The Portland daily press., 1864-02-27
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

DBT The New Hampshire State election
will take place on Tuesday, March Sth.
..lB- Edward W. Whelpley, Chief Justice OF
New Jersey, died at Morristown on Sunday.
aE- We learn that Messrs James T. Pat
ten d Co. of Bath had thirty tons of iron on
board the Bohemian.
sB- The Copperheads are to hold their
State Convention in this city, the first Wednes-
day in June.
sBD The election of State officers in Lou
isiana, in pursuance of the plan proposed by
the President, took place last Monday.
gg- Hon. Edward Everett is Chairman of
the Committee in Boston for raising money
for East Tennessee
sy- Our city election is close at hand. 1t
takes place on the seventh of March, which is
one week from next Monday.
sBc The Rockland Free Press has a very
able and candid article on capital punishment
and against its practical revival in this State.
sB~ Wednesday, June 7th, has been fixed
upon for the meeting of the Union National
Convention.
gE-Two new cases OF death from inhal-
alton of laughing gas, are reported in New
York.
GB-The Grand Jury of Knox County have
recently found bills against fifteen liquor sell
! lers.
sB- James Shoulder, Esq, father of Adjt.
| Gen. Shoulder, of Mass, died on Wednesday at
Westchester, N. Y aged 81 years.
gg- The California State Senate has passed
resolutions censuring Senator McDougal and
asking him to resign his seat in Congress.
ag-The Bath Times says that Mrs Eliza
beth Foye, stranger in that city, fell in the
street Thursday morning, and broke one of
her arms.
sE- Congress will probably authorize
new loan of two hundred millions of dollars,
| payable in not less than five nor more than
forty years, at 9 per cent. interest.
g-An Augusta correspondent OF the Bos-
ton Herald speaks out plainly in denunciation
of the cold reception given in that city TO our
returned volunteers.
Selma, Alabama, reported captured by
Gen. Sherman, is very near the center Of the
State, and is at very important railroad
| junction.
% The Rockland Free Press appears
dressed in an entire new suit, and makes
very neat appearance. 1t is very able Union
journal.
Shay's Troupe of Chinese Jugglers and
Sorcerers will give two exhibitions, commence
ing on Monday evening next, at Deering Hall.
1t is pronounced by the press, the sensation of
the nineteenth century.
sV- James s. Norris, lad of twelve years.
fell through trap-door at Concord, n. H..
few days since, striking upon his head
and fracturing his skull. He is likely to re-
cover.
sY" A special dispatch to the Journal says
Senator Sumner has probably secured, by an
amendment, carried by one majority, the full
payment of the Massachusetts colored troops
credited under the act of 1861.
sY- The Bath Times says the ship Mary f.
Riggs, which cleared from that port on the
10Th, instant for New Orleans, had on board
1857 bales of hay, amounting to Al tons, and
300 bushels of OATS
sB-A correspondent of the Boston Journal
says Gen. Burnside is about to change his
headquarters to that city. Gen. b. told us
personally that his headquarters would re-
main at New York.
ey-State Conventions in Maryland, Indi-
ana, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey
have been held and chosen delegates to Ma
tional Convention all instruct to vote for
the denomination OF Lincoln. So sets the
popular tide.
sE~ Willard Fillmores copperhead speech
at the opening of the Buffalo Sanitary Fair is
regarded at Washington, says "Perleyn of the
Journal, as move toward democratic NOM
nation for President, for which his friends
have, for some time, been urging him.
sB- The long continued and emphatic APP
| plause called out by the mention of President
Lincoln's name by George Thompson, when
he referred in his lecture to the next Presi-
dency, was an unmistakable indication of the
sentiment OF the audience upon that question
sE- George Thompson referred the other
night to the "musk-scented, tinted" aris-
tocracy of England, and suggested that their
ideas of propriety were shocked by the eleya-
ton of a once poor boy, who had practised
rail-splttingto be the head of our nation.
G- The death of Adelaide Ann Proctor,
the daughter of BARRY Cornwall" and the
author of "Legends and Lyrics is announced
in the English papers. She was an earnest
Roman Catholic, and gave her life to works
of charity.
% Remember the exhibition and lecture
at New City Hall this evening. Mr.. Oscanyan
with his troupe will appear in full Turkish
costume and give full illustration of the
manners, customs and costumes of the East.
M. o. is said to be splendid lecturer and
thoroughly understands his subject.
sBr The managers of the St. Louis SAM
tary Fair have issued an appeal to the people
of Great Britain and Ireland TO aid them in
their attempt to raise 100000, the amount
they are ambitious to secure. The appeal is
signed by the consuls of Switzerland, Hano-
yer, Frankfort, Austria, Prussia and other
German States.
sBr The United States Senate passed on
Saturday last bill for the relief of Command
er George Henry Prebe, who was dismissed
from the naval service under misapprehen-
sion of the facts connected with the escape of