The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-03-06
o II IGINAL AND LECTED.

q On the fourth page-The Presidents
Gun, poem; the Widows Pig, fairy story.
I- Copperheadsm, like cows tail, is
growing downwards.
ag- Mayors Stetson of Bangor, declines
a reelection.
@ Thirty inches of snow fell at st. Al
bans, Vt, on the I'd and Sd inst.
sg- There are at the present time fifteen
New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) churches in
Massachusetts.
B- A Jackson Miss paper says Jew
was arrested on the charge of offering to spike
the guns at Fort Hudson for 100000.
~ The Advertiser of yesterday was minus
its own peculiar heading. 1t contains nary a
"Medleygraphr'
.g-Col. Sewall, of the Maine 10th, has re-
signed on account of i'll health. He is nov at
home in Bath.
sB- The Rockland Free Press learns that
with scarcely an exception, the returned sol
diers vote against the copperheads.
sE-' Rev. Thomas S. Robbie has asked for
dismission from the pastorate of the First
Congregational Church of Wadoboro, to take
effect on the 1st of April
sD- The latest advices from Pensacola say
that deserters from the rebels are numerous.
Ten of them joined the Maine 18th not long
ago.
sgr Mr.. Rowell of the Hallowell Gazette,
rpcppflv statad nit al off,
Gardiner Bridge TO Halowell Bridge, four
miles stron G, in fourteen minutes.
sY- w. Henry Fogg, of this city, has been
appointed a,Master's Mate in the Navy, and or
dered to report ON board the sloop-of war Sa-
vannah, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, ON Wednes-
day next.-lB Bath Times.
sr The Inauguration of Rev. Thomas Hill,
d. d., as President of Harvard College, took
place Wednesday afternoon at the First
Church, Cambridge. The attendance was very
large.
SE Business men are beginning to appre-
ciate the Press as medium of advertising.
Our circulation is nearly il not quite equal to
the combined circulation of the two morning
papers in the city.
sY- Hon. C. J. Gilman of Brunswick, was
to address the loyal people of Portsmouth last
evening. Gov. washburn is to speak there
on the 9th inst, and Senator Morrell on the
9th.
ry A double eagle was offered in Lowell
the other day, in payment for barrel of -four
worth $1,000. The change in bills was S2l.50
1t is not to be inferred that the seller paid
Sl.50 for customer; the premium on gold
was 60 per cent.
LEA young New Yorker, who had $4,000
burning in his pocket In the summer OF 1861,
in compliance with the advice OF financial
friend, invested it in tar at 81 per barrel. He
has recently sold out at $40, netting $4,000
as the result of his operation.
sB- John Van Buren, once brought down
the house tremendously in the old Exchange
Hall in this city by remarkng that he missed
the copy of the Argus containing Gen. Cass
Nichoson's letter. IL John were here now,
he might say the same thing concerning
the letter of Gen. Scott Transcript.
sV- We are told that a gentleman whose
place of business is directly under the Adver-
tiser counting room, day or two since went
into that office not a little excited, and begged
of them to remove their sign from over his
door. as he was constantly bothered by people
coming in to stop their papers,
sg- The reported attempt to assassinate
Gen. Banks, it appears, turns out to be untrue.
The New Orleans Delta says the rumor arose
from the fact that an officer thoughtessly
threw two explosive cartridges from the win
dow of the City Hotel just as Gen. Banks left
the door, which exploded on the sidewalk, and
hence the report.
sg- The young man, who attempted high
way robbery near Lowell on the evening OF
January oath, was arrested last Monday His
name is Henry J. Page. When arrested,h was
armed with pistol and dirk, and provided with
dark lantern. He is only nineteen. His
imagination has been captivated by books of
the Claude Duval class.
sy-Mr. Roberts of Waldo crowded wiggin
to the wall the other day in the Senate, and
extorted from him the reluctant confession
that he would not free the slaves even to save
the Union, though fully satisfied in his own
mind that it could be saved in no other way
This is copper-headed love of countryl Ne
gro slavery before Liberty and Unionr'
rg- Mr.. Wiggin, the York County Senator,
recently stated in the Senate that he had yet
to know the first disloyal democrat in the
State" 1t is the opinion of a very large and
very respectable portion of the people of
Maine, that the Senator may stand face to face
with disloyal democrat, aud one of the most
offensive stripe, too, by simply fronting look
ing glass.
rrThe editor of the New Bedford Stan
dard says that he lately discovered in an old
drawer which had not been opened for years,
a remarkable silver coin, which had on one
side a head with the word Liberty" sur
rounded by thirteen stars, and the date 1920.
On the opposite was an eagle, with the mot
to az Pluribus Unum," the words "United
States of Americ a. and the figures "l0cr'
GIT is hopeful sign to see that old vet
eran, Gen. Scott, presiding over an uncondi-
tional Union meeting in New York; meeting
c,vnr If n yiuarous nrosacufint, al tho vvar