The Portland daily press., 1863-06-23
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

sv-On the first page-Siege of Vicksburg;
Siege of Port Hudson; French Intervention.
aB- On the fourth page = The Struggle,
poem by Arthur Hugh Clough.
sBOur Temperance contemporary puts
down tobacco as foe to matrimony. Girls
prefer remaining in single blessedness to being
| put into a smoke house. Sensible girls.
rJ- The Argus says a full town meeting in
| Pownal has voted four to one to pay bounty
of $500 to every drafted man = that is to
| stay at home. Pownal ought to have a visit
from its dear friends Stuart and cavalry
| Lewiston Journal.
nrWhen Gov. Curtin issued his appeal for
| troops, Mr.. Cohen, the proprietor Of the Phia-
| delphia Dial, Immediately suspended the pub
LEGATION of his paper and organized a company
| to start forthwith for Harrisburg. Every man
| in the office volunteered-editors, printers
| and all.
1vThe wooden piles upon which rests
one of the London bridges have been driven
500 years, and yet they are nearly as sound as
when cut from the stump Across the Dam
BILE is a bridge the piling for which is said to
have been driven 1900 years.
o. We learn from the Houlton Times that
the family of John b. Traitor, Esq, of Fort
Fairfield, have been heavily afflicted, They
lost a son some three weeks ago, five years DID,
and the next a little girl two years, and last
week the anly surviving son-all of diptheria.
nVMr. Wilson, Senator from Massachus-
etts, is in Washington urging the government
to offer such inducements for two years and
nine-months men to re-inlist as shall secure
the return to service of large proportion of
them.
rJrLettcrs from Port Royal state that ar
rangements are being made for the organic
alton of colored cavalry regiment there.
Six warrent officers of the I'd battalion ofthe
LIST Mass. cavalry are to have commissions
in the regiment.
gyThe Lewiston police are hard npon the
liquor sellers. In one case, says the Journal
Aug of brandy was found in bed at pri-
waite house, but the lady of the house claimed
it as her own bed-fellow = and of course the
officers of the law left it.
sgWe received call yesterday from Rev.
j. w. Hanson, formerly OF the Gospel Banner,
but now chaplain of the Massachusetts,
"Bloody Sixth" which has been stationed at
Suffolk, Va. Mr. II. was ON his way to attend
the Universalist State Convention at Calais.
syr The Universalist State Convention
meets at Calais this week. The Maine Con-
ference of the Orthodox Congregational
Churches meets in Biddeford at the same time.
We have made arrangements for early reports
from both bodies.
sg-The Price Current of this city, edited
by Mr.. NJ. N. Rich, and printed by Mr.. B.
Thurston, is not only one of the neatest speci-
mems of mechanical work, but it is every waya
credit to our city, and we trust that from our
Commercial men it will receive generous
support.
cV-The 9Th anniversary of the Maine State
Seminary will recur the 23d of July. The
graduating class numbers Is gentlemen and Is
ladies. The ensuing anniversary promises to
be very attractive one. Most of the male
graduates win probably remain at the Semina-
ry and enter the first Freshmen Class, which
will enter the Institution this fall Lewiston
journal.
aHeCol. F. d. Sewall Of Bath, was in the cars
yesterday morning on hisway to Mass. where
he is to rganize battalion of the LIST class of
invalid soldiers-those who are simply untitled
for the hardest field service-for fertilization
and other defensive duties. Col S., though q
life long Democrat throws his whole heart and
soul into the cause ofhis country.
sR-The Houlton Times has the following:
We understand that Messrs. Hunt, Smell and
Reynolds, made Reconnaissance in force on
Saturday last, on the trout streams of New
Brunswick. After taking the oath of alleg-
ance to preserve their loyalty on foreign soil,
the party In few hours succeeded In bagging
244 trout averaging pound each, "or therea-
bouts"
svThe Bath Times says that Mr.. Moses
bennett was found dead in the woods near
the college buildings in Brunswick,on Friday
evening, where he had been for load Of wood.
His horse came home without the wagon, with
the harness arranged so sa to lead to the be-
lief that Mr.. Dennet felt unwell and not being
able to get assistance turned the horse loose
under the impression that his return would
cause the family to make search for him, which
they did, and found him dead, upon stump.
He was IS years Of age.
sI-As long ago as in 1858 the Charleston
Mercury attacked JEFF. Davis for his then re-
cent speeches in this city, and wanted to know
| who the honorable Senator meant when he spoke
in one Of his speeches in the North, of 'trifling
politicians in the South" who talk of the dis
solution of the Union. 1t also recalled the
unpleasant "reminiscences that in 1850 and 1852
| he himself was secessionist, and did all he
could to induce the people of Mississippi to dis
solve the Union by seeding from it. This re-
proof of the Mercury was referred TO in the
State of Maine newspaper at the time.
lY-We are informed that a down east
copperheaded editor tells of having peeked in
TO our window and seeing the editor at his
work, whereupon he let of a vial of wrath
and wormwood at our expense. We are in
formed that one Of our policemen had his eye
ON a suspicious looking fellow, with regular
hang-dog eountenance, who was proving
about the building in which our Office is stu
ated but as the fellow seemed attracted by
swill pail at the back door OF an eating house,
he was allowed to pursue his investigations
without molestation. No doubt he was the
same scavenger who amused himselfby prynS
| into the windows of our office.
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