The Portland daily press., 1863-04-20


sg-In North Carolina tenpenny nails are
passing current at five cents each.
sg-It appears that the prize vessels Prin-
cess Royal and Anglia contained lots Of cigars
put up expressly tor the use of JEFF. Davis.
sH-Peas sold in the Lynchburg, Va, mar.
ket during the first week in April at the enor-
nous price of IS quart-at the rate of sleo
per bushel.
~ Brunswick has voted one dollar tax up
on dogs. One man inquiries through the Tel
egraph what effect this will have upon the
price of sausages.
ORGAN CoScERr.-It will be noticed, by
advertisement, that our townsman, Paine. will
give grand Organ Concert at Central Church
on Wednesday evening
sg-Capt A. G. Webster, of W. Virginia,
was executed at Richmond by the rebel au-
thorites, BY hanging, on the 10th inst. ON
charge of violating his parole
sBThe Price Current says the Merchants,
Exchange has now been opened about two
weeks, and already numbers about 27e mem
bers who have come forward unsolicited and
subscribed to the important enterprise.
sVFhe soldiers vote for Chief Justice of
Wisconsin, as far as received, is oyerwhelm-
ingly in favor of Dixon, the Union candidate.
who is elected. The boys gave him $3.50 votes
to 9os for Cothren, his Democratic opponent
sBFhe plates for the fractional currency
are complete, and win be put upon the presses
IN few days. The notes will be of much
higher character than the postal, and will defy
counterfeiting. ~ beiF
II We learn that the appointment of Dis
trict Attorney for the Eastern District of Vir-
glnia has been conferred upon Hon. Lucius II
chandier. For some time past Mr.. Chandler
has held the position oil u S. Consul at Ma
tanzss, and his family has resided ia this CITY
since Mr.. 9. was obliged to leave Norfolk on
account Of his loyalty Rockland Gazette.
V-A deserter from Humphrey Marshalls
command says that the men Of this Falstaffian
officer suffer considerably on account of the
great scarcity Of provisions in the region
where they are. They subsist entirely on the
country through which they pass Sometime.
they fare pretty well, and again are almost at
the point Of starvation. ~
"a sensation was created in Columbus,
Ohio, on the 18th, by the discovery that sew
eral clothing store merchants had been in the
habit of furnishing citizens clothing to SOL
diers in Camp Chace, to pass the guard and
desert The proprietors of four large estab-
iishments were arrested, their stores closed
and guards placed over them.
Vrhe Secretary of the Interior has en-
tered into contract with Messrs. Forbes &
Tuckerman, to transport to the Haytien island
OF Abache five hundred negroes, who are free
under the confscation act, or the law emanci-
pating slaves in the District of Columbia
Fifty dollars each IS to be paid for the trans
portation.
SB-The Chronicle says that John Francis
Horrocks, about Surteen years of age, was
seriously injured while at work in the Ports
mouth Steam Factory, on Thursday. He was
passing or stepping over twenty-inch gear.
matching into a three-inch gear, when the
gears caught in the upper part of the right
leg OF his pantaloons, pulling him down on
'"ei'' tearing the mesh oil the thigh half off
on the inside, including the main artery of the
thigh, within three inches of his body. The
large gear was about two inches In thickness,
and took out all the flesh that it caught hold
OF. His wounds were attended to by DR.. Fol-
som, assisted by Drs. Bennett and Preston.
The femoral artery had to be taken up, above
and below the wound