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

~ A London surgeon was paid $1,000 for
declaring that Garibald had no bullet in his
wound. An eminent French surgeon. how
ever, soon after found a bullet there, and the
Londoner is now called upon to refund his fee
which he won't.
SB- Major Sidney Willard, acting Colonel
ofthe seth Massachusetts,, killed before Fred
ericksburg, was the author of the striking au-
Photographic sketch entitled "a Night in
Wherry," which appeared in the Atlantic
Monthly for October, 1861. He was the son
OF Joseph Willard, Esq, and grandson of the
late Prof. Willard of Cambridge, whose name
he bore. He graduated at Harvard College,
in 1852.
S- Mr.. Church's new picture Of Niagara,
now on exhibition in New York, is said to be
one Of the finest works which American art
has yet produced. The cataract is represent
ed as seen in all its grandeur from the drench-
slfdeck of the ''Maid of the Mist. On its
completion the painting was Immediately sent
to England. to be acknowledgement. and
sold before its return to Mr.. Marshall O. Rob-
erts.
dered that no female visitor to the celebrated
Southern Confederacy shall carry more than
eight large trunks, aud a bonnet box for each
month in the year; and that no female shall
pass the lines whose dimensions in full dress
exceed the ordinary space between two pick
cts, as the latter will, on no account, be per-
mitted to edge away IRON their stations at this
trying crisis in the history of our distracted
country.
To- Among the diplomatic correspondence
transmitted to Congress was dispatch from
Mr.. Seward dismissing Mr.. Canisius from his
Office OF consul of the United States at Wen
ma, for his ofiicious and unauthorized request
to Gen. Garibaldi to enter the military service
of this country. Mr.. Canisius not only as
sumed power not belonging to him, but also
gave o1ense by indorsing Garibaldi's recent
revolutionary movement against bis own gov
ernment. Mr.. Seward mentions that the Pres
ident did year ago tender command in our
armies to Garibaldi, with the consent of the
King of Italy, fact which has not before been
admitted.
sg- The Springfield Republican says an
old paper manufacturer writes with great con-
tidence and enthusiasm of a new process for
reducing wood to paper pulp, which has been
discovered by Prot. Chadbourne of Williams
and Bowdoin colleges. 1t depends upon a
combination of chemical and mechanical prin-
ciples, by which the woody fibers are alike
strengthened and separated from each other.
The process is pronounced by practical paper
makers and patent examiners as entirely
unique, and quite certain in results. 1t in
wolves no change of machinery, and no ad-
dtional expense, except for the pulp machine,
which will cost from fifty to one hundred dol
lars If no unforeseen difficulty arises in work
ing it on large scale, it will reduce the cost
of paper pulp to less than one half its present
value, or to some $40 or $50 ton The in
vention is now in the hands of one of the
largest and most energetic paper manufacture
ers in the country, a patent has been applied
for, and in due time the full value of the pro-
cess will be tested ON large scale.