The Portland daily press., 1862-12-13
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

GS Inc New Bedford Mercury has advanc-
ed the price of its daily issue from So to 81.
Sg- Shpbuilding is going on briskly at Cal
ais and st. Stephens,
gD-Twelve members of the Sophomore
class in Yale College have been suspended for
'rowing" Freshman.
Musical amateurs are much exercised
by the question, whether small bottle in
basement can be considered rial-in-cellar.
eyr The negroes of Boston will celebrate
New Years Day, as day of jubilee--Fred
Douglass is to deliver the Grafton.
10 A little child of John Thurley, of Os-
sipee, n H., 8 years of age, was burned to
death on the 22d ult., in the absence of his pa
rents
9y-The Newbern Progress mentions an
Union meeting at Shepardsville, N. c., on the
10Th ult. By invitation, c. II. Foster, of New
bern, addressed the assembly.
~ Gen. Banks is still "bound South
One OF his steamers is reported in lat SO 40.
longitude "a 90 on the 4th inst, and heading
southwark. The expedition, therefore, will
not operate against Richmond.
LEA picture in the American Agricultur-
ist, entitled "The Lawsuit" represents cow.
one man pulling at her head, another at her
tail, and well-dressed lawyer quietly milking
the animal.
James Gordon Bennett, Senior, abdi-
Gates the control of the New York, Herald, in
favor of his son, J. G. b., Jr.-said to be
young man of excellent parts, and a famous
yachtsman.
sVJohann Ludwig INLAND, one of the
foremost of the lyric poets of Germany, died
recently at Tubingen, where he was born on
the 10th of April, 1887. INLAND has held the
place of classic among the German poets for
many years, and his reputation is contempt
rary with that of many writer's long dead
sD| A petition has been presented to the
British Parliament, praying for change in
the present time mode of dividing the day in
to two divisions of twelve hours each, and in
its stead, count the hours from one to twenty
four. 1t would be striking change for the
clocks.
sVThere is fellow on the Kennebec, be-
tween Gardiner and Augusta, an ex-office
holder, who has such love of negro slavery
and such an aversion to everything white, that
he has actually begun to turn black HIMSELF
His skin yet retains the light hue, but, judg-
ing by what flows from him, his insides must
be as black as ink.
gB- The young lady who sparkles as asst
ant editor of the Bridgton Reporter, has a cor
rect idea that there is more Joy in the Printing
Office and more hope in the world at large.
over one delinquent Subscriber that repents,
than over nine hundred and ninety-nne lust
men who take no paper at all. The same lady
says she has taken up the stick" in the Re-
porter (broomstick) --and beats the
Devil" setting ype!-[Bangor Wing.
srThe scarcity of paper begins to be felt
on all sides. The Oxford Democrat has lost a
column from each page. The Brunswick Tel
egraph comes to us with comic notice to
''See Fourth Page" on its half sheet. The
Argus predicts Immortal honor and fame,-
(which seems to us to be rather strong Ian
guage) to the member of Congress who first
moves to take the tax off newspapers.
ANtMDEh UT 1hOOPS ARRIVED AT WASH
INGToS.-The total number of troops arrived
at Washington, from April 10Th 1861, to Nov.
14th 1862, was 455,452. In this number is not
included troops sent to Fortress Monroe, Har-
pers Ferry, Hatteras, South Carolina, and the
Gulf. With these the total number would be
about 100000 men, all from east of the Ale
ghanies. This information is reliable, having
been obtained from official sources.
srGen. Butler has a brother in Paris, who
has written to the London Globe a letter, in
which he defends the general against charges
which the Times made against him. Many
families in New Orleans have collected their
silver and attempted to smuggle it to Eng
land, contrary to the laws. As articles of val
ne they were stopped by order of Gen. Butler
and of this act the Times complained ard
threw out insinuatons against him.
STRAGLING OFFICERs.-When " Y. u.
arrived from Europe the other day, among the
first things he observed were the crowds of
men on the streets wearing sholder-straps, and
he asked his friend U. V. W. if the army was
in the vicinity of Philadelphia. sob no." said
u, 1.-THE army's in Virginia" swell, then,
NHdt uTt luOSe salu y. ''OfflcerS,"
rejoined u, sentenuously. "Why, how's
that ?" retorted X, sharply, "when you say
the army's in Virginia Oh see it now con-
tinued y, waking up as if from brown
study; "they're Peace officers.
phia Inquirer.
sg- Suppose slavery could be abolished,
would not the presence of the negro be more
Objectionable to the free laborers of the north
than it was when the north abandoned it? So
inquiries our Exchange street neighbor, imply
ing that to free taborers the presence of free
men is more Objectionable than the presence
ofbound siaoes! We doubt if the Stree labor
ers of the North will thank any one to attrib-
ute them feelings doing so little credit to their
sense ofjustice and their ideas of humanity.
g Jonas Webb, known in England as the
Father of the Southdown" sheep, has lately
deceased. A plain farmer at Babrahan, he be-
gan about thirty years since to improve his
flock of sheep, and the famous "southdown"
has been the product of his breeding. Age
compelled him to close up his business last
June, and buyers from all parts of Europe
Australia, and America, were present; his
sales reached the sum of nearly eighty thou
sand dollars. Some of his rams sold for $50
and 200 guineas. His plain farmhouse had be-
come the Mecca of the lovers of agriculture
from all parts of the earth.