The Portland daily press., 1863-04-24
ORIGINA AND LECTE ID.

sy-On the first page-Recent Discoveries
in Natural Philosophy.
ag- On the fourth page, My Brother, a
parody; Miscellany.
~ President Lincoln has issued his Proc
lamation recognizing West Virginia as State
of the Union,
sB~The legislature of Georgia, on the 18th
instant, refused to indorse the Confederate
bonds by indefinitely postponing bill having
that object.
% "A fine fat sprawling red-faced baby was
left on Archbishop Huges' door step one
night last week. He had it conveyed to the
Founding hospital.
SB- private letter from member of the
Maine goth, says the sick of that regiment,
forty in number. were sent to Washington last
Sunday. This looks like an indication of
movement.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Charles
Potter, Jr, of Westerly, Il. l., who broke his
leg recently by fall in our office, has had to
submit to amputation of the leg, four or five
inches above the ankle joint.
% lawyer has been arrested in Wash
ington for Specializing on the bodies of dead
soldiers. He would write the bereaved friends.
offer to forward the Departed pocket the
fees in advance, and then send any corpse he
could obtain.
sE~ The Rockland Democrat says it is ru-
mored that VIM. =. Hanes, of Biddeford. is
to be the next candidate of the Copperheads
for Governor. Biddeford is the only Copper
head city in the State, and on that account
ought to have the candidate
% Orpheus c. Kerr says: once told a
Wall street broker that | considered the
break of day of Natures most glorious sights !;
and he said he didn't mind it himself, If he
didn't happen to have any of Days notes on
hand at the time"
20 patriotic clergyman out west about
to administer the Lords Supper, suggested
that traitors 10 their country were not includ-
ed in the invitation TO participate; whereupon
the copperhead papers made an awful howl
because Democrats were excluded from the
Gospel ordinances.
sE- The editor of the Aroostook Pioneer
says that while driving through the woods re-
Gently, he saw girl about fourteen years of
age standing before the door of log house,
and looking at him very wishfully. Surprising
she wanted something. he refined up, when she
said, "Please Mr.. s., let me have some hairs
from your horses .ai to make ring"
give have found new use for our cop
perhead exchanges. They are capital for
cleaning types. The large quantity of lie in
them renders them superior to potash. There
are few, however, in this State, that we are
obliged to exclude, because the leis altogeth-
er too dirty to be used in a well regulated Of
flee.
srThc Pennington Patriot has standing
head, under which it publishes the silly say
ings Of indiscreet men. entitled. Nuts for the
Abolitionists to crack" 1t omits the kind of
nuts which the aboiiionists are most likely 10
crack,-those known in the West as Butter
nuts" In this region they are called Sop
perheads.'
sH- John Van Buren,, in a recent speech
III view ioih, sdtu that Ds wei Itco-HilSu
principles of law it is as clear as the sun at
noon, that if this war goes on twelve months
more there will not be slave legally held in
any one OF the States and territories, except
by the Presidents proclamation. Speaking Of
politics, he expressed his belief that the next
President would be a Democrat, but not the
candidate Of the Democratic party.
- An old farmer IN IIarpsweH says he
had taken the Advertiser-before its fall-a
great many years, and always prospered. He
was persuaded to exchange il for the Argus,
aud Immediately his potatoes were afflicted
with the rot. He suspected the cause, stopped
his paper. and since then his tubers have been
as sound as roach. He now takes the Press,
and says he not only expects sound crop,
but an increase in quantity.