The Portland daily press., 1862-11-11
ORIGIN AL AND SELE CTE ID

1E- On the first page will be found an in
teresting letter from our regular correspond
cut in the 23d Maine Regiment.
We heard the other day of girl near this
place who chewed gum during the interesting
ceremony of her marriage with her beloved.
1t was, doubtless, the "cud of sweet and bitter
fancies " [-Bridgton Reporter,
g- VIM. Croker Of Providence, R. l., and
other parties recently arrested for robbing the
gunboat St Louis, when at Memphis, of large
sum of money have been released. The
thieves were an officer and seaman of the boat.
y Delaware, border slave state, has
elected Governor who favors the administra-
ton, and reelected Mr.. Fisher to Congress,
who has stood by the administration from the
commencement of the rebellion.
n-- The Democratic wre-pulers in New
York have already arranged that Fernando
Wood shall be Speaker of the next Congress,
and that John Van Buren, shall be the success
or of Hon. Preston King in the United States
Senate. A nice little programme Journal.
sy- Mrs. Goddard lecturcd last evening at
Gorham, and will lecture tonight at Bethel
Hill. Towns or associations who may wish to
hear Mrs. G. lecture, by addressing her at the
Elm House in this city can learn what even
ings she is unengaged.
l- The slaves left in Kentucky, like
those along the Mississippi, and in fact every
where our armies have been, are worthless
Tor work, restless, fully informed about the
Proclamation, expectant of freedom, insubor-
dnate, and even defiant.
sg- The business on the Som. & Ken. R.
r., has increased to that extent that it is found
necessary TO have daily train between Show
hogan and Portland The first of the daily
trains commenced running on Wednesday
last.
THREE GENERATIONS AT THE POLLS
The Hon. Josiah Quincy, his son and name
sake, and his grandson, Major Samuel NJ.
Quincy, went together TO the polls on Tues
day, in Boston, and deposited their ballots
The senior Mr.. Quincy, who was a candidate
for Congress siXty-two years ago, and the Maj
or, were on crutches.-l Newburyport Herald.
gT The Southerners are beginning to run
off their slaves and sell them in Cuba. The
Blanche, of whose destruction we gave an ac-
count last week, had some from Texas: she
was under the British flag by the way; and
Spanish war-steamer is said to have brought
some from Louisiana.
,- The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald writes that the freeing of the
slaves in the District of Columbia, .'has made
little or no change in their domestic condition.
Most of them still remain with their former
masters and mistresses, while not single one
can be induced to leave the District"
GodEY's LADY's Book for December is re-
ceived. 1t is truely splendid number, and
well sustains the enviable reputation of the
publisher. Now is the time to make up clubs
for the coming year.-We will furnish the
Lady's Book and the Maine State Press one
year for three dollars, fifty cents in advance.
s- Mr.. Heath, Editor of the Gardiner
Home Journal, writing from the Army of the
Potomac, says that Sin the army, red-tape ex-
tends clear down to sick team horses. They
cannot be killed unless condemned by a board
of officers, and sometimes die of lingering
death. that red-tape may be duly respected"
" ihc (dldis says l0dt MT. Danlel
Pike of Sebec, who keeps a large number OF
men employed in the herring fishery, has facil-
tiles for smoking about 5000 boxes at time.
Each box when packed, averages about 49,
In converting the fish into oil he uses two large
kettles, one holding 10 and the other 100 gal
Ions. He has six presses, three of which he
keeps in constant operation.
sV New YORK LEGISLATURE. - The
New York World, Seymour paper says the
Republicans will have some - majority in joint
ballot in the Legislature of that state. This,
ii correct, secures the reelection of Hon. Pres
ton King to the United States Senate, or the
election Of some equally prominent Republi-
can.
CoNTRABANDs N THE DISTRICT OF COL
NMBIA.-Mr. d. B. Nichols, Superintendent
of Contrabands in the District, reports that
there are about 1000 of this class In the Dis
trict, Of whom 675 only are fed by the Govern
ment, They find work at home, and are un-
willing 10 go North. application upon ap-
plication," he says, "has been made from New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
sets, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut.
and the Western States for laborers Offering
the most liberal wages; but it has hitherto
been unvailing, for not one in a hundred can
be induced to go North or West. At present
there is an abundance of labor here for them:
so great is the demand for their labor that we
could furnish homes for ten where we have one
to furnish"