The Portland daily press., 1863-04-14
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTED

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED
sB- On the first page Rebel Siege of
Washington, n c.; Day at the Philadelphia
Agency for the Fve-Twenty Loan; &c.
sg- On the fourth page-To One most
Dear, an original poem; Miscellany.
sB- Gen. Fosters force at Washington, N.
c., was about eighteen hundred men.
sV-Measures preliminary to the organic
alton ola Union League have been taken by
some of the citizens of Calais.
sB- The system of paid labor introduced
| by Gen. Banks on the Louisiana plantations
is working well, both for the negroes and for
their former masters. This is what is needed
some new system to take the place of the
| old, at once.
sB Hon. Montgomery Blair, the Post
Master General, has written letter advising
that the emancipation question be met openly
and at once in Maryland. "The question is
"upon u.s." he says, "and all we can do is to
SAY on which side We will range ourselves"
sg-Col. Forney, having met Ex-Presdent
Pierce in New York, writes to the Philadel-
phia Preserve talked no politics, for we
differ much, am sorry to feel, on these trou-
"bles; but soon saw that we did not differ
"on one point that there is to be no separa-
"tion Of this Republic"
q The Bangor Wing says that on Friday
night store in Orono, owned by n. Wilson,
Esq, and occupied as boot and shoe store by
Nathaniel Lunt, and as dwelling by ID. Lord,
was totally consumed by fire. The store was
worth about $1,000, insured for $780, Stock
insured for $1,000.
sB"Where are our sons? Down south
| fighting this unholy war, and God only knows
| whether we shall ever see them again or not"
said prominent New London politician in a
| speech just before the election. The gentle
| mans "hopefuP'-a sergeant in the LIST Connec-
ticut artillery-appeared to his anxious pa
rent IN time to cast his vote for Buckingham
and the Union,
sE-There is report that certain Copper
heads, at noon last Tuesday, inquired at the
| Arsenal how much notice the keeper would
require, if they should want a salute fired
The reply is said to have been, three hours.
However this may be, the hopes of the "Demo-
Gratis" were undoubtedly high and their disap-
| polntment proportionaly bitter.
sy- The Sumter meeting in New York
last Saturday was immense. Some twenty
delegations from Loyal Leagues in Philadel-
pha, Boston, Connecticut, New Jersey and
elsewhere were in attendance Six stands
were erected in Union Square for the different
/ aLars oft Cd -;tt,
able flags.
| % The Argus gives up the Somerset
town elections, as source of comfort, and
falls back on Cumberland and York. Well,
the general impression Is that Portland has
struck the key note for Cumberland, and as
for York, she is only accidentally democratic,
and she will take the earliest opportunity to
wash her hands of all copperhead defilements
II Mr.. Slidell, the emissary of the Con-
spiracy, has written letter to the London
Times claiming that the regulating Missis-
| sippi Davis is not Jefferson but Reuben Davis
Everybody on this side of the Atlantic knows
better, but no matter, thinks Mr.. SIidell-thou-
sands of bull-headed Englishmen will go to
their graves with fixed belief in the political
integrity of the Chief Conspirator
sy-The Eastport Seminal states that the
revenue officers Of that port made a seizure of
ten casks (about 400 gallonsl of brandy, on
board the Steamer Iron Age. The brandy was
taken on board at Pembroke, and the casks
were made to appear like oil casks. They
were carefully slowed away in the forward
part of the steamers hold, and covered up
with quantity of Indian baskets.
l ry-The st. Johnsbury, Vermont, Caledon-
ian says that Mr.. James w. Davis Of Island
Pond has taken a bond of DIR. Goes copper
mine in Brighton and has associated himself
with party of enterprizing Portland cap
talists for the purpose ofworking the mines.
The close proximity to the Grand Trunk Rail-
way and the comparatively easy working of
the claim, will no doubt render it a valuable
| property.
sB- Joseph Granger. Esq, Republican, has
been reelected Mayor of Calais by majority
of 234 over DIR. C. C. Porter VIM j. Cor
thell was elected Municipal Judge by POS ma
jority over Levi L. Lowell. The Republicans
carried all the wards except one, and in that
the majority against them was only two
This completes the municipal elections in
this State. Every city save one (Biddeford)
has elected officers who are in favor of the
National Administration and all its measures
to crush the rebellion.
IF When at Bath the other day we were
told that the scurrilous print which disgraces
that goodly city-a paper that does not come
TO our office, and one which we have seldom
seen-has several times of late honored us
with its malignant attacks; and VIC notice it
now only to return our profound thanks.
| The highest service the editor of that sheet
can perform for any loyal or honorable man,
is to assail him; his praise would be like the
touch of Shiny reptile, of literal copper
head, of which he is the fitting type.
sV- In brief interview with c. P. kim
ball, Esq, on Saturday last Mr. Smiths water
project was alluded to, and the allegation that
| he MIX was pledged to favor it if elected