The Portland daily press., 1862-12-04
ORIGINAL AND SELECTE ID.

rVA private note from Augusta says 1t IS
capital sleghing there.
Y- 1t is expected that the new Universe
list Church in Bangor will be dedicated OH
Tuesday of next week.
gg-Rev. Mr.. Burgess of Haverhill, Mass,
has been settled over the Freewill Baptist
Church and Society in Bangor.
g-The Bangor Wing says that couple
were married in that city day or two since,
where the bride was II and the groom was 49,
s- The Gardiner Journal says: "Several
cases of diptheria have proved fatal in this ci-
ty of late"
Nr correspondent at Dexter writes the
Farmer that Mr. Horace Jose OF that town has
four years old heier weighing 1900 lbs and
girths seven feet and five inches
ny- Correspondents must be as patient as
possible. We have less than half-cord of ac-
cepted communications on file, and will work
them up with all possible dispatch.
nEy- A Subscriber" who says he is a friend
to the Maine 10th regiment, inquiries why DR..
Perry, of that regiment, resigned. We are
unable to mpart the information asked for.
! sY- The correspondent of the New York
Post writes that Mr.. Eli Thayer is again push
ing his scheme for colonizing Florida with
white population.
sg- The Memphis correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing Nov. "a, says the
people are keenly alive to the necessity of
electing member of Congress, in order to
avert the evil of the Presidents Proclamation.
rg-Some unknown friend has sent US the
"Register of Commissioned officers of the New
Jersey Volunteers, in the service of the Unit
ed States issued from the Adjutant Generals
office of that State. 1t is valuable pamphlet
of AZ pages-a bright "roll of honor"
~ Mr.. S. b. Brewster, landlord Of the
Skowhegan House, slaughtered hog Thanks
giving day, three years old, that weighed when
dressed 1913 pounds! The Clarion mentions the
fact, we suppose, to show how well the board
ers at that house are kept.
sg Early in the morning of Saturday Dec.
G, the moon throughout the United States will
be totally" eclipsed. The moon will not,
| however, wholly disappear, but will continde
family visible, rayless, and in color and ap-
peaiancc resembling a tarnished copper disc.
sy- Elections came off on Monday last in
Lawrence, New Bedford, Fall River, Chelsea,
Cambridge and other cities in Massachusetts,,
in all OF which the Republican ticket prevailed.
Springfield has been under democratic rule for
two years. 1t has now gone republican by 600
majority.
-v-We are glad TO hear that rags declined
more than a cent pound in Boston on Tues
day last Their tendency is downward, and
parties who have been boarding them for big
strike, had better strike soon for a sale, or the
speculation will cool of, and they will find
themselves decidedly more ragged than is
desirable.
gSaturday morning we shall publish,
upon the first page, the admirable Thanksgiv-
ing sermon delivered in Free st. Church by
Rev. DR.. Bosworth, and repeated by request
on Sabbath afternoon last We shall strike of
few extra numbers for the accommodation Of
such persons as wish to send copies to Their
friends.
LADY's BooK.-We are indebted to Mr.
Cooley for an advance number of the Lady's
Book for January, 1s63-one of the most mag
nihcent numbers ever yet issued Of this popu
=. .ariodia.l z.-5ut..f g. auviute I,tsuIUri plate
tcoored) engraved frontispiece, title page, &c.
has cost him $4,000 Terms, $500; two cop
les for $500, or three copies for $780,
eg-Mrs. Goddard informed us the other
day that she saw the Surgeon of Maine reg
iment engaged a whole hour in amputating a
finger 1t was her impression that, if 1t re-
quired as much increase in time as the differ
ence In size, to amputate a leg. the patient
would be likely to die under the operation,
unless he should be blessed with an extraor-
dinary old age.
SB- A man to whom we have sent paper
two years without payment, directs it stopped
and his bill forwarded because, as he says in
his note, sit has got the niger on the brain.'
1t is our opinion that if he had a respectable
niger in his hat, the hat would rest upon a
more decent mans head than 1t now does, and
we shall remain of this opinion till he learns
enough of decency not to insult stranger
who has so long confided in his honor.
sr Judging from the Advertiser of Tues
day morning, the reader would have supposed
that the Message received the hearty approval
of that paper, and that the President had bor-
rowed its financial notions from its editor; but
yesterday the editor opened upon the emanci-
patton doctrine of the Message, and finding
nothing in it but ''the abolition of slavery" he
gives it the full benefit Of his opposition
which is no mean compliment.
PORTLAND, Dec T. 1862
Mr.. Editor:-Cannot the proprietors of the
War Tableaux, on exhibition here last week,
be induced to present their entertainment to
the Portland public again? The weather and
cotemporaneous amusements last week for
bade hundreds of our citizens from visiting
Deering Hall. BY all means, gentlemen of
the Tabeaux, reopen and thereby favor
MANY CITIZENS.
paper manufacturer on the Kenne-
bee informs US that there is no lack of rags in
the State; that among those upon whom he
has heretofore depended for supply. he finds
one with ten tons, another with fifteen, anoth-
er with five, and so on, but all hold back, re-
iusing to sell, thinking to get, by and by, fii-
teen or twenty cents a pound. They will get
their fingers burned sure. The demand will