courts in
Utah Territory.
The Boston Post says rai-car always runs
smoothest when it is accompanied by polite
and accommodating conductor. Then all our
raicars run smoothly ON the Maine roads,
sy-It is reported that Father Taylor, of
the Seaman's Bethel, Boston, has received
bequest of about. 100000 from the late James
Bolton.
sye The War Department has ordered the
payment of the s 100 bounty to the men of
the 10th Regiment, who have been mustered
out of service.
aB-A little child of Capt. S. Colburn of
| Gardiner, says the journal, had his arm bro
ken by being run over by wagon, from which
he fell while riding, a few days since.
sy- Gen. N. j. Jackson, who had his leg
accidentally broken several weeks since, ar
rived at his home in Lewiston Wednesday
morning last. So says the Journal
sB- Hon. j. Hamlin and Hon. j. Wash
burn, Jr., returned home from Chicago by the
Grand Trunk, and stopped at Island Pond
over Sunday.
sB-Two little boys, one and the other
years of age, have been sent to Jail in Salem,
Mass for stealing from store on the Sab
| bath.
sge 1t is said that government has decided
relative to the arrest of persons resisting the
draft, shall be strictly adhered to.
Gy- From the Gas Light journal of June
LIST, we find that there are in the United States
four hundred and thirty-three gas companies.
whose aggregate capital exceeds sixty millions
| of dollars
rB- Hon. Sidney Perham member elect to
the next Congress from the I'd district, has
gone to Halifax to attend the session of the
| National Division of the Sons of Temper
ance.
sBBro. Sayward of the Kennebec Journal
is the poet editor of Maine. He says, "The
summer has come with its voiceess lips of
flowers, each cup pulpit and each leaf
book
sg-William Daily, steam fire engineman
in New Haven, can, the word being given,
start from bed, dress himself, light the gas,
bride the horses, hitch them to the engine,
and drive out of doors ready for action, in
exactly SO seconds.
% The small amount of destruction
caused by war, in proportion to the powder
and ball consumed, is remarkably illustrated
| in the siege of Puebla 1t is estimated that
the Mexicans have fired fifteen thousand can
| non and one million Of rife shots, killing but
| forty-one French soldiers and wounding one
hundred and sixty-one.
gr The Machias Republican states that
on Thursday, 4th inst, Mr. David Farms
worth, 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, and
killing him instantly
rrThe Gardiner Journal desires us to
urge upon the citizens of Portland the pro-
priety of hiring the Band of that city to give
a series of outdoor evening concerts. We
shall do no such thing 1t would imply I'M
willingness on the part of our people TO pat
ronize their own nuisances.
e The last Boston notion is the Monster
Organ, which is the most perfect and compre-
hensive work of its kind in the world, being
the combined result of the experience of all
the noted builders of the world, costing some
$4,000 or 100000. 1t is to be completed and
put up in the Music Hall, by next October.
sg- The St. John Telegraph informs us
that the shipments from that port to the Unit
ed Kingdom, during the past month, have
been in eighteen vessels of l0,022 tons regis
ter, carrying s,20l ,ls7 superficial feet of deals,
&c, 749 tons pine, ASH tons birch, l6 1-2 cords
lathwood, and 81 $50 pieces paings.
srThe Times says the Bangor Mercantile
Association possesses a library of between six
and seven thousand volumes, among which
are comprised thousands of volumes of the
most valuable and standard works upon His
tory, Philosophy, Art, Science, Politics and
Religion.
ga Western correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal writes that Gen. Pope recently
visited St. Paul, but has returned to his head
quarters at Milwaukee. He has an active
campaign in preparation against the Sioux.
If his troops move with sufficient rapidity,
he has strong hopes of "bagging' and exter-
minating the whole tribe. We shall see how
it results.
% A citizen of Maysville, CAL, was ar
rested for riding through the town waving
Confederate flag and cheering for JEFF Davis,
taken to Sacramento and tried by Court Mar
tial and sentenced to ten wears hard labor on