The Portland daily press., 1863-06-05
ORIGIN AL AND s L e CITE ID.

ORIGINAL AND SELECTE ID.
I- On the first page-Internal Revenue !;
Decision relative to the Assessment of the In
come Tax; Recruiting in Secessia; Signii-
cant "Reminiscences.
Co On the fourth page-The Past, an orig
inal poem, by Thos NJ. Brown; Miscellany.
gv- The Democratic State Convention is
postponed till Thursday August 8.
| gy- New Bedford insurance offices suffered
to the amount of nearly 100000 by the recent
depredations of the Alabama.
gy- Nearly $4,000 were raised at meeting
in Chicago on Monday, for the wounded at
Vicksburg.
sY- The three last local elections in Illinois
show marked decrease in the Democratic
vote since last fall. ~
e Madame Rumor has it that ex-Gover-
nor Sprague, of Rhode Island, is about to be
married to Miss Kate Chase, eldest daughter
of the Secretary of the Treasury.
sye Col. D'Utassy, OF the New York Gar
ibaldi regiment, has been sentenced to Sing
Sing State prison for defrauding the govern
ment.
| To- Ex-Gov. Wright, of Indiana, and Hon
Oliver Hoyt, of Connecticut, left for Europe
on Saturday, as Commissioners to the great
Hamburg exhibition.
Y- Hawthorne, in the quiet of his home at
Concord, Mass, is hard at work on a new ro-
| nance, which is well advanced towards com
| petion.
Ie The ship De Witt Clinton, which
long passage of one hundred days, had on
board the 18th Massachusetts battery to join
the forces of Gen. Banks.
To- An actor who was extremely ugly, was
playing part in which lady had to say to
him, "Ah! sire, you change countenance."
| A wag in the pit exclaimed, Pray let him do
so-dont stop him."
syr The iron-clad Galena is now at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard. Her coat of mail
will be taken of, and the vessel will be thor
oughly inspected, and if found expedient will
be repaired in the strongest possible manner.
sTFarmers in the town Of Newry are
loosing stock from some disease hitherto un-
known in that place. The Oxford Democrat
says that the disease Is accompanied by an
acrid discharge from the nose.
gy-We learn from the Bath Times that
Mr.. S. F. Marks, foreman in the shipyard of
| William Rogers, ESQ.,, Of that city, was quite
badly injured by falling staging, while pre-
pairing for launching, Wednesday forenoon.
sgThe New York Sun states that two
brokers in that city who began business about
| year ago are each of them worth over mil
lion dollars. Official relations is said to be the
secret. They are kept posted on war news.
I-A man named Michael Sullivan had
the toes of his right foot sawed off and his
foot and ankle badly crushed by getting en-
tangled in a belt in Hinckley & Egery's new
mill on the Hampden road, two or three days
since.-[B Bangor Times.
The local" of the Columbus, Ohio
Fact, notifies all whom it may concern" who
stop him on the street to enquire about the
war, that he knows nothing about it, not being
on the lookout for the capture of Richmond,
or "any other man."
GB-The following deaths of Maine Soldiers
at Port, Royal are found in last number of
the New South: Charles Stevens, Private Co.
c, 9th Maine, May l4th. A. II. Prescott,
Private Co. A, 9th Maine, May 21st. Geo. A.
Baker, Private Co. E, 18th Maine, May 9th.
Iy- At Maidstone, near Windsor, Canada,
on Sunday, young man shot two of his sis
tiers, killing one and wounding the other fatal
ly. He was playing train,' and did not
know that the gun he snapped toward them
was loaded.
sr The Belfast Age says that thief en-
tered the barn of Mr.. Eben Whitcomb of
Waldo, last week, and stole therefrom a vau-
able horse which he harnessed to the wagon
of the owner and made of. Nothing yet heard
from him.
sr The steamer Montreal on her trip to
Boston on Monday night, picked up, about 2
O'Clock, six men who were clinging to cap
sized schooner, where they had been since 8
o'clock in the evening. One of them was
nearly dead from exhaustion.
| gS Ahc iohoWihS ID tlo oodTu VI DHtCt-
ors elected by the p. S. & P. Railroad corpo-
ration at their annual meeting in North Ber-
wick on Monday evening: Ichabod Goodwin,
George M. Browne, 1. NJ. Speman, Charles
E. Barrett, Nathaniel Hooper, Edward P. Ban
croft and George w. Burleigh.
sy-It is very singular that on the Missis-
sippi river where at home - in the heart OF
their countryside Confederates have never
won victory from Columbus and Island No.
10, to New Orleans. The National forces have
had everything in nature to contend against
and the rebels have had every possible advan-
tage. A thousand men situated as they were
should have been able to cope with two thous-
and against them; aud still they have done
absolutely nothing; been whipped out and
| out.