The Portland daily press., 1863-12-03

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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sg-On the fourth page-Mscellany
sR- The Troy Times thinks that poets
ought to be required to take out license
SB Slavery is abolished forever in vevezue-
la under her new constitution.
sB The hearing in the case Of Hon. j. r.
Gidiings, IS. Consul General, charged with
kidnapping, was fixed for the 18th of Dec.
R-The last fashionable production in Lon
don in the book line is the "perfumed altman
ac."
syAlexandria in Egyptis soon to be light
ed with gas. Ozark as Egypt" will soon be-
come an unmeaniug proverb.
sH- The churches in Gardiner have con-
tributed S408 for the relief of our prisoners
at Richmond.
sB- Green apples are selling in the eastern
towns of the State, for from IS. to 81. a bar
rel. But little better in the western towns.
sY-Brig. Gen. j. Jackson, of this State
has command in New York harbor. He was
formerly Colonel of the gallant 18th Maine al
SO of the LIST Maine.
sE"The Nicero of Egypt il quite a farmer.
He owns model farm on large scale and is
said to have nearly si,000000 invested in
steam plows.
sB- On Thanksgiving day mansion ON
Mount Vernon st. In Philadelphia, was pre-
sented to Bishop Simpson by the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
- The cabinet of the Medical School at
Bowdoin College has received large additions
by the lberality of DR.. Calvin Seavey, of Ban
gor
sB~The Lewiston Journal is of the opinion
that the Second Congressional District has
furnished larger per centage of men by the
draft than any other district in the State
sB- There has been no more brilliant
achievement in the war than the successful
storming of Lookout Mountain, by the 18th
corps under the gallant fighting Joe Hooker"
u We learn that notwithstanding the
general scarcity of apples in this State, the
gathered in Bridgton. 1t has some of the
best orchards in the State.
~ The Salaries of the Public School
Teachers, Deputy Marshals and Policemen,
and some other employees of the city of Ban
gor, are about to be raised, as they ought to
be.
To- 1t is said that a new work on zoology
will contain the following: "The black tapir
is found in many districts Of Summarize, but
the red tapir is foand chiefly in the District
of Columbia"
sF-Col Chamberln of the 10th Maine re-
Gently commanding the Sd brigade, 1st diyi-
sion, 9TH corps, and Lieut.. Cal Gilmore, re-
Gently commanding the Goth Maine, are both
sick at Washington.
srBoudin is at the Crystal Palace, per-
fomring at ten pounds time instead Of one
hundred as formerly. 1t is said he is going
into the wine business; heretofore the wine
has been going into him.
grCapt. Charles Spear announces that the
Lady Lang, now baildng in PortGnd will be
ready to take the Portland and Bangor route
in the place of the Harvest Moon, by March
10th, with Capt. Roix and the same officers in
charge.
% Our Correspondent Arlington will ex-
cuse us for abridging his notice of amusements
in Boston. The crowded state of our columns
forbids that we should allow much space TO
amusements even in our own city, and very
few of our readers care for extended notices
Of amusements at a distance.
scThc Sanitary Commission has now two
publications the Sanitary Bulletin issued in
New York, and the Sanitary Reporter, at
Louisville, KY. Both contain reports of oper-
ations and variety of Information useful and
interesting concerning the extended labors of
the Commission.
srThe Maine Farmer says the shingle,
clothing and carding mills near Turner cor
ner Whitefeld, owned By Messrs. Partridge &
Gardiner, was consumed by fire on Sunday
morning Nov, 18th. The loss is estimated at
*2l00-no insurance; aud Mr., J. Gardiner
5000 insured.
~ The Oxford Democrat says that the
dams of Mr.. o. Charles and Moses Richard
belonging to the latter was tipped over and
wrecked. The mill and dam at Lowell were
severely injured. A bridge at the same point
was carried away. The Saco river was high
er than it had been for 3 years.
% The Democrats are getting sadly de-
moralized, and kick strangely over the party
traces. Col. Isaac Davis, one of the leading
Democrats in Massachusetts,, recently said at
war meeting, "Allusions have been made to
the subject OF slavery. 1t is An institution l
abhor and loathe. As an Institution it is be-
tween the upper and neither millstones and
viii be ground to powder. If this foul blot is
erased we will forever shout glory hallelu-
JAIL" The present is the greatest conspiracy
of which we have any account since angels
undertook to overthrow the Almighty"
sB-A recent attempt of copperheads andsla-
cry supporters in Louisiana, to set the State
machine running in the old ruts, and to ignore
the military authority, ended in mere fizzle,
At a meeting on the 9th ult., called in the
name Of the Constitutional Union Party, -
la Boston Courier,--of "all persons friendly
to such movement, the reporter Of the New
Orleans Times was present, and he found just
thirteen actors, seated "around a round table, "
and thirteen spectators-himself included
seated around the walls of the room. Ii was
a mighty labor bnt the offsprino was still