The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-06-01

JeweIry at Auc.ion--Henry Bailey Co.
STRAW Goods-John h. Palmer.
Millinery Goods-Dunn Palmer.
NJ G. ii. A.-Montnly Meeting.
Fish and Salt-Dans Co.
Land for Sale-Geo Il. b. Jackson.
FIRST PAcE-Emancipstio in Louisiana, a
Speech.
LAST PAGE-Corrected Market Reports; Hu-
morous Miscellany.
NINE persons were baptized by Rev. Mr. In
man. at Auburn, on Sunday last.
JuDGISG from present appearances, the crop
Of hay this year, with be the largest ever cut in
this State.
CHICAGO has been selected as the place OF
holding the next session of the General Com
ference of the NJ. L. church
AMONG the deaths reported ct Washington
are Walter G. Hartman, sth Maine; Chas. W
Jones. LIST Maine Heavy Artillery John NJ. Will
son, Maine Sharpshooters.
Mr. Charles J. Schumacher, whose card APP
pears in another column, is probably one of the
best Fresco and Banner Painters in New Eng
land
The side-wheel steamer Alabama left the Kit
terry Navy Yard on Monday afternoon for New
York, under command of Acting Volunteer
Lieutenant Smith
SEAMEs's WAGEs.-From and after July list.
the pay of seamen in the Navy is to be $40 and
of ordinary seamen i6 per month Boys of LIST,
I'd and Sd class are to receive $40, 50 and IS
respectively.
SHOE DEALERS are referred to the advertise
! ment Of John Kimball, Boston, manufacturer
Of Ladies' Boots and Shoes His announce
ment is Of interest to every dealer in these
goods.
LADIES about to purchase closks or mantillas
will find, at Messrs. Leach & Robnson's. an
elegant stock from which to select. In quality,
style and price, they are confident they can sat-
isfy the most fastdious. fa
The Pennington Patriot has been suspended
temporarily, say the proprietors, but this is
probably the old excuse for an indispensable ne
cessity. The progress Of copperheadism is evil
IDENTIFY downward.
The ARoosrooK Pioneer says the river-drivers
are obliged to suspend operations for the pres
emit, or until we have more rain, as the streams
are too low to float the lumber into the main
river.
PRICES CuRREsT.-By inadvertence, the Price
Current list on the last page, is put in without
date line. Ii is corrected, however, for Tues
day, p. NJ, as usual, by NJ. n Rich, editor OF
the Portland Price Current
The SAco Democrat says Samuel f. Chase,
Esq, of that town, has been appointed to lu-
eratiye position in the Treasury Department at
Washington, and viii soon leave for his post OF
duty.
of age, name not given for prudential reasons,
has been brought before the U. S. Commissioner,
charged with taking letters from the Postoffice
and appropriating the contents.
The MAINE Sd was personally graduated on
its gallant deeds at Taylor's Bridge, on the
North Anna, by Gen. Hancock The time OF
service of this gallant regiment expires on Sat-
urday next.
suIcIDE-The Solano (Cal.) Press says @. D.
Cove, carpenter, committed suicide at Vallejo.
on Thursday morning, by shooting himself with
ashot gun. Cause, temporary insanity, pro-
duced by too free use of vallejo lightning"
He was native of Maine and aged a. years.
NEW HEADINGS. - We have procured new
founts Of prominent type for headings in the
Geographic columns, but failure to receive the
cases in which to distribute them renders it nee
essary to use the old headings day or two Ion.
ger.
The SHIP "New Hampshire lying at the
Kittery Navy Yard, will probably put to sea
this week. She has abont 900 men aboard. Of
whom two hundred are negroes; two hundred
and fifty paroled rebel prisoners, and four hun
dred and fifty enlisted sailors.
A CORRESPONDENT at Porter says there is a
disease prevailing quite generally among hogs
in that vicinity, producing the entire loss of the
use of the hind legs. Their appetites are not
affected by it, and they gain even faster than
when able to walk.
II. S. HAGAR, Esq, has on the stock. at his
shipyard in Richmond, nearly ready to launch
fine ocean steamer of 1900 tons called the "Rap-
idan." Her engine is now ready at the Hope
Iron Foundry, in Providence This steamer is
owned by parties in Providence and the builder,
who will, as soon as the Rapidan is launched,
put up larger steamer on the same place.
The SAco Democrat says an unusual amount
of business has been transacted at the s. ].
Court at Alfred. which commenced its session
on Thursday of last week. eAbout two hundred
new entries have been made The Grand Jury
arose on Saturday, having found ten indict-
ments. The case of State rs Luther S. Morse,
was mol pressed by the County Attorney.
GEN. GILMORE has expressly denied that he
advised "Gen. Butler to make his position Sc
cure by digging Entertainments before Fort OAR
ling;" SO that SANDER on "old Ben" has nc
foundation in truth. 1t has had wide vent;-
lation in the Copperhead papers. and some OF
the Republican journals have circulated it, but
the latter are taking it back and doing justice to
Butler. The other papers will not do o proba-
bly, before the crack Of doom.