The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


sB-On the first page-The Third Corps at
Charlottesville, an excellent letter from the
18th Maine
sg@ The Patriot says gun mandatory
has been started in Pennington.
gB- The Springfield Republican suggests
that Wendell Phillips and Valhndigham be
sent to the Dry Tortugas together.
srThe Copperhead saints in Detroit are
said to be making a movement to organize a
church in which they will no longer be vexed
with anti-slavery praying and preaching.
sBe Our soldiers at Baton Rouge are en-
joying the luxury of green peas, but mutton
is thirty-flve cents per pound, and of lamb
there appear to be no quotations.
gg- Madame Bishop is to give one of
her popular entertainments at Columbian
Hail. Bath, Friday evening. Our Bath friends
will do injustice to themselves if they do not
give her a crowded house.
sTThe Advertiser suggests that the result
of Vallandigham's persecution { y will be to
place him in the gubernatorial chair of Ohio.
Would the editor of the Advertiser vote for
him for that position, were he a citizen of the
Buckeye State?
sH- 1t. Alfred L. Robinson, of the 9th
Maine Regiment, arrived home at Bath, on a
twenty days furlough from Hilton Head, on
Saturday evening Lieut.. r. says his regiment
is in excellent spirits and in a good sanitary
condition.
IB~Lieut. Stevens has been exchanged,
and is now at Annapolis. Lieut.. Frank G.
Patterson, of Co. G, who was supposed to
have been killed, was taken prisoner, and was
TO have been exchanged by the boat that fol-
lowed Lieut.. Stevens.
lgThe writ of habeas corpus having been
refused in favor of Vallandigham, by the
Judge to whom application was made, and
who gave the applicant proper hearing, it is
interesting to know what reasons our copper
head friends will urge why the sentence of the
court martial, as modified by the President,
should not be carried out
srThe Advertiser says Russia has already
expended 100000 forms in her abortive
efforts TO put down the instruction in Poland,
adding, at seems certain that the revolt has
"nearly exhausted the funds of the Empire"
Theexpenditure ola little more than seven mil
lions of dollars has exhausted the funds of the
Russian Empire. What next?
sE~ We had a very pleasant call yesterday
afternoon from Major T. A. Kendrick, of the
I'd Iowa cavalry, who has been for the past two
years in the army of the Southwest and seen
much service. In consequence of an injury
from falling tree, from the effects Of which
he is fast recovering he received short leave
of absence, during which he is visiting friends
in Saco where he was born, and his parents
reside. He is attached to Grants army. He
has served under Gen. Pope, and except Rose
Grams, considers Pope one of the best officers
who has been in that region He knows the
negroes will make excellent soldiers, and will
stand under fire like veterans. The rebellion,
he thinks, is near being played out, for
it is impossible to I'LL the thinning ranks of
the rebel army. Every able-bodied man has
been pressed into the service. If soldier is
| discharged, but as soon as he is able he is put
in service in the hospital or Quartermaster's
department, relieving for active duty those
who have the full complement of limbs. He
expected before coming North to find the
country showing marks of ruin, but had been
surprised to find not only the evidences of
thrift and abundance everywhere, but also in
finding all our towns swarming with able-bod-
led men, just the material with which to
strengthen our army at a moment when its in
| creased strength cannot fail to tell