The Portland daily press., 1863-04-17
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTE d.

u On the first page-Our Record a Con-
sistent one; Bowdoin Exhibition.
sE- On the fourth page-Poetry; Royal
Wedding. Appearance of the Princess.
sg-It is reported that President Lincoln
will visit New England this summer.
sy- Rev. DIR. Chaplin was in Florence, the
first Of March.
A fellow named Gentenperg has just been
convicted of bigamy in Wisconsin.-He only
recently married his eleventh wife.
syAn exchange says that Dan Rice, the
circus clown, has been engaged for the COM
ing season at a salary of $4,000.
gr Madame yarian gave one of her supe-
perior concerts at Norombega Hall, Bangor,
last evening.
IA fellow named Blake, for trying to
aid his friend to escape from the Jail at Ban
gor, by conveying to him small saw, has Sc
cured safe lodgings for himself in the same in
stitution.
sy-The Bath Times speaks of a child with
ten fingers and eleven toes. Nothing very re-
markable in the number of fingers, and we
doubt if any amount of newspaper notoriety
will make a notorious object of the child.
u The Bath Times says that on the 4th
of April last, Anthony Chase of Brunswick,
mate of the bark Eliza White, was lost over
board on her passage from the West Indies to
New York.
rE-London spreads over more than one
hundred aud twenty square miles, contains
two thousand six hundred miles OF streets,
has three hundred and sixty thousand houses,
population OF three millions, and an assessed
annual rental of over sixty millions Of dollars.
rH- Hon. Edward Everett concluded late
speech by saying, "there is no alternative but
TO acknowledge the independence of the Con-
strong arm of military power. To suppose
that there is hope of any other settlement is
the grossest delusion.
sg- The Bath Times learns that Mr.. Allen
Jack was accidentally shot by Mr. Brown,
at Abagadaset, in Bowdoinham, on the 18th.
They had beea Cunning, and Brown, who is a
returned soldier, was exhibiting to Jack the
manual exercise, when his gun was accidentally
discharged, lodging its contents in the breast
of his friend. The deceased leaves a ia mly.
sg- Perley, in dispatch to the Journal,
abiding to the operations at Charleston, rep
resents high public funetonary" as saying
that "a cessation of operations with only two
hours fighting, after six months OF preparation,
would be like making hungry man listen to
a long grace on sitting down to table, and
then only giving him small plate of thin
SOUP" This apt comparison furnishes the
internal evidence" of its authorship. 1t is
probably "Old Abe's" last.
.g- Gen. A. j. Hamilton, a man who was
born in the slave State of Alabama, and always
lived there till seventeen years ago, then went
to the slave STATE of Texas, resided at her
capital, represented her in Congress, and new
er stepped foot in free State till he arrived
in New York refugee, having been hunted
from his own State by the bloodhounds Of
slavery for his devotion to the Union, is in
sultingly styled Jack Hamilton and charg
ed, by implication, with knowing less of the
condition of the country and of the perils and
demands of the hour than common soldier,
and all because he lays the sin of the rebellion
upon slavery, and believes that it should die
that freedom and constitutional liberty may
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