The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-05-28
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

against vicksburg; the French Repulse from
| Puebia.
sy- On the fourth page - Her Voice, an
original poem.
sg-Potatoes for shipping are selling in
Wadoboro for 40 cents bushel.
gB-John C. Pemberton, of the rebel army,
is native of Pennsylvania
sB-The New York Herald advocates the
reelection of Mr.. Lincoln to the Presidency.
gD-The Bath Times learns that Rev. Mr..
Merrill has resigned his connection with the
Congregational Society of Wiscasset.
IB-The Bangor Wing says it is reported
that Col. Burnham of the 9th Maine has re-
signed.
eV-Advices from Texas say that the rebels
have made Gen. IIamton's wife a hostage to
! check his labors in the North.
syrThere is a shop kept by an old maid in
New York, in the windows Of which appear
these words: mo reasonable Offer refused"
LEA young huckster woman ate fifty or
anges one after another at Columbus, OHIO,
the other day on wager. She received s..
SY-Two daughters of John Bell of Tennes-
see, in Philadelphia, express themselves amaz-
ed at the indications of abundance and pros
perity everywhere evident
srLet no one suppose that the taking of
Vicksburg is to end the war. 1t will be ter
rible blow but not the death blow to the rebel
lion.
grAmnidab Sleek, in the Serious Family,
brought down the house the other night when
he addressed the violin player as "a man of
sin, engaged in drawing the hair of horse
across the bowels of cat'
.rIt is understood that the new war poll
cy of the rebels, which the Richmond Exami-
ner says is to be carried into execution within
fortnight, is the invasion of the Northern
States.
SB@Mr. b. Goodwin was severely injured
in his eyes, at Brewer, on Tuesday last, by the
the premature discharge of cannon, being
fired in honor of the arrival of the Maine Sec
ond. Messrs. E. SWEET and n Phillips were
slightly injured.
sD- The Lewiston Journal may rest as
sured that it has copied no items from the
Press stolen by us from our neighbors If it
should inadvertently take three line para
graph of ours, without proper credit, we shall
not feel called upon to admster reprimand
or to indulge in complaint.
SE- 1t is probable that larger proportion
OF the free blacks of the North can read and
write, than of the white population of the
South. The Boston Journal says that on the
payment of the State bounty to the colored
regiment in that State, 40s out of 965 men. of
the rank and file, signed their names in good
and clear hand.
give learn that a lady ofthis city ,(S.J.C.l
an occasional contributor to several Of our
local papers, contempates issuing tale for
children in season for the Christmas HOLIDAYS.
1t has the approval of literary gentlemen to
whom it has been submitted, and will doubtless
make an acceptable book for children even of
"larger growth"
eEHaving received an official invitation
from the President of the Board of Trade to
accompany the delegation from that body to
the Chicago Convention, we shall leave to-day
by the Grand Trunk Railway to be absent
perhaps ten days. In the meantime we hope
to furnish few notes by the way that will not
be totally devoid of interest to the readers Of
the Press.
sVThe papers all about us are talking of
early-closing movements among merchants
and other business men. Wouldn't it be well
to inaugurate an early-rising movement?
Doubtless there are many young people who
do not see the sun rise half dozen times a
year, and yet it is the most gorgeous sight of
the twenty-four hours that 60 10 make up our
long summer days.
rfChief Justice Carter in delivering a re-
cent decision, took exceptions to the silly GUS
tom of rendering verdict in Latin terms, as
for instance, in the case of divorce, the using
of the phrase "a rinculo matrimonii," suggest
ing that for hundred years hence every person
mry not understand that this phrase signifies
restoration to all the rights of single man.
The good sense of this suggestion is equalled
only to its good TASTE
sy-That brilliant Pennsylvania genius, J.
Clancy Jones, fugleman for the conspirators
during the first half of the Buchanan admin
istraton, has conceived plan of restoration
of the Union, requiring several changes Of the
Constitution. His proposition would give any
nine slave states the power to prevent every
act of legislation, except the passage of APP
preparation bills! All for slavery, nothing for
freedom, and this is called Democracy!
sg- The Machias Union twits the editor
of the Eastport Sentinel of holding a 81 per
day revenue office, and says, "a slave on the
pay of So day, is one of the greatest inenials
on the face of the earth. He sells himself soul
and body for that sum, a thing no African was
ever yet known to do" The editor of the
Union held precisely such an Office under
Howell Cobb, and of course speaks expert
mentally.
.gThe Hon. Zadock Pratt, of Prattsville,
n. T., is making preparations TO have a CO.
lossal statue OF his son, the late Col. George
| w. Pratt, cut in solid rock, just above Pratts-
vile, where the Scoharrie river bends abrupt
! ly to the west, washing the base of an over
hanging limestone cliff Mr. Pratt is eccen-
tric. A large and deliberately wrought tomb
stone near his house commentaries favorite
| horse.
| LEA paper in this city has proposed Cen