The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-24

IB Ten. Butter Is organizing with great
rapidty II force of colored cavalry. He raised
company in one day.
sH-It is understood that Farnham, who
murdered Edes, in Temple, last month, will be
defended on plea Of imbecility.
D-Wm. ID. Haley, Esq. OF Bath, has been
admitted member Of the Sagadahoc Bar, and
to practice throughout the State.
90 The Virginia Legislature has passed
bill calling convention to consider the expe-
diency of abolishing slavery in the State.
srThe LindeIl Hotel at st. Louis has
been sold for 100000. Itcost about $4,000.
The purchasers, Henry Ames & Co.
srThe Union maj oriB in Illinois is 3o,096.
Copperhead majority last year, 1896 Net
Union gain, 46,762.
sVThc Lewiston Journal speaks of the
lecture of Col. Hite, in that city on Saturday
evening, in terms Of commentator.
v The December Term of the S. j.
Court for Sagadahoc County, closed on Mon
day. The Times says it was the shortest ses-
sion that has ever been held there.
ay- A little son of Mr.. James Wood of
Lewiston, was dangerously injured on Sunday
by the accidental discharge OF pistol in his
own hands, says the Journal.
GA Temperance society has been formed
in connection with the Park Street Methodist
numbers 100 members.
sV-Col. Fry, Provost Marshal General, rec
ommends the abolition of the communication
clause, or its limitation to Quakers and other
conscientious opposers Of war.
TWm. Gibson, 4th Maine Volunteers,
VIM. p. Goodwin, 18th u S. Infantry, and
nine others, were to be shot on Friday last for
desertion from the army of the Potomac. The
sentence was probably carried into effect.
sH-Thc share in the prize money Of Capt.
Eaton, who was in command of the steamer
Circassian when it captured the Minna, a
blockade runner, will amount TO $4,000. The
crew also get liberal slice.
eY- 1t is thought that at least 100 of the men
who arrived in the Galway Steamer, at Boston,
ON Sunday night, will be enlisted into the SER
vice of the United States. Among them are
some discharged soldiers of the British army.
G1-Mr. S. Howe, of Lisbon, on returning
from market, where he had received $40 bill
for his load, sat down to take a smoke. He
learned the next morning that the $40 bill had
been mistaken for waste paper and used TO
light his pipe. Expensive smoking.
TEA boy about thirteen years Of age, nam
ed Plummer, belonging in Tuftonboro', n.
H.,was cunning recently on Ossipee MountaiD,
and observed something running up tree.
Not knowing what it was, he fired and down
came cub bear.
srThe Bangor Wing says Lieut.. j. ID.
Warren, of Herman, has been assigned to the
command of the steamer Harvest Moon, which
Is now being prepared to take her place among
the blockade chasers, probably OF Whining
ton. Her superior speed will make her val
liable acquisition TO the squadron.
svThe Machias Union says sixty men,
citizens of Eastport, we're on duty last Thurs
day. Friday they telegraphed to Augusta for
seventy-five rifles or muskets. The precau-
tionary movements are induced by threats
from desperate men in New Brunswick.
sTThe vote in the House Of Representa-
tives not to lay on the table Mr.. Spauldings
resolution for special committee on bank
rupt law, is considered test vote, and that
the House is favorably disposed to the consid-
Grafton and passage of such measure at this
session.
svThe Bath Times says, 1t. Charles T.
Hooper, of Co. A, I'd Maine, arrived at his
home in that city, on Saturday on short fur
Tough. 1t. Hooper went out with the regi-
ment on the first call. and has been in all the
battles in which it has been engaged, without
receiving wound.
GTGen. Gilmore, in letter to Col. Plais-
ted Of the 18th Maine, says, i regard the 18th
whenever an opportunity offers, to place it
we'll in the front, and have no doubt that it
will sustain the good name it now enjoys, and
for which it is indebted primarily to the zeal
and soldierly qualities of its commander.
sH-"Murder will out" and so will the trea-
sonable proclivities of the so-called democratic
leaders. Fernando Wood has been made one
of the "National Democratic Committee to fix
the time and place for holding the "National
Convention and James Brooks was pnt on a
committee "to arrange the order of business
for the democratic members who were to re-
port to the caucus" yesterday.
"a The Argus copies extensively from
those purely patriotic journals, the New York
World and the Boston Courier, to show the
fixcdness of the South in its determination
never to yield, and calls upon its friends TO
rally at the ballot-box to prevent "the execu-
tion Of policy at the point Of the bayonet,
which drives people to such desperation"
The Argus does not "fail to see, in the calm
resignation and the resolute purpose to suffer
death rather than what they deem dishonor,
the spirit which inspires martyrs and which
makes even small numbers fornidable;n and
we may add, that few loyal men will fail to
see in the spirit which prompts such sympa-
thy for rebels, anything very different from
that which inspires JEFF. Davis and which has
deluged this fair land in blood. Douglas never
spoke truer word than when he said there
are only two parties, patriots and traitors and
it is very certain that no patriot can invoke