The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-20

ORIGIN AL AND LECTE ID.

GE1 On the first page-Boston Correspond
ence; Visit to New Gloucester.
Gge On the fourth page = The Laureate's
sr Prof Harrington, the celebrated VEN
triIoqust,vsits Saco and Biddeford this week.
sg The publication of the Richmond
Wing has been discontinued.
gTA dispatch dated San Francisco, May
10, states that large portion of Salem, Oregon,
was destroyed by fire an the 10th.
sgThe St. GATHERINGS &c. W. Post says
it has the best authority for denying that addi-
tional troops are on their WY to Canada.
sv 1t is said that the report of the recent
explosion of Duponts powder mill was heard
l25 miles.
sg-Is the Providence journal constitu-.
tionally or only accidentally addicted to pill
lage?
sY- The Bridgton Reporter says the lakes
are clear of ice, and the canal boats - on the
Cumberland and Oxford canal-are common
cling their trips.
90 Inc SuIistldu vi tulo NCCh COI-
tains the Fast Day sermon preached by Rev.
DIR. Carruthers, in the church of the I'd parish,
on the 30th ult.
70 OF ll6 rebel prisoners that were in
Philadelphia, on Friday, 1i2 took the oath of
allegiance to the United States Government
and were released. The other four were sent
TO Fort Delaware.
T We are requested to say that DR.. Rob
ming, and those wishing to see him should
avail themselves of the opportunity before
tn at time. See advertisement.
nEThe boating students of Yale College
have received challenge from the students
of Harvard to row match for the champion
ship. The challenge will be accepted, and the
match win soon take place.
sH- Henry Sawyer, ESQ.,. United States
Consul at Paramaribo, South America, has pre-
sented to the Government his salary for one
year, amounting to nearly $1,000, to help crush
out the rebellion.
sVTwenty-eight members of Company
c, 18th Maine Artillery, now stationed at Fort
Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, have
sent to n. A. Joy ESQ.,, of this town. s1156, to
be distributed among their families aud friends.
Ellsworth american, 18th.
sy- We learn that citizen out of town
has adopted a German baby that was left on
the steps of a residence in this city. The gen.
tieman who has adopted it intends to take the
kindest care of the bantling, and will undoubt-
eddy bring it up as one of his own children.
1gRegistered enemies who are ordered to
leave New Orleans are permitted to take with
them sufficient quantity of food for ten days
subsistence, and reasonable amount of cloth
ing, and the beds and bedding necessary for
their own use.
% Mr.. VIM. Prefer, of Peterboro, n. H.,
50 years of age, has chopped, sawed and split
twenty cords of woods this spring, besides
doing other work. The editor of the Ports
mouth Chronicle says he is not 50 years old
yet, but he would not wish to do as much.
.rGen. Banks having ascertained that q
CONSUMPTION of negroes was about to be made
by the rebel government has issued a stirring
appeal to the colored population, free and
slaves, to follow the national flag, which he
declares is snow and forever the flag of Union
and Liberty"
Sg-The body OF the late General Amiel
w. Whipple of Portsmouth, n. H., who died
from the effects of the wounds received at
Chancellorville, arrived at Portsmouth on
Saturday afternoon. 1t was received at the
railway station by the city authorities, and
conducted by them to the tomb in the Auburn
street Cemetery.
VThe Dover Gazette states that arrange
ments have been entered into with the Eas-
tern Railroad TO lease the Dover and Winni-
piseogee Railroad at per cent. on the bonds.
An application is to be made to the next Leg
islature for a charter, for road from Dover
to Portsmouth, to be leased at six per cent. by
the Eastern Railroad.
IY- To show the straits to which rebellion
has reduced the "cotton lords of the South,
Gov. Brown, of Georgia, says, at now takes
the whole salary of the Judge of the Superior
Courts for twelve months to purchase fifteen
barrels of -four, or fifteen hundred pounds of
bacon in the markets of this State. The per
diem of Judge while on his circuit does not
nearly defray his expenses.
| jackson, reported captured by Gen.
Grant, is the capital of Mississippi, is at the
point where the railroad from Vicksburg
eastward to Alabama crosses the great road
leading from New Orleans to Memphis and
other parts of Tennessee, and must command
all the approaches to Vicksburg from the east.
1t was in this State-House at Jackson that
JEFF. Davis made his first great speech after
his return from his trip to this State in $50 in
which he developed as he never had before
his reasonable proclivties, and avowed his
readiness, under given circumstances, to raise
a lone star flag and under it to lead his State
! out Of the Union.