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


Rebels Propose to do.
GVr On fourth page-A Hint for the First
OF April; A Romantic Story of Female Sol
der; A Friendly Recommendation; Items.
grIt is said Gen. Frank Blair will resign
his seat in Congress and take the field.
sBr Rev. DR.. Bellows sailed for California
In the steamer Champion, on Monday
GB- Cove, the murderer of Deputy Sheriff
Smith, near Fort Kent, shows no signs Open
itence-says he did the deed in self defence.
GA deserter by the name of Allen, was
shot dead by the guard, in Boston, on Tues
day, 9TH inst.
Gg-The New England Methodist Confer
ence closed a session of six days, on Tues
day, 9Th inst.
sBGen. Isaac Eastman, of Concord, n. H.,
died at the advanced age Of "a, on Friday,
LIST. inst.
GBTThe acting French Minister at WASH
ington, M. de Geofiroy, is seriously i'll with the
small pox.
The 5. j. Court commenced its session
in Bangor on Tuesday, Judge Appleton pre-
siding.
grThe City Marshal of Bath has been in
structed by the City Council to look after the
liquor shops in that place.
GA chapel is being erected in connec-
ton with the Winter Street Church, in Bath,
says the Times.
aV Washington" Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons U. D., has been established in Ma
chias.
GIT is said that Gen. Grant has determin-
ed to wipe out all red tapeism, and that the
Committee on the Conduct of the War, agree
with his views.
ga meeting Of the personsnamed in the
act of incorporation of the Kennebec & Wis
casset Railroad, will be held at Wiscasset on
the 14th inst.
sv- Twelve inches Of snow have fallen at
Petersburg, Va. The storm will render the
roads in Northern Virginia impossible for
some time to come.
~ The Quicksilver Mining case which
has been on trial in the Supreme Court at
Washington, has been decided in favor of the
company.
nI- The sewing women of Concord have
struck en- masse for higher wages and left
their work. Business in this department is
suspended throughout the city.
CO. The London Times of the oath ult.,
announces the sudden death of Lord Ashbur-
ton, on the 23d, of disease of the heart, to
which he had been subject from youth.
sVThe Argus advertises for an appren-
tice boy "of good habits" How does our
neighbor suppose boy of good habits can
work in his office? That would be very
bad habit.
~ Rev. Mr.. Gierlow, pastor of the Epis-
copal church in Augusta, preached his fare
well address on Sunday, March 9th. The
vacancy occasioned by his resignation has not
yet been filed.
D- Three small buildings belonging to the
Union Powder Works, at New Durham, n. H.,
were blown up on Tuesday afternoon. Four
men were killed. Aside from the loss of life
the damage was not great
aB-The ladies of Augusta gave the re-enlis-
ted veterans of the 9th, 18th and 18th regi-
ments and OF the 14th Battery, an entertain
ment in the rotunda of the State House on
Wednesday, 30th ult., previous to their depar-
ture for the active duties of the campaign.
sTTuesday morning, Mr.. John Christie,
Jr., most worthy young man, of about 81
years Of age, committed suicide at the resi-
dence Of his father, John Christie, Esq.,, at
Portsmouth, N. II. He was in i'll health, and
gave evidence Of alteration of mind.
1-"The Empty Sleeve" by David Bar
ker,which Subscriber" requests us to publish,
has already appeared twice in our columns,
the last time not two months since. If "Sub-
scriber" will send us copy of "A Rainy Day
in Camp" we will give it place.
aH- The Lewiston Journal says that on
Saturday, I'd inst, Mr.. J. G. Jordan of Web
ster, while on the way to visit his sick mother,
was thrown from his horse, thereby dislocat-
ing his right wrist, breaking one bone of his
right forearm in two places, and otherwise in
juring him.
CO." Perley" learns from gentleman Just
from Fortress Monroe, that Robert Ould, the
rebel commissioner, was engaged for four days
with Gen. Butler, going over and revising
the exchange account, and it is believed that
negotiations have been effected for an ex-
change of all prisoners.
grThe only protection the toiling millions
have against the exhorbitant demands for but.
ter, sugar, tea and other articles OF luxury
which are daily advancing under the influence
OF speculation, is to refuse TO purchase them,
until they come down to reasonable price,
There is no law to compel man to buy what
he does not want.
s1- Miss Nelson, while recently look
ing at some revolving machinery in London,
in company with gentleman to whom she
was soon to have been married. had her skirts
caught and she was rapidly drawn into the
machinery, and whirled round and round,
shivering her limbs into fragments, and lac
Grating and mangling her body almost out of
human sembance.
B-The Argus echoes the doctrine that
the south did not make the war, because they
sent commissioners to Washington to secure
peace-peace on the basis of dsunion; and
by implication it condemns the Administra-
ton for rejecting their overtures and thus
precipitating war. The Argus, in this, only