The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-04-27
ORIGIN AL AND Sell ECTE ID.

~ On the arst page - The AT ol,ionists;
French Soldiers ON the March.
&c On the fourth psge-Irish Stew, a par
ody, by N. P. Willis; Miscellany.
vRosecrans' army is reported to be on
the eve of an important movement
sZThe maple sugar crop of Vermont is
said to be unusually light
sH-The average fare Of the vessel sengaged
in the Labrador seal fisheries is 1000 seals.
sy-One Mclean, of Kentucky, sold his to-
bacco crop, recently, for $4,000.
ry-Four sportsmen in Wilton lately killed
20 crows at four shots.
u The millmen of Calais have struck for
higher wages, or the old wages payable in
gold or its equivalent.
sgThe prospect Of good crop OF cram
berries.on Cape Cod this season is said to be
fattering.
sH-The Nashville, Tenn, Union Club Of
five hundred members, have adopted anti
slavery resolutions.
sTThe Bangor Wing says, when the Gar
diner editors ask for special train" the
railroad folks give them a hand-car oftwo Irisl-
men power.
sTThe Medical Department statistics
show the number Of rebel prisoners who have
died in Union hospitals, since the commence
ment Of the war, to be over five thousand.
sEPersons attending the session Of the
Grand Division s. Of T. at Portland on Tues
day and Wednesday of this week, will receive
free return tickets by railroad or boat.
sg- Hon. Bon Bradbury, now at New Or
leans, writes home that his son, Capt. Albert
W. Bradbury, has been wounded in the shout
der, and will be temporarily disabled.
LEA writer in the Eastport Sentinel
pleads with the boys to spare the birds, toads
and snakes, for the good they do in destroying
the insect tribes.
Morrill,, Of the Gardiner Journal, hay-
ing been elected Field Driver, the Bath Senti-
mel asks him whether he can drive a hog,
whereupon the Gardiner chap says he will try
II his Bath brother will come up Bangor
Wing.
sE-The receipts at the Government Treas
ury in New York on Wednesday. were nearly
three and half millions dollars, of which two
millions were on deposit at five per cent, and
one million two hundred thousand for CONVEX
sions Of currency into the new,loan.
sp-There are rumorsahat the French ex-
pedition against Mexico is to be recalled; that
Napoleon entered upon it upon the assumption
that the United States was at an end and that
the abandonment OF this assumption has led to
the Emperor's REIMBURSEMENT of his designs.
LEA woman was walking in a Philadel-
phia street the other evening with box of
matches in her pocket, when she fell; the fall
ignited the matches, her clothes were on fire;
in her alarm she started TO run, thereby fan
ming the flames aud she became soibadly burn
ed that she soon after died in the hospital.
sY- We learn from the Seminary Advocate,
published by the students Of the Maine State
Seminary at Lewiston, and very neatly print
ed at the Journal office in that city, that the
whole number of students In attendance this
spring is l79. The graduating class of young
ladies numbers Is; the college class Of young
gentlemen, 10. The Roll of Honor includes
la names OF former students, who are or
have been in the military service of the coun-
try. Two Georgians are supposed to be in
the rebel army. The Trustees Of the Semina-
ny will consider at their meeting on the fifth
of next month the expediency of applying for
college charter.