The Portland daily press., 1863-05-11
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED ID.

Macnlas, at cost OF S55,OOO.
lD-They say Ericsson has sent more "dev-
lis" South
aB-The Manchester IN. H. Mirror, we
are pleased to observe, borrows its s"New
Hampshire Items" from the Portland Press.
IVThe city authorities of Lewiston are
impounding all cows found at large in the
streets.
1B-The Catholics of Boston sent 49,, 900 by
the last steamer to their suffering friends in
Ireland
gBrThe yield of gold in California since
1S49 is estimated to have been twelve hundred
and fifty millions.
srThe editor of the Ellsworth American
rejoices in being safe from any call under the
U. S. Income Tax.
ga fellow from the country, the other
day, noticing the cotton mills in Lewiston,
said he thought they had good many meetin'
honses there.
GB An editor says he has seen the contri-
vance which lawyers use when 'they warm up
with the subject" He SAYS it was a glass
concern aud holds about a pint.
GfA letter from S. l.. Carleton, Esq, an
nounces that the Grand Division of Sons of
Temperance for the District of Columbia was
duly organized last Wednesday.
SB-A private dispatch from Rockland, re-
ceved by gentleman of this city Saturday
evening, states that Gen. Berry's funeral will
take place on Thursday next, at IL o'clock NJ.
says that Mr.. Luke Hussey of that town has
laid taoo eggs upon his table. Mr. II. must be
regular hen-hussy.
sB- We are informed that though all the
killed in the late battle, the inen succeeded in
bringing off all their guns.
~The Watervlle Mail says the barn of
the late Thomas Rice, Esq, in Winslow, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday week. The fire
was communicated from a burning brush
heap.
IrThe rebel Major General Daniel S. Dom
Alison died recently in Knoxville, Tennessee
He was brother of Andrew Jackson Donal-
son who was candidate for Vice President in
iOoo, Oi tuc tlCkeL Will rliiiuOTe.
LEA special dispatch to the Journal says
officers just returned from Richmond describe
the panic there as great, and they are confident
that Stoneman's raid has been a severe blow
to the rebels, morally and materially.
gVThe drinking saloons OF New Orleans
are closed each evening at o'clock. The
Era says, 1.-THE drinking public were in
dilemma but it was a dilemma tcithout any
horns"
g Mr.. John Browns, farmer of Madi-
son, has been bound over for his appearance
at the next term of the S. ]. Court in that
county, for brutally fogging little French
boy only twelve years Of age.
LEA correspondent in Franklin County
says the season is some days earlier than last
year. The frequent cold rains are unpropitions
for the sheep raisers, as this is the season when
lambs are in their young and tender infancy.
gv A gentleman of this place dreamed of
silver dollar the other night. He feels some
alarm lest it should prove an evil omen, but
we are trying to comfort him with the reflec-
ton that it was but dream Bridgton Re-
porter.
sv This Republic, says the Philadelphia
Press, has bill of particulars against Eng
land, and the case of Peterhoff goes to swell
that bill. We file it away now, because other
obligations are more pressing. The account
is not forgotten.
immense Gun Carriages, of the most approved
pattern, were shipped on Friday, on board
schooner Lizzie NJ. Steward at the Portsmouth
Navy Yard, for Fortress Monroe More are
soon to follow.
Y- Judge Barrows, now holding his first
court at Machias as Judge of the Supreme
Judicial Court, is very much liked by the
various members Of the bar. The easy man
ner with which he presides and the cearness
of his rulings and charges have already elicit
ed high encomiums.-CdldisH Herald.
lVThe Bangor Evening Times has recent
ly been enlarged, and is now the size of the
Lewiston Journal. 1t is published by VIM
Thompson Esq, and is specimen of perfect
neatness and good taste, in all that relates to
its mechanical appearance. Its columns are
racy and loyal to the core.
SB-Howell Cobb is reported by cores
pendent OF the Springfield Republican, to have
said lately, to some federal officers whom he
saw under flag of truce, that there were only
two things that stand in the way of an AMIGA
BILE settlement of our national difficulties. "only
two things-the landing of the Pilgrims, and
original sinv'
EBeThe Richmond Examiner. in speaking
of Gen. Stoneman's raid, says it is the most
audacious enterprise of the war. 1t seems
Gen. Winder, attended by one of his aids,
barely escaped capture by squad of Stone
mans men. He mistook them for his friends,
and he came into unsafe proximity to them
before he discovered his mistake.
.B-The Boston Journal says the distress
sign Of the copperhead secret societies is III.
o. R.d." The haiing party gives only the
first two letters, which are the initials to the
words "hold on" The respondent, if he is a
member, answers, "R.d," which means "Rich-
mond."
gv A correspondent in Franklin county
writes, =" 1t has been a very poor spring for
making maple sweetening in all the localities
heard from in Maine; though, there were
unusal preparations for making, the amount
doubtless will fall considerably short of the