The Portland daily press., 1862-12-20
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTED.

alDdlly.
av- Geo. W. Lord of Berwick, has beer
appointed Trial Justice.
rB- Is a drunken woman fallen angel SC
long as she can stand alone?
Ex-senator Fessenden's speech on 'arbitra,
ry arrests" will be found upon the first page
-A Texas paper, dated September Ord
says that Gen. Houston is alive and well, and
living on his old homestead.
CO The verses beginning "Has He dealt
with sparing hand" are excellent in spirit but
metrically lame and-declined.
B- A. M. c. Heath, editor of the Gardiner
Journal is reported to have been wounded in
the breast In the late battles.
ly- The charter of new Express Compa-
ny, says the Augusta Journal, is to be asked
for of the next legislature.
% The Pennington Chronicle reports the
death of Benjamin Sampson, ESQ.,, Register of
Probate for Franklin County.
gg- The Oxford Democrat learns that two
bears were recently captured in Shelburne, N.
II.
e About $4,000 worth OF postage stamps
was redeemed in New York on the 10Th. Some
of them were in packages marked as high as
S1400.
sB-The New York Express of Wednesday
evening says Gen. Mcclellan has not been sum-
moned to Washington. He was still in New
York Wednesday noon.
% There is much speculation about the
destination of Gen. Banks expedition. We
have not yet seen Pensacola suggested, with
view to operate against Mobile.
sB1 The editor of the Journal has seen
drunken woman in Lewiston. "a fallen angel"
he exclaims, and says, "when women take to
the cups there is little hope for the men,"
sgrA correspondent states that Mr.. l..
Downs. Of Mexico, private in Co. ID, 18th
Maine Regiment, while on guard duty Nov
20, near Sharpsburg, Nd, lost one of his hands,
by the accidental discharge of his musket.-
lOxford Democrat.
r- The Wing says Capt. Amasa Bartlett,
of Orrington, 10 years OF age, with his basket
on his arms, and skates upon his feet, takes a
run of five miles upon the ice to Bangor, to do
his shopping.
sg- The secession luminary in Hallowell
says Secretary Chase "has preached the great
est financial humbug ever thought Of" Robt.
j. Walker takes a different view, and this
shows how great minds differ
sr The Lewiston journal says orders are
TO be issued Immediately for the enlistment of
two additional companies for the 18th Maine,
which has been changed into an artillery regi-
ment.
rc The Bath Times is informed that Mr.
G. w. Heal, a member of Co. X, 10th Maine
Regiment, is dead. He was the only son of
Mr.. William Heal of Georgetown. He died at
the hospital in Washington.
rr Col. Bomford, recently stationed at
Augusta as superintendent of the recruiting
service in the State, has been relieved and or
dered to indianapolis. Maj. Clark remains at
Augusta.
sB- Forty Texans captured by Gen. Grant,
have petitioned the General to be allowed to
take the oath of allegiance. They are Ger
mans, and say they were forced into the rebel
army by conscription.
s- Between now and New Year we shall
look over our list of papers sent to correspon-
dents, and if some of them should, after that
time, miss their papers, it will be because they
have very seldom or never allowed US to hear
from them.
~ The order for the censor of the tele-
graph dispatches now forbids him to pass any
army news, save the casualties, without the
endorsement of Gen. Burnside. He is also re-
quired to scan the newspaper reports in pri-
vate.
SB- The New York papers state that, in
answer to their advertisement for proposals for
furnishing 100000 pounds of printing PAGER
per week, proposal has already been received
from party to supply the amount at large re-
ducton from current rates.
sB- Governor Stanley of North Corolina
has issued proclamation calling for an cleo
ton on the LIST prox., for member of Con-
gress in the second district of that state.
None but loyal citizens, possessing the qualif-
cations required by the constitution of North
Carolina, are considered qualified to vote.
s- The cows in Brunswick, according to
the Telegraph, are getting decidedly lofty in
their notions, and do not hesitate, when they
want fodder, to walk up stairs and take pos
session Of the hay-lolt. Bro. Tenney does not
inform his readers whether they can yet climb
a ladder.
SB- A correspondent Of the Boston Jour-
nal, writing from Kidder, Mo-, says, Missouri
is preparing, if not already prepared, to accept
emancipation with all its results The people
have suffered so much from slavery and its Sc
quences, that they accept with thrill of Joy,
the idea that Missouri is to be disenthralled
and freed"
% A lions skin drawn over jackass will
not always conceal the long ears. The Argus,
which has been so ready to charge us with
getting up army letters in our own office. has
brief communication signed "Bddeford,"
and purporting to come from Biddeford, but
which closes with the following unmistakable
ear-narks: ave trust our Biddeford friends
will keep us posted, &c. 1t must have been
late in the afternoon when that was written,
or the editor would have made separate par
agraph of this request, and not so distinctly
shown that the whole communication was his
own sickly offspring.
To- In yesterdays Advertiser was long
and characteristic article from the pen of the
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