The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-21
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
a. op the hrEt page - Henry Ward
Beecher in Philadelphia.

for his kind attentions.
Ex-senator Anthony of Rhode Island has
introduced an amendment TO tho conscription
bill, cxcmpting Quakers from draft
svGen. Sickles has asked for Committee
OF Inquiry upon charges contained in General
Halleck's report
sT~James Douglass OF Stony Greek, CT,
died on Wednesday at the extraordinary age of
one hundred oai ten gears.
sT1t Is said the present large bounties
will probably be reduced to one hundred dol
lars after the 5th Of January next.
sY-Rev. DIR. Chapin's new lecture on Eu-
rope and America, is said TO be exceedingly
interesting, and touches the popular heart.
aI-The Supreme Judicial Court commence
ed its session at Norridgewock on Tuesday
last Judge Walton presiding.
SCJames Lapham of Nashua n. II. CON-
mitted suicide last Tuesday by swallowing
arsenic mixed with honey.
s1-Hon. B. Gratz Brown, the new Senator
from Missouri, who has been assaulted by his
enemies as socialist and an infldel, recently
joined the Presbyterian church in St. Louis.
a1-The Washington Chronicle has been
very much enlarged. II Is an excellent paper,
and its success has been without parallel In
newspaper history In this country.
H-The rebels are still troublesome on the
lower Mississippi. The steamer Brazil was
fred into, near Rodney, Miss, and three wo-
men and one man were killed.
SJ-A bounty of one thousand dollars is
paid in Newark n. j., TO every recruit under
the last call for troops. A regiment, thus,
will cost the mere trife of a million dollars.
s4-Capt. Alden Clifford, wsll-known Bos-
ton ship master, died OH Thursday evening in
horse car. while going from Boston to Chcl-
sea.
0-The proprietors OF the New England
Farmer have resumed the old and enlarged
size, and now make OF II one Of the most at
traetive agricultural papers In the country.
u-A report is brought by the steamship
City of Washington, that two rams on the
Clyde, built for the rebels, had been sold TO
Russia.
~ John Place, OF Alton, n. H., abont fifty
years of age, while sitting upon the gunwale
of the steamer Dolly Dutton on Tuesday last
slipped off into the Lake and was drowned.
kVeIt Is said that the Democratic mem
bers of Congress In caucus have agreed to sup
port every measure required for the vigorous
prosecution OF the war.
s1-The President has presented TO Sena-
tor Sherman, for transmission 10 tho Cincn.
natl Sanitary fair, the original draft of the
proclamation appended to the late message.
LEA great storm on the Sd caused num-
erous wrecks on the coast of England and
sad loss Of life. Ships De Witt Clinton and
Pensacola were totally wrecked but the crews
were saved.
p-Rev. Theodore J. Holmes, late pastor
OF the Congregational Church, Hartford, CT,
has enlisted In the 2Ist regiment, been sworn
in, uniformed, and sent into camp at New
Haven.
s1By what the printers call an ''out" In a
In the Press Of Saturday morning, a stranger
might infer that we regarded that paper as
Copperhead sheet. It's editors will not SO In
terpret the paragraph.
STGen. Grant IL said to be suffering much
from his crer-exertions and from fall he re-
ceived not long since, and although he works
as indefatigably as ever, Ills friends are anxious
lest his physical powers should succumb to
the inordnate tax to which they are exposed.
sTThe War Department. has received In
formation by way Of Texas that the eighty
colored soldiers and two officers who were
captured at Milliken's Bend, In June last, and
whose fate has heretofore been profound
mystery, were murdered in pursuance OF a
secret Of the rebel Secretary Of War.
sIMr. wigfall, of Texas, recently offered
a resolution in the Confederate Senate, which
was adopted, inquiring into the subject of the
treatment Of Union prisoners-his object be-
ing 10 correct the impression abroad that the
charges of official cruelty toward them were
true.
sEThe Bridgton Sentinel says that town
is experiencing season Of prosperity unex.
ainpled in its history. One large wooden fac.
tory has been built and In successful operation
since the commencement OF the war, besides
several other business enterprises OF small pro-
portion.
u-Tho Richmond Enquirer, speaking Of
the attack OF Senator Foote, of Tennessee, on
JEFF Davis and his system OF mlsgoyernment
says that his remarks were In "a Pickwickian
sense" and that Foote'S repeated exhibitions
OF III temper toward JET affect nothing what.
ever where he Is known.
sTHon. B. G. Harris, of Maryland, voted
In the House Of Representatives solitary and
alone against Mr. Smiths resolutions in favor
Of supplying men and money for suppresslns
the rebellion, and Of thanking our soldiers fol-
their gallantry in upholding the flag of our
Union.
~ A weekly subscriber In Dresden, In
RENTING the price OF two years subscription,
says, Don't want you to stop my paper until
after sold Abraham" has been elected to All
the next Presidential term, and hope you will
work as hard for him as you did for the Ia
men,ed Douglas"
sTThe Boston Herald says among the
prisoners In the Police Court on Thursday
was young man charged with being drunk
ard whose father Is worth half million dol
lars. The young man possesses good abilities