The Portland daily press., 1862-12-01
ORIGIN AL AND SELEC + E ID.

y-Several interesting letters and commu-
nications intended for this number, are una
voidably laid over till tomorrow.
vPerley" says the message will be lon
ger than any previous one of President Lin
| coin.
GY-The New York Post has raised its pri-
ces to four cents per copy and ten dollars per
annum.
sV Secretary Chase refuses to be candi-
date for the U. S. Senate from Ohio, against
Mr.. Wade.
sH-Voltaire speaking of law, adds: 1 never
was but twice in my life completely on the
verge of ruin; first when 1 lost law suit,
and secondly when l gained one.
THE SUMTER.-Messrs. Cunard, Wilson &
Co., of Liverpool, advertise the noted piratical
craft Sumter, for sale at auction at Gibralter,
with all her stores and armament.
sg- Gen. Shepley, the military Governor of
Louisiana, has ordered an election held on the
Sd of December, for the purpose of electing
delegates to the Thirty-Seventh Congress.
H-The receipts for revenue stamps at the
| office of the Commissioner of Internal Reye-
nue. for the week ending Nov. 2lst amounted
| to, it is said, more than $2,300O00.
sg-Congress meets to-day at IL o'clock
Should the message be delivered to-day, we
expect to lay it before our readers tomorrow
morning.
Y- Harper's Weekly and Leslies Illustra-
ted newspapers, for this week. have been re-
ceived at the bookstore of A. Robinson, No. 81
Exchange street.
| y-Dodge is lodging around the State,
creating amusementfo for the people and Innings
for his pockets. He never stops two nights in
succession He says he always likes to leave
town on full tide.
-The Bath Times reports the death at
East New York, of measles, of Thomas Le-
mont, son of Mr.. VIM. Lemont of West Bath.
The deceased was member of Co. c, 2lst
Maine regiment.
I-La France, said to be the organ of the
French Empress, declaims against English per-
fidy on the American question, and accuses
the British government of wish for a COM
plete annihilation of rival maratime power.
ggr man not a thousand miles from here
thinks country newspapers are worthless. He
and Daniel Webster did not agree on that
point. In our opinion the dead lion is more
entitled to respect than the living ass Rock
| land Free Press.
sJ- Joseph Gibson Hoyt, L. L. D., Chan
cellor of Washington University, st. Louis
died in that city on the 26th inst, of consump-
ton. He was formerly Professor of Greek
and Mathematics in the Phillips Exeter Acad-
emy, n H., for many years.
.g-The Baltimore correspondent the
New York Herald asserts tia. $4,000 rebel
troops have been ordered from the West and
South to defend Richmond against the series
of attacks that the Confederates expect will
be made upon that city.
IL The Pine Grove schoolhouse In tris
city was set on fire last Monday morning just
before daybreak. The fire was set in the ell
try. By prompt efforts Of the fire department
and Others, it was quenched before great dam
age was done. The estimated cost OF repairs
is $780, Rockland Free Press.
s- The Portland Advertiser is down upon
the Abolitionists, but says their total number
port of country newspaper. Ii that is the
case, what need of the buster about them.
| We don't think so small body can "bust up
the Union."-l Rockland Free Press.
sE- The Hallowell Courier tries very hard
to make out itself a predestinated martyr
to principle-the principle of dsloyalty-be-
cause the Bangor Wing has spoken lightly OF
its claims upon the support of loyal men. The
Courier need not fear; it is not worth the pow
der it would require to blow out its brains.
HOMICIDE IN IsLEsBoRo.-A little girl, the
daughter of Captain Royal p Brown, aged
five years, was killed by her mother, Esther
Brown, between Sunday evening and Mon
day afternoon 18th and 18th inst. while in a
temporary tit ofinsanity. The body was found
upon Monday evening secreted under some
straw, under the floor of an unfinished room
of the house, Bangor Wing.
sy-The sub editor of the Argus says he
made desperate attempt Friday to cross
| Commercial street, but was obliged to retreat.
He reports "all quiet along Commercial street.
He is not the first man who has found himself
in position that rendered his progress uncer-
tain, nor is he the first whose retreat from a
locality has contributed to its "quiet."
sc Gen. Butler has suppressed the Daily
Advocate at New Orleans, for saying that an
armistice would be welcomed by all parties as
peace measure, whether resulting from the
Democratic success at the North, or from for
eign intercention' 1t is not long since pa
per in this city suggested that Intervention, "
no matter rhat, or by achom, to stop the war
should be welcomed as a God-giyen boon.
s- The Pennington Patriot, one of the
most fault-finding, carping, unpatriotic papers
in the State, has lachrymose article about the
seizure of a citizen OF Franklin county, and
his being hurried off to Fort Preble, referring
to Gibberd, who was recently arrested for aid.
ing soldiers to desert to Canada; and in its
very next column it goes to work and pufs
and praises the Portland Advertiser. Doubt.
full compliment.
ga private letter from member of the
goth Maine regiment received by gentleman
of this city, gives the position of that regi.
ment on the 20th of November, as forty miles
south of Warrenton, Va, and twelve miles
west of Fredericksburg. The regiment is in
the center division, under Hooker, Sigel be-
ing in the rear. Two days later the letter
says, "We start in an hour for Fredericksburg.
gg-The Oxford Democrat says Miss Fifeld