The Portland daily press., 1863-06-11
d RIGIN L AND ELECTED


correspondent.
gBrOn the fourth page-Miscellany.
Gg-More than one thousand members have
been added to the Masonic Fraternity in
Maine during the past year.
GB- The Machias Union learns that there
are several cases of small pox at Cherryfield.
1t recently appeared in crew of millmen.
DE- The Union men of Hermon will have
celebration of the approaching Fourth of
July, at Hermon Village.
G1- The postage on all daily papers on and
after July LIST will be 30 cents per quarter;
the postage on weekies will be five cents per
quarter.
aB- The New Orleans Era afirms that the
speeches of Mr.. Vaandigham have been
printed as political text book in the Confed-
eracy.
Baltimore on Friday, charged with organizing
company to join the rebel army. Some of
them are sons of prominent citizens.
LEA bill to increase the pay of Senators
to three dollars per day, and Representatives
to two dollars and fifty cents, has been re-
jected in the Connecticut Legislature.
nT Ten thousand dollars is the patriotic
figure touched by the New York Board of
Aldermen as Fourth of July appropriation
this year.
sH-Two tons and half of oysters were
stripped from the copper of the French iron
clad frigate La Gloire not long SINCE
gGen. Grant has sent five thousand rebel
prisoners TO Island No. 10, in the Mississippi,
where they will be detained until the fate of
Vicksburg is decided.
sH-The Times regrets to learn that Samuel
Eames, Esq, the worthy and faithful City
Treasurer Of Bath has rendered his resgna-
ton on account of impaired health.
sBrCanker worms are devouring the apple
trees in the vicinity Of Newburyport The
Herald says some of the trees look as though
they had been blasted by fire: not single
green leaf can be seen on them.
IDivers have already succeeded in Sc
curing $4,000 worth of goods, and raised one
box containing $4,000 in specie, from the
wreck of the Anglo-Saxon, off the coast of
Nova Scotia.
TEA slight ofhand performer by the name
of Alonzo Johnson who has been following
in the circus for some time, stole gold watch
at Pittston from Mr.. Blanchard, for which
he was arrested and taken to Gardiner.
ggr The Bangor Courier says the mill at
East Hampden, owned by A. NJ. Roberts &
Son, and Messrs. Hinkley & Egery, has been
sold to Messrs. Sargent & Stearns, of Brewer
Village, for the sum of $4,000
% The Lewiston Journal says young
man named Niles, employed in Drew's Bob
bin Factory, had his thumb nearly taken off
above the second joint, Tuesday morning, by
circular saw.
srThe Bath Times corrects its former
statement Of the case Barrows rs. Quinnam
so far as to announce that the suit was not
Withdrawn but settled by the retraction of
injurious remarks alleged to have been made
by Mr.. Quinnam.
gH- Government has ntimated to the I'm
ionists of Maryland that if another raid is
made into that State enough Of the property
of known copperheads will be turned over to
the injured loyal citizens to make good their
loss.
sB- War is a terrible scourge, but there
are excrescences on society which war alone
can cure. Not the least repusive of these are
the Peter Funk shops in the cities. They are
a;d col n So, III
only one left in the city of New York.
IrThe rebels used miniature explosive
shells at the battle of Vicksburg, and the re-
suit is necessity for the amputaton of almost
every arm and leg hit by these unusual and
fearlully destructive missiles, in order to save
life. In every instance when the bullet enters
near a bone, the bone is shattered.
sy-"Come Home," very well written po-
EN- by 'Mary," dedicated to the Twenty-flth
Maine Regiment, and published in the Press
few days since, will be republshed on our Attn
page tomorrow at the request of many of the
friends Of the regiment who failed to secure a
copy.
Major General John C. Fremont it is
sau usis uecii assiSueu W acllNe service, tne
charge of department 1t will be his duty to
organize and command the negro troops The
Philadelphia Press regards this as the practi-
cal beginning of great experiment; it will
do much to confirm the Administration in the
confidence of larger portion of the people.
srThe publishers of the Machias Union
have received a letter dated May 10Th, at
Donaldsonville, from member of Co. III. to
the Maine 18th which states that Sidney Look
of Jonesboro, and George Gilman of Machas,
died of typhoid fever May 18th and were
buried the 18th. Mr.. Look leaves family in
Jonesboro.
sTSays "F, F." in the Boston Journal:
The officers and men of the Fifth New Hamp-
shire regiment have raised nearly five hundred
dollars to be expended in the purchase of a
sword, watch and pair Of spurs for presenta-
ton to their brave commander, Col. Edward
E. Cross. Tiffany & Co. of New York are
manufacturing the articles.
IrState Conventions will be held in the
following States during the present month,
viz: by the Democrats in Ohio on the 18th /;
by the Democrats in Pennsylvania and in H.
linois, and by the Republicans in Ohio on the
18th and by the Democrats in Vermont on
of emancipation, called by Gov. Gamble, will