The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-06-04


MOSES WILLIAMS, ESQ.,, has been appointed
Postmaster at New Portland in place of Geo. H. |
Clark, resigned.
FROM May LIST to May oath the U. s. Sanitary
Commission expended nearly $500, 900 for the
relief of our wounded.
EZRA P. BURDEN of Dirheld, was brought be-
fore the Boston Police Court, and fined $40 and
costs. for stealing from the City Hotel
In Is estimated that the Christian Commission
have saved 1900 lives since Gen. Grant began
his march.
FOURTEEN newly married couples were among
the passengers who left New York for Liverpool
in the Persia, on Wednesday.
THE WIDOW of the notorou us Matt Ward, who
shot Mr.. Butler, Yankee school teacher, at
Louisville, some years ago, was lately ordered
out Of Arkansas by Gen. Buford.
KING's LApY's Book. - Our little Kingly
friends are ON hand with theirneat little monthly
for Jnne. 1t is as bright and as grateful to the
senses as June blossom.
AN ATTEMPT was made in Providence, a few
days since to raise the Omnibus fares from five
and the fare dropped down to the old figure.
The CONTEST for U. S. Senator in the n II.
Legislature, in place of Mr.. Hale, will be more
spirited than usual. Mr.. II. is candidate for
reelection.
THE OXFORD Democrat says everybody in that
section of the valley of the Androscoggin, is
going into the hop business. Won't there be
hopping times next fall :
The CLEVELAND Convention decided by q
unanimous vote that the party Of Fremont and
Cochrane shall bear the name of the Radical De-
mocracy.
The screw-steamer Albatross, which has seen
some hard service, arrived at Kittery Navy
Yard on Wednesday, where her crew we're main
1 ly discharged. The Albatross is to undergo ex-
tensive repairs before putting to sea again.
/ HALF-MAsT-A yacht in Newburyport harbor
/ on Friday and Saturday OF last week had its
colors flying at half mast. The cause of mourn
/ ing was the awful fact that the captain was dead
/ drunk
A NATIONAL Convention Of Journeymen Hat
tiers is to be held in Boston. on Monday, 9th
inst. at which delegates expected to be in at
tendance from all the principal cities Of the
Union.
THE New Bedford Mercury says the grand
jury of the Superior Court, sitting at Edgar
town, have returned an indictment against Gus
tavus d. Smith of Holmes Hole, for the murder
I of Vim. C. Luce.
The YoRK County delegate who took passage
in stationary sleigh when homeward bound
from the convention, mistaking it for railroad
car, We glad to learn has recovered his calico
and split peas.
AT THE General Conference Session of the NJ
Z. Church, it has been ordered that in future the
Lords Prayer is to be recited after each opening
prayer at church service, the congregation to
join audibly in the same, with the minister.
THE TOTAL blind population OF England at the
last census, was Is, 352; of Scotland, $3.50; and
of Ireland, 6,s79. Thus one in every /, 3O7 per-
sons in England was blind; one in every ,Os6
in Scotland; and one in every CAB in Ireland.
The PIscArAoUIs Observer says il is in con-
temptation to build Woollen Factory, the en-
suing summer or fall at Guilferd Village in that
county. Guilford has great water privileges,
and we have no doubt that a Factory there
would meet with success.
THE NINTH Maine regiment, which was dis
/ graced somewhat by the conduct of one or two
I drunken Officers, has fully regained its reputa-
ton, having sustained and repulsed charge in
recent night attack, suffering severely in the
engagement.
! ONE OF Garibaldi's English friends lately
stated at public meeting at London that when
the Earl of Shaftesbury asked Garibaldi to pub
licly declare that he left England on account Of
his health. the Italian simply said, my lord,
cannot tell lie
VoTE OF THE SrArE.-A friend in Androscog-
gin county requests information in relation to
the aggregate vote of the State at the last Sept.
election. The vote was as follows: Cony, 6s,-
339; Bradbury, 50, 6s7; lseattering, %; total,
1909.
Coal companies, railroad monopolies and
SPECTATORS have succeeded in still far
Their advancing the price of coal. Thir-
teen dollars per ton is now demanded
with no prospect Of its being less. Have the
people any remedy other than to pay a higher
price for wood,
Col. f. b. LOOMS, OF New London, offered 10
garrison Fort Trumbull with citizen soldiers,
for 100 days, at his own expense. TO allow the
present garrison to go to the front President
Lincoln addressed him a note of thanks, giving
the reason why his offer could not consistently
be accepted.
The BfDDEroRD Journal says gentleman in
that city who, little more than twelve years
ago, worked as q maehinist in the Laconia re-
pair shop for one dollar and half per day, now
pays tax on net income of twenty seven
thousand dollars-made in the manufacture of
cotton machinery.
THE BALTIMORE Convention which meets on
Tuesday next, will be composed of delegates, re-
curing 24l votes TO give majority nomination
Mr.. Lincoln's friends claim that 1868 delegates
have been instructed to vote for his nomination,
and that only % (the Missouri delegation) have
been instructed to vote against it.
Grs. GRANT. on being asked to what political
party he belonged, said che belonged to the
party of the Union. Those who are the most
earnest in carrying on tho war and putting
down the rebellion have my support. As SOL
. der, obey the orders Of all my superiors
expect every man under me to do the same
A. A. HAsscoM, Esq, late editor of the Saco
Democrat, has been presented with silver ice
pitcher by the Democratic ladies Of Biddeford.
That Mr.. II. has served the party faithfully and
unscrupulously. following blindly in the wake of
its leaders, nobody can deny. Freed from such
influences he will be found kind hearted and
honorable man.
HoPEFuL.-Gov. Gilmore of n. H., winds up
his message in the following hopeful and pat
riotic language: ''The sky is not yet clear but
the clouds are breaking. the winds betoken fair
weather. The heart Of the patriot is chsersd
by the hope that soon a. free, united and happy
people shall fill every smiling valley, and clus-
ter around every towering hilltop from the At