The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-07-06
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gates in the army of the Potomac
There were 6OOo sick and wounded men at
the General Hospital at City Point, last week
gGen. Fremont and wife are spending the
warm season at Nahant.
B-The Senate was in session on Sunday
morning until o'clock.
y The Paris News says the front of ladies'
bonnets is to be lowered notch.
IA dwelling house in Augusta, occupied by
Eben Jones, was destroyed by fire ON Friday, LIST
inst.
eyHon. VIM P. Fessenden has our thanks
for recent attentions The same to Hon. L. d.
NJ. Sweat.
- Gen. Grant denies the statement that Gen.
Meade advised the falling back across the Rapi-
dan after the battle of the Wilderness.
" A boiy, styling itself the ''world's
Health Association - has been holding q session
in New York.
9A dangerous counterfeit 500 bill on the
Bay State Bank, Lawrence, Mass, was detected
at the Suffolk Bank, Boston, on Saturday.
HCapt c. Holmes, U. S. A., mastering and
disbursing officer in Concord, N. H.. has been
ordered to Augusta.
E-The commencement address at Tufts Col
lege, July 10, is to be delivered by Rev. A. D..
Mayo, of Cincinnati.
gIt is said there is to be another Fremont
mass meeting in New York, to be controlled by
the radical anti-slavcry wing of the party.
RIn the list of deaths at Washington, on
Sunday, were BENZ. F Sposey, Sd Me-; Francis
Butler, sth; John L. Kimball, 3lst.
BThe number of patients under treatment
at the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane,
is 22l, the largest number ever there at any one
time.
Vwho gave the $50 900 to Yale College ?
The statement that Mr. B. NJ. c. Durfee, of Fall
River, Mass, gave that amount to the College,
is pronounced untrue.
Thirteen deaths have occurred in the vi
entity of the Kittery Navy Yard from a disease
taken on board the U. S. Steamer DeSoto, and
there are others sick, some seriously.
y The Manchester Mirror denies that Presi-
dent Lincoln has engaged rooms in that city for
n week succeeding Commencement at Harvard
College. and says Manchester, Vermont, is the
place where the Chief Magistrate viii go.
- Josiah Quincy, whose death occurred on
Friday last at his residence in Quincy, was a
member of the United States House of Repre-
sentatives from 1905 to 1913, and the second
mayor of the city of Boston.
e The Puritan, which was successfully
launched in New York on Saturday, is an ocean
iron clad, 342 #. in length, So f. in breadth, %
La feet deep, will be $500 tons burthen, and is
expected to run eighteen miles an hour
HNearly 900 in English sovereigns, re-
Gently found in the cellar of an old house in
Newcaste, N. H., once the residence of Gov
ernor Allen, who held his commission from the
British Government, were sold at Boston last
week.
BLook out for counterfeit SIS on the Wey-
bosset bank, Providence, r. |. Vignette, a ship
under full sail, figure in each upper corner,
and female in each lower corner. The paper
has light appearance; the cashiers name isen-
grayed.
BA large number of wounded soldiers, that
went through Kendall's Mills, on Saturday eye
ming. for Bangor, the Wing says, were provided
with warm and refreshing supper by Hon.
WIN. Conner, at the former place. Such acts OF
kindness are never forgotten by the soldiers.
HThe Bangor Wing. which has long been
considered one Of the neatest and ablest papers
in the State, came to us on Monday. in an en-
tire new dress. We are happy to see this evil
dence of prosperity, and trust the continued
efforts OF its publishers to secure public favor
/ will be duly appreciated and rewarded.
/ Hrhe statement that Andy johnson had
abandoned his poor old mother. and that she is
/ trayersing the streets Of Philadelphia with a
/ basket on her arm, selling tripe for living, i:
! pronounced by gentleman acquainted with the
early history Of the family. to he base SANDER
/ She died many years since.
q Postmaster General Blair has written
letter to VIM. Lloyd Garrison, in which he says
| that he endeavored at one time to buy an in
terest in the Baltimore Clipper, in order to Sc.
cure an emancipation organ in that city when
there was then none there, and that he dissented
from the repeal of PremoRt's emancipation
proclamation. This puts Mr. Blair in new
1 light in some respects.
E"Burleigh," of the Boston Journal, says
General Scott's great work, in two volumes
embracing his personal recollection of men and
things from the earlier time, has gone into th'
I hands of the printers. There was great rival
ry among the publishers as to who should beai
away this prize Sheldon & Co. have secured
it, and will issue it in the best style Of the Cam
bridge Riverside Press.
q Commencement at Dartmouth Coleg,
occurs on the third week in this month, OF
Wednesday forenoon, the grafton before the As
ISOLATION Of Alumni, by Rev. Prof Bartlett o.
Chicago, and in the afternoon, the GRAFTON be,
fore the Literary Societies, By Rev. DR.. W. b
Sprague, of Albany. Wednesday evening, thu
usual concert; and on Thursday, 2lst, the exer.
1 cises of Commencement.
y The Quebec Gazette extra on Friday last
announced the appointment of the Hon. Georg,
Brown, to be President of the Executive Council
in the room of the Hon. Isaac Buchanan, re
signed. the Hon. Oliver Mowat, to be Postmas
ter General in the room of the Hon. NJ II
roicy, iooiSncus "hu tho hoh' W. hicDouEa
to be Provincial Secretary, in the room of TIKI
! Hon, John Simpson, resigned.
B-Fhe Eastport Sentinel says considerable
excitement was raised in town by the arrest OF
an Indian for trespass. The Indians squay
is a white woman, and she manifested as much
sympathy for her husband as if he had been d
white man. Levy Francis, the individual ar
rested, is son of Gov. Francis. He is very
athletic, and with his wife's assistance gave
the officer considerable trouble in arrestina