The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-06-23
New Publications.

The GOLD HUNTERS ADVENTURES, or Life in
Australia. BY a returned Australian. Bos-
ton; Lee Shepard. limo, pp 56a. For
sale in this city by Bailey & Noyes.
The adventures of an Australian gold hunter,
il the narrative were confined strictly within
the limits Of fact, cannot fail to be of thrilling
interest, but when the Imagination is allowed to
supply the deficiency in hair-breadth escapes and
desperate deeds Of daring, interpreted with con-
fessons Of robbery, capture of ghosts, the adj
ventores in search of q lover, marriage and
elopement, it is made sufficiently exciting to re-
tain the interest of the most ardent lover of the
startling and shocking. Such we take it is the
Gold Hunters Adventures combination Of
fact and fiction, pleasing and exciting, which
will find numerous readers and admirers.
CHRISTIAN MEMORIALS or THE WAR, or Scenes
and Incidents Illustrative of Religious Faith
and Principle, Patriotism and Bravery in our
Army, with Historical Notes. BY Horatio b.
Hackett. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. l2mo,
PIP. 252. For sale in this city by Bailey &
Noyes.
This is q careful selection from the various
letters and statements which have been pub
lished in relation to the most important events
Of the hospitals and the battlefield. 1t conts nds
that fighting for the government is Christian
duty, and gives an account OF many eminent
Christians, who have entered the army and Civ
en- their lives for their country. The writer
says Col. Lorin Andrews, late President Of
Kenyon College in Ohio, was the first man to
sr-srrs srryfevs-ss-rhv governor. He was
efficient and brave officer and a devoted and ex-
emplary Christian. A brief history of the lives
and deaths Of large number of such men is
found in this work. 1t win be read with the
deepest interest.
History OF THE REBELLION Irs AUTHORS AND
CAUSES. By Joshua r. Giddings. New York:
Follett, Foster & Co. limo, pp 4oS. For
sale by Booksellers generally.
There is no man now living who understand,
better the causes that have been at work for the
last thirty years in the country that have result
ted in this rebellion than the late Joshua r. Gid
dings. He was intimate with Calhoun, John
Quincy Adams. Webster, Clay and all the prom
inent statesmen Of the last fifty years and was
30 situated as to see clearly whta must sooner or
later be the inevitable result of the irrepressible
conflict between freedom and slavery Mr. G.
in this work gives full and connected history
Oh the heDeinOn, It's causes ana authors, from
his own personal observation, he having for
more than twenty years mingled in scenes Of I'M
usual interest During the time he was a mem
her Of Congress the gag-rules were adopted and
repeated John Quincy Adams WAS put on trial.
Texas was annexed; an attempt was made to
establish the slave power in California, and ex-
tend it into Kansas, and many other questions
Of vital interest to the country were introduced
in the discussion Of which he took part and on
which he unmistakably defined his position
The author gives . very full account Of the
Frec-sol and Republican parties and all the
circumstances connected with the breaking out
Of the rebellion and its early movements; the
Inauguration Of Mr.. Lincoln; the manner in
which the Presidents Proclamation was received,
&c. As an historical account of the causes Of
the war, this work is one Of the most full and
reliable Of any that has been published With
almost certain indication, amounting to the
strongest conviction that his days on earth were
nearly at close. he said, 1.-THE history of that
war, with its incidents and results, must be con-
signed to the pen Of some younger. some ADLER
historian" and almost Immediately breathed
his last.