The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-05-03
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gY-First page = Speculations concerning
the Atlantic Telegraph; Patriotic and Truth
full Sentiments; True as Preaching.
Gg-Last page - The Voyage of the ST.
Andrew, by a Passenger.
sg-Commodore w. ID. Porter, of the U.
S. Navy, died in New York, on Sunday last
sgJudge Barrows is holding session of
the Supreme Court at Maehias.
20 Eight fishing vessels left Eastport last
week.
SB- Photographs of Rev. DR.. and Mrs.
DWIGHT, from card to cabinet size, may be
had at "Burnham's," 90 Middle street.
cit is said Gen. Mcdowell is to be as
signed to the command Of the district of the
Pacific, with headquarters at San Francisco. !
rBCom. Thacher has been ordered to the
command OF the storeship New Hampshire, at
the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Jonathan Gilman, Esq, for many years
keeper of the Aims House in Bangor, died on
Sunday last at the age of so years.
srLittle Kings are on hlnd with their
Lsdy's Book for May. 1t is as neat as a dew
drop and as brilliant as a June butterny's
wing.
sEpTwo concerts by the children of DR..
Adams church, Brunswick, have netted $3.50,
a part of which goes to the Christian Com
mission.
sR-Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, has
received dispatch from Washington, stating
that colored men would be accepted as sub
stitutes under the enrolment act
sy- Hon. Chandler r. Ransom, of Boston,
has accepted the position of Commissioner
for the examination of National Banks in
New England and in the city of New York.
sBMr. George Allen, Jr., the well-known
and highly esteemed master of the Hancock
School in Boston, died at his residence in
Chelsea on Sunday, at the age of about fifty
years.
sH-A dispatch from ST. Louis says that
Capt. Todd, cousin of Mrs. Lincoln, aud for
merly Confederate Provost Marshal at Alex
andria, has arrived within the Federal lines
with his family and given himself up.
sE-The rebels are bending all their avail
able force on to the protection of Richmond.
They evidently understand that Gen. Grant
intends to strike heavy blow somewhere,
and they fear it most at Richmond
sE-The Argus recalls its charge against
the Press, of having fabricated the lie that
the editor of that paper was once an aboli-
zionist, and says he never was connected with
any anti-slavery organization, except the
American Colonization Society. of which he
has been firm supporter.
sg-The Printers strike, which has extern
ded to nearly all the towns and cities of the
free states having daily papers, and was de-
signed TO drive out female compositors TO
make room Tor able bodied men whose seryi-
ces the government would be very glad to Sc
cure, is resulting in introducing females in
many Offices where they have not heretofore
been employed. In two offices in this city
the strikers have found themselves struck,
their raid leaving the nimble-nngered type
settlers uDmolested. The strike, be Il remem-
bered, was not to protect the rights of the
strikers by securing higher wages-for to all
their demands in this regard ready acquies-
cence was given-but TO infringe upon the
rights Of Others upon female compositors
by driving them from their cases, and upon
employers by debating whom they should en-
ploy and who should not be privileged 10
work in a printing Office.