The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-01-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

aminer; &c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonaparte of Baltimore are
said to have been nnfinching in their loyalty
from the first
SB Seventy-two shares of the Bates Man
ufacturing Company were sold in Boston on
Saturday last for sl4s.5Oasl49.75 per share.
sB- The Wing says the number Of deaths
in the city of Bangor for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1862, was 279.
ag- Captain Faunce of the 18th Regiment
has returned from the war, and has arrived in
Lewiston.
~ Col. Sewal of the Maine 10TH left his
home in Bath for his regiment near Falmouth,
Va, by yesterdays train.
- The mackerel fishery for 1862 foots up
better than the year beiore or the averages of
years. The fishermen generally had good
fares and sold them at good prices.
SB- The Lewiston Journal understands
that the Lewiston Falls Manufacturing Com
pany pay out dividend of 10 per cent. for the
past six months.
- Mr. George T. Dearborn of Exeter, n.
H., has been appointed Mail Agent on the Bos-
ton and Maine Railroad, vice Ichabod Pearl of
Great Falls, removed.
sgrLewis Mann, an insane person, was
found dead on the beach in Tiverton, X. l., on
Thursday, his body naked and his clothes lying
near him on the shore.
o. Our very exact friend of the Argus
has located the delivery of Mr.. Webster's ia
nous Seventh of March" speech in Faneuil
Hall, instead of the U. S. Senate.
.y- Benjamin. A. johnson of North Au-
burn, assignor to himself and Earl Blossom of
same place, has been granted patent right
for improvement in railroad snow plows
sg- correspondent at Washington has
sent us sample of the cornhusk writing pa
per. The specimen is not very white, but it
is tough, has good surface, and looks WELL
sB-The redoubtable "Benecia Boy has
Joined society for the promotion Of horticul-
ture. Vanity Fair says it Is the Pummelogi-
cal Society.
,D-The Bath Times says Capt. John S.
Wiggin, Of the Maine Sd Regiment, arrived
home in that city on Saturday, on a short fur
Tough.
sB-The Times learns of the death of a son
of Mr.. John b. Trul of Bath, in the Federal
army. 1t is but few weeks since Mr.. Trul
buried son who contracted his final illness
in the camp.
LEA subscriber in Woolwich complains
that he does not receive his paper regularly.
The fault must be in the office there, and not
here. Uncle Sans servants cannot be too
particular in handling mail matter
sE- On the 9th ult., Mrs. Abigail Berry
died in the town of York at the age of log
years. She was the widow of Joseph Berry,
a soldier of the Revolution Mrs. b. had "a
grandchildren living.
give suppose that IL Wendell Phillips
had made such speech in New York as Ben
Butler, made. the whole city stock of rotten
eggs would have been exhausted on him. and
yet Ben only told the TRUTH Lewiston Jour
nal.
- The Rev. DIR. Mott, President of IN
ion College, is dangerously i'll at his residence
at Schenectady. He is paralyzed, and cannot
long survive, though he still retains the
strength and clearness of his great Intellect.
The venerable doctor is now in his Goth year.
sD- The remains of the late Gen. o. NJ.
Mitchell reached New York last Wednesday,
and were inferred in the family vault in Green
wood Cemetery, Friday afternoon. BY the
desire of the family, there was no public dis
play at the funeral.
sH~The Associated Press agent at Wash
ingtcn is decidedly accommodating. Sunday
night, the news being scarce, he forwarded
lot of Treasury circulars, which had been re-
ceived at the Custom House, by regular mail,
fee days prerious! We shall next expect
him to forward 'last years almanac"
s- Our Exchange street neighbor rejoices
in the progress which allows man now to
talk and publish his treason without danger of
Fort Warren. Judging from the daily APP
pearance of his paper, We infer that he intends
to bask in this blessed privilege to the largest
extent.
sy-Wiliam Collins, sentenced to death for
murder at the United States Hotel in Lenox,
year ago last summer, has had his sentence
committed to Imprisonment. This is the hard
ened wretch, says the Springfield Republican,
who murdered his own wife with rusty bayo-
net, and tried TO do the same thing with the
officer who arrested him.
~" The Zouave, a snip of about 1900 tons
burthen, commanded by Capt. Whitmore,
sailed from this port on Saturday for Boston.
The Zouave was built at Richmond, having
been commenced by NJ. S. Hagar, Esq, a
short time previous to the accident that so
suddenly terminated his mortal career, and
was completed by his son. She is chartered
by Government TO carry troops and horses TO
New Orleans Bath Times.
~ The Argus gets off conundrum about
the green-backs, very good but for its irrever-
eut alusion, but then il don't have the merit
of originality, for Sam Sharpley got it ogtwice
few evenings since at negro concert, aud
even he, wit as he is, exhumed it from sepul-
chre in which it had lain buried for more than
twenty years. Robert Rantoul, Jr., was the
author of all the wit there is in it.
sy- Mr.. Fessenden, during the spicy de-
bate on the West Point bill last Thursday,
debate Astounding in military criticism of
the Congressional sort, said shrewd word
for the Academy. He hoped a vote would be
taken. He had sometimes almost regretted
that all the officers of our army had not been
taken from the Senate or House, as they would