The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-07-21
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E-On the first page--The Battle of HeIe-
ma, Ark Shall we submit to the Mob?
sR-On the fourth page--the seeker after
health, the man of business and those in search
of pleasure, will find items abundantly repay
ing perusal.
eB-Wm. A. Pidgin, publisher of the Oxford
Democrat, is drafted from Paris.
10 Substitutes are freely offered at Lewis
ton, says the Journal, for $500.
sy- The Argus has inserted correction of
its statement about Mr. Richardson, recently OF
this paper, from that gcntlemans own pen.
sYe 1t is said that large numbers of Nova
Scotia men are coming to Boston and Offering
themselves as substitutes.
sB- Nearly column of prepared book no.
tices are unavoidably postponed for a few
days.
ag- For the past fortnight the editor of
the Lewiston Journal has scarcely seen the
than light.
LEA letter from Gen. Neal Dow, dated at
Richmond, July 18th, states that he is well,
aud that his friends have no occasion to be I'M
duly solicitous for his welfare.
sy Excursion and picnic parties will find
Mr.. Chas. w. Lucy's, 81 Exchange street, one
the best places in the city to obtain supplies
of cake, pastry and all articles in that line.
sH- A military officer in Cincinnati has
been court-martialed and convicted of unsol-
dier-likc conduct, for pcepiag through the key
hole Of a lady's bed chamber at the Burnett
House. Served him right.
sH-The draft in Bath has cut pretty deeply
into the supper crust" but we hardly know in
which crust to place the last name on the list
johnson Hell. Perhaps he will undertake
to lead Beauregard's horse to water.
sB- The Highland Boarding School at
Bethel, under the care of DR.. True, is a most
excellent institution, and, we are glad to learn
Session.
sH- When Gems. Grant and Pemberton
met at Vicksburg, they sat down on the grass
and talked more than an hour Grant smoked
all the time. Pemberton played with the
grass and pulled leaves. They shook hands
politely, but Pemberton was evidently morti-
fled.
sg- Thes Richmond Enquirer, in an edito-
rial, says: "The fall Of vicksburg, the re-
treat of Bragg, the repulse Of Lee, and the
advance on Charleston, are all serious disas-
ters-the most serious that have attended our
arms since the beginning of the war;
sB-When it was reported that the mob in
New York was about to cut the Croton water
pipes, many people in their verdancy thought
such an act would inflct immense suffering
upon the citizens. They innocently supposed
the Workers use water TOR other purposes than
navigation and Tor water jets.
IF Articles and paragraphs in relation to
the New York mob, and comments upon that
Infamous demonstration against all that is
good and orderly, sufficient to all less than a
hundred columns of our paper, are lying be-
fore US upon the table, most OF them request
ed to be inserted by friends, but hoe can zee
put ttco bushels Of medtia three peek bag |?
sDr Secretary Wcles in letter to r. b.
Forbes, Esq, Boston, says the Navy Depart
ment "has detailed five vessels for permanent
service on the Eastern coast during the fishing
season. 1t has at present several additional
cruisers 10 that service, and, in any cmergen-
cy will order other vessels to protect the COM
merce and fisheries in that quarter"
IF One Of the most perplexing cases that
has yet come before the board of enrolment,
is that of a man who claims exemption on the
ground that he is the only son Of widowed
mother, with two brothers in the army. We
learn that the facts have been clearly made
out, and the board wishing to do full Justice
have the case under Amusement, and will look
up the authorities and consult counsel before
coming TO a final decision.
sE-Mr. Vallandigham, who Is now at the
Clifton House, Niagara Falls, has issued an
address to the people of Ohio, accepting the
democratic nomination for governor. He
speaks in glowing terms Of the confidence the
rebels have in their ability to succeed. Since
he left his friends at the South their cause has
received several severe set-backs, and now APP
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pears about as likely to succeed as does Mr..
Vallandigham himself to reach the Executive
chair of the Buckeye State.
sH-We are informed by correspondent
that certain copperhcads in Brunswick repre-
sent that we stated in recent speech in that
place, "that the time has come when every
man must be an abolitionist or traitor TO his
country" Our friend is perfectly right in de-
nying the statement. We referred to Gen.
Hamilton of Texas, who had never stepped
foot in free state until he arrived as a refti-
gee in New York. We said that in our City
Hall he stated-as near as the language can be
recollected-that the time had come when
men were obliged to be either abolitionists
or traitors, for slavery had raised Its rebel
lious hand against the Union, and that Union
could be saved only by striking at its deadly
assailant.
SEE woman in another column picking Sambuc
Grapes, for Speers Wine. IL is admirable article
used hospitals and by the first families in Paris
London and New York, in preference to old Port