The Portland daily press., 1862-12-16
ORIGIN AL AND Sc Il C. TIE ID.

Esq, for late New Orleans papers.
sB-Col John S. Phelps is dangerously ill
in Arkansas, where he was sent as military
governor.
nB-Capt Aver, with his battery, was in
the fight at Fredericksburg Saturday. He
came out of it uninjured. tr.a
nB- The Bangor tWhig regrets to notice
that dihptheria is again prevailing with much
fatality in many parts of the State.
gg- The report that the Hon. Edward Ev-
erett is seriously i'll proves incorrect. He is
however obliged to keepwithin doors, and un-
able to keep his lecture engagements.
sg- James McCuller of Suffield, Conn,
who was awaiting trial for the murder of Jas.
Drake, committed suicide in the Jail at Hart
ford on Saturday morning.
- Vaandigham the notorious was in n
York on Friday, and was complimented with
a midnight serenade by Capt Rynders, Ben
Wood, and other Democrats of the same gen
us.
sB- Rev. Arthur b. Fuller, pastor of a
Unitarian Church in Watertown,-a very gift
ed MAINLAND Chaplain of the Mass. 10th reg
iment, was one Of the killed at Fredericksburg,
on Friday last.
sg A fine new bell weighing 100 lbs has
been hung in the belfry of the Methodist
church in Bangor, to take the place of the
old one which had been broken while being
rung.
sB- The city council of Bath have refused
to issue fractional scrip, aud they have also
elected Washington Gilbert, Esq, director
Of the Androscoggin Railroad on the part of
the city.
sprCaptain c. H. Smith of the class of '57
Waterville College, is Provost Marshal of
Frederick, Nd The Mail says Mr.. S. was
formerly Principal of the Watervle High
School.
18TH MAINE REGMENT-By order of the
Secretary of War, the 18th Maine Regiment
has been changed to "Heavy Artillery" This
change will require two new companies to be
: raised, and the old ones to be brought up to
the artillery standard.
DEATH OF THE EDITOR OF THE ADvER-
TIsER.-A dispatch received in this city yes
terday announced the death of Eliphalet Case,
Esq, editor of the Portland Advertiser, at
Patriot, Indiana on Sunday night. His dis
ease was pneumonia, with which he was con-
fined about ten days.
sB- Lit. Col. w. B. Sayles of the Rhode Is
land 7th Regiment. was killed by a shell at
Fredericksburg, on Saturday last. Col. Sayles
was formerly editor of the Providence Post,
and will be remembered by many of our read
ers, as making one of the party that attended
Mr.. Douglas when he visited this State
ng- The Bangor Whig learns that Gen.
Saml f. Hersey of that city, has paid up the
whole of the Indebtedness of the bondsmen OF
B. d. Peck, the defaulting State Treasurer,
amounting to about twenty thousand dollars.
Only about one-half of this amount is now due
the balance becomes due in about one year
from this time.
sy- That everlasting fire. near Bath, In
the peat meadow, is still burning. Yesterday
we saw quite volume of smoke issuing from
the ground, and spot not more than two
yards across was bare, while the surrounding
snow appeared to be nearly foot deep. This
fire, we were told, has been burning ever since
last spring.
rE-Benj. F. Flanders, one of the Repre-
sentatives to Congress from New Orleans, is
printer by trade. He is a New Hampshire
man, and graduated at Dartmouth College in
the class of 1912. Shortly after, he went to
New Orleans and was engaged in teaching,
and was subsequently on the editorial staff OF
the Tropic.
sg-The following cases of hospital stores
were sent forward by express this Tuesday
morning to our soldiers:
! barrel to ]. w. Hathaway Washington
2 boxes do do; 8 do Sanitary Commission, do
l barrel Mrs. Eaton, do; do Mrs. Usher,
Chester Hospital; 2 cases Capt. Waldron, 10th
Maine Regiment; do Capt. Ii. G. Little, 23d
do; do Mrs. Mckay, Frederick City; do
Miss Pearson, Annapolis Hospital.
sB- The Progressive Age publishes from
private letter the particulars of the murder
of Lebbeus Moran, Maine man, on the 2lst
of October, in Oregon City. Moran was stab
bed while unarmed, by cowardly secession
ist named Strickland, whose dislike for him
seems to have been grounded on political rea-
sons solely. The assault was quite unprovoked
Moran was a cooper, and formerly worked in
Belfast
sg-We are informed that new Sugar
House, for the purpose Of re-boiling molasses,
similar to that in this city owned by Messrs.
j. b. Brown g. Sons, is about to be erected in
Brooklyn, New York. to be under the charge
of ID. II. Furbish, Esq, formerly of this city,
who has had many years experience in Mr..
Browns house.
The drawback allowed on the expectation
of Rum and Alcohol, has greatly increased
the demand for the residium left in manuiac-
turing West India molasses.
srComplaints have been made by privates
of the Tth Maine Regiment that they have
not received their pay for six months that
their rations are neglected-some days having
none at all, and Sunday night that they had
no supper-and that they have not been sup
piled with vegetables at all, since they have
been here. We know not whether there is
any truth in these complaints or not Iftrue
they should be remedied Immediately. If not
true, they should be contradcted by authori-
ty, as the complaints have been made rather
public.
-Y- We publish to-day the circular of the
| NelC England Soldiers Relief association