The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-03-04
ORIGIN AL AND ELECTE ID

sHr On the first page-Emancipato meet
ings in England; Address to President Lin
coin; &c.
IE- On the fourth page-The Southern
Volunteers Farewell, an (hic) stremely affect
ing poem; Romance in Real Life &c.
q Edwin Flye, ESQ.,, of Newcastle, has
been appointed Paymaster in the Army.
nJ Within one month past about $4,000
bales of cotton have reached Cairo, ILL.,, on
their way to cotton market
GT Mr. j. M. Evans has been appointed
Postmaster at Dixmont, in place of J. p.
Brown, resigned.
gg- Rev. Ebenezer Knowlton, late of So.
Montqille, has removed to Rockland, and tax
en- charge of the Free Will Baptist Church of
that city.
sv Rev. ]. C. Snow, chaplain of the
Maine 23d regiment, recently reported sick
with a fever, has so far recovered that he was
able to attend church on Sunday last.
II Charles b. Bazin, Co. B, 18th Maine
regiment, died at Port Royal, of congestive
fever, on the 18th utimo, and Thomas J. Beede
of Co. f, same regiment, died on the 18th, of
consumption.
sV Gen. Wool stated before leaving the
city that he hoped to be here again in May, at
which time he proposed to extend his visit as
far east as Fort Knox and Bangor, taking Fort
Popham and Augusta in his way.
lvr The Bath Times says that A. c. Hew-
ey, Esq, Clerk Of the Courts for Sagadahoc,
has been appointed Paymaster in the Army.
tegrity.
sH- The Brunswick Telegraph says that
two young girls, Mary A. Carney and Elizabeth
Evans, of Bowdoinham, skated to Brunswick
village the other day, rested half an hour, and
then skated back, a distance of twenty miles.
sT Gen. Wool met with splendid recep-
ton at Portsmouth, on his return from this ci-
ty. He was to visit the Navy Yard and Forts
at that place, and then leave for Concord en-
route for New York.
SH- The Boston Journal, says General
Hooker has arrested thirty deserters, had them
tried by Court Martial, and sentenced to be
shot. 1t is believed he will inexorably enforce
the sentence.
sv Messrs. G. V. Minot & Co., have
stretched the keel Of a ship at Phipsburg, in
tended to be about 100 tons burthen. The
timber of which she is to be built is from vir-
ginia, as the Bath Times says.
nH- The Houlton Times learns that man
named John Bulger, was recently killed on
the railroad track near Eel River He was
standing in the middle of the track, when the
engine was backing up, where he was crushed
by the car, and met with almost instant DEATH
- The fisheries of Bowdoinham yield
about ten thousand dollars year. Shad, ale
wives, bass, smelts, aud some salmon are TAX
en- in the Kennebec and Cathance rivers, and
find a ready market in New York and at near
erpoints. Smells are marketed to the amount
OF 5000.
An editor in the western part of Maine says
that the only reason why his house was not
blown away during a recent gale, was because
there was a heavy mortgage upon it, 1t is
something like a coroners jury "sitting" upon
a drowned man 10 squeeze the water ont"
as it was recently explained to a rustic.
II A waterville correspondent informs
US, that the meeting in that village for the or
ganizaiion OF a permanent Union Club, last
Monday evening, was attended by overlooking
numbers. Our correspondent was unable TO
get beyond the door. A thin attendance
marks the opening Of the present College term.
sV The Gardiner journal says the Angus
Ia Age is hereafter to be published by Gilman
Smith, and edited by John S. Hunter. Cop
perhead all over. The Age, however, says the
Journal is premature In relation to the pro-
prietorship, and entirely mistaken in relation
to the editorial control.
II II. w. Glidden of Scion, raised the
past season eighty-six bushels and one
fourth of white beans. With the exception OF
half an acre, where besns were the only crop,
they were raised by planting between the hills
of other crops, viz: on five acres planted with
corn, and one and one-half acres OF potatoes.
He received 500 for seventy-hve bushels Of
them.
sV John A Poor, Esq, delivered a lecture
on the life and character OF the late Hon. Ruel
Williams, before the Maine Historical Society,
at Augusta, on Friday evening. 1t was care
fully prepared paper, says the Journal, and oc-
cupied two hours in its delivery to very
large audience.
sy- The image Of sheep tpecus) was on
the Roman coin issued by Servius Tullius,
aud it was on that account called pccunia-a
term that was applied subsequently to money.
The word money owes its origin to the fact
that the first silver coined at Rome, A. U. C.
5s2, was produced by the mint in the temple
of Juno Moneto, 1.-THE Reminder).
.V A letter from the 25th Maine regiment
brings information of the continued health and
the few patients in hospital are all reported as
doing well. The regiment has lost but four
teen men since leaving the State. A series of
interesting temperance meetings has been
held, and one hundred and sixty-five names
have been signed to the pledge.
~ Hon. Henry Flanders Of Penn, a
prominent Democrat Of that State, in re-
Gently published pamphlet says, upon all the
evidence accessible to the public, we are justi-
fed in asserting that the only mode of restor-
ing the Union, if it is to be restored at all, is
by arms. The path of safety for us and our
children is the path of war;
UThe Augusta Age, in that keen vein of
satire which Pike knows so well how TO in
dulge in, says that Mr.. Wiggin of York recent
ly handled Mr.. Stewart Of st. Adams, in the