The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-06
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% The BarnstabIc Patriot sayH that the vine
worm has made its appearance in some vf the
large cranberry meadows upon the Cape. and
that more than half crop is not expected.
B-Information has been received in Bath.
the. Times says, that Alfred s. Merrill, of that
city, Capt. of Co. d, Sd Maine, was mortally
wounded in an assault upon the Federal lines
near Spottsylyania Court House, May 10th, and
that he died on the llth of May, close to where
he fell.
% Prof. Hadley of the Union Theological Sem
mary, died on the boat from City Point, few
days since. He was acting Agent ON the
Relief Corps of the Sanitary Commission. and
had been at the front since the last of June
showing in the work the greatest energy and eff
cheney.
y The Copperhead party, falsely called
Democratic, is fighting to uphold the institu-
ton of negro slovery. 1t is only by the aid of
shareholders and tyrants that they can hope to
control the country. Strike down slavery and
make every man free, and Copperherdism would
stand no more chance than paganism.
a The Gardiner Journal walks into Moreste's
Combination Troupe in the most approved
gymnastc style, kicking the scaly fellows right
and left with his cowhides as though they had
no right to run their hotel and printers bills.
The Company got into the Journal Si025. and
into Mr.. 0sgood of the Gardiner Hotel.
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B-A Copperhead paper boastingly reminds
| its readers that Gov. Seymour and Mayor Gun
Their of New York, both democrats issued Fast
! day proclamations, while Gov. Cony and the
Mayor of Portland took no official notice of the
National Fast. How was it when the President
appointed day of Public Thanksgiving to give
expression to a nations gratitude for victories
achieved over rebels and rebellion? Then the
Copperheads were as dumb as oysters
- Addison L. verrill, graduate of the
Cambridge Scientific School. formerly of Nor
way, Maine. has recently been appointed Pro-
fessor of Zoology in Yale College Mr.. V. is
already widely and favorably known among
scientific men for his original researches and
discoveries in the several departments of Natu-
raj History, and is a young man of much
promise. He is brother to b. d. Verrill, Esq,
of this city, and Capt G. W. yerrll, of the 18th
Maine.
- The editor of the Argus must have lost
his cuticle, entirely, or he would not be so
sensitive. The touch of a feather. though
dipped in oil, irritates him so that he writhes
and frets excrutiatingly He, dear fellow, can
shy a ragged-edged stone into his neighbour
face and think it "fun alive but should the
smallest splinter rebound and stick in his flesh,
he blubbers like baby and complains of i'll
usage. Now We are disposed to deal gently
with our neighbor. and we say to him once for
all, that we do not intend to twit on facts. OF
wilfully to aim sportive dart at sore spot
With all his sins (political) and they are both
big and numerous-we never heard him charged
with inebriety or intemperance in the use Of
drinks, and because We thought him invulnera-
HE in this respect, we did not fear to suggest
that he had too much liquor on board to appre.
ciate our standing on the water question. Hi.
sensitiyeness almost provokes the suspicion
that we have given him credit for more virtu,
in this regard than he can justly claim