The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-02-29
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

eB~Geo. Thompson speaks in New York
tonight, aud Gen. Fremont is to preside.
sy-Gen. Sigel has been assigned to the
command of Western Virginia.
sB-The Union National Convention will
be held in Baltimore, June It'll.
sB~The Green Bay Advocate democratic,
styles Gen. Mcclellan "a dead weight"
1B-The Shoe Peg Factory of Samuel Rob
inson at North Monmouth was burned on
Thursday
SB- The Iowa Senate has passed bill to
prohibit the circulation of foreign bank notes
in that State.
eg-~The Ellsworth American demands
more commodious Town Hall for the accom-
mediation of that town.
70 -Four ice houses at Fresh Pond were
burned on Wednesday night, and two men
persisted in the flames
sB- A wit has just discovered the true
cause of the bravery in negro troops they are
the color bearers of the human race
N. H., has been appointed Secretary of the
Interior by the King of the Sandwich Islands.
gB- The present line officers of the 14th
Maine have, with one exception, been promot-
ed from the ranks since the regiment entered
the service
REV. NJ. G.. Steere has entered upon his
labors as pastor Of the Universalist Church in
Lewiston.
aB-"The Submerged Shield viii hnd-p place
in few days; also an "Incdent OF Southern
Life"
sD@ The Rhode Island Legislature have
adopted a series of resolutions ia favor of
the reelection of Abraham Lincoln to the
Presidency.
ga. ii. Stephens has so far recovered his
health that he is able to walk about and re-
sumo his correspondence TO some extent. He
Is at his residence in Charlottesville.
sB-A call has been issued for State Con-
vention at Louisville, Ky, on the 9th of May,
to elect delegates from that State to the Ma
tional Union Convention at Baltimore.
u The copperheads have got saint for
whom they are raising funds in the West. 1t
is C. l.. yallandigham. He ought to be
cdnnoa-ized.
fH=Flour is quoted at Richmond from 500
to S225 per barrel; cotton, SO per pound; but
ter $3.50 per pound; Virginia moassss, S25
per gallon; brown sugar, 81 per pound; whis-
key, $50 per gallon; coffee, SIS per pound.
sB-The New York Herald says Gen.
Mcclellan refuses to be presidential candi-
date, because he does not wish to be useless
ex-president while young. He may lay aside
all fears OF such fate.
aB~Rev. B. D. Randall, of Auburn or Lew
iston, has organized Temperance Society in
his SABBATH School, which now numbers $50
members. Mr.. Randall is one of the most
affective temperance men in the State
sg@The Rutland (Vt.l Courier defines De-
mocracy TO be "to love God and man to put
white men on an equality and the negroes in
the rear" Copperheaded democracy there
fore. manilests its love for God by putting fet-
tiers on portion of his own offspring.
sB-An important order relating to the sale
Of cotton has been issued by Gen. Grant
Nashville is made depot, and everybody hav-
ing cotton or other produce for sale can carry
it to market and sell it, in accordance with
the United States Treasury regulations.
- The Boston Journal sayst the popular
feeling in favor of the reelection of President
| Lincoln is irresistible and finds almost spon-
taneous expression in political conventions
and State Legislatures. Politicians and Presi-
dental aspirants are endeayoriGg without sue
cess to resist it. Senator Pomeroy and his
Executive Committee. tried to trig the
wheels with formidable missive, but in vain
and Horace Greeley, in the Independent
throws down pebble, but the friends OF all
other candidates had better cease theis attacks
on the President and wait the progress Of
events over which they have no control.