The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-04-16
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

aB- On the fourth page-The Dutch Mer-
chants.
sV-The ice in the Kennebe has broken up,
and is. fast drifting out to sea.
rEr A large amount of matter prepared
for this paper is unayoidably laid over till
another issue.
svThe Lewiston Journal understands that
several brick boarding blocks are to be built in
that city the present season.
sgeCharles Stetson, Esq, Douglas-Jame-
son Democrat, has been chosen President of
the Union League in Bangor.
eB-Rev. Charles Spear, known as 'the pris-
oner's friend" died at Washington on Monday
night.
nBeWe learn from the journal that some
of the shoemakers of Auburn and Lewiston
are ION strike"
sB- The Boston Post says Sunday was a
lovely day. The churches were filed with
new spring bonnets, and piety and plumes
were relreshingy apparent
sB- The Richmond papers of the 10th inst.
say that Rosecrans' and Grants armies are to
join at Jacksonville, Miss, and march upon
Vicksburg.
sE-In the obituary of a man who recently
died in Bethel, is recorded the remarkable fact
that he was chorister in church for thirty
years, and never quarrelled with the choir
A second Job.
rVRev. Mr.. Hepworth, chaplain of one of
the Massachusetts regiments, after visiting
several plantations, writes to Gen, Banks that
the system Of compensated labor for the ne
groes works very satisfactory.
gB- The excellent woodcuts, which have
illustrated the recent naval operations on the
Mississippi and near Charleston, were en-
graved for the Press by Mr.. j. +. Richardson,
81 IL Middle street.
sv- The Bangor Wing says Col. Kicker
has leased the Stanley House at Augusta. and
sold his furniture to Mr.. Charles Sawyer, of
Greenville, who will take charge of the es-
Enlistment about the first of May.
sg- Our Bddeford friend whose kind at
teniion has secured TO us one of the most high
ly priced exchanges in the Union, has our
thanks for his favors, and for his repealed ef-
forts to advance the interests of the Press.
sEThe estate OF the late S. A. Douglass,
in Chicago has been inventored at seven
hundred thousand dollars, but there are en-
cumbrances upon it equal to its appraised
value. The executors report that there is
no personal property.
sy- A friend in Saco says he has looked
over our daily in vain to find evidence Of a
had looked at the head OF the first column,
first page, he would have found the evidence
sought for.
gH- A son of the Prince de Joinville is a
member of the U. S. Military Academy. He
is grandso on Of the late Louis Phillip, the last
of the French Kings, and nephew Of Don Pc
dro, the Emperor of Brazil, his mother be-
ing a sister of that monarch.
sr The Uniyersalist Sabbath School at
Bath was TO give a magnificent exhibition in
Columbian Hall last evening We were pres
ent at one of the rehearsals few evenings
since, and saw the evidences that an enter
tdlUultHt VI Iuttlcst was III stDIc
for those who should attend.
s1rAdvices to the 9TH inst. from New
portant movement being about to be made by
Gen. Banks, the direction of which was not
proper to be disclosed, and that the roads
were in good order and the troops in healthy
condition.
sg- Mayor Putnam of Bath has received
letter from his son, who is Purser on board
the Nahant, written since the engagement of
that vessel at Fort Sumter The Nahant, he
says, suffered severely, but If he had not been
signalled TO return her captain was determined
to run up to Charleston or be blown up by the
supken torpedoes.
~We were absent from the city when the
name of Mr.. Hall-our former co-laborer in
the Press-was announced as joint proprie-
tor and editor OF the Evening Courier Our
"local" duly announced the fact but we wish
TO add our good wishes for the success of the
new enterprise. We suppose the Courier will
be devoted, politically, 20 the support of the
government and its present administration
and in all efforts in that direction we wish il a
hearty God-speed. The field is large, the
cause good one, and it is worthy the efforts
of all loyal men. In this work those who can
do the most will deserve the highest praise.
sg- We allow Mr.. Woodman the privilege
in our columns, of indicating himself against
the allegation of the Press few days since
that another gentleman of this city fraternized
with him on the stump in 1861. Referring to
Mr.. Sweat, we said he fraternized ia 1861 with
j. c. Woodman, the frank abolitionst,' on
the stump. We used the phrase "rank aboli-
ZIONIST" in no offensive sense; only to show
the way in which the gentleman designated
was spoken of by the Copperheads of that day
as well as this. But it was purely accidental
that the name of J. c. Woodman-a distin-
guished lawyer Of this city-was used at all.
We meant C. C. Woodman, then editor of the
Advertiser, whom we met with Mr. Sweat on
the stump at Brunswick, both then engaged
in the fraternal work ofmaking Union speech
es.
sgcIn paragraph in the Press we referred
red to the Clerk of District Court as one of the
men whom the Argus ommitted in its list of
officials in this city, stating that he particpa-
ted in the Democratic ratification meeting
We wrote Circuit Court, and the substitution
of District was an error. VIM. p. Preble,
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