The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-12-13
NEWS ITEMS. &c.

NEWS lVEmos oLc.
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WHAT WAS NEVER EXPECTED 0R MEssRs.
Mason AND SIIDEIL.-That they would DO
caught "half seas over. IN. Y. Leader.
II The Calais Advertiser says tho wolves
arc making sad havoc down that way.
Y A foot soldier travels in common time
| l-2 miles an hour; double quick time, D
miles an hour.
u According to tho report OF the Secre-
tary of the Navy ,one hundred and fity.thrcc
vessels have been captured in attempting to
run the blockade.
~ Out of $500, 1000 recently disburscd at
Port Royal. over $3.50 600 were sent home
at once by the soldiers to their families.
II Gen. Mcclellan has issued orders for
construction Of barracks for the army. Tent
exposure is too great for the troops.
WHEN BYRON CROSSED TnH SEA, he sang :
My native land, good night" When Mason
and Slidell attempted to cross, they woke up
IN the morning and made the salutation,
"My native land, good morning"
II There are Ii ,30S Sons Of Temperance
in this State.
~ There are now over $1,000 Cavalry
in the volunteer service.
II Rev. DIR. TrfI, Of Bangor, is to be tho
Chaplain of tho Cavalry regiment.
y Diptheria is the troublesome disease
among our troops at Hilton Head, S. @.
~ The rumor of the removal Of the Con-
fcderate Capitol to Nashville is now pro-
nounced to be false. AS both the rumOr
and the denial come from the South We are
in doubt which to believe.
u The planters throughout the southern
scaboard arc represented to be destroying
their crops lest they should fall into the hands
Of the Yankees.
n A conspiracy Of Union men in New
Orleans has been discovered which has caused
many arrests and much excitement.
SLrpELL's WELrH.-Slidell, ono Of the
Confederate administers Resident" ut Fort
Warren is very wealthy man. lie is the
proprietor Of g, 900 acres OF land in Mime
sofa. This, of course. is liable to "confsti-
cation" as saith "Artemus Ward"
SuIcrDE.-We learn from the Ports. Chron.
that Deacon Joseph Frisbie,o ne ofthe select
men OF Kittcry, and man widely respected,
committed suicide by hanging, on Monday
night. His age was So. He had recently
lost two of his sons, and most ofhis property,
which events had ,as we understand depressed
and finally deranged his mental faculties.
q The Bath Seminal says that d. G.
Scwall, Esq, of that city, has m extensive
work in making -four. lie makes fifty bar.
rels of flour daily. He is also arranging to
grind salt.
Il The late Jacob Hayes of Charlestown,
Mass, by his will bequeathed $50 900 to the
Bangor Theological Seminary, for the pur-
pose of cstablishnga proicssorship to DO
known as the "IIayes Professorship."
81 A son of James Thornc Of Wayne
Village, was drowned in pond in that town
on Monday last by the breaking of the leo
where he had gone to skate. Two COM
panions. sons Of lIilman Johnston, were
rescued with difficulty.
The SAco PRovIDEyr AssocnrroN.-ln the
Annual Report Of this benevolent associa-
ton the following statistics Of their annual
proceedings are given:
Number OF families aided, Is
Number of visits made, Of
Amount expended in stores, Sl25 35
Amount (by rough estimatc) OF
clothing, Sl3 %
The report says:
The sick. tho unfortunate, the aged. the
afflicted, have received sympathy and help at
our hands, according to the proportion Of
our slender means, and ms we were able by
the best light afforded US to distribute it.
wA dispatch from Charleston, S. c., by
way of Memphis and Cairo, dated tho 3Oth
ult., corroborates the news received through
other channels, and says that the planters
the patriotic planters" they are called in
the dispatch-are hourly burning their cot
ton and rice crops, and that along the coast
is one line of flame and smoke.
81 Gen. Dix expedition in Eastern Vir-
gina, has developed the fact that the rebels
are badly in want Of ammunition. In lieu
of cannon balls, chunks OF bar iron were put
in bags for canister. and sometimes almost
ANYTHING were used. At ono battery mix
ed collection was found, including cobble
stones. IRON candle sticks, broken bits ofma-
cbipcry. and general museum OF articles,
.ewed up in canvass. One Of the guns had
been burst, probably by the use Of such mis-
silcs. rri r.-