The Portland daily press., 1863-04-30
D RIGIN AL AND ELECTE ID.

YOn the fourth page-Apostrophe to
Traitors, poem by Daughter of Maine; the
Unknown Painter.
ay-Burt's reaper factory, with all its con-
| tents, was burnt at Dunleith, Illinois ON
| Thursday morning. Loss $4,000; uninsured
gB-The Bangor Wing says that hotel keep
ers in that city have determined to raise their
| rates.
c1-It is said that mechanics and laboring
men from Canada, are coming across the lines
in considerable numbers, seeking employment.
gg-A friend writes from Chicago, "This
city has gone copperhead, but only by the
vilest treachery."
VJ. F. Potter of Conneaut Ohio, hung
himself in his baru few days since, using a
rope his wife had employed for similar pur-
pose several years since.
l1The Argus just now seems to be en-
gagged in the laudable work of trying to de-
grade Gen. Hooker to the level with Fitz-
John Porter.
YEA mob, said to be comprised of Union
soldiers, have destroyed the office of the Sac
ranento, Cal, Republican, democratic news
papea.
srAccording to a recent letter of the
Medical Director of the Army ofGen. Hooker
published in the Washington papers, his force
Numbers 10000 men.
TUnder the recent order from the War
Department for the consolidation of various
regiments in the field, it is ascertained that
not more than two regiments from Maine will
be consolidated into one.
sVrThe Bath Times learns by a private
note from Washington that Asa b. Coden, of
Co. II, 7th Maine regiment, died at Hazel
wood Hospital Washington, Saturday morn
ing. He was from Orland.
sVThe Bangor Jeflersonian thinks Gen.
Mcclellan would not have taken Richmond if
he had hadunder his command. everylman and
every gun in the federal service. 1t was not
sin the programme"
rThe Bath Savings Institution has had
900 depostors since its establishment, as we
learn from the Times, with total deposit of
S227,Sl6. On deposit and security invested
April /, 1862, s134,455.
sg-Several of the booms on the Saltwater.
on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning,
and logs to the amount of from two to two
and a half millions of feet were swept off
They were worth $4,000 to $4,000.
sv The Ellsworth American says the little
village of Winter Harbor, in that county, this
winter, has been sadly thinned out by death.
Out of a population of about $50 there have
been IS deaths by disease during the past few
months. Twenty have died with diptheria.
sB-In consequence of Fast there will be no
| paper issued from this Office tomorrow morn
| ing. Weare informed that the papers in Bos-
| ton will all suspend; that there will be no
telegraphic news todoy or :toight east
| of New York unless a battle or some other
very important event should occur, in which
case bulletin will be issued.
SY-It is rumored that Mrs. Stephen A.
Douglas never joined her husband in the ex-
ecution of mortgages on his Chicago real es-
tate, and that she is consequently entitled to
her right Of dover. She resides In the house
that Mr.. Douglas occupied before he built his
| mansion, now used as a hospital, and is said
to devote much of her time to the relief of the
sick and wounded, and looks even more ma
| To- Gen. Hamilton, who never set foot in
free State till he was driven from the slave
States for his fidelity to the Union, says the
| Union men Of the South are abotionists.
| They are so from necessity. Slavery has raised
its hand to destroy the Union, and in order to
protect the Union that traitorous hand must
be smitten and effectually withered.
sy- When the editor of the Bangor Times
talks of certain things being physically i'm
possible" without supernatural agency, he
simply shows to what a limited extent he has
made himself acquainted with the statements
Of responsible papers and exponers, backed
by an array OF testimony not easy to get over
impossible" is a mighty word, and a word
that few Yankees are disposed to endorse
sy-Mr Whitney, the inventor of the Whit
ney battery, afterwards named the Keoklk.
has ADDRESSED circular letter to the leading
newspapers in defense of his theory. He con-
tends that a vessel twice the size of the Keo-
kuk, with corresponding weight of armor
and constructed on precisely the same plan,
would have passed through the Charleston
trial unframed.
sy- Our neighbor of the Argus occasion
ally refers to the case of a man who has reach
ed four score years, and yet has taken that pa
per regularly from its original establishment.
There are few more forcible evidences of an
iron constitution. 1t is not unlike the case of
those, rarely to be met with it is true, who
have lived to an extreme old age notwith-
standing they have been habitual drinkers of
alcoholic liquors. But for their perncious
habit we are apt to think such persons might
attain to the age of Methuseleh.
rV-In Cincinnati. the other day young
man named Goble, who had circulated reports
detrimental to young lady, was set upon by
the offended damsel with pitcher full of hot,
scalding water which she threw over his per-
son, burning him severely. Not content with
this punishment, she grappled him by the
throat and made him retract all he had said,
and then finished up the castyation by break
ing the pitcher over his head and face, so that
his coGntenance presented pitible aspect
when she had finished Goble begged pite-
ously and, releasing himself from her hold,
rushed into the street, the crowd, which had
collected, hallooing after him.
sE- Gen. Hunter was born in South Caro-
lima, has always been Democrat, and was Sc
lected by the Pierce administration to enforce
its offensive measures in Kansas But he is
loyal, and is not only willing to see slavery