The Portland daily press., 1863-11-23
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Hunt; Exchange of Prisoners Morality.
% On the fourth page-"What has thou
Given?" original poetry.
sI- John Brough, Governor elect of Ohio
is printer by trade.
% Western editor in giving an account
of tornado, heads it as follows: every Dis
graceful Thunder Storm"
V- Foote expressed the belief that GER
tain miser would take the beam out of his own
eye if he knew where he could sell the timber
. D- According to the best estimate that
can be made the entire rebel strength does
not exceed 100000 troops.
% Snow fell to the depth of from six to
ten inches throughout Northern Iowa, Wis
consin and Minnesota on the 18th inst
10 The dwelling house and outbuidings
of Mr.. Lawrence McCabe, in Ellsworth were
destroyed by fire on Thursday evening.
I- Two copperheads were shot at Mt.
Carmel, Illinois, by Provost Marshal, short
time since, whom they attacked while in the
discharge ofhis duty.
% Among the contracts for army cloth
ing, as awarded in the New York papers, was
found awarded to W: Deering, of this city,
100000 Canton flannel drawers, at 0,92.
sH- Mr.. GARDENERS singing school, which
has met with almost unparalleled success, COM
mences on the last halfof the term this { Mon
day. evening, affording good opportunity
70, hos rh, mich IN nfa ha sohooI
R- 1t is estimated by Mr.. Goodale, Sec
rotary of the Board of Agriculture, that two
hundred thousand dollars worth of cheese is
annually brought into this State for the con-
sumption of its people.
Co By disaster which occurred to the
steamer Sunbury, ON Friday of week before
last, on her passage from Fredericton to st.
John, some ten or twelve passengers were
killed, and several others badly injured, as we
learn from the st. Crox Herald.
sr "Would you throw Vallandigham, an
ex-Congressman, into Jail with common vaga-
bonds?" asked sensitive Copperhead Of
Judge Holt when the famous, or rather infa-
nous, traitor was arrested. Certainly" said
the Judge, "if the vagabonds don't object"
~ "Twice LOST Is the title of a new nov
ell, published by Loring, Boston, which is
said by London reader to be more full Of
character than any book since Charles Reade's
"Chrstie tombstone For sale in this city by
Bailey & Noyes.
sH- The New York Herald thinks there
would be very little difficulty, under the ex-
isting state of feeling, caused by the cruelties
of the rebel authorities toward our prisoners
in Richmond, to bring together corps Of
100000 volunteers with the special object of
their release.
sT The Providence Journal says party
of four Pawtucket sportsmen have just re-
turned from six days hunting excursion, a
hundred miles up the Penobscot from Ban
gor, with the fiattering success of killing thir-
teen deer, eighty eight cartridges, one otter,
one fox, &c.
I- Governor Morton of Indiana is about
to establish "Home" at indianapolis, where
soldiers and soldiers wives passing through
the city may have care and protection, and
practised upon them by hackmen and hotel
runners.
~ 1t is especially important just now
that clergymen, in marrying couple, should
not neglect to give a certificate of the mar
riage, or to make a registration Of it. In the
case of the death of soldier, the widow must
have certificate of her marriage before she
can receive pension.
% The reply Of the ministers of the
| Church of Scotland to the address of the
clergymen Of the Confederate States to Chris
tians throughout the world has been published
and shows that there is no sympathy OH the
part of the Presbyterian denomination with
shareholders or slavery.
u Two Vermont soldiers, who recently
escaped from Richmond, we're three days and
four nights on the way TO the Federal lines,
during which time they had only two meals
and "a few sweet potatoes. They reached
Williamsburg on the 3lst ult., in state Of
complete exhaustion.
~ Franklin County is becoming quite no.
torious for murder cases of the most cold
blooded and revolving character. The details
of the horrid murder in Temple, of man over
so years of age, are sckening in the extreme
The Chronicle attributes this fearful increase
of crime to the large quantity of Intoxicating
liquors sold and drank.
~ The colored regiment of Rhode Island
was presented on the 14th inst, with flag by
Gen. Smith, after which speeches were made
by Senator Anthony, Bishop Clark, President
Sears of Brown University, and Rev. DIR
Swain. The occasion was one of much inter.
est. The regiment numbers 1850 men and
presented a fine appearance.
T- Joseph Shuman and Edward Ludwick
privates in the 9Th Maine Infantry, who were
captured beyond Alexandria, have been tried
and convicted in Richmond, on the charge Of
'nigger stealing" and sentenced to three years
imprisonment in the penitentiary, where they
are now confined at hard labor. The charge
was without foundation, and the sentence I'M
warranted.
fEThe Oxford Democrat Says, Mr. J. r.
Bassett of Boston has purchased the etire
mill property at Lockes, Mills. The building
formerly occupied as wollen factory is to be
filed with machinery for the manufacture Of
spools. The saw and grist mills are under.
going thorough repares. The movement will