The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-07-04

with the South are sundered.
B-Co. A, State Guards. Capt Morse, has
been ordered to garrison Fort McClary, Kittery
They must be on duty by the 10th of July.
q The price of substitutes in Washington on
Wednesday was $3.50. There were large pur-
chases in expectation of rise.
y Charges against Provost Marshall Bean,
of the 9Th District are being investigated. His
headquarters are at Belfast.
BThe less a man does the more fuss he is
apt to make. A hen with one chicken does more
scratching than if she had family of fifteen
20 Receipts of all places of amusement in
cent.
% The "Crutch" Is the significant title of a
small paper published at the u S. General Hos
pital, Annapolis, Nd.
FThe St. Louis Democrat gives a list of
twenty-one radical papers in Missouri that sup
port Lincoln and Johnson.
gThe house of Mr.. William II. Foss, in
Whitneyyille, was partially destroyed by fire,
on Wednesday morning.
q Flavel said that if men should rise from
the dead and read their epitaphs, some of them
would think that they had got in the wrong
grave.
ETA schoolmaster out West posted in his
schoolroom the following: "NorIss-No swarm,
cussin. or running abowt luse or hollern in this
soul.
Andrew d. Euson of Hartford, who was
injured by the railroad accident at Berlin few
days ago, died on the 2sth. He was city auditor
and also deputy sheriff of Hartford county.
taken up at the Union Convention at Auburn,
On the 18th ult., for the benefit of the sick and
wounded soldiers at Augusta.
9Maj C. V. Crossman, of the LIST Heavy
Artillery, arrived at his home in Bangor on
Thursday. He has q painful bullet wound in
his right arm.
81 The whole number of shoemakers in the
United States is l64,6 OF this, there are in
Massachusetts, Al oil, or about one fourth part
of the whole.
g"Delta," of the Boston Advertiser, says
Col. Smith of the LIST Maine Cavalry, was woun-
ded in the thigh, on the march from the White
House. The wound is not considered a dan
gerous one.
q The Bath Times gives the people of Bow
donham the credit of raising for the soldiers
recently S455, and the people of Woolwich for
S236 in aid of the Christian Commission, for
warded through the. Bath Army Committee.
. DR.. Lyman. Hospital Inspector from
Washington, is now in Bangor for the purpose
Of looking at the conveniences for military
hospital that will accommodate from two to five
hundred patients.
y Capt. Lysander J. Hume, of the 10Th
Massachusetts, regiment, which was captured
near Petersburg, on the 22d ult., was a resident
Of Calais, this State. and was among the cap
tured.
y The Aroostook Pioneer says that after a
long and severe drouth, they were blessed on
Saturday night and Sunday with gentle rain,
which did much good, besides extinguishing the
fires.
. Ii is said the quotas on all the calls on
this State have been filled, without regard TO
those who have enlisted in the navy. If so we
have a large balance in our favor to put against
the next call.
y The Paris Democrat, by an erroneous
credit. makes 400 wounded soldiers pass through
Bangor for Augusta, from General Grants Ar
my. The error is by no means an unusual one
even in the best regulated Offices.
R-In the list of patents issued for the week
ending June 2sth, is one for Simeon Goodwin OF
Bddeford, Me-, assignor to Charles A. Shaw OF
the same place, for improvement in mechanism
for filing or building bobbins in spinning.
% The st. Paul papers say throngs OF emf
grants are aocking into Minnesota. They are
mostly foreigners, and nearly all seem to have
money, many bringing from $1,000 to $4,000 in
gold TO buy farms with.
Vwe learn from the Brunswick Telegraph
that the Germania Band will furnish music for
the Commencement week at Bowdoin. At the
concert ON Tuesday evening preceding Com
mencement Day, Miss Adelaide Phillips, dis
tinguished vocalist, will take part
BThe following gentlemen were appointed
District committee at the Convention of the
Second Congressional District, held at Auburn
on the 10Th inst: L. +. Prescott, Pennington
Sylvester Cakes, Auburn; R. P. Carr, Bowdon-
ham; r. S. Stevens, Paris.
y Contributions are being made in our large
cities to send onions to the soldiers of the Poto-
mac, on account of the danger of the scurvy
among them. Could not few barrels be pur-
chased in this city and sent along, the soldiers
need them more than we do.
V-The Junior Glass at the Bangor Theology
cal Seminary, the Wing says. with one excep-
ton, have volunteered in the service of the
Christian Commission, and have gone to the
front, where they will Immediately commence
upon their new and important duties.
give are sorry the Biddeford Union has
deemed it necessary to copy an article con-
ceiyed in a spirit of malignity against the Press,
without also copying from the Press the brief
article to which it refers. We have not So
learned the lessons of editorial courtesy.
VThe Oxford Democrat says the Franklin
Patriot has been revived, in the old clothes OF
the defunct Bath Courier. The Courier died OF
scurvy, gangrene, and galloping consumption,
and if these should prove to be contagious dis
eases the Patriot may be in danger.
" The Bath Times learns from q private
letter from the army of the Potomac that about
100 men of the Maine 10Th are missing, proba-
bly, taken prisoners at the time the 18th and 10Th
Massachusetts, regiment were captured, being in
the same Division. Sergeant Grow, of Co. X,
10Th Maine, acting sergeant major, was woun-
ded in the charge.
u We learn from the Belfast Republican
that on the 3D. ult. William Young, living in the
western part of that city, near the Belmont line,
fell from the roof OF barn ON which he was at
work, and was almost instantly killed, his ribs