The Portland daily press., 1863-05-30
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rles OF fortland, second paper, Maj. zen.
Grant; "Stonewall" Jackson in Camp
nY- On the fourth page-Miscellany.
To- The Anniversary meetings in Boston
are well attended.
npSeveral wounded and sick soldiers OF
the Sd and 4th Maine regiments passed home
ward yesterday noon over the Kennebec road.
syr The number of our vessels taken by
Southern privateers is 100, and the property
lost was of the value of $1O,0O0O0O.
Sr The general conference of the Con-
gregational Churches of Maine will be held at
Biddeford on the 23d, oath and 25th of June.
gv We notice that Hon. Thos. Darcy
MCGEE intends to run rs independent cand-
date for Montreal West in the coming Cana
dian election.
LEA centennial celebration of the incor-
poration of the town of Newburyport is con-
templated next year. That place was incor-
porated as town in 1764.
n- Sawdust saturated with coal oil and
placed around plum trees is said to prevent
cutlTciy tHc IdNdSes vi tnc CuICuiIO, Inc luNet-
crate enemy of that fruit
lVAugusta, says the Argus, is one of the
largest cities in the world. According to the
Journal it contains sixty square miles. In
some of the wards they kill wild bears.
sgFour persons were drowned in Moose
Head Lake on Monday by the capsizing of a
canoe, viz, Oliver McCoslin and wife and two
daughters of Mr.. T. Andrews.
sEThe Hallowell Gazette says that Major
Perry S. Lee of this city, formerly OF the
Maine Sd regiment, has been transferred to
the staff Of Gen. Sickles.
sg DIR. Chas. b. Bridgman, of Bucksport,
goes out as assistant surgeon in the colored
regiment which left Boston for Port Royal
yesterday.
ga farmer in Cutchogue, Long Island,
while blowing lately, turned up sixty-one
silver table spoons, which weighed 1873 ounc-
es Some think they are a part of the buried
treasures of Capt. Kidd, "as he sailed"
spRev. Henry Ward Beecher leaves for
Europe to-day on a three months furlough
from duty. His friends will accompany him
down the harbor in steamer chartered spec
tally for that purpose.
sB-Among the vessels recently destroyed
by the Alabama we notice the ship Nora, built
in Bangor in 1862. She was $50 tons burthen,
and was owned by George b. Upton Of Boston.
She had a cargo of salt on English account.
sE- Over hundred ships arrived from sea
at Quebec on Saturday and Sunday last. Three
of them the Montreal Transcript says were
laden with war stores = two for Quebec and
the other for Montreal.
e The Bath Times learns that arrange
ments are being made with Messrs. Patten e.
: Co., to build the engine for the new boat to
be built at Wiscasset to run between that place
and Bath.
sTThey are building new depot for the
Eastern railroad at Portsmouth. 1t is to be of
pressed brick, 232 feet from, and with its APP
purtenances will be one of the finest depots in
the country.
NHThe East Tennessee Unionists declare
that if the Government will furnish them with
rations, clothes, arms and leader they will
take and hold East Tennessee or die in the
struggle.
IThere are three men in the town Of
Skowhegan whose aggregate weight is half a
ton; and there is one lady there, little above
the average, who weighs two hundred and
eighty-four pounds.
VThe Philadelphia Ledger states that
the price of all sizes of Lehigh coal, except
nut, has been fixed at 81 per ton, at Mauch
Chunck, after the first of June. Scranton egg
coal sold last week at s6.75 per ton.
sy-A founding at Lille, who earned his
living as cotton spinner, has been discovered
to be the son of a Russian Prince aud a Bel
gian Marquise, and entitled TO an estate worth
S2,O00,O0O.
sy-The description of "Stonewal" Jack
sons camp life by an Engshman in the Con-
federate service (prnted on our first pape this
morning) is published by the Advertiser as
Correspondence of the New York Tinesr
sH-Leut. Gen. John Pemberton, COM
handing the rebel forces at Vicksburg, is a
Philadelphia by birth and a Quaker by de-
scent-a triply dyed traitor to his country, his
State and his religion.
rvThe Undertook Rough Notes says that
John Van Buren,, son of the late Ex-President
Van Buren,, has purchased the "Lindenwald''
property for $4,000. 1t is reported that he
intends to retire from active legal pursuits
and devote his attention to agriculture.
GAN exchange says the domestic mis-
sionary of Taunton reports the number Of
drunken women in that town at five hundred
Either most of the women are in the practice
of stalking drop" or the missionary has been
taking dram.
rH- The average attendance upon the
public schools of Boston during 1862 was "a
544. The whole amount of expenditures fol
school purposes for the year ending May l
1853, was s574,567. The current expenses fol
carrying on the schools was s40S,426.
V-For some time the mails between Ban
gor and Calais have been tempered with. We
now learn from the Wing and Courier thai
the robber was arrested on Thursday at Wesley
and letters were found on him which will in
sure his conviction.
G- The Lewiston Journal says Lieut.
johnson of the 14th Maine, brother-in law o
Rev. Mr.. Adams of Auburn was killed in thu
battle Of Charlottesville. He was shot through