The Portland daily press., 1864-05-18
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

lv- Fresh troops are constantly going to
the front to reinforce Gen Grant.
0g- The Democrats hold their State Con-
veniion in this city, June 1st.
rY- Returned from a long cruise: the
sun yesterday. 1t looked quite natural
-g-A dispatch from Kendall's Mills states
that Col Conner, of the Maine 10Th, is IN
Washington doing well.
To- A Reformed MEMS Association, on the
basis of the Washingtonian movement, has
been organized in Boston.
EH~The branch line of railroad from the
ST. Andrews road to st. Stephen, is now
being surveyed by w. II. Buck, Esq.
sB- The Young Mems Library Associa-
ton, at Augusta, is to be known as the g Will
liams Fraternity" in honor of the late Hon.
Reuel Williams.
.H@ In Cincinnati several of the largest
daily newspapers now employ women as COM
positors, ia consequence of strike among the
printers oil that city.
gY- The foundation is being laid for a new
City Hall in Calais. II will be a monument
to the memory Of the determined ladies who
utNC DttU jidiuie ibSti IA OONeiihihS
1t.
sU~ movement is made by Rev. Henry
Ward Beeeher and others, to establish Con-
gregational churches in Philadelphia, Bati-
more and Washington. New Englanders and
their descendants favor the movement.
~E- IL is no mean compliment to our
Dramatic reporter that his somewhat extend
4 e he ,,I1 Of
Freischutz. should have been appropriated by
the reporter for a leading city contemporary
without particle of credit.
sy-,We are in receipt Of the Newcastle
Daily Chronicle of April 9Th, containing an
account of great Temperance demonstra-
ton in that city, and a full report of speech
by our fellow-townsman, S. L. Carleton,
Esq.
"A Concord correspondent of the Man
chester Mirror says, "Ours is the only capital
in all the North which has not the enterprise
to sustain daily paper Ours (Auguslal
may have the enterprise but it has not the
daily.
rB-Charles Edward Brewer, of Freeport,
a soldier in Bakers Cavalry, recently died in
| Washington, and his body was brought home
for interment, aud the funeral services took
place last last Sabbath, Rev. C. Pearl, officiat-
ing His age was % years.
gg- "Perley" says that 1t is reported that
the Fremont radicals have secured the Mary
land Institute in Baltimore, in which the I'M
ion National Convention was to have been
held month hence, and that they have call
ed Fremont Convention 10 meet there on
June 18th.
| 5B-Ten men are to be sent at once from
this State, under the auspices of the Chris
tian Commission to serve in the Hospitals
and on the field, as need may be, in looking
after the wants Of the soldiers generally, and
those of our State particularly.
.g- The Gardiner Journal is savage upon
| the Bangor Wing, and styles 1t "most arrant
thief because of its habit of foraging upon
| the articles and items of contemporary jour-
mails. The Wing is occasionally slightly gull
! ty in this respect, but so long as it steals
largely from our columns We shall not think
| bad of its taste.
ID The Treasurer of the East Tennessee
fund acknowledges the receipt of S5l.16, from
| the First Parish in Falmouth, and individuals
| Of that vicinity, by the hand of Mr.. Thomas
Il. Hayes, of this city. There are but few
| Societies that have contributed more literally
IN proportion their means IMAM rIIIs. sgisi
| OF those who have been brought into needy
circumstances by the war.
aT-- The Living and the Dead-The coup
ling Of Grants name with that of Mcclellan,
as the Argus did Saturday morning ave
never supposed" says that paper, "Gen. Nc
Clellan would consent TO be a candidate
against Gen. Grant, nor did we believe Gen.
Grant would consent to run against Gen. Nc
people have full enough Of the other Generals
running.