The Portland daily press., 1863-01-08
ORIGINAL AND LECTED

my Hymn; Suggestions about letters, &c.
gB~ We are indebted to "R. X. g." for en-
couraging words and other favors.
gy- b. Bursley, Esq, has been appointed
Post Master at Sangerville.
sB- c. F. Stevens has been appointed Pot
Master at West Waterville, in place of VIM.
| Mccartney, Esq, removed.
aB- Vanity Fair, sad to say, is not sup
ported as a weekly. Its publication as
monthly will commence on the 10th inst.
gB- Gen. Braxton Bragg, commanding the
rebel forces in Tennessee, has astonished friends
aud foes alike by the issue of Il proclamation
for the better observance of the Sabbath day.
sr The Bath Times says that one eighth
of the bark Comet, AGO tons, now in New York,
was sold at auction Tuesday by d. G. Magoun,
Esq, for S2025. The purchaser was Mr.. G. V.
Minot of Phipsburg.
ar The newspapers very generally are
urging some recognition, by medals or promo
ton, of those brave fellows who led the for
lorn hope in the laying of the pontoon bridge
at Fredericksburg.
sr The Richmond Examiner has three
columns of its space filled with lists of killed
and wounded in sundry regiments at Freder-
icksburg, proving that the rebels suffered
somewhat in the late battle.
sg- Charles II. Sampson corporal in Co.
| A, Sd Maine regiment, who lost leg at the
battle of Malvern Hill, returned to this city
last week. He has been presented with a cork
vvttl,
well, but he says it is not so good as the one he
| planted in the Old Dominion.-IBath Times.
CONGRESSIONAL ELEcTIoN.-A Milwaukee
dispatch of the Sd says returns thus far re-
ceived leave no room for doubt of the election
of Hon. w. ID. McIndoe, Republican, for Con-
| gress, for both terms, over Benton in the 9th,
and Ferris in the I'd district
Sr The Machias Union says Mr.. Wm T
Hanscom was instantly killed by falling tree
at Teekaet, w. T., some time in October last
Mr.. II. went from East Machias last spring.
His age was about 35 years he leaves wild
ow, and two small children at East Mrchias.
- At Richmond, 23d ult, onfederate
notes being the standard, gold was $l.90a3.35,
silver S260a3, Virginia and North Carolina
bank notes S1.25a1.30; wheat S4a4.1O, corn
meal $3.50, flour s20a25, bacon roc, coffee S1.75
| per h., sugar 09c., molasses S4.75 per gallon,
salt Csc. per h., butter S125, cheese 81 10al .25
candles 75aS0c.. lard 60a70c potatoes $3.50 per
bushel, apples s15al6 per barrel.
WHO ARE OUR SOLDIERS ?-Theodare Park
man, color-sergeant of the .th Regiment Mas
| sachusetts volunteers, who was killed at
| Whitehall North Carolina on the 14th Dec
ember, was twenty-five years old, only son of
Rev. John and Susan Parkman, formerly of
| Staten Island, a graduate of Columbia Col
lege of the class OF 1857, a pupil Of Professor
| Wilcott Gibbs of the free Academy, and
Doctor of Natural Philosophy in the Univer-
sity of Gottingen, Germany.
DEATH OF MAINE SoLDIERs.-We find in
the Boston Journal the following names of
soldiers recently deceased in hospital at Wash
ington: Corporal George Fl. Berry, Co. B, 10th
Me-; S. c. S. Sartof, Co. B, 17th Charles E.
james, Co. c, 10th; Sydney Spofford, Co. G,
3D.; J. c. Libbey Co. /, 17th; Nathan r. Jack
son, Co. l, 19th Jeremiah Berry, Co. C, 17th.
-g The Saco Democrat states that the
house of William Hussey, Esq, of North Ber-
wick, barely escaped burning on last Wednes-
day morning. The room in which Mr.. and
Mrs. Hussey slept, on the lower floor, contain
ed an open stove, in which a fire was built ear
ly in the morning, and while the family were
away from the room spark communicated
to the bed, which was almost entirely con-
sumed when discovered. By the aid of neigh
bors sufficient water was thrown on the fire
to quell it, but with difficulty.
sr The committee appointed by the Con-
ao;c -;s;t
hospitals and ascertain what is the condition
of the soldiers Of that State, have returned,
and report that, so far as they can ascertain,
there has not been more suffering or indivd-
ual privation than what are the necessary in
cidents of war, and in no sense whatever com
parable to the sufferings and want of the
French and English armies in the Crimean
campaign. They report the condition of the
sick and wounded as very satisfactory.
sB- When the draft took place in Fairfield,
Connecticut, September 10, poor man was
drafted, who had a large family depending up
on him for support. In five days he was to
report for service. When his name was called
it was answered to by Benjamin r. Dimon,son
of James Dimon, man of wealth and infu-
ence in that town, and doing business in New
York. Young Dimon had previously refused
an officers commission. He went out in the
23d regiment, and has already been promoted
to a sergeantcy.
sr The St. John IN. b. Despatch says,
with its usual courteous elegance, amid some
well-written things in the Atlantic, we are
forced to smile at some of the veriest balder-
dash from the pen of Mrs. H. B. Stowe, which
has ever emanated from her pen, in reply
to the aflectonate and Christian address of
many thousands of women of Great Britain
and Ireland, to their sisters the women of the
United States of America" The Despatch re-
trains from further comment, intending ito re-
fer to this article again. Don't. Mrs. Stowe,
whatever her faults, cannot be one of those
exceptional criminals, who really deserve TO
be kicked to death by musquitos.
sg- The New York Tribune assumes to
have trustworthy advices that the recent in
terchange of sentiments between our demo-
cratic leaders and the rebel chiefs at Rich
mond has resulted in no understanding, but
rather in more hopeless estrangement The
former sounded the latter with regard to the
terms of accommodation they were prepared
to accept, and were plumply answered that
they would consent to no terms of reunion
that no number, no completeness, of democrat