The Portland daily press., 1864-04-30
ORIGTN4L'AND SELECTED.

aE@Last page-To the Ladies, poetry,
original; A Street Scene; Items.
T-Government is seizing large number
| of steamboats,.
20 Large quantities ofeotton are coming
up the Mississippi River
ay-Some Of the Washington ladies propose
TO stop using silks, satins, and foreign gew-
gaws generally.
sT-The Methodist Meeting House in Sa-
CO is to be thoroughly repaired.
sBrThe Society in New York OF which
Rev. E. III. Chaplin, d. D., is pastor, has added
$1,000 to his salary.
sg-Robert Morris, sutler to the 18th Maine
regiment, was wounded on his way up Red
River, 2lst inst, by guerrillas
sy-On bill received at the Bath City
Bank, was written these words: $50 it, Bill !;
I'll back you"
sB-Arkansas has voted herself into the
Union by throwing 1910 for the new free
state Constitution, and II ,430 for Governor.
GB-Gen. Burnside, with 10000 men is
bound somewhere TO do something, g,-when
and where will soon be known.
CA mail route between Belfast and
Burnham, to connect with the Central Rail-
road, is In contemplation.
11Wby is Portland in danger of losing
her beautiful and much admired shade trees
Because they are all eavingl
| rE.Wa hear +. rannrt that n nar, ,yaaLI,-
! Union paper is to be started soon at Damaris-
Gotta, Lincoln county. 1t is now the only
county in the State destitute of newspaper.
John NJ. Harvey, at Kittery Navy Yard,
while employed in a stable cutting hay, on
Tuesday last, caught his fingers in the ma
chine, lacerating them in shocking manner.
sE-Orders have been transmitted to the
commanding officers of the different Navy
Yards to expedite work on the various YES
| sells.
eV-The Biddeford Union and journal has
completed its first year under its present edi-
torial management. 1t is well conducted
and ably edited paper, loyal TO the core aud
firm for the right.
sB-The gunboat Agawam, which sailed
from this port Thursday, returned yesterday.
having disaranged some of her machinery. II
will be repaired and she will proceed imme-
dately to Norfolk.
sB-The sword contest at the Sanitary
Fair in New York, added to the funds in aid
OF the sick and wounded soldiers, S45 ,0O0-
The money is appropriated to good object,
and the sword is put into good hands.
ly-The 55th Illinois regiment, just about
the time 1t re-enlisted took vote on the
Presidential question with the following re-
sult:-Lincoln 276, Mcclellan IA, Chase /.
Governor Yates /.
syAn sppreciatiye professional friend
in otisneld, writes: "I find it hard to get
along without your Daily, after all, and am
rather sorry ordered it stopped, hard as it is
for me TO meet increased expenditures in
these times. send you herewith a remit
tance, aud shall try II again. Please forward
the Daily. Your paper hardly ever failed to
come in due time all the time took it, which
cannot say OF other papers take"
SyThe following named gentleman have
been announced by the Speaker OF the House
OF Representatives as the special committee
on the resolutions of the Legislature of Maine
asking for the protection of the northeastern
border of that State, namely Rice, of Maine,
Alley, of Massachusetts, Cox, of Ohio, Hale,
OF Pennsylvania, Patterson, of New Hamp-
shire, Radford, of New York and briggs, of
Michigan.
~ The Bangor Wing says tina. ON We'd
nesday, 9th inst, the body of an unknown
man was found floating in the river, near the
steamboat wharf. He was apparently abou,
forty years Of age, had on black coat and pants.
plush vest with fancy buttons and black era
vat. The body had been in the water several
months. Coroner Wilson held an inquest,
but no facts were elected. Undertaken Mitch
ell took charge OF the body.
sS-The Portland apologist for the Fort
Pillow massacre, having offended subscriber
by his reasonable course, says :-"Of course
this silly person stopped his paper, and we
were glad to get such a name of our list.n
These SILLY persons" have been numerous
within the last eighteen months, and not less
than fifteen hundred or two thousand of them.
within that time, have afforded the publisher
the qualification of striking their names from
his list. But that kind of qualification can
not extend much further.
sB-The Advertiser says:-"We had one
subscriber who had not perception enough TO
see the difference between quoting from the
speech of Gov. Vance, in order to show what
rebel views were, and absolutely advocating
those views" There are great many very in
telligent people who are afflicted with Just the
same lack of perception, who find it difficult
TO tell the difference between the Advertiser
and down right rebel sheet; who see no diff
ference between such a use as the Advertiser
makes of rebel views and the absolute adyo-
cacy of such views.
sE-Says the Argus, "we are quite unable
to perceive the motifs of the Press in fabri-
eating the lie that we were an abolitionist in
our more youthful days" We assure the Ar
gus that we were informed by a long resi-
dent of this city, one Of the most intelligent,
candid and truthful anti-slavery men among
us, that in early life the present editor of that
paper was u member Of an anti-slavery socie-
ty in the city, and was as active in the cause
as other young men of that day. Our infor-
mant may have been simply mistaken, but we
know he intended no falsehood or deception.
sT-"The Press but states the truth of his