The Portland daily press., 1862-12-17
ORIGIN AND SELECTED.

sg-Diptheria is still widely prevalent in
the State of Maine. In Dover, three have
died in one family within three weeks.
Ig- We are informed that the 10th Maine
regiment are now well clothed, are in good
military condition, and in good spirits.
sB-The reported wounded of Gen. Mea-
gers it is said, is untrue. His horse fell upon
him, and he was only slightly bruised, and is
in active command of his brigade.
r The December term of the S. j. Court
for Sagadahoc county commenced its session
at Bath Observation-Disclosures Dickerson presid-
ing.
sB-The Lowell Courier says the republic
can party in that city Changed its base of OPP
erations" on the afternoon of election day,
and went into "winter quarters" for a year.
pr The Newborn On. c. Progress finds
quotations of corn meal at s1.4O per bushe,
and flour at about $40 per barrel, in the Mont
gomery (Ala.) Mail of Nov. 9th.
s1r Mademoiselle Patti is enjoying an inn
mense success at the Italian Opera in Paris
Mario met an unfavorable reception at the
French Opera, and threw up his engage
ment.
sTThe walls of Fort Popham, on the riv-
er and seward side, are up to the bottom of
the embrasures for the lower tier of guns, and
the workmen are now engaged in cutting
stone to be laid in the early spring.
Nr The Portland Press is one of the live
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our office. 1t leaves the impress of activity
aud go-aheadativeness in its columns, and de-
serves full measure of success.-[St. Croix
Herald.
gv BY the figures at the State House yes
terday the quota of Boston still lacks 1853 of
the full number required. The elasticity of
the quota figures is wonderful. One day there
is a surplus over the quota; the next it is
short, all the way from 300 to $780, Boston
Post, Dec. IL.
rB- The Houlton Times credits to the
Transcript the story about Il "big scare" at the
State Prison, which appeared originally in the
columns of the Press. The Transcript did
not intend to poach upon our grounds we
know, for it is too much of a gentleman for
that.
sgr The Bangor Wing says despatch to
Col Roberts from Quartermaster Hoskins,
states that Col. Varney, Adjutant Mudgett
and Captain Wilson, and Capt. Wiggin, all of
the Maine Second, were wounded in the bat
tie at Fredericksburg on Saturday last-but
neither of them seriously.
sY- The Hartford Post, or its unmentioned
authority says Fernando Wood, Of New York,
was at one time an actor of very small parts
at the Richmond theatre, in a company under
the management of Henry Willard He was
allowed to strut and fret for few weeks, and
and then discharged for incompetency.
rB- Does Bro. Dingey doubt the state
ment at the head of our columns, that the
Press has the largest regular circulation of
any daily in this city? We assure him that
there is no CANNON in this statement, and we
will engage to satisfy him that we work daily
an edition at least four hundred larger than
any other paper in the city.
gI- Several weeks ago the Press made am
onslaught upon us, because we put the nation
al debt at about the figures we now find in the
Secretary's Report Advertiser.
You put the public debt at one thousand
millions and afterwards, to be exact, set it at
up~ards of nine hundred millions, while the
Secretary's Report justifes no such statement
of the amount at the time you made your fig
ures.
If Mr.. Fessenden made brief but very
able speech in the Senate few days since, on
the subject of arbitrary arrests" A cores
pondent OF the Traveller says that it was the
speech of the session thus far. He further
says, "The most severe thing uttered by Mr..
Fessenden was the passage in which he re-
minded Powell that all that he had said about
the violation of the Constitution had better
been said by his late colleague, noe Brigadier
General in the rebel army" We have
marked the. speech for publication, and hope
to reproduce it tomorrow or the next day.
SB- The Argus is emphatically a prophet
of evil" In its anxiety to create distrust of
the Government it pretends to give the Ian
guage of "a =" Maine officer of high repute and
long service, in Gen. Towards division, who
says, " Burnside Is crossing the river, and in
doing so is acting against his better judy
ment" We have seen an extract of a latter
from Maine officer, at the head of Gen. How
ards division, ,chich conreys a Gerry different
impression, but we do not feel at liberty to
copy it. BY the way, what does the Argus
mean by its repeated slurs about cirilians
directing the army in the face of the enemy"
knowing as it does, that the directions from
Washington are those of Gen. Halleck? Is
Hallack any more a civilian, or less a militia
ry man, than Burnside or Mcclellan?