The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-14
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

| gB On HIsI page,-Letter from Inc nos-
pital.
Co On fourth page, Copperhead Song
for 1870; Miscellany.
R-George Thompson has been invited to
lecture in Washington.
| The Pittsburg coal diggers who have been
on strike, have gone back at the old prices.
lished between Liverpool and Philadelphia,
direct.
ry- Furniture at Auction on Wednesday
next, at House No. 377, Congress Street. See
| Advertisement.
cv Rev. DIR. Smythe has been engaged as
State Temperance Lecturer for one month,
commencing the 9Th Of April.
nTJudge Prince, of Turner, who has been
Ill at Lincoln, for several weeks past, has so
far recovered his health as to be able to re-
turn to his home.
n1- The Argus finding it hard work to
write up Gen. Mcclellan, has undertaken the
equally hard task Of writing down honest
"Old Abe" The, thing can't be done.
nE- Why is Mr.. Lincoln sure to go ahead
of all competitors in the Presidential race
Because his loyal opponents have given up
the Chase, and his disloyal enemies never had
shadow of chance.
sH- Edwin NJ. Patten, Commission Mer-
chant and Auctioneer, has removed TO No. u
Exchange st. Amy business in the Auction
and Commission department entrusted to Mr..
P. will be promptly and faithfully attended to.
I-There was great shout in the Albany
Bazaar ON Wednesday evening, when it was
announced that Gerrit Smith had drawn the
Presidents autograph copy of the Proclama-
ton of Freedom.
GV- A delegation consisting Of Mr.. G. L.
Jewett, Noah Woods, Joseph Carr and Chas.
E. Dole, left Bangor ON Friday morning for
Fredericton, N. B.. to attend to the matter
before the assembly now in SESSION. Of the
European and North American Railroad
cYThere is a steady advance on the In
ternational Bank stock since ii has gone into
the new national bank system. Sales Of fif-
teen shares were made Friday at 104 IA. The
new bills OF the First National Bank, will pro-
badly be issued the coming week.-lPrice
Current.
GA writer in the Christian Mirror depre-
Gates the too common omission of the Lords
Prayer in the devotions of the Sanctuary, and
urges its restoration to its proper and right
full place. Whether any other form Of prayer
should be used he does not say. The Swe-
denborgian Church uses the other form.
1yrThat portion of the 10th Maine Regi-
ment which has been with the Army of the
Cumberland, has been ordered to proceed TO
New Orleans for the purpose of joining the
Goth Maine. Capt. Beardsley. with Co. D.,
starts Immediately for home, on short fur
Tough.
gE-The editor OF the Advertiser must have
a remarkable stomach. Though he has lived
for years and grown fat on the merest gar
bage of political slaughter house, the dges-
ton Of his breakfast was destroyed by the
mere mention of putrid bone. But for his
undertaking tetotalism we should recommend
gentle stimulants.
ag-We learn that a letter was received in
this city on Saturday, direct from Libby pris-
on, stating that Gen. Dow would probably 60
be exchanged. His numerous friends in this
city and State will rejoice to learn that there
is so good prospect Of his immediate release
from durance the most barbarous.
lvThere are now living but twelve SOL
diers of the Revolution, TO whom Congress
passed vote of thanks on the 4th inst, also
adding 800 per annum to each Of their pen
sions. Two of the number are on the Port
land roll, viz, Amaziah Gardiner, born in Som
ellsworth, N. H., Feb. 10, 1850, and William
Hutchings, born in York, in 1894.
aR- The city Government of Salem has
made appropriations for the purchase of an
other steam fire engine. Lynn is to have
two; Gloucester two and Newburyport one.
The recent destructive fires in Gloucester and
other places have aroused the city authorities
of different cities to the Importance of "pre-
pairing for war in time of peace"
nB- Lieut.. General Grant is the third on
ly, who has been appointed to that position
George Washington, who was thus appointed
in 1898, Winfield Scott NOW on the retired
ist), confirmed under special act of Congress
lin November, 1861, and Ulysses S. Grant, ap-
pointed under an act OF Congress approved
by the President on the Goth ult. The pres
ent appointee will be but forty-two years old
| on the 9th of next month.
eg Several Of the men who arrived in
this city in the Nova Scotian on Wednesday,
made complaints before public meeting in
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