The Portland daily press., 1862-12-30
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED i.

sg-The sleighing is said to be very fine in
Aroostook.
ga mill in Vassalboro', says the Belfast
Republican, is making paper of poplar wood.
SAUCE FOR GoosE.-George Francis
Train was Missed down at Pittsburg lately.
gg-Last Friday was the day appointed for
the execution of the thirty-nine Indian mur-
derers at Mankato, Minnesota,
srCapt. Charles X. Hutchins of Augusta
of the 10th Maine, was killed in the battle be-
fore Fredericksburg,
SBrA son of Hon. John Berry of Gardiner
lost his right arm in the battle at Fredericks-
burgh.
sr Three freight cars were thrown from
the track, between Brunswick and Freeport,
one day last week, badly smashing two of
them. No one was hurt.
sB- 1t is reported that 1000 deserters,
mostly from North Carolina, and heartily tired
of the war, surrendered themselves to our
troops at Fredericksburg.
lB- The Lewiston Journal says the only
cruelty of this war on the part of the United
States consists in its being waged to make bad
men obey good laws.
y- Among the recent deaths of soldiers
at the Washington hospitals, we find those of
S. H. Laine, Co. 1, 4th Me-, and E. Frrrar, Co.
d, 9TH Maiue.
sg- the Bangor Whig says tnat Elias
Merrill Of that city, late Treasurer of the p.
& X. Railroad, has been appointed a paymas-
tea in the army.
B- We learn that a son of C. K Adams,
of Wilton, lost both legs in the late battle, and
son of X. S. Courier, Of Chestervile, one leg.
Capt. Belcher' of this village is among the
wounded.-l Pennington Chronicle.
sB Major Perry Lee, of the Sd Maine
regiment, was wounded in the hip, and Col.
Lakeman and Major Burt, of the same reg-
ment, had horses shot under them in the re-
cent battle.
sC Mr.. Samuel Baily, of Peru, has sent
to the war three sons and three sons-in-law.
His son Stillman w. Baily, aged 20 years,
member of the 10th Maine reg, was killed in
the battle at Fredericksburg, Dec. 18th.
B-Several soldiers belonging to a New
jersey regiment captured from the vault Of
the Fredericksburg bank over $4,000 in ten
and twenty dollar gold pieces, and a large
quantity of bank notes.
sB- Report says that Gov. Seymour, of n.
York, will give the federal government gen.
erous support in the prosecution of the war;
We hope the report may prove to be we'll
founded.
gB- 1t is thought the President will veto
the bill dividing Virginia, and admitting
western Virginia as separate State. His OBJ
jections rest on the doubtful constitutionality
of the measure.
GIN the Seth Pennsylvania, one of the
privates at the battle of Kinston had pack
of playing cards in the breast pocket of his
coat A musket ball from the rebels passed
clear through the pack, hardly bruising the
skin.
nV Perley telegraphs to the Journal that
Gen. Butler sis highly esteemed by President
Lincoln, and will be rendered a command of
high Importance" Report, says another ac-
count, assigns Gen. Butler an important COM
mand in the field.
EMANCIPATION DAY.-The Union Pro-
gressive Association tcolored) of Boston, will
hold meetings during the day and evening of
the 1st January, at the fremont Temple. in
honor of the Presidents Emancipation Procla-
nation.
9One Of the most remarkable articles in
the Continental Monthly for January, entitled
american Destiny" is said to have been
written by private in the Ohio artillery SER
vice. This is one fact of thousand which
mark the character of the Union army.
% The Piscataquis Observer learns that
young man named Garland, who was on a
hunting excursion with his father at Moose
head Lake, accidentally shot himself with his
loaded fowling piece through the abdomen,
causing his death in a short time.
~Eugene GreenIeaf, son of C. T. Green
leaf, Esq, Postmaster at Bath, has been APP
pointed cadet in the Naval Academy at
Newport. He is young man of good repu-
tation and of fine promise, and is indebted for
the appointment to Hon. A. p. Morrill,, Repre-
sentative from that Congressional district.
I-One of the best things the President
ever said was when he met Mcclellan, after
the army got back into its old trenches =
swell, General, have heard of people being
knocked into the middle of next week, but we
are the first people / ever knew who were
knocked into the middle of last year,
sg-The following singular notice was re-
Gently found posted on bridge at Gait, c. W.:
"With the blessings of Providence, and the as
sistance of the Road and Bridge Committee,
the north half of this bridge will be completed
before the south half rots. BY order, in
As, General Guardian of the Interests of
the Town.
"Fair Play" did not of course expect
his communication to appear in the absence of
his real name, and then we would suggest
whether the best way to procure a public
communication from those to whom he REFERS
is to censure, even by implication, those who
have communicated the results Of their own
observations.
sY- 1t indicates some improvement in the
mode of doing business, that the destination
of Gen. Banks was kept profound secret un-
| til that destination was reached, and that the
rebels could not get an inklng of his plans.
| The same was true of the late movement OF
Burnside. 1t shows that the leaks which have
| heretofore hean so fnrtunata for tho rahals