The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-28


Biddeford, in tanning wild horses.
To- The Chronicle, Halifax says govern
ment will retain the Chesapeake until they get
instructions from "home.'
LEA small house in the rear of Brown st.
in Bangor, was partially destroyed by fire, Oh
Thursday.
srAll quiet on the st. Croix up to Tues
day night. The editor of the st. Croix Her
aid was on guard that night and not footstep
that was suspicious, could be heard.
srOne hundred and thirteen men with
ninety-two horses and oxen put up at the two
hotels in Princeton on Monday, the 2lst inst,
on their way to the numbering woods.
1y- Gen. Corcoran's death was the result
of a fall from his horse, occasioned by the ami
mails stumbling. He fractured his skull and
lived but few hours.
sH-The citizens of Biddeford and Saco are
actively engaged in procuring assistance for
the freedmen of the Mississippi valley, Us we
learn from the the Journal.
sTWm. ii. Graham, once proprietor of
Graham's Magazine, Of Philadelphia, died on
Friday in New York, from intemperance and
exposure, at the age of 40 years.
aBMr. ID. NJ. Bartlett the Washington cor
respondent of the n. Y. Post, Independent,
and Anti-Slavery Standard, is among the newly
appointed clerks of the House of Representa-
tives.
srLieut. S. S. Andrews of Biddeford of
the 18th Maine regiment, now in Texas, writes
to his parents that the health of his comrades
is excellent. This regiment has taken part in
the victories along the coast of Texas.
I-"T. S. P's" Washington letter on the
first page, was intended for publication before
Christmas, but it did not reach US till too late
to be so used For this reason only we omit
ted the last paragraph as written.
B- "The Round Table" is the name of a
new weekly in New York, devoted to all that
is notable, useful and tasteful-sixteen large
pages-at IS year. 1t is, or should be, for
sale at the periodical stores.
aV-Capt. Edward Moore, of Co. C, Maine,
18th, is alhome on short furlodgh He talks
hopefully of the prospect OF the rebellion be-
ing brought to speedy close. The 18th
Maine Regiment is at Brandy Station, near
the residence Of Hon. J. NJ. Bolts.
gY- "Cat-hance" misinterprets the neglect
to publish the article to which he refers. 1t
related to events very important at the time
they occurred, but which had been thrown far
into the shade by the subsequent events Of the
war in that quarter.
~ BY decree OF Court the New York
Express has been ordered to be sold. The
suit was brought by Stephen r. Clark, ESQ.,,
ene-sixth owner, who declined to continue
business with the other copperhead proprie
tors.
nH-Several farmers in Elliot, not being
able to get their swamp hay on account Of
the excessive wet of the past season, have re-
Gently been moving and getting it away on
the ice. Haying in December is quite nov
city in Maine.
rY- Mr.. VIM. C.. Luce, merchant of
Holmes Hole, was murdered in his store on
Wednesday evening last. He was struck on
the head with an axe, had his head split open
and his throat cut. He was forty years old.
No clue to the discovery of the murderer has
been found.
u~The editor of the Lewiston Journal
says the Press received at that office for a few
days, has been blank on the inside, but is char
table enough to suppose we do not intend to
treat him zone sidedly." In this he is exactly
right. We only wished to give him an exam
pie of"expressive silence"
sHeSeveral of the towns that were con-
graduating themselves on their exemption
from draft on account OF having raised their
quota, find that the sharp practice of other
towns. through the agency of brokers, has Left
them out In the cold. Calais, the quota of
which city was announced while ago as full,
now wants 81 men to oil up the ranks.
aT-Mr. Parton, in his Life of Gen. Butler,
makes the hero of his book first cousin to
the late Jonathan Cilley, who was killed in a
duel at Washington by Mr.. Graves of Ky.
while representative of the Lincoln District.
This work of Mr.. Parton is said to be very
readable and popular, but as the publisher has
not seen fit to furnish us with copy we are
unable to speak from amy personal knowledge
of its merits.
aTManchester, n. ii. boasts full-hedged
copperhead sheet, that in its nidelity TO the
fundamental principles of our government
and in libellous hostility to the people Of the
North, goes ahead of rebel leaders themselves
1t insists that the South had just reasons for
its revolt growing out of the denial of its
rights by the government. The editor deserves
close confinement until he learns how to sup
press his treason.
9-The reporter of the Poughkeepsian has
been anxiously waiting Tor flye months
for something TO record that will create
a sensation; not an elopement, suicide,
murder or dreadful accident has occurred
during that whole time, within his precincts,
and he is about to give up in despair. Poor
fellow, we hope he won't do anything very
desperate for the purpose of getting local
item.
LEA correspondent of the Chicago Trib-
une, writing from Tennessee, speaks very
highly of Col. Frank A. Kendrick, formerly
Major of the I'd Iowa Cavalry, but now Colo
mel of the I'd West Tennessee Colored Regi-
ment. The correspondent says that under
Col. X. a remarkable degree of proficiency