The Portland daily press., 1862-12-24
ORIGIN AL AND LECTED ID.
nw- The Bangor Whia saws that De;

gT The Bangor Wing says that Dea Ed
mund Perry of Carmel, fell from his chair on
Sunday last, and died instantly. His age was
67 years.
rH-Laborers are very scarce in Illinois and
other parts of the west, and farmers cannot
procure help even by the offer of extravagant
wages. The cause is the large number of
young men who have gone to the war, land who
were mostly from the farming population
gw The Bath Times gives list of twelve
sailing vessels and two steamers now being
built in that city-a larger number than has
often been under way at the same season of
the year even in times of greater business
prosperity.
gy- The Oxford Woolen Mills, under the
direction of their enterprising proprietor, Jo-
seph Robinson, Esq, are still doing an exten-
sive and profitable business. Under the oper-
alton of the Excise law of Congress, Mr. Rob
inson will annually pay the government be-
tween two and three thousand dollars direct
tax Democrat.
rF A special dispatch from Washington
to the New York Evening Post of yesterday.
says that Mr.. Colfax has been rendered the In
terror or Post Office Department, but has per-
emptorily declined to enter the Cabinet Mr..
Chase's resignation was attributed to the OPP
position which his financial policy encounters
in Congress, but the almost universal wish
was that he should remain or be reappointed.
SAD DNEws.-Intelligence has been received
at Gardiner of the death of Mr.. Alvan NJ. c
Heath, of wounds received at Fredericksburg.
Mr. Heath was publisher and editor of the
Gardiner Journal, and misunderstanding wife
and interesting little family-from a sense Of
duty, believing the demands of his country
superior to all others. He died on the 18th
inst His body will be brought home for in
terment.
g- The New York Times says of Mr.
Seward
He did not oppose the issuing of the proc
lamation. He did not resist the removal of
Mcclellan. He did not originate, direct, or in
any way interfere with the Banks expedition.
He had nothing whatever to do, directly or in
directly, with the movement of General Burn
side. He has attended exclusively to the af-
fairs of his own department, and has sustained,
with cheerful and hearty loyalty, whatever
measures the President has deemed essential
to the public good"
CASUALTIES IN THE MAINE NINETEENTH
The following list of wounded and missing, in
the Maine 10th, we cut from the Boston Jour-
nall
Wounded.-Capt. Daniel L. Dickey, Co. E,
in back, slightly: Andrew w. Oliver, Co. X !;
Alex. Conner, Co. X; Cornelius Guile, Co. K
Missing Thomas Carry; Sergt. Samuel
Shell, Co. b; III. Smith, Co. b; Geo. Frye Co.
b; Russell Alien, Co. b; o. w. Beach, Co B !;
Corp. Richard Manning, Co. C.; j. S. Smith,
Co. G.; w. Mulhalon, Co. E; Andrew Boyer,
Co. E; Charles Green. Co. E; A. B. Adam,
Co. G.; A. Creggs, Co. G.; l.. f. Carthey, Co.
G.; j. Forrest, Co. G.; ID. G. Lamber, Co. & !;
7. Robbins, Co. G.
sB- Only Monday last city contemporary,
in its zeal to find fault with the President, seiz-
ing upon the rumors of Cabinet disruption,
goes on to exhibit the effect of Stewards resig-
nation, and sees, as zone of the first fruits -
the resignation of many officers in the army,
Gen. Burnside among the number, and the
substitution Of Gen. Fremont and others OF
the same stamp in their places" 1t is at least
significant that paper which has abused
VIM. II. Seward more than any other paper in
Maine, should at this moment regard him as
the ablest man of his party, and by far the
best qualified for the head of the State Depart
ment."