The Portland daily press., 1862-11-20
ORIGINAL AND SELE CT e ID.


most vigorous prosecution of the war.
sy- Van Buren,, Webster, Benton, Calhoun
and Cass were all born in 1882, of whom the
last alone survives
nY-Governor Washburn has returned to
Augusta from his visit to the army of the Po-
tomac.
g- On the 14th 5000 English muskets were
seized while attempting to cross the lines at
Rouse's Point.
I- We hear a deal about suspendng the
habeas corpus; but when the Government
catches a traitor why doesn't it suspend the
corpus and let the habeas go?-[Vanity Fair.
lD- Hon. John Sullivan, an eminent law
| yer, died at his residence in Exeter, N. H., of
apoplexy, on Monday morning last, at the age
of SO.
sB- The Lowell Courier says, Rev. Col T.
w. Higginson has been ordered to Hilton
Head, to take command of regiment of
| blacks
1B- The London Globe says the British
Cabinet will shortly give an expression of
their views concerning the proceedings of the
| STEAMER AldDalla.
! g- Nine hundred and thrty-two bales of
cotton arrived at ST. Louis ON the 10th inst.
from the lower Mississippi. Cotton begins to
come North very freely.
Enterprising rogues in Connecticut
are said to be engaged in resurrecting old
postage stamps, aud restoring them sufficient
| ly to be used for circulation.
1- The Boston Journal says that old
newspapers, which have heretofore been used
for kindlings, will now sell readily for four or
five cents pound.
IE- Rev. Richard Kirk, of Adams, n. Y,
while out walking with his wife Saturday in
ment, from heart disease.
- A sub-lieutenant on board of her Maj
esty's ship Resistance, has been court mar
tailed and reprimanded for disrespect to his
captain in speaking to him with his left hand
| in his pocket.
sg- The Norfolk Union AYERS that the re-
| bel government is about to close the whole of
! the newspaper offices in the Confederacy. 1t
needs all the paper that can be had to make
Confederate scrip.
1B- The Louisville Journal says that the
final verdict Of the American people in regard
TO the removal of Gen. Mcclellan and Gen.
Buell. will no doubt depend very much upon
Gen. Burnside and Gen. Rosecrans.
sg- PRoMoTIoN.-1st Lieutenant John c.
Kendall of Co. G, 25th Regiment, has been
promoted to the staff Gen. Fessenden. Lieut..
Kendall is an able and efficient officer and wor-
thy the place he now holds.
| .p- Ex-U. s. Senator Green, at the head of
1900 men succeeded in capturing block house
at Vera Cruz, Missouri 1t was defended by
four companies who surrendered and were
paroled.
nE-By literary convention, recently con-
cluded between France and Italy, authors re-
| cieve reciprocal advantages, and the copy
right on musical works extends to the compo-
sitions known as arrangements, BASED upon
airs extracted from the same.
sE- Accounts from Gen. Grants army state
thae Geu Mcpherson has had brilliant en-
| gagement with the enemy near Holly Springs.
A large number of rebels were either killed,
wounded, or taken prisoners.
sH- The Saco Democrat says new bridge
has just been completed over the Saco River
at Bar Mills. 1t is abont $50 feet in length,
and built in such thorough and workmanlike
manner as to be credit to the towns paying
the bils-Hollis and Buxton. The cost will
be about $4,000. The bridge is of wood on
stone abutments, and covered.
s The blacksmiths in the Charestown
Navy Yard have struck for higher wages. The
enhanced expenses of living Is the reason as
signed Their demand has been communica-
ted TO Washington, with a recommendation
from the Commandant of the Yard that it be
complied with; and pending the receipt of an
answer the men have gone to work.
sg-Newspaper correspondents say that the
army officers generally disapprove of sending
expeditions ON distant errands until Richmond
is taken. carleton" says:-"We want con-
centrated thunderbolt of intensest lightning
and power! One bolt hurled at Richmond as
it is in our power to hurl it, and this mighty
rebellion will be paralyzed before Christmas"
sB- Our young fellow townsman "Gosse,"
Nuo WlitcS oSCasiouaut " INC icsS anu tic
Argus over the signature of Sergeant Major"
in recent letter to the latter paper says:
An officer of the Maine 25th, observing a
soldier belonging to a regiment encamped
near by, industriously scratching himself, in
terrogated him thus: "Whats the matter, my
man-feas ?" "Fleasr said he, in u tone of
unutterable scorn, do you think am a dog?
no, sir, them is lice"
1g-Three brief articles relating to the late
Principal of the Girls High School, which APP
pear in our columns to-day, were designed for
yesterdays paper, and were actually in type
and crowded out. The editorial item pub
lished yesterday was intended to accompany
them, but in these days of easy divorces it
got separated from them. and hence the neces-
sity Of this explanation. We hope the matter
will now be allowed to subside.
FATAL ACcIDENT.--On Friday last, at
Hanpden, boy named Lufkn, aged about
thirteen, son of Thomas Luikin. was killed by
the discharge OF a gun Ia the hands of another
boy named Whitney. Preparations were GO
ing on for young folks "bee" at the house
of Lufkin's mother, when Whitney came in
and took up gun, mot knowing it to be
loaded of course,) and pointed it at the Luf-
kin boy, saying, "Now l will shoot YOU
pulled the trigger and shot him directly
through the heart, killing him instantly
Bangor Wing.
STABBING AFFAIR.-On SatuI day evening,
on Exchange Street, young man named He