The Portland daily press., 1864-07-02

Washington few days since
y Anxiety is felt regarding the steamer
Golden Age, which is overdue at San Fran
cisco.
- In Baltimore, on Sunday last, Catherine
Osborn was killed with an axe by her Infatuated
husband, while in guilty intercourse with par
amour.
ES-We regret to learn that W. " Mores, Esq,
of Bath, slipped and fell on the Custom House
steps in that city on Thursday breaking one of his
arms.
g-The point of the Bath Times in its hit at
the Press, must have been exceedingly sharp,
for after half hours effort we have been utter
ly unable to see it.
% The merchants of Boston are determined
to have line of steamships between that city
and Liverpool. The American Steamship Com
pany is to be organized on Wednesday, of next
week.
= fhe New York Round Table has been re-
duced in size but put in smaller type, SO as to
contain the same amount of reading matter 1t
is one of the abest literary journals in the
country, and credit to American Literature.
% Fifty-seyen millions of dollars have been
exported from New York for the year ending
July l, 1864, mainly to pay for articles of lux
ny with which our people could dispense as well
as not.
y female infant was found in the yard of
s. A. Hubbard, of North Berwick, on Friday
evening of last week. The selectmen have
offered $50 reward for the detection of the per-
son leaving it there.
81 At the Congressional Convention at Au-
burn, on Thursday, Charles J. Talbot, ESQ.,, of
Wilton, received the unanimous vote OF Frank
lin county, but the delegation afterwards
pledged their undivided support to Mr. Per-
ham.
y The election Of a colored woman from
railroad car in New York, has been decided by
Commissioner Acton TO be breach of the
peace, there being no law against colored per-
sons using the cars, and none to warrant the
conduct of the officer.
- The House Military Committee have re-
ported in favor of allowing Mrs. Jean Lander,
born Davenport, widow of Gen. Lander, 81, $50
for her husbands services in surveying the rail-
road route from Pugets Sound to the Missis-
sippi.
q The Battery and Barracks at Machissport
the Union says, are finished and ready for occu-
patton. Five guns are mounted, three 80 poun-
ders and two Is Founders. The guns command
the river above Round Island to point not far
above the Battery
he e
is raging in the woods of the neighborhood,
the Saguenay, and threatening, unless rain
falls, to sweep over thousands of miles of terri
tory, and reduce it to a waste, bowling wilder
ness.
- The largest -four mill in the State of New
York was burned on Tuesday at Minetto, Os-
wego county. The loss on buildings is reported
TO be $500 900. beside the destruction Of Is 900
bushels of wheat, 1900 barrels of -four, 1900
tons of feed and 20 900 empty barrels.
RWe are told that nice little swindle is
practised BY some of the charcoal vendors who
visit the city. They will level off the top of
their loads with hard wood coal, while the bulk
of the load is from poplar, and other soft and
spongy woods. One of them says he reckons all
trees that grow isares as hard wood
B-A correspondent of the Boston Journal
says in relation to the crops in Illinois, ''winter
wheat is now safe and much of it harvested.
Spring wheat is filling and the next ten days
will tell the story for the greater portion of the
wheat harvest. Oats, grass, barley and other
crops promise well.
y Travel TO the White Mountains commen-
ces earlier this season than usual There are
some fifty guests at the Crawford House; mostly
from New York and Philadelphia The other
mountain houses are open, and there is pros
pect that they will be filled after the Fourth of
July.
B-The subscription to the 1910 bonds is
still before the public, and over seventy millions
have been already taken. At the present rate
of premium on gold, they pay nearly ten per
cent interest in currency, and at the conclu
sion of the war, they will certainly be worth
par in gold.
The Argus seems astonished that some
OF the shoddy friends of the administration
have brought up in Fort Lafayette 1t has not
been accustomed to such treatment Of ones
party friends. Democratic usage riade defalca-
tons, entertainments and frauds strictly in or
der, and the faithful supporters of the prevail
ing regime were seldom troubled for such trivial
pecadillos.
give intended the other day to speak
candid word in relation TO the Newburyport
Herald; we know it was kind word, but it APP
pears to have given offense to the editor of that
journal. We confess since reading his last ar
ticle, We are disposed TO modify the opinion we
expressed, for he betrays a veneration for the
most Internal institutions because they have
had state authority, for which We were but
poorly prepared.
q The New York Commercial says George
Henderson, of Rockland, Me-, who has Just re-
turned home for the first time in eight years.
has been in the service since he was Ia Years of
age. During that time he has been shot at seven
times; once in the mouth, and has number of
rebel bullets in his body; has lost portion of
one arm; was under Grant at the siege of Vicks-
burg; has been in Richmond prison for several
months, and succeeded in getting out of prison
and making his escape few days since.
q The prevailing impression is that the new
Military Bill offered by Mr. Smithers of Dele
ware, and adopted by the House of Representa-
| tiyes, will become a law 1t repeals the COM
mutation clause, but allows sixty days for vol
unteering, and permits recruiting at the South
TO fill the quota of each district The volun-
teering may be for one, two or three years, with
a bounty of $500, $500, and $500 respectively
A draft Sor one year will take place to fill the
deficiency at the expiration of the sixty days
The citizens of Bath are making the nee
essary arrangements for very pleasant celebra-
ton of the Fourth of July. In addition to the
firing of salutes aud ringing of the bells, a
/ grand procession will parade the streets, ad-
dresses will be delivered ON the common, and a