The Portland daily press., 1862-12-11
ORIGINAL AND LECTE ID.

sings in disguise" We would rather, says an
exchange, take our blessings plain.
gBThe Machias Union, suspended for
want of paper, has received a shipment from
Boston.
lr Moses G. Brooks ofAugusta, has been
appointed Inspector General of Pot and Pearl
Ashes, vice George Williams deceased.
TRIAL JUsTrcEs.-The following persons
have been appointed by the Governor, trial
justices within the respective counties.
sg- T. b. Lincoln, and Thomas w. Bridg-
ham, China, Kennebec County, and Leander
NJ. Comins, Lincoln, Penobscot County.
I- Edward Everett is seriously i'll at
Washington, and compelled to give up all his
engagements to speak at present.
cB- PERLEY telegraphs to the Boston
Journal that the House Committee of Ways
and Means will not probably adopt Mr.. Stew
ems, but Mr.. Chase's financial measures.
a Two hundred guns were fired in
Charleston, and the city beautifully iluminat-
ed in honor of the democratic victories in N.
York and Pennsylvania.
Ex-senator Hunter of Virginia made quite
a blunder, and electrified the rebel Senate
some time ago, by inadvertently swearing one
of the clerks to support the Constitution of
the United State.
General Milroy has suppressed the
Wheeling (Va.) Press within the limits of his
command, which is a virtual suspension of the
paper, because of its reasonable course.
Ua ora inf that Ca,. Cz....-
Co. 1, 1st Maine cavalry, has resigned his po-
sition, and is about returning home in conse-
quence of i'll health.
~ Seventeen suits have been commenced
at Norfolk against the Wise family, consisting
of Henry A., John j. H., George B., and o.
Jennings, for recovery of debts varying from
two hundred and fifty to one thousand dollars
LEA letter from JAcKsoNIAN of the 25th
Maine regiment, is excluded by press of
other matter. The letter contains no items
Of news from the regiment which have not al
ready been published.
gg- A son of Chas Collins, of Gardiner,
aged about fifteen years, was drowned in the
Cobbossee stream at the New Mills, on Thurs
ud1 ultiHOOu, WHnC shdbiuR Ou Tie ice. His
body was recovered that day.
g Arrangements have been nearly COM
pleted in New York for redeeming the soiled
postage stamps, of which the amount held in
in that city is estimated at more than a half
million dollars.
nr We hear from Paris of the exhibition
on the Boulevard Magenta, of the figure of a
woman so constructed as to sing various songs.
tube of india-rubber represents the larnyx:
the voice has a compass of two octayes. The
inventor is NJ. Faber, formerly professor of
mathematics in Germany,
Iye The Lowell election of Monday re-
suited in Republican defeat, to the great
surprise of losers and winners alike "Of one
thing we are now better satisfied than ever be-
lore," says the Lowell Courier, and that is,
that the elections in this city, in Boston, and
in Worcester, prove that it is not always best
to insist on straight party tickets at municipal
| elections
g The statement which has been tele-
| graphed abroad, and which is going the rounds
| of the Press, in the form of a report from
| Newbern, N. c., that "twenty-one men of the
Maine artillery deserted on the night of the
18th of November, taking their muskets, cut
lasses, and pistols" if not wholly mistake,
is certainly SO as to the corps from which the
desertion took place. There is no Maine ar
tillery at Newbern, or at any other point in
North Carolina
sH- A man named Robert Rollins, while in
state of intoxication, broke into the house Of
Mr.. Charles II. Whitehouse, of Sidney, on
Thanksgiving night, the 9th ult, and pro-
ceeded to the room where the latter and his
wife were sleeping, making considerable dis
turbance. In attempting to put Rollins out of
the room, Whitehouse was stabbed by him, re-
ceivng severe wound in the right side. Rol-
Inns will be tried for the assault at the present
term of The Supreme Court in Augusta. q
N Parties who know the habits of Presi-
dent Lincoln are not surprised to hear of his
personal visit to Gen. Burnside-nor would
any such be astonished to know that he was in
New York at any time. Ifhe wanted to see
anything or any body, he would be quite as
likely to come on as to send He has an Or
bit ofhis own, and no one can tell where be
yesterday. If he wants newspaper he is quite
as likely to go out and get it as he Is to send
alter IL. 1.-The wants to see the Secretary of
State he generally goes out and makes call.
AT night, from ten to twelve, he usually makes
tour all round-now at Gov. Stewards and
then at Haleek's; and ifBurnside was nearer,
he would see him each night before he went to
bed Those who know his habits and want to
see him late at night follow him from place to
place, and the last search generally brings him
up at Gen. Halleck's, as he can get the latest
army intelligence there. Whoever else is
asleep and indolent, the president is wide
awake and around-l Washington correspond
ence Boston journal.
JUVENILE RoeUEs.-A lad named Henry
p. Lancaster was last week, at Augusta, SEN
fenced to the Reform School during his minor
ity, for various larcenies he had perpetrated in
that city. He stole from the safe of Deering
4 Turner $50; from the store of Bartlett &
Hartwell $40; from the money drawer of p.
Shehan six dollars and committed other lar
cenies of minor character
The lad was only ten years of age, which,
says the Farmer, from whose columns we con-
dense our account, shows skillful precocity in
crime almost unprecedented in the annals of
youthful roguery Another lad named Josiah
Mcfarland, fourteen years Of age, helped Lam
caster spend the stolen money. He was com
mitted to Jail, in default of bail, to await his
trial at the Supreme Court. None of the
money was recovered except the six dollars