The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-02-16
RIGINAL AND sELEC TED.


~ The New Bedford Mercury says Miss
Lavina Warren's fingers are all Thumbs.
GBThe Adjutant Generals report, it is
said, will be published in few days.
ev- An application of "Spauding's Glue''
is said to be excellent for preventing hair from
falling off the head.-[Gospel Banner.
gV The battalion of the Maine It'll, which
left this city not long since, is now encamped
near White Oak Church, Va.
Sy-A man In Presque Isle stopped his pa
per the other day because the editor said the
great fire in that place was mystery.
s1- The Reporter says that Messrs. Taylor
and Perry, Of Bridgton, have now got their
new mill fairly in operation and are manufac-
turing light goods such as Lady's cloths, &c.
sr If the editor of the Augusta Age
thinks we published "the fiction that the Age
and Hallowell Courier were to be boiled down
into one" to prejudice his paper, or from any
unfriendly spirit, he Is simply mistaken,-that
is all.
u The Lewiston Journal says we were
mistaken in attributing to 1t the lines vindica-
ting the "iallen Daniel" of the Augusta Age.
We stand corrected, though we thought we
were copying from our Lewiston neighbor.
sBr The Hallowel Gazette says the Port
land Press manifests the inspiration of an able
pen, and is fast gaining in popular favor. 1t is
the only really 'liye" and Enthusiastically loyal
morning paper at the "Natural Seaport"
u A private letter from Pensacola to the
Bath Times, says that matters there are ex-
ceedngly quiet. The 18th Maine regiment
still remains there. There has been no deaths
in this regiment for three months.
20 The Brunswick Telegraph says Lieut..
Col. Chamberlain, goth Maine, arrived at
home on Tuesday, ON q short furlough. The
| Colonel looks rather thin, but bronzed, as if
he had seen hard service; but he is in capital
spirits.
sg- The Bridgton Reporter has reappeared
bright and sparkling as ever. Capt Horace
Little is the publisher and proprietor, and
Miss Lizzie Fly is seated in the editorial chair.
She is fly that buzzes, sometimes bites, but
never stings.
|
Maine 7th Regiment, and who commanded
the regiment at Antietam, has been appointed
Acting Inspector General of one of the Grand
Divisions of the Army of the Potomac, on the
staff of General Smith.
~ A Pensacola correspondent Of the
Bath Times, says Capt. Seth H. Leonard. 'of
Bowdoin, commander Of Co. B, 18th Maine
volunteers, has been compelled, in consequence
of feeble health, to resign his commission, and
has now returned home.
ggr The Democrat learns that Rev. r.
Jacques, pastor of the Methodist church at
South Paris, was called to Washington on Fri
day last to see his only son, who is dangerous
! ly sick in hospital at Washington. He is a
member of the Sixth Maine regiment.
H- A horse, in excellent condition. was
accidentally killed in Skowhegan the other
day, and the Farmer says the 'beef' Is 'min-
istering to the creature comforts of one of
ou1French families who do not imbibe the fool
ish prejudice so generally felt towards this
kind of food"
~ A funny story is told at Washington.
Two members of the House asked permission
to print their speeches instead of delivering
them; and there are now in print two speech
es, with different names upon them, which are
| so precisely alike, rs to excite astonishment.
| The inference is that the manufacturer made
| a mistake.
u A picture Of genuine "peace man"
given by the Rockland Democrat, exhibits him
as a person who has his pockets stuck full Of
revolvers, his belly full of whiskey, his mouth
stuffed with profanity and blasphemy, and who
is at all times ready to insult, browbeat, knock
down and shoot anybody else who is not for
peace. For Illustration, see salisbury.
IL The Louisville (Ky.) Journal says of
the conservative" or "peace men" OF the
North, who talk about compromises, that "they
might march toward the South with olive
branches enough to be mistaken, like the
branches borne by the troops Of Macduf, for
Birnam wood, and still they would be met on
ly with bullet and bayonet"
sy- A few days since we published that
that Gen. Dow had been cited to appear and
answer to the charge of stealing" or for acts
COHtiiteSu Wy ooiucio mum VI - SaSNsoH anu
st. Philip, acting under his orders. We now
learn on good authority that Gen. Dow tcas not
in command Of those forts at the time when
the acts were committed, SO that all the than
derbolts aimed at his devoted head, by rum
my secessionists, have hit wide OF their in
tended mark.
II A characteristic story Of Gen. Butler
has just been set afoat by the Washington
correspondent of the Springfield Republican
II will not go back to New Orleans" said, the
General recently sunless l can have more
'troops. Why can't you give me more?"
ave havn't them to give" replies Mr.. Lin
coin. "Then why don't you raise more-put
"the draft upon New York !-raise that forty
Thousand who should have been raised in that
estate last fallv' "Mr Seymour says it will not
"do to DRAFT in New York." answers Lincoln
"Then / could drq1 SEYMOUR
sg- The Bangor Wing very properly re-
marks, that the men who sent the finding of
the Court Martial in the case of Capt. Bach
elder, to that paper and to the Press, prob
ably knew nothing ofthe circulation of either,
though it was designed for the paper having
the largest. If the Wing, the only paper in
the state having the slightest reason to com