The Portland daily press., 1863-07-18

ORIGINA AND SELECTED.

that sentiment without reservation.
sgpA very fine block of three stores three
stories high, is being erected in Augusta d.
rectly in front Of the Stanley House.
20 Superintendent Kennedy, reported kill
ed by the mob in New York, is alive, badly
injured, but likely TO recover
SB- The draft in the second and third con-
gressional districts is going on with vigor
and without the least interruption.
GB- The Union County Convention for
kennebec, is called to meet Wednesday, April
| II.
u The present term of Westbrook Sem
mary closes the 2lst instwith exercises appro-
| pirate to the occasion.
sB- The Boston journal learns that CAPT.
Ashby, of ship Hamlet, was murdered by the
seamen on the passage from Boston to China
The ship arrived at Hong Kong May %.
SB-The Louisville Journal says Pennsyl-
vania, when she welcomed the rebels to 60
ry bed, provided a Couch and a Curtin for
their accommodation
% The Bridgton Reporter understands
that Capt. Enoch Knight has received his dis
charge, and is spending the summer at his
home in Sweden.
lBe three nights levee has Just been held
in Gardiner, for the benefit of sick and wound
ed soldiers, the receipts of which averaged
s122 per night.
svMercy shown to mob is generally but
another name for the most excessive cruelty
towards the innocent public whose rights and
peace are being invaded.
sD-We are told that not single hackman
was shit by the late draft in this city, and yet
they were nearly all exposed to the conscrip-
ton battery.
CO. The Buffalo Commercial learns from a
reliable gentleman" that Mr.. Vallandigham
is stopping at the Clifton House at Niagara
Falls.
sBr Mr.. A. G. Morrison of Brownfield, be-
ing absent from his family last Saturday, was
robbed of some $500 in gold and silver coin,
and some jcwelry, the amount of which we
did not learn.-l Bridgton Reporter.
sg- The Pennington Chronicle says that
by the dull and rainy weather some hay has
been spoiled, but the standing grass has come
up and stretched up so as to insure good av-
erage hay crop.
sE-The Bath Times says that Capt. A. +.
F. Hull of the 18th Maine regiment arrived at
his home in Wiscasset, a few days ago on a
furlough, he having been wounded in the late
battle at Port Hudson.
sg Mr.. Cushman, the accomplished Super
intendent of the Kennebcek and Portland
railroad, is putting that thoroughfare in the
most perfect order. The business of the road
is very large and constantly increasing.
II The Lewiston Journal is mistaken in
saying that "Henry Willis, ESQ.,, the Historian
Of Maine, is drafted" 1t his father who bears
that honorable title. But then, the son is a
"chip of the old block" and is treading in the
footsteps of his father.
sB- The Lewiston Journal says the Lew
iston Light Infantry having filed up their
ranks, have rendered their services to the
Governor and Commander-in- Chief as one Of
the companies of State Guards, and the Adju-
tant General has signified his intention to ac-
cept them.
sB- The Boston Journal pays deserved
tribute to the catholic clergy of that city for
their efforts to preserve order and to discour-
gge the mob during the late riots In New
York Archbishop Hughes of New York issued
an address 70 the rioters in which he exerted
all his influence tn favor OF obedience to the
laws.
sy- The Bangor Wing says, at meeting
Of the Penobscot Ministerial Association in
the Seminary Chapel, on the 18th inst, twen-
ty-three young men were examined, and re-
ceived license to preach the gospel. Fourteen
of these were from the senior class, aud nine
from the middle Glass, who have another year
to remain at the Seminary.
sg- The Rockland Democrat states that
on Monday last about ten o'clock A. NJ, an
interesting little daughter of Capt n. Smith
Of that city, aged about three years, was
scalded so that she died in the following even
ing. Mrs. Smith had set down pail full of
boiling water on the floor for moment, when
the little girl by some accident sat down in
the pail and was scalded as stated above.
s- We learn from the Chronicle that
bit of a mob was attempted in Portsmouth on
Thursday evening, led on by few vagabonds
full of poor whiskey and bad counsel. A few
shots were fired by the rioters, but the whole
thing was squelched by a volley from the po-
lice, not of blank cartridges, which wounded
few miscreacts and broke up the row.
% Before the parallels too closely drawn
between Meade and Mcclellan, from both of
whom an invading army has escaped, it may
be well to wait awhile and see If Meade re-
mains quiet for a month or two, rs little Mac
did, unwilling to pursue the rebels until every
shoestring is tied up and every soldiers button
is carefully sewed on.
sp- The Skowhegan Clarion says Mr.. Joel
| III. Williams of that town was thrown from
carriage, in Starks few days since, and had
his left shoulder dislocated. MI. Williams will
| be remembered by our citizens as the same
man permanently crippled-who invented
and exhibited in this city last fall, the battery
of rined gun barrels, which would discharge
bullets as fast as one could count.
sy-Bro. Lincoln of the Bath Times, who is
young, handsome and full of patriotic blood,
having recently taken to himself wife, awak-
ems the suspicion that he would gladly escape
| the draft by copying the following from Deut-