The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-25
ORIGINAL AND LECTE ID.

| % Z. T.. Coffin, Esq.,-"Carleton"-is to
lecture in Portsmouth on Wednesday evening.
10 Six inquests were held in New York
last Friday on drowned bodies
gB-The New Hampshire Legislature will
meet at Concord Wednesday of next week.
sY-The mercury rose to 100 in the shade,
in Providence, on Friday last.
sg-Gen. Butler was in Lowell on Friday
last.
sr Madame Bishops concert in Lewiston,
on Thursday evening last, was decided sue
cess.
IsTWe are indebted to the courtesy of the
Purser Of the steamship North American for
files of late English papers.
gB- The Eastport Sentinel says Hon. Bion
Bradbury is expected home from New Orleans
in June.
sf This is anniversary week" in Boston.
All the "isms," good, bad and Indifferent, will
there be represented.
sV Wendell Phillips says he believes in
Hooker. He says that if he has faults, he pre-
fers diamond with flaws to apebble without.
"The conservatives" it is said are
about to adopt the barnacle as their party en-
blem.
To- A COW raised by John Folsom, of Mon
ticello, Aroostook County, was sold at ST. An
drews, n. b., recently, for Sl54. She weighed
alive 1900 pounds Eastport Sentinel.
agSays the Bangor Wing, "a company is
being formed to build steamer to run between
Bath, Wiscasset and Boothbay Good for the
| public-hard for the stockholders"
gB-Among the deaths at the Washington
hospitals, reported on the 2lst inst, were G. F.
Skinner, Co. ii, and Corp. J. w. Sutherland,
Co. d, of the 9th Maine.
Sr The Portland Advertiser seems to be
worried for fear that the rebel General Lee
will unnecessarily expose himself and get
killed. as we judge from an article copied in
to that paper Bangor Wing.
rvHon. Joshua r. Giddings, United States
| Consul for British America, residing at Mon
treal, had an attack of apoplexy on Wednes-
day. At last accounts he was in a fair way of
recovery.
sBr The Eastport Sentinel says that the
dwelling house of James Perkins of Perry was
consumed by fire week before last His pota-
toes were also destroyed. There was no in
| surance upon the house.
NY-Capt. J. f. Atkins of Gardiner was
struck on the head by the main boom of the
sch. Ann of this port, while plotting her down
| the Kennebec few days since, causing a very
bad looking though not dangerous wound.
sVThe anglers at Lewiston use red fam
mel instead of worms or grasshoppers, for fish
bait. We have heard of a very common but
queer fish often being caught with bit of
muslin or calico. They bite at such bait with
great eagerness.
.FBut one Republican paper in the State
the Bangor JefIersonan-has complained
of the course of the State Committee in issu-
| ing call for a Union rather than party con-
vention. The Jeffersonian, while doubling the
wisdom of the movement, hopes for the best,
and will yield to it an earnest support.
sg-The story that Mrs. Vallandigham had
become insane was published in the Syracuse
| Courier on the morning of the day that the
| Vallan digham Indignation meeting was to be
held in that city. No other paper seems to
have had the news. The publication, under
the circumstances looks suspicious to say
the least.
sB-The Advertiser for two Saturdays in
succession has possessed very novel feature,
| If very old trick can be called novel; One
of its eight pages has been covered with the
"U. So Laws, marked Officially, but it was
the same matter in both instances, and the
same laws that were published in that paper
more than six months ago! Does that indi-
cate "what's the matter?"
sg- letter from Henry Clay, written in
1885, but recently brought to light says
"When Missouri was admitted into the Union
81 said to her delegate, Mr.. Scott, Go home
'enter the Convention of your State, and ex-
''ert yourself to establish system of Gradual
Emancipation similar to that which Dr.
Franklin prevailed upon Pennsylvania to
''adopt in l7T9.'"
To Adna Wing, a man 40 years of age,
supposed TO be laboring under temporary in
sanity, attempted suicide by cutting his throat
with razor, in Green, on Friday morng last
The Lewiston Journal says the wound is ter
rible one, and completely incapacitates the
victim from taking food, as what is put into
his mouth comes out Of the opening in his
throat. Wing has resided in Leeds.
sD-Says the Boston Post, the sun never
shone on a people more able and willing to
meet taxation to support their Government
than the intelligent, free, wel-to-do people of
these United States. They have felt the
magic touch of law and order, appreciate the
value of Government, and know what anarchy
has done and is doing, where the fires of Sc
cession burn, and they mean to save their insti-
tutions.
rECol. Grierson, the hero of the late cav
airy raid in the Southwest, at a recent meet
ing in New Orleans, said that his passage
through rebeldom had convinced him that the
strength of the enemy had been overrated
He found thousands of men who were anx-
ions to return to the Union, and who would
have gladly left the South with his force if he
could have taken them. The people are run
ming in all quarters to escape a relentless con-
scription. Col. Grierson says that all his ex-
perience in his raid proved to his mind that
the days of the rebellion are numbered.
s9The Copperhead paper at Portsmouth,
n. H., denounces David Tod, of Ohio, as zone
of the meanest of all The mean race of rene
gade Democrats" And who is David Tod ?