The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-13
ORIGIN AL AND LECTE ID.

GB- On the first page Boston Corrcspon.
dence; the Louisiana Campaign.
nB-On the fourth page Corrected Prices
Current.
nB-Both Gen. Kearney and Gen. Hooker
gave Gen. Berry the credit of saving the for
tunes of the day at Williamsburg, and both
united in the request for his promotion to a
Major Generalshp.
1B-The Bath Times says Messrs E. & A,
Seward, of that city, have commenced brig
Of about $50 tons burthen, at their yard, where
they also have ship of about 1000 tons nearly
ready for sailing.
E- We are indebted to the courtesy OF
Mr.. c. o. Leach, U. S. Consul at st. Johns,
Newfoundland, for copies of Newfoundland
papers containing the particulars of the loss OF
the Anglo Saxon.
gY-Col E. Peissner, 10th New York, late
Professor in Union College, was MORALLY
wounded near Charlottesville. His death
has produced profound sensation at Science
tady.
SH-We shall commence the publication to-
morrow oflettersjust received from our cor
respondents in Towards and Sedgewick's
corps, and giving together a complete and
graphic account of the operations of the Army
of the Potomac on the south bank of the Rap
pahannock from Saturday, May 2, to the next
Wednesday morning.
IrThe Annual Catalogue of the Bridgton
Academy, neatly printed by David Tucker, of
this city, has just come to hand. The whole
number of students in attendance during the
year has been 1853. The average number each
term is Sc. Mr.. Hilton, it is understood, will
remain at the head of the school. The next
term begins on Tuesday, Goth instant.
sY-L Lieut.. A. b. Twitchell, of the 5th
Maine Battery, of Bethel, arrived in this city
yesterday. He had the fingers on his left
hand shot off, and received severe blow upon
one of his kneepans. Capt. Leppien of the
shell just above the ankle joint. Capt. J.. is un-
able to leave Washington.
sR-The old Hancock mansion, on Beacon
street, Boston, has been purchased by James
torn down to make room for two first class
modern houses. So fades the landmarks of
the past The man may be born who will tear
down the new edifces because of their old
fashioned appearance.
sBeThe Copperhead worshipers of McClel-
Ian had much to say about Pope's ridiculous
and highfalutin orders: and his pompous and
boastfu promises, and now one of the copper
head papers in this city talks about Hooker's
"fusome flourishes about what's going to be
do.ie." Perhaps these gentlemen have forgot
ten that both Pope and Hooker had iustri-
Gus examples of the "iulsome," the pompous
and the highfalutin, and that long before they
issued any orders another General Of some re-
nown had INDUCED largely in the same strain.
We happen to have the order before us of one
Geo. b. Mcclellan, issued at the time he took
the field as commander of the Army OF the
Potomac, and for the purpose of refreshing
the minds Of our copperhead friends perhaps
we may produce it in the course of few days.
1t is full match for Pope's most rampant bull.
IFrom an article in the Evening Post
we infer that the Canadians have been severe
ly duped in relation to the quality of our
American silver coin. 1t seems that a pletho-
bors-all in consequence of easily explained
causes-and now they have taken fright from
the impression, somehow suddenly created,
that this coin is basely alleged, and is but lit
tie better than German silver. The conse-
quence is heavy discount in some portions
of the province on American silver, and a dis
position on the part of the deluded people to
get rid of it as speedily as possible. A cores
pondent Of the Montreal Witness labors to
disabuse his Canadian readers, and shows that
the intrinsic value of American silver coin is
81 1-2 cents to the dollar, and that "if the Can
the same weight and quality, it would cost
them ninety-seven and half per cent. for the
metal, in addition to the expense of coming
and shipping charges in importing it; in other
words, they ,couid issue ii at a ioss.'
eg-The multiplication of church chimes
in some portions ofLondon has become per-
feet nuisance, and unfavorably affects the
value of real estate in the localities. One of
the London journals thinks they might not be
unwelcome in the silence ofthe Essex marshes,
and suggests that, "if put to the vote, not a
few London parishes would gladly present the
uproarious peals now in use, together with a
proper quantity OF beer, to get rid of Them
The New York Evening Post, whose editor is
one of our popular poets, and is presumed to
have an ear for harmonies, says, "any person
whose misfortune it is to live within sound
of the hideous clangor made by what is called
a chime Of bells will cordially support this pro-
test" Of the London paper. "A more unmiti-
gated nuisance" continues the Post, "cannot be
suffered, and we wonder that the residents of
the neighborhood do not combine together to
prosecute the offenders. Three or four bells,
generally harsh or shrill when they are tangled
out of tune, as they commonly are, get to be
intolerable. To an invalid they must be an
agony whenever they are rung."