The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-05-06
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of Hilsborough, n. IL , are in circulation.
sD- Mr.. Thomas S. Gay, of Portsmouth,
has been appointed Masters Mate in the U.
s. Navy and ordered to report at New York.
sg- Augustus Hemmenway is the richest
man is Boston. He pays a tax on 50, 49,
| 600.
rB- Why are the wicked like corn and po-
tatoes? Having eyes, they see not; having
ears, they hear not.
s6- Mr.. and Mrs Henig and four little
children were burned to death by the con
| fagration Of tenement house in New York
~ Sidney Smith speaks Of a man so dry
that il you were to bore holes in him with
gImlet, sawdust would come out.
sH-The old Penn mansion in Philadelphia
is to be purchased by the Pennsylvania Histo-
rical Society, which has raised $4,000 for that
purpose.
sg@Mr. Pulseier, teacher Of Lincoln street
Grammer School in Gardiner, has been dis
! charged for excessively Jogging son of S. l..
Plummer Esq, a lad of about H.
sy-It is said that John b. Cough, notwith-
standing he lectures six evenings in a week
has been obliged to decline 900 invitations to
lecture during the past season.
" The Belfast Age feels compelled to
advance its rates Of advertising twenty-five
per cent. No paper can well afford to do
otherwise.
.Y~ Harrison Shervi, of the It'll Maine
has haar to
hard labor, without pay, to the Dry Tortu-
gas.
sy Will the writer OF the article in rela-
ton to THE Bogus I. u" allow us to
know his name? If so, we will cheerfully
publish his sharp but just communication.
sH- Mr.. Benz. f. Atkinson, for several
years Postmaster in Bradford, has purchased
aud moved into the Ocean House, Newbury-
port.
.y-The Naval Academy is to be returned
ard reestablished at Annapolis. 1t was re-
moved to Newport at the time Maryland was
preponderating TO the side OF disloyalty
~ 1t is amusing to hear copperhead pa
pers speak of the Lincoln faction" in the
Union party, when Mr.. Lincoln is undoubted
| ly the first choice of nine-tenths of all the
| Union men OF the nation.
sg- The rebels OF the South and the cop
| perheads of the North dread the nomination
| OF Mr.. Lincoln more than that of any other
man. Let any other man be nominated and
their hopes would rise-from the dead!
.g-The nation cannot terminate the rebel
lion until it has terminated its cause. The
longer the nation fails to realize this truth. the
greater must be its oulpouring Of blood aud
treasure into the great gulf of war.
sB-It is said the returned Richmond pris-
oners now at Annapolis are in a most wretchd
condition. The Joint Committee on the con-
duct of the war have been instructed to visit
them.
sB-The new U. S. tug-boat Blue Light,
built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, made her
trial trip on Monday afternoon on the river.
The Chronicle says her machinery worked adj
mirably
Sg~Governor Eyens, OF Colorado territory,
has issued proclamation for an election of
! ---- commandments CUuyenIIOn Un
the first Monday of June, to frame a constitu-
ton preparatory to admission into the Union.
sE-The publishers of the Skowhegan Clar-
ion propose to increase the price of that paper
to $500. The reasons are well understood
and appreciated by the considerable portion Ct
community.
T-Whenever a State elects the Union
ticket the Conservative organs exelaim with
touching solemnity that the election is a farce
Whenever the Copperheads succeed, the cleo
ton, we presume is a trrgedy. We like farces
the best-lChicago Tribune.
% A son of Senator Wilson passed an
examination at Washington, on Tuesday, aud
was commissioned as First Lieutenant of the
3lst colored infantry, now at Rcker's Island,
New York. He is only seventeen, otherwise
he would have been made Il captain.
sE-The Gardiner Journal says that Mr..
Thompson, who works in cigar Factory in
that city, in 1T of delirium tremens, cut his
throat, inficting wound two inches long and
an inch deep, cutting OF the juguIar vein and
carotid artery, and laying bare the windpipe.
sgEight liquors indictments were report
ed by the Grand Jury, at the term of the S. j.
Court now in session in Knox County
About $500 in fines and costs have been paid
in liquor cases thus far, and the cases are not
all disposed of yet.
" The editors Of Augusta, Halowell
and Gardiner, it is sad, propose to have sup
per to commemorate the union of those cities
now formed by donkey train. We don't
know what this means, unless the editors
aforesaid propose to make donkeys of them
selves.
%" The Richmond Examiner of recent
Gate, referring to Forests atrocities at Fort
Pillow, said: "They diiused warm and
soothing glow through the veins OF every good
confederate. The whole country will approve
and applaud his action, and so 1t is hoped win
the confederate government
sH- The Richmond Enquirer, commenting
upon recent speech of Vice President Ste
phens, says" He has disappointed his admir-
ers and friends only to crafty his enemies and
those OF his country. He has at no time ut
tered any expression Of hope or confidence in
the success of our cause, and he eau point to
no moral or material aid that he has ever rem
dered it,"
sD~ The Lewiston Journal says Captain
Ham, of the 18th Maine arrived from Red Riv-