The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-12-12
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20 Rev. t. Starr King is lecturing in va
rious parts of California, in behalf of the San
itary Commission.
% The City government of New York
have agreed to issue shinplasters to represent
the sum of three millions of dollars.
SBr The Bath Times learns that the repor-
ted transfer of Col. Sewall, of the Maine 10Th,
to Gen. Towards staff is incorrect.
gT- We are indebted to the Hon. w. P.
FEssENDEN. for copy of preliminary re-
port on the Eighth Census.
GgrThe Wing says the most direct method
of determining horse power : stand behind
and tickle his hind legs with brier.
eY- The Argus intimates that free negro
is more offensive to a free man than to slave.
Would that paper vote to enslave the free ne
groes in Maine to lessen their offensiveness?
rY- The Richmond Examiner of the Doth
ult., says the next session of the Confederate
Congress win meet at Richmond on the second
Monday of January.
ITThe Bangor Wing says the bunker pa
pers have two objections to emancipation.
X.
they will dispace white laborers. Can both
be true?
sTThe Augusta Journal says Messrs. L.
c. Coombs & Co. of that city, are furnishing
the paper mill in Vassalboro' with Excelsior
for the manufacture of paper.
ggT Spaulding Robinson ESQ.,, of Sherman,
is nominated by the Governor for County Com
missioner in Aroostook, rice Thomas J. Brown,
Esq, deceased.
CBr The Lewiston Journal says that the
number of students at the Maine State Semi
nary, this term, is greater than the correspond
ing term last year.
gB-The Argus insists that "fanatical abo-
litionism' has caused the rebellion. Will it
inform its readers what caused fanatcal aboli-
tionism?
s- Hon. L. NJ. Standsh, recently elected
one of the Aldermen of Boston, was born in
Bath, in 1908. He is mason and builder and
his property is valued at over 100000, on
which he pays tax of S2156.-l Bath Times
sg- John S. Rarey, the horse-tamer, has
been sent to the Army of the Potomac by Gen.
eral Haleck, to inquire into the sanitary con-
dition OF its horses and to suggest some sys-
TEN to check the mortality among them.
Er Marshal p. Wilder, who has over six
hundred pear trees growing, says that the six
most profitable kinds of pears he has found to
be the Bartlett, Anjou, Urbaniste, Moroccan,
Vicar of Wakefield, and Louise Bonnie de Jer-
sey.
gB- The Richmond correspondent of the
London Times is ascertained TO be Mr.. Law
ley, formerly a member ofParliament and Sec
rotary to Mr.. Gladstone. This intelligence is
confirmed by both English and American au-
thority.
sr The Kennebec Journal says the Ken
nebec Telegraph line, from Bath to Augusta
has been loaned to the American company for
ten years, at seven per cent, to take effect Jan.
1, 1868. A double wire is to be put up imme
diately.
sr The editor fthe Argus says the North
abandoned slavery not from any principle, but
only because it was not profitable! Wonder if
the writer does not carry the idea of judging
other peoples motives by his own to an I'M
warrantable length?
sH- The Lynn Reporter states that Mrs.
F. W. Lander of that city, widow of Gen. Ian
/ der, has been appointed lady Superintendent
| of Hospitals in the department of the South,
and will proceed with her mother to Port Roy
al, S. c., where they will reside.
sr The severe frost of the last three DAYS
has had the effect of closing the navigation of
the Hudson river. The steamer New World
had about $50 tons of freight on board yester-
day, intended for Albany, but as there was no
possibility of her getting through, her depart
ure hence was abandoned.-[N. Y. World,
Dec. 8.
Ir We learn from the army of the Poto-
mac, that the night of Dec. 9th, was intensely
| cold, and some OF the troops suffered for the
want of blankets. Ice formed in the Potomac
and Acquia Creek from one and half to two
inches thick. On the It'll, the sun came out
fair and cheering, but the air continued pierre
ing cold. The roads are hard and very rough.
"He-e-ere's tn Evening Courier! Great bat
tie at Fort Donels'n"
I "Whats that?" cried Y, throwing up the
counting room window with an air of intense
interest. "Whats that?"
They're fight'n at Fort Donels'n, SIR
| "Cdn't they stop emp
Erit newsboy, who privately considers that
sort of chaff "about played OUT"
8rA An editor of certain paper not a
thousand miles from Hallowell--not Rowell of
the Gazette-twits us of failing three newspa-
pers in Bath. This is not exactly true, though
it is true that we have failed to collect a
note of little rising fifty dollars against that
same editor, though it is several months over
due. Before be again twits us of failure, we
hope he will not fail to redeem his promise"
r"J. NJ" in the Transcript, styles "The
Canoe and the Saddle by Winthrop, .the
stupidest book of the season." and yet he has
evidently spent good deal of time over this
''stupid" work, for he devotes a whole column
and half TO a notice of it. The frequent in
PRODUCTION of Chinook jargon, with free
translation, ofiends the reviewers taste, but
not more so than does the frequent interlard-
ing of English composition with Latin, French,
or Spanish quotations, without TRANSACTIONS,
the good taste of the common reader.