The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-03-27
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Romance in Real Life; Poor Whites of the
South; Webster at Fryeburg; Ghost Story.
To- A mammoth OK weighing 1892 lbs,
is on exhibition at Augusta.
gin our Brunswick correspondents let
Ter on the first page, for Nations read Orations.
Thursday, April 10th, has been designat-
ed by Governor Coburn as the day of Annual
Fasting and Prayer in this State.
lr A movement is on foot in Gardiner,
says the Journal, for the erection of a new
City Hall.
sg- The Mail says that drunkenness pre-
walls to an alarming extent among young as
well as old men in Waterylle.
sB- A short time ago the ship carpenters
employed in the yard Of S. w. Pope q Co., at
East Machas, asked for and received an adj
vance in their wages of fifty per cent. lWhig.
% A horse worth $500, owned by Mr..
Joseph Atkins of Gardiner, was killed in that
city a few days since by running against the
shaft of sleigh, which entered his breast.
gD~Are Union Leagues, Union Meetings
and Union speeches antagonistic to Democra-
cy? If not why do selfstyled Democrats
oppose them?
% Mr. Hammond, President of the ver-
mont Agricultural Society was recently offered
s400 each for 80 of his best sheep, and declin-
ed the offer.
% A correspondent Of the Augusta Age
claims to have designed, "after long fits of
brown study" Submarine Battery, prompt,
sure, obedent, and certainly terrible.
sg- LAUNDERING is being carried on quite
extensively this winter near the base of Ka-
tahdin. The snow is five feet in depth, and
the shedding good.
sg- We can explain the Argus sensitive
ness about Arbitrary Arrests only on the
principle that
"No rogue e'er felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law
sg- Reyes Edge Tool Company, which is
now operating at Wilton, is talking of locating
at Lewiston. The Franklin Company have
made very liberal offers to secure its removal
TO that city,
IU-Rev. Mr.. Howard of this State has the
general superintendent Of the plantations at
Hilton Head, and is said to give great salts
faction in his management of the colored peo-
pie engaged on them.
81 A county mass meeting, in favor of the
Union, is to be held in Dover, (Piscataquis
County, on the 3lst inst. The call is signed
by nearly two columns of names in the Piscat-
aquis Observer.
g- 1t is stated that an average of about
thirty deserters dayare avaiing themselves
of the provisions OF the Presidents procama-
ton, and present themselves at New York to
be sent back to their regiment-besides many
others in different parts of the country.
s- The Aroostook Pioneer says Mr.. 7.
Brewer, of Washburn, sowed three quarts of
miIlet seed last year, and gathered twenty
bushels. Owen Scott sowed three pints and
gathered thirty bushels. This may be called a
great yield.
sg- The Piscataquis Observer says the
dwelling house of J. d. Bray, Of South Sebec,
was consumed by fire on the goth, together
with all its contents. Mr.. Bray lost ALL furni-
ture, wearing apparel, &c, leaving the family
entirely destitute.
q The Gardiner Journal says that on
Monday. while Mr.. Howe, engineer of the
propeller Dexter, at that place, was at work
on some machinery, he was struck in the eye
bya sharp steel wedge with such force as prob
ably to destroy the eye.
20 The most potent argument with which
TO dissipate objections to the military use of
negroes, is the CONSUMPTION law. Shake that
in the face Of a rebel sympathiser, and he be-
comes as meek as a lamb, and Immediately
subsidies into the utmost complacency in view
of the enlistment and armiDg of negro troops
~ The patriotic women of Castine have
issued an address to their husbands, brothers,
fathers and sons in the Union army, strongly
denunciatory of coperheadism in our State.
1t is published in the Ellsworth American, and
its burning words are enough to blister the
mouth Of every rebel-sympathizer who reads
them.
IF We are glad TO learn that in Bath all
the old democrats who have heretofore been
divided into "two wings" have come together
and consolidated in the most friendly manner.
Portland Argus, 24th inst.
How consolidated the ''two wings" must be
in Ward Three, where the regular nominee of
the party did not get a single vote Bath
Times.
- A great Union meeting was held in
Frankfort few evenings since, which was adj
dressed by Ex-Governor Washburn, Capt. Ran
kin. an old conservative" shipmaster OF Win
terport, and A. l.. Simpson, Esq, of Bangor,
an old but loyal democrat. Democracy down
east don't seem to be SO fearful OF Union
demonstrations as some of the pretended dem
ocrats in this region appear to be.
- A Copperhead meeting was held in
Guilford on Saturday, 2lst inst. at which Hen
ry Hudson, Gorham l.. Boynton, DR.. Jordan
and Marcellus Emery were the speakers. A
full report is given in the Piseataquis Obser
ver The reporter says, " l listened carefully
and heard no condemnation of JEFF. Davis, or
his so-caled Confederaey or any of their acts,
but the whole feeling was one of praise of the
institutions of the South and contempt for
Northern ideas, and denunciaton of Northern
statesmen and policy"
Ng- The Argus says that "a large number
of abolitionists are vexed at the speech of ex-.
Chief Justice Tenney, at the Union meeting