The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-12-19
ORIGIN AL AND LECTE ID.

AS n "estciH paper spedhs vi pmutetS
Of longitude"
g- The legislature will meet at Augusta
on Wednesday, Jan. It'll.
sB-A few OF the friends of Gen. Mcclellan
in New York have presented him with house
in that city.
I- Gen. Halleck has been constantly send
ing reinforcements forward to Gen. Burnside
since Saturday.
Gge The Democratic League of New York
have written a letter to Gen. Butler, COM
mending his course.
sg- The repairs on the steamship Great
Eastern are now completed, and she is ready
for sea.
lH-A crowd of communications and other
prepared matter, is necessarily laid over for
lack of room.
E-How long does our neighbor of the
Advertiser propose to keep at its column head
the "faunting lie" about a circulation SUPER
ior to any paper in Maine?
rY-No one can question the military cap
acity and qualifications of man who, like
| Burnside, can cross and recross a broad deep
river in the face of strongly intrenched enemy.
sB-The much greater length of Senator
| Fessenden's speech than weNt first reckoned
upon, compes us to defer its publication till
tomorrow.
% Gen. Fremont arrived in Washington
Monday morning from New York. Coils. Al
bert, Pion, and Zagonyi, of his staff, accom-
pany him.
9Br John Larrabee, Esq, of Bath, with a
crew Of men, has gone to Maryland, to spend
the winter in cutting timber for the shipyards
of that city.
sr Capt Louis o. Cowan of the Maine
Cavalry, who has resigned on account of ill
health will resume the control of the Bidde-
ford Union.
20 The author of political arrests in this
country was George Washington. In 1775 he
caused the arrest of the tory office-holders at
Portsmouth, n. II.
To- The Washington Chronicle speaks of
the London Quarterly as "one of the oldest,
ablest and most influential of the British
monthlies." They have bulls as well as lions
at the federal capital!
SBr The Argus approvingly quotes "Carle-
ton" of the Boston Journal that in the recent
battle-the severest he had ever Witnessed
"the ne,c troops fought generally as ,ceH as
the reterans."
crWe paid nearly three dollars for spo-
cial dispatch from Fredericksburg, and we find
its news credited by some of our exchanges
to another paper! That is one of the fruits of
enterprise.
sg-At the meeting of the City Council in
Bath Monday evening, an order was passed
directing the Mayor to replevin the wood on
the line of the Androscoggin Railroad, which
has been attached by creditors of the old road.
rr The letter from Fredericksburg in this
paper, win be read with interest. In private
note our correspondent informs us that, on en-
tering Fredericksburg, Gen. Howard was
made, temporarily, Military Governor.
sg- The Bangor Wing thought we did not
believe in everlasting fire." and asks if we
have changed our mind. In answer we would
say that we always made an exception to our
scot.
T We see it stated that the P. NJ. General
has designated the Portland and Augusta of.
fees to redeem the postage stamps that have
been soiled by using as currency. We sup
pose notice will be given when the redemp-
ton process is to commence.
q Petitions are now being circulated in
Bangor and other parts Of the state, for Con
gress to appropriate S3,000,OO0 for railroad
from the Penobscot to the east line of the
state, as work of military necessity. Every
body should sign, thinks the Wing.
sE-'rhe Wing says that on Monday even
ing, the jewelry store OF Mr.. John Lowell, of
Bangor, was entered while the owner was at
supper, and though the safe was opened, the
rogue seems to have been frightened before
meddling with the watches or jewelry.
% The Oxford Democrat has lost col
umn from each page. Pity it hadn't happen
ed before.-lSpringfeld Republican.
Take that back! The Oxford Democrat,
Notwithstanding its ominous name. is sheet
as thoroughly Republican as that of Spring
field.
sr Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jack
son both justified a suspension of the habeas
corpus other than by Congress, and both ,cere
thought to be pretty good democrats but
that was good while ago and they are now
both dead. Ifave they would scarcely pass
the portals of modern democracy.
.r "The Press denies now that he [the
President ordered the crossing of the Kappa
hammock" So says the Argus, but there is
not a word of truth in it. The Press simply
doubted the Argus statement, that Burnside,
in crossing the river, was "acting against his
better Judgment"
sy- Gen. Bayard was to have been mar
red OH the 18th of this month to a daughter
of Col. Bowman, of West Point. The match
had already been postponed twice on account
of the exigencies of the service. The Gener-
al die6 in full anti-slavery faith, converted on
his many fields of battle.
gg- The Argus and Advertiser-now vir-
tually different versions of the same thng-are
full of condemnation of the President, the Cab
met Congress, Gen. Halleck, and all who have
the conduct of the war or the guardianship of
the public interests, and not one word of de-
nuneiation of the rebels, and yet they both
claim to be very loyal.