The Portland daily press., 1863-03-09
ORIGIN AND ELECTE ID.

sy-On the first page-The vacant Judg-
ship; the Polish Revolution; Response from
England.
sg-On the fourth page-Life's Question,
poem an Arab Ambush.
20 The average monthly receipts of the
places of amusement in Paris are s34S,00.
lB- Eight hundred and forty-three bales of
cotton reached Cincinnati on Monday from
Memphis.
sDr The Aroostook Pioneer says the re-
cent bloody murder at Fort Fairfield was the
result of rum
gp- The message of the Governor of New
Brunswick TO the Legislature states that the
river and coast fisheries are threatened at no
distant day with extinction.
sy-The snow storm Saturday delayed the
arrival Of the evening train from Boston more
than three hours. 1t did not arrive until near
II o'clock.
sV John Reed, Esq, one Of the Repubi-
can candidates for Mayor of Lewiston, has
withdrawn his name from the contest. The
election comes off to-day
sB- The amount of specie, chiefly gold, at
| present in the United States is estimated at
$7l6OOO,0oO, most of which is hid away in old
stockings. The banks of New York hold
| little over Sl0O,000,000 in their vaults.
The Union men of Kentucky are to meet in
convention in Louisville on the 18th inst, and
nominate candidates to fill the various State
Offices, to be chosen at the next August cleo
ton.
sB- The Oxford Democrat learns that the
| projectors of the Oxford Central Railroad,
have proposed, on the pledge of $4,000, to
complete this road TO Canton, the money to be
paid when the cars have run through.
sB- Among the recent deaths of soldiers
in the Washington hospitals the following are
from Maine: C. S. Maxwell, Co. A, LIST Artil-
lery; G. Bonney, Co. X, 18th regiment; and
j. Stevens, Co. G. eth regiment.
.E- The election in New Hampshire for
| State officers and members of Congress,
comes off tomorrow. The copperheads have
left no stone unturned to carry the State,
and the disoyasts Of New York have pour
ed out their money like water to effect the
same Object
1.-THE VACANT JUDGsHIP."-The leading
article in the Press of Saturday morning, on
the vacant Judgship," by Que of those mis-
haps liable to occur in the best regulated off,
ces, had two of its paragraphs transposed, and
for this reason we have republished it to-day
on the first page.
sy- The Nashville Union announces that
the assessment on disloyal citizens for the re-
lief of the poor is now almost entirely paid
in. Gen. Mitchell lately issued an order that
| persons refusing to pay should have their
property Immediately confiscated, and this has
wonderfully quickened the action of those
who have been holding out against previous
orders.
LEA correspondent informs us Of the
death Of five out of six children in the family
of Mr.. Clark Josseyn, of Phillips. Three
died within ten days; the fourth, a young lady
Of twenty years, week later; and ten days
afterwards the only surviving son. The re-
naming daughter lies at the point of DEATH
Mr.. and Mrs. Josselyn had the disease, but in
mider form.
sB- 1.-The Democratic party is the party Of
the Union, and the only Union party in the
country" So said Wiggin in his late debate
| with Mr.. Spring. What perfect bosh! In the
| Charleston Convention it was contended by
the minority, and feebly If at all denied by the
majority, that the only democratic states were
the fifteen Stare states. To-day eteren Of these
" Democratic states" are in armed rebellion
against the Union, and t,co more of them are
represented in the rebel Congress! The men
who have controlled the Democratic party for
the last dozen years are either in open rebell-
ion, or in open sympathy with rebels. The ex-
ceptions are found with those like Butler,
whom Wiggin denounced as dishonest.