The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-12-18

s- The price of the New York Tribune,
daily and weekly, have been greatly increased.
sy- Report says Gen. Mcclellan and wife
will soon visit Boston.
sg- Judge Hollis name is again mentioned
in connection with cabinet appointment.
sY- We understand that the side-wheel
Government steamer building at Bath, by
Messrs. Larrabee & Allen, is progressing fine
ly.
sI- Everywhere except in Virginia, the
Union cause looks hopeful, and we are not
without hope that the exceptional cause will
soon be removed.
sB- Says the Lewiston Journal, persons
who pretend to know, assure us that our mer-
chants have never prospered SO swimmingly
as the past year. 1t must needs be so. Ev-
erything has been rising in their hands.
SS The Louisville Democrat of Thursday
last says: We published yesterday list of
guerrillas captured by detachment of Col.
Shanks men, near Owensboro, one night last
week. 1t appears that these men were at
party or dance, and were enjoying it hugely,
when our men surrounded the house and cap
tured them. They were sent up stairs, and
our boys taking their places,
Danced all night till broad daylight,
And went home with the girls in the morning"
sB- Two reports have been made to the
Georgia Legislature on the subject of the reb
ell CONSUMPTION law. The majority of the joint
committee recommended resistance to the law.
The minority reported that the safety of the
State demands that no opposition be made to
any measures adopted by the Confederate
Congress in the exercise of powers granted
and intended for our common defense. The
Legislature had not taken action.
LIE An account of the libel suit of the
Count Joannes alias Jones rs. +. ii. Under
wood of the Boston Atlas, has been prepared
for our columns by an obliging friend, but is
crowded out by the late press of news. In
deed, it is unsafe saying anything about the
Count, who has now four suits on hand, in
Guiding one against the Boston Advertiser for
densed, and another against Gov. Andrews for
addressing him as Mr.. Jones.
SY- The editor of the Montreal Advertiser
says that he has seen "a private letter from an
influential and well known member of the
House of Commons, received by the North
American, in which the opinion is expressed
that the Emperor of the French will recog-
nize the Southern Confederaey whether Great
Britain and Russia join with him in doing so
or not" Well, what then? Are we to under
stand that this influential NJ p. has received
private advices from Louis Napoleon? or is
his opinion not much better than another
| mans?
KILLED AND WOUNDED FROM MAINE
The army correspondent of the Boston Jour
nal, says that in the second attack on the right
at Fredericksburg, on Saturday, the I'd and
Goth Maine regiments were engaged. He fur
nishes the following list of wounded:
| w. Stevens, eth Maine, side; Lieut.. A. c..
Peters, 10th Me- slightly; J. G. Burnes, 10th
Me-, badly; S. Smith, 10th Me-, side; j. NJ.
Reeve, 10th Me-, head; C. l.. Babcock. 10th
| Me-, badly.
The Herald has Washington dispatch Civ
ing the following list of killed and wounded
from Maine:
10th Maine.-Killed, Capt. Hutchins and
Lieut. Herrick. Wounded, Captains Belcher,
Aver, Pennell, Austin and Brooks, Leuten-
ants Stevens, Peters and Edwards.