The Portland daily press., 1864-05-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


aH- Otis n Cutler of Missouri sends $1,000
to Bates College.
~ The queries of the Androscoggin Min
isterial Circle will have place tomorrow. q
"a" Thomas b. Palmer, goth Me. regiment,
wounded in the late battles, has since died in
hospital at Washington.
~ The rebel papers are terribly savage
over negro raids. They seem to forget QUAINT
rell's.
sveThe Senate has confirmed Hon. Chas.
Hale, of the Boston Advertiser, as Consul
General to Egypt.
nvN New York city has appropriated
fresh half million dollars to provide addition
al aid to the families of volunteers.
" Nearly five millions OF sheep are kept
in Michigan, and the clip the present season
is estimated at twelve million pounds.
90 The Chaplain of Armory Square Hos
pltal, Washington, writes US that he has near
ly fifteen hundred wounded men to look after
in that hospital.
- Garibaldi speaks fourteen different Ian
guages. Being asked to write something for
little boys scrap-book, he instantly compos-
ed some verses in Greek.
sV The Treasurer of the U. S. Sanitary
Commission acknowledges the receipt of ST.
100000 as the result Of the recent Metropoli-
tan Fair in New York
GB- M. Renan, the French author of the
''Life of Jesus" is about to publish the Life
OF st. Paul Renan has an active brain and
his works produce profound sensation in the
religious world.
~ A letter written at Hong Kong says
that the confederates have their spies there at
the prominent ports, who keep Semmes well
posted as to United States merchant ships in
the eastern waters.
% Elder Z. B. Glidden of Gardiner, says
the Journal of that city, aged about AZ years,
was attacked on Friday evening with severe
pain in his knee. Lotions were applied which
transferred the pain to his head, and he died
Sunday morning.
% The Kennebec Journal does no more
than justice in saying that the Press has fur
nished the earliest and fullest list of Maine
wounded soldiers Of any paper in the State
The Rockland Free Press bears the same tes-
timony.
gB-The New York Herald, which has been
supposed to have some enterprise" and to
be emphatically a newspaper" suppressed its
edition containing the forged proclamation,
after 10000 copies had been worked of. Isn't
Bennett an old fogy?
s1- Lieut.. james Graham of Bingham,
late of the 9th Me. regiment, was drowned
while at work on jam Of logs on Dead River
Rapids, on the 9th inst. Lieut.. Graham was a
native of Scotland. His parents reside In
Blandford, Canada West. = Arson Advo-
| cate.
u The statement in some of the papers,
that Spencer, the murderer of Warden Tink-
| er of the State Prison, was under sentence Of
death when he committed his last great deed
of blood, is a mistake. The Spencer who was
sentenced At Bangor for murder good many
| years ago, was another and much older man.
Don't paint the Devil blacker than he is.
sB-Nathaniel Hawthorne, the distinguish
ed author, died suddenly at Plymouth, N. H..
where he had gone in company with ex-Presi-
| dent Pierce, for the benefit of his health. He
retired as well as usual on Wednesday night
and was found dead in his bed on Thursday
morning. Mr. Ii. resided for several years on
farm belonging to the family, on the borders
of Sebago Lake.
OF DIR. Carruthers preached an eloquent
and pathetic sermon last Sunday morning at
his church. The subject was the war and the
killed and wounded soldiers. He told the
mourners to dry up their tears. Although their
sacrifices were great, yet the cause for which
they bled was also great. No man who be-
lieved the Bible and that God was Just could
for moment doubt the final success of our
arms.
u 1t is funny TO find in the same Copper
head papers that are threatening the admins
tration with terrible rout and overthrow,
whenever the people have an opportunity to
pass judgment at the ballot box, the announce
ment that the district SO lately represented
by Owen Lovejoy, has chosen Ingersoll, I'm
ion candidate, to represent them by 5000 ma
jority. Mr.. Loyejoy's plurality in 1862 was
only 663. This shows what the people think
Of Mr. Lincoln's administration.