The Portland daily press., 1864-04-08
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

poetry; Kitty Bragg's Husband.
HMr. Josiah Green died suddenly in
Pennington on the 1st inst.
1 Wages in Sweden are from to IA
cents day for man.
sg-Maj. John Hay is now the Presidents
private secretary.
Ex-senator Sprague has invested $4,000
in garden in Washington.
GE- Wendell Phillips will lecture in Lew
iston on Tuesday evening of next week.
sV-Shp building is quite brisk in Rich
. mond.
Gy-The Skowhegan Clarion says that vii
lage is most wofully given to scandal.
There. have been but nine cases of
small pox in Skowhegan.
sY- Hospital accommodations at Camp
Frye, Augusta. are to be increased.
Y-Military drill is to be introduced into
schools and colleges in Massachusetts.
g4Maj. Gen. Howard is to be commander
of the Fourth Army Corps.
s1-It is rumored that Gen. Fremont has
been offered the Department of the Pacific.
lg-During last month 100000 was paid
in prize money.
aB-Thomas Ewing is dangerously III in
Washington.
eEGen. Mcdowell is to command the De-
partment of California and Oregon.
nTA general conference of the believers
in the personal and speedy coming of Christ,
commenced in Boston on Tuesday 9Th inst.
aB- The New York Times strenuously
opposes any postponement of the National
Union Convention.
sfThe army of the Potomac is stuck
fast in the mud, where it must remain for a
week or two.
aBrThe story that the suffers had been or
dered hom the army of the Potomac is con-
tradieted.
eB-A correspondent of lions Advocate
says there is an encouraging religious interest
in Saco and Biddeford.
eI-Rev. Mr.. Fellows, of Kennebunk, has
been granted furlough of three months to
recruit his health.
The Machias Union says that Geo. f.
Talbot, Esq, District Attorney, intends to
remove to this city. Hope it is so.
sg-Gen. Neal Dow will lecture this even
ing in the fremont Temple, Boston, on
"Prison Life in Richmond"
% Mechanics in Washington are making
arrangements to demand So per day after the
first of May.
-Clay's birthday is to be celebrated by
some of his old Wing friends, in Washington,
on the 18th inst.
The Progressive Age, tBelfast) is OPP
posed to the postponement of the Union Ma
tional Convention.
II The net proceeds of the lectures in
Augusta, $3.50, are to be appropriated to the
founding OF public library.
sB- The body of a newborn infant was
found in the dock at Belfast, on Sunday
wrapped in mans jacket.
sB- The Wing, says Thos. A. White, Esq
of Bangor, has had one of his feet amputated
and is seriously i'll.
sH- Lewiston Engine Co. No. /, will give
a grand Fireman's and Civic Ball on wednes-
day evening, April 10th.
SE- The net proceeds of the Young Folks
Levee, in Gardiner, in aid of the Sanitary
Commission, was $3.50.
sg-The York Baptist Association will be
held at Wells, on the Goth, instead of the
18th inst. as previously announced.
sS- Rev. Mr.. Jersey, late pastor of the
Second Universalist Church in this city, has
become pastor of church in Provincetown.
sH-An attempt was made, last week, by
the prisoners in Pennington Jail to make their
escape.
rErThe Gardiner Journal says business
prospects generally never looked better in
that city than now-in fact business seems
only limited by lack of laborers.
sg-We learn that Rev. d. G. Lite hAeld,
formerly of this State, has received and ac-
cepted call to the passionate of the Baptist
church in Andover
sB~T The State now pays bounties to all
who enter the naval service as follows For
one year, 500; for two years, 5000, and for
three years, $500.
sB- The Universalists of the central and
western part of the State, will hold Mass
Meeting in Dixfield on Wednesday and
Thursday the 9th and 2sth ikst.
sB- Mrs. Partington says that consider
ing all their trials and temptations, the man
ayers of the Sanitary Fair deserve great cred
l. for preserving an unrafiied temper.
sy- The frank privilege of the President
and Vice President again extends to and
covers all mail matter sent from or directed
to either of them.
sB-An exchange says: another tenn
perance revival is sweeping over the New
England States" We hope it will use a new
broom.
IL Seven cases of murder are set down
Tor trial at New York the week ending 9th
inst, and several cases of manslaughter, in ad-
dition.
sB-Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago. has
declined recent call of the 2Sth Congrega-
tionel Society, Boston Theodore Parker's) to
become their pastor.
~ The City Council of Newburyport has
refused to grant the petition of the spiritual
lists for the use of the City Hall on the Lords
day, to hold public worship in.