The Portland daily press., 1862-12-06
ORIGI AL AND SELL G. TIE ID.

gg-It is rumored that General Mcclellan is
preparing history of military affairs during
the period that he held chief command.
gB-Among the recent deaths in the Wash
ington Hospitals, we notice the name of NJ.
p. Waldron, Co. c, 9th Maine.
A young man in Alleganny City, Pa, swal-
lowed quid of tobacco, accidentally, and was
soon after seized with spasms and died.
gB- The Penobscot river closed up sudden
ly Wednesday night, entrappng fifteen or
twenty vessels ready loaded with lumber and
| potatoes.
lB- The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society have issued an address to call forth the
public sympathy of England with the emanci-
patton party in the North.
sB- The Boston Transcript suggests an i'm
provement in the manufacture of note paper;
that the double sheet, no longer needed in
these days of envelopes, be replaced by sin
gle leaf.
% Statistics prove thatthe leading powers of
the earth-Great Britain, France, Russia, and
the United States-expend S1,000,000n00 an
nually for alchohol, tobacco and opium. That
is the direct expense; the indirect is much
| more.
- "Perley' teegraphs that intercepted
rebel correspondence shows that an angry
state of feeling exists between JEFF. Davis and
the rebel Governor of Louisiana, ON account
of prohibition, by the former, Of trade with
New Orleans, which causes great suffering
.S- Commander Worden, whose services
on the Monitor have been so highly appreciat-
ed by his country, will sail from New York
next week in better ship than even the Mer-
rimac's antagonist. His eyes are well enough
for duty, and his spirits excellent.
sy- Some villain defaced the house of Rev.
II. w. Beecher, in Brooklyn,a few nights since,
by throwing some black, pitchy, oily substance
against the front, that cannot be cleared of.
The scoundrel should be Gagged up in Beech
er's church, and suffer from the crashes of his
thunder and lightning until he heartily re-
pents of his sin
s4-It has been stated that Gov Stanley
has refused to call convention for the nom-
nation of Congressional candidates in North
Carolina, but the Progress of the 2Sth ultimo
| Is
in saying-to designate day for the election
of Representatives. upon being requested
thereto by any considerable number of citizens.
LEA gambler has published, in the st.
Louis Republican, a warning to all those who
are tempted with cards. He states that one
manufacturer Of cards in New York city makes
| eight different sets of playing cards, each
having system OF marking on the backs
which enables the initiated to read from the
backs the different kind of card, as easily as
from the face. That is the way greenhorns
are robbed.
cB-Last Friday, William H. aged 10 years,
and Ida f., aged years, 10 months, only chill
dren of Clark Hutchins, of this city came to
their death by drowning. They were in COM
pany with other children, at play on the ice
which had iofmed over the water in one of the
excavations, IBsde by quarrying granite, in the
pasture back of the reservoir" when the ice
gave way and the two children above named
fell in and were both drowned.-l Biddeford
Union.
sc The editor of the Haowell Courier,
recently one ofBuchanan's Office holders, who
talks fippantly of abolition priests" and
threatens revolution in the north If the Fed
eral government adopts 'the sanguinary
schemes of northern fanatics" was not many
years ago one of the widest abolition fanat-
les" on the Kennebec, and was the publisher of
Mr.. Austin Willey's Liberty Standard! Such
are the fellows who to-day are whining about
the "abolitionists."
gg- Never was a better opportunity Of
fered great party for setting itself right be-
fore the country, than is now presented to the
| Democrats, Their success in the late elec-
tions is construed in Europe to indicate Il 'ia-
vorable disposition towards peace in the
| North, that is, peace purchased at the ex-
| pense of disintegration. If the Democrats
are sincere in their expressed loyalty, how
can they receive this misinterpretation other
wise than by burst of indignation? Will they
do so, or suffer wrong motives to be imputed
/ TO them, To the detriment OF the country p
| ken. Journal.
SUNKEN SHIPS AT NORFOLK. VA.-The
/ work OF raising the sunken United States war
vessels at Norfolk, Hampton Roads, &c, is ac-
/ lively and successfully progressing. The
/ frigate United States was raised few days
since, pumped out, and towed to the Gosport
Navy Yard. Work has been commenced up
on the line-ofbattle ships Delaware and Col
umbus and they will probably be raised, ,,chole,
/ in few days. Preparations for raising the
/ Cumberland, Congress and Merrimac are also
/ actively in progress. The contractor, Mr.. r.
1 r. Wells OF Boston, Is confident of his ability
| to raise the whole heet-comprising thirteen
war vessels-by the early part of next spring.
carleton" closes one of his recent ar
my letters to the Journal as follows:
There is evidence that the South is looking
| with apprehension to the winter campaign.-
The movement of the armies in the West and
In the East at the same time leaves them no
| opportunity to concentrate their forces They
remember that last winter success was all on
| our side. The winter season is favorable TO
us, but disastrous to them. Northern troops,
| Injured to the hardships of the lumber regions
| of Maine, Michigan, and Wisconsin, are just
the men to make winter campaign in more
! Southern latitudes. On the other hand, it
| will go hard with Louisianians, Georgians-
| men of southern cline, where ice is rarely
frozen thicker than the window glass, who are
| not the men to bivouac in snow-storms, and
| storms of frozen rain. 1t will be hard for
northern troops to make it an active winter
campaign, but it will be harder for the rebels
| The war is one OF endurance. Bravery on the
battlefield is only one element Brag is good
| dog, Il do not mean the rebel general who
spells his name with double q but Hold Fast
is better. Endurance is virtue which tells
in the long run.
| lY- We noticed some time since the Bow
| doin Bugle, with its annual crop of valuable
statistics safely garnered for future. use. The
Watervileain has since been furnished us, and
etlldin-ous name it is, as the Eastern Mail