The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-05-14
ORIGINAL And SELECTED.


aY- 1t is Capt. Henry of the Maine Sd
who has been killed, and not Hussey as re-
ported, Or Harvey as was suggested.
gD- During the last week we lost twelve
generals-five killed, five wounded and two
missing.
gBr Mr.. John r. Redman, of Belfast, was
severely injured on Monday, 9th inst, by fall
ing from staging in Carriers ship yard.
sB- The Bangor Wing, inadvertently no
doubt, gave the Argus credit for an article
that appeared originally in the Press, on the
Hours of Study.
20 The Gardiner Journal says Mrs. VIM.
Connor, OF Pittston, fell on Sunday, while
carrying pail Of water, and broke her left
arm just above the wrist.
ag- The U. S. Senate adjourned from
Wednesday to Monday. the excitement be-
ing so great that no business could be trans
acted
GBr The Ellsworth American says that il
they do not have Spring freshet, there will
be but very little lumber manufactured there
this season.
sgr Among the many gallant officers
wounded, is Col. Conner, of the 10Th Maine,
OF Fairfield. Col. G. was for a long time 1t
Col. of the Maine It'll.
sSWe understand that the discourse of
Rev. DIR. Carruthers, at the I'd Parish Church
tomorrow morning, will be devoted specially
to the comfort of the relatives and friends of
the killed and wounded soldiers.
sB A captain of schooner from Wells,
who went to Lynn, Mass, with load of lum-
Der, came near getting up a riot by uttering
secession doctrines in one of the public streets
of that city, on Sunday of last week.
% Col. West of the 18th regiment writes
that Major Maddox was taken prisoner while
advancing with the pickets. Col. W. was
himself wounded-a flesh wound in the
thigh.
sB- Gen. Stevenson, who fell in the battle
on Tuesday, was son of I. G.. Stevenson,
Esq, Boston. At the time of his death he
was in command of division in Burnside's
corps. He was brave officer and a man who
was universally respected.
sTr Col. Mark +. Wentworth. in conse-
quence Of accepting the Colonelcy of the 32d
Maine Volunteers, has resigned his position
as Naval Store keeper at the Kittery Navy
Yard, and John II. Wentworth has received
the appointment.
sB- Among the officers who have distin-
guished themselves in the recent great battles
in Virginia, is Gen. Lysander Cutler, former
ly of Dexter in this State. Gen. Cutler COM
mands Division in 1--WE think the 9th Army
Corps.
sB- The Gardiner journal says the owners
OF the steamer Eastern Queen have purchas-
ed the captured blockade-runner, Scotia, and
taken her to the yard of p. G. Bradstreet.
Esq, of Farmingdale, for repairs. She is an
iron boat, built on the Clyde. The journal
suggests that the Scotia is to be put upon the
route between the Kennebec and this city.
sEe Does the gentleman who claims to
have warmed the Press into life" mean to
compare this paper to gosDg, and to make
himself the goose that set upon the egg from
which it was hatchede II SO we protest
against the metaphor, as possible indignty
to a valuable though much slandered barn
yard fowl.
sv- II you wouldn't have horse sneeze
In your face, don't stick straws in his nostrils.
But if you tciu tease the noble animal, and
provoke him to blow his nose on you, don't
be such BOBBY as to go whining about the
neighborhood, complaining that you have
reaped the fruits of your own sowing. We
commend this suggestion to our amiable con-
temporary of the Evening Courier.
sF-At a fashionable party in New York a
ew days since, pledge" was handed around
among the ladies TO sign, that they would not
buy, for the present, any more silks, satlns,
velvets, laces or other foreign Injuries. OF
course everybody signed it, and when the as
semblage was dispensing, the hostess an
nounced that at her next entertainment her
guests would all be expected to come, the
ladies in calico, and the gentlemen in salinet
and corduroy.
u According to our information, which
we have reason TO believe is entirely reliable,
there was not much difference in the available
strength of the contending armies in Virginia.
Grant had in front, including Burnside's corps
probably $1,000 more men than Lee. But
Lee was on the inner line of the circle, in his
intrenchments, more compaetly posted, and
had direct communication by railroad with
his base at Richmond and thus his force was,
in his position, practically equal TO Grants.