The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-03-14
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTE ID.

w Lust page-l ne Morning, poetry, Joe
Parsons Again; Miscellany.
sB- The wine crop of California the last
year was very large.
sve very few cases of small pox are re-
ported in one of the regiments at Port Royal.
Democratic to the CORE when APP
piled to copperhead, is understood SO mean
'rotten to the core"
sBr The Honolulu Advertiser chronicles
the receipt of news from Washington in elev-
en- days.
% Hon. w. G. Barrows, OF Brunswick,
has been nominated for the vacant Judgeshp
In the Supreme Bench.
% The venerable and reverend DR.. Gan
EFT, of Bosten, had his pocket picked of S33
he other evening, in a horse car.
sBr We are indebted to our attentive
lend, E. o. Robinson, Beaufort, S. c. for
ate copies of the New South.
ry- The copperheads are up to their old
icks, rejoicing over rebel vctories-in New
hampshire.
% The Oxford Democrat says diptheria
j raging to some extent in the North part Of
Iryeburg, Several families have been severe
~ stricken by this terrible scourge
% There is place in Pennsylvania called
pill City, which rejoces in neat weekly pa
er called Oil City Register. 1t must be a ia
nous place for ''gredsy mechanics"
aE- Mrs. Lucretia Mott, whose illness for
number of weeks past has given uneasness
10 her numerous friends, has so far recov-
'red as to appear again in public meetings as
In auditor, but not yet as a speaker.
sB- The Belfast Age says Mr.. James Nc
Kenney of Enfield, in this State, aged "a
years, and his six sons-seven in all, have en-
listed in the service of the country.
SB- Capt A. A. Holt and four more from
the Maine sth Regt., at Port Royal, have been
transferred to the I'd S. C. Volunteers, tcolor-
ed and ordered to report to Gen. Saxton.
sg- Edwin Cobb, of the 9Th Maine, has
been sentenced to unremunerated hard labor
for the remainder of his term of service, for
desertion.
.y- The wife of Harvey Curtis OF Walling-
ford, Conn, gave birth to three boys on Fri
day, March 16th-all doing well, says the
Hartford Press.
sg- The venerable and staid editor Of the
Piscataquis Observer is DESTROYS of being
corned. He calls upon his subscribers to
bring in their corns in payment for his paper.
sE~ Pennington voted to tax dogs at the
late town meeting. 1t is said the next move
Of the performers" win I've TO tax all hens that
scratch for living Patriot.
sD- The Bridgton Reporter says that Capt.
Enoch Knight of the Maine 18th, is coming
home on brief furlough He has been suf-
fering from a severe illness.
rB- Union leagues are being formed all
through the West, and in most of the large
towns and cities of the entire Eastern States.
Where is Portland?
.B- A man named Job Brooks, highly es-
teemed citizen Of Burlington County, n. j.,
was murdered on Saturday night last, near his
own residence, by some person unknown.
lg- The Belfast Age says that by the over
turning of stage sleigh at that place few
days since, Mr.. Raymond Knowles of that
city was badly injured, having his left shout
der and side badly crushed.
- Preparations are about being made at
Pittsburg for casting atwenty-inch gun, which
will weigh, in the rough, seventy-ive to one
hundred tons. 1t is intended to throw a solid
shot weighing one thousand pounds.
sg- Capt. Edmund G. Eastman has been
appointed American Consul at Cork, Ireland.
He is native of Haliowell, In this State, mar
ried lady in Bowdoinham, and formerly sail
ed from this port Bath Times.
% Charles +. Brown, of Boston, has OBJ
tanned verdict of $500 damages against
Euclid Chadsey, President of the Farmers
Bank of Wexford, X. l., for an arrest on a
false charge of bank robbery.
~ Those three worthless, c. L. Vallandig-
ham, Fernando Wood and James Brooks, are
stumping Connecticut for the copperheads.
Who will say that rebel raid has not been
made upon that State?
.g- The New York Post intimates that
Ex-President Buclanan's rope business-he
has gone extensively into fax rasing-is a
penitential dodge, signifying his readiness to
facilitate the hanging of his old friends.
sE- The Port Royal New South gives a
list Of several officers in various regiments
who have resigned, to which is appended in
pencil, in the copy received at our office, /" re-
sigued on the eve of an engagement, poor
sousr'
- The Lewiston Journal, says DR.. II. l..
X. Wiggin of Auburn, left on Wednesday to
enter on his duties as Surgeon Agent in the
U. 5. hospitals, to seek out Maine men, and Sc
cure their prompt discharge, if there is no
probability Of their recovery.
- T. III. Seymour, copprehead candidate
for Governor of Connecticut, in recent
speech advised resisting the administration
through the ballot box, or By some other ray!
To what 'other way" could he refer, if not TO
lorcible resistance?
sE- In speech at Manchester, n. H., the
other day, Hon. VIM. A. Howard in abiding
TO our national debt, and the products of our
dairy set down in the census at Sl25,000000 a
year, remarked that in ten gears our ,eomen
can churn this debt all out,
sg-If Gen. Butler should be appointed
Provost Marshal General for the Eastern Dis
trict-with full powers-wouldn't rebels suf-
fer? He dared hang a traitor in New Orleans ;
perhaps he would find some equally bad trail
tors in Nev England or New York.
% On the first page to-day we have cop