The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-12-10
ORIGIN AND SELECTE ID.

! 176 Congress street, has this bird to stuff and
mount for the benefit of Natural History.
rR-The eastern end of the International
House is being fitted up for the future office
and work room of the Advertiser. This will
add to the spirit department of the house, but
we hope friend Slower will not be held respon-
sible for the quality Of the new distillaton.
sB-The Argus, with a hundred eyes, can
see in Gen. Halleck, the man of more brains
probably, than any man in the American army,
| only selfish, envious detractor'' of General
Mcclellan. Halleck, the General-in- Chief,
envying a subordinate!
gg-The Argus, in absence of General Hal
leck's report, "reproduces the ablest and most
candid review of it" that it has seen--the re-
view from the journal of Commerce, bitter,
malignant, one-sded special plea against Hal
lecs and for Mcclellan, that has not the first
element of candor or fairness in it.
gB-The New York World, Boston Post,
and other papers of kindred sympathes, have
ten words of condemnation for the loyal gov
eminent of the United States, to one of disap-
prevail of the rebels. Is this unmistakeable
feature of the papers referred to, the result of
patriotism?
-E- If Burnside should be unfortunate,
and lose victory which the people think he
ought to win, how many there are who would
secretly chuckle with delight, and say, 81 told
| you sol" But then this class are not those who
complain of McClellan's removal, of course
not! suv
- The Boston Post sneers at Gen. Bus
teed, heretofore democrat of the most dis
tinctive character. Gen. B. exalts the Union
above negro slavery, and is willing to see the
latter tumbled into pi to save the former, and
he says so; and this is reason enough why
the Post should sneer at him.
% The London Mechanics Magazine
states that excellent paper is now made in
Europe from the leaves of Indian Corn. There
is one paper mill in operation in Switzerland,
and one in Austria, in which paper is made
from such leaves exclusively. The husks which
envelope the ears of corn make the best
quality"
sr The King OF Spain has had a fall from
his horse, and dislocated some bones His
Majesty tumbled off once or twice before,
some years ago; and since that time, 1t Is said,
was fastened to the saddle by some cunning
continuance. On this last mournful occasion
the groom must have neglected to tie his Ca
tholic Majesty properly.
q 1t appears from the statement of Mr.
T W
Society, that the original will of Washington,
which was deposited at Fairfax Court House,
has been stolen and sold to the British Museum.
We hope to have the pleasure some day of
publishing the name of the hitherto unknown
perpetrator of this outrage. He has earned
an immortal infamy.
DEATH OF A VENERABLE CLERGYMAN
The Springfield Republican records the death
in that city Monday evening of Rev. Samuel
Osgood, d. D., aged seventy-eight years, ten
months. DR.. Osgood was native OF Frye
burg, where he was born February, 1774 He
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1906
and was ordained as the pastor of the First
Congregational Church in Springfield, on the
18th of January, 1909, fiity-three years ago.
He remained nominally the pastor of this
church until his death, though he retired from
active pulpit duties in 1854, at which time Rev.
Henry NJ. Parsons was settled as his colleague.
He was the active pastor and preacher for
forty-fve years, and since his retirement from
pulpit duties in his parish, has preached quite
constantly in the vacant pulpits of the vicinity.
sv The Advertiser is quite jubiant and
risky about ''the live paper" as it sneerngly
terms the Press, because the report of Mr..
Secretary Chase was sooner noticed in its col
umns than in ours. Wonder which was first
to give the reports of Gen. Halleck and the
Secretary of War? Wonder if the Advertiser
will give Halleck's report, or will it, instead,
give the comments of the Journal of Com
merce? The Advertiser has queer notions of
to its standard, paper is made ''lively' as a
ship is sometimes,-by the escape of rats from
its sinking hulk. In this respect the Adyer-
tiser is a live paper. The editor writes mov-
ing leaders-they remove names of ten, twen-
ty, forty and even sixty years standing, from
his subscription lists Its life is the life of the
Bohnn Upas, driving every living thing from
it on pain Of death.
q Lord Russell's knuckles are elaborate
ly raped in the London Times, because the
fingers to which the said knuckles belong have
been instrumental in letting loose anew the
troublesome Danish question. The immedi-
ate offence is despatch sent by Lord Russell
TO Copenhagen. "On reading this dispatch,
and others that have lately been penned by the
same hand" says the Times. "we cannot but
ask whether it is to the advantage of Eng
land that her Foreign Secretary should assume
the position of Encouragement of the human
race, and give curt rebukes, or elaborate in
structons to monarchs and peoples" Well,
since the Times asks the question, we on this
side of the Atlantic very sincerely think it is
not to the advantage of England; and If the
Times should furthermore abandon the same
role Of lecturer-general to the race, doubtless
the world would get on with no serious diff
Guilty.
- The Court Martial before which Gen.
Porter is arraigned has incidentally brought
into notice a despatch from Mcclellan to Por-