The Portland daily press., 1862-11-18
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTE ID.


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sr The Sons of Temperance at Bath
have made provision for a course of Home
Lectures the coming winter.
sv The Richmond Enquirer calls for retail
iation for the execution of the ten guerrillas
in Missouri, for abducting Union citizen.
lg- Dr. Gleason is delivering his popular
course of physiological and anatomical lee
lures in Gardiner.
v The Aroostook Pioneer has received a
present of an opl, and suggests that it may
grace his Thanksgiving board.
s~ The steamer Eastern Queen made her
Boston on Tuesday last. 1t is said that the
Queen has been chartered by government.
sg- Mr.. Lewis Snipe, of Bath, was found
dead in his bed on Saturday evening last,
about ten o'clock. He retired about half an
hour previous.
LEA barn containing about twelve tons Of
hay, and IA shop on the Dorothy farm, in this
town, and about three aud a half miles from
this village, was consumed by fire on Tuesday
evening last.-lSkowhegan Farmer.
ng- An Augusta correspondent of the
Bangor Wing says that Adjutant General
Hodsdon proposes to make his next Report
even more perfect and full than the last one.
1t will be emphatically a.roll of honor.
gr press Of correspondence has kept
our columns crowded for lew days, and this
has delayed the appearance of several valua-
BILE communications. We hope not to get SO
behindhand again.
rrThe Ellsworth American says TIC lum-
berrnen on Union River are running their
mills night and day. and doing very good
business in manufacturing sugar box shocks,
present prices paying very we'll
lisa letter from Gov Andrew johnson,
lust published, says Gen. Buell. is very popular
with the rebels, aud is more partial to them
than to Union men, and fayors the establish
ment of a southern confederacy.
sg- We learn from the Pennington Patri-
OF that Mrs. David Elder, OF New Portland,
was SO severely burned in consequence Of her
clothes accidentally taking fire on Sunday
morning week, that it is thought she cannot
| recover
~ The Journal of Commerce learns from
excellent authority that Lord Lyons returns
| to Washington without any instructions from
! his government in reference to the war. This
ought to stop all further speculation on the
subject.
e1- The first few numbers of the Daily
Morning Chronicle-the new paper published
at Washington. and understood to be the or
| gan of the Administration - have come TO
hand 1t is large, handsome, beautifully
| printed sheet, and in all respects makes fine
appearance.
| sg- The Newbern Progress says that the
story about thirteen guerillas having been
captured with passes iu their possession from
Governor Stanley of North Carolina, Col. Kurtz,
Provost Marshal of Newborn and other Off
GERS, which appeared in the New York Express,
! is false
nr The Boston Post says about $4,000
is believed to be the amount of the fraud by
Republican officials in the New York custom
house. The New York Post says the princi-
| pal delinquent appUIntru ny rrusiavr,v
| Polk, and that not one of the delinquentSwas
appointed under the present administration.
~ A jeweller named Rowand was muir
dered in Princeton, n. j., on Thursday night
last. while on his way home from his store, by
| blow ON the head vita club. The assassin
took the key from the pocket of his victim,
and entered and robbed his store. Suspicion
rests upon stranger, wlo had been in Prince
ton week, claiming TO ielony in Washington,
but to be native of Bston.
sg- Carleton, the rmy correspondent OF
Journal. writing from Warrenton Junction,
Nov. s,th says, :" the original plan of the cam
paign has been changed 1t is constantly as
serted in certain paprs that Burnside has
been called in to execue McClellan's PLAN
This remark of Carleta indicates that Nc
Clellan's plan is no logger the plan of the
campaign.
THE SEARCH FOR HE ALABAMA.-Thc
United States steamer Rarsarge, from cruise
after the rebel pirate Albania, and last from
MADEIRA, arrived at Gitaltar, Oct. 25th. She
left the United States sip St. Louis cruising
off the Western IslaIis. The Kearsarge
chased a paddle wheel samer sixteen hours,
during which time the laer threw overheard
boxes and bales Of merlandise, but escaped
capture by her superior ,eed.
: The clergymen oCanada have rebelled
against Sunday funeral and declared their
determination to attend % more funerals on
the Sabbath, except in asses Of necessity
The reasons they assign opposition to the
custom are, they increas,he labors Of minis
tiers beyond their ability perform them; they
call them from other moi important labors;
they seriously interfere III the regularly in
stituted means of grace, ID they, in MAORI
ty of cases, violate the sctty OF the Lords
Day.
sxr is said that bl in India, answer
ing very closely to the beard, will swallow
and digest any thing IL is thrown to him,
, from carrion to old boneand bits of broken
, glass. How truly doesAis bird represent
that class OF minds whiclrs open to anything
, that is monstrous andiarvelous, ready to
"gape and swallow" likinhedged robins, as
= though the God given sulty of reason had
e never been bestowed up the race. While
the bigot is unwilling prove all things"
o this class of persons aready to receive all
q things without proof, arthus they become
the easy dupes of imposn.
mg- The Springfield publican says Gen.