The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-16
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


nE- On the fourth page - Corrected Mar
kets.
g- "Skirmishcr's" article will appear to-
morrow.
aB-Jen. Davis message is onc-thrd longer
than President Lincolns.
~ 1t is said that a man In Carroll Coun-
ty, n. H., has to go forty miles to the voting
place in his own town.
LIZ Gen. Schoileld has been ordered to
come TO Washington and explain his admins
tration of affairs in Missouri.
- The December term of the S. j.
Court commenced in Bath on Tuesday.
Judge Dickinson presides.
sB-The Belfast Age thinks the full quota
of Waldo county will be raised by volunteer
ing.
lB-A waggsh contemporary says he was a
great fool not to eat more when butter was
ten cents and cheese six cents per pound.
R-The report Of the Secretrry of the
Treasury is nearly twice as long as the Prcsi-
dents Message.
V-The semi-annual meeting of the Trus-
tees Of the Maine Missionary Society, viii be
held at Brunswick on the 30th inst.
ga rebel captain at Port Royal Ferry,
said the late affair under the command of
Capt Bryant of this state with his colored
troops, was managed with great skill.
syThree men were buried six feet deep
by the caving in Of an embankment at New
port N. H., the other day and rescued in half
an hour not much injured.
IL Hon. James G. Blaine has letter in
the New York Evening Post in relation to
Gen. Howard at Lookout Mountain, which
we shall re-publish tomorrow.
nV Lieut.. Col. Charles d. Gilmore, of the
goth Maine regiment, has been detailed to sit
in the general court martial at Washington. in
place of Col Dimmick, U. S. A.
ng- Maj. Gen. Butler, in obedience to an
order from the President, has granted re-
prieve to all in his department under sentence
of death.
% The President will soon issue procla-
nation pardoning all deserters who will return
TO duty. 1t is believed large numbers will i'm
mediately return to the service.
sE-The Cleavland Leader says that the
son Of John c. Breckenridge, who was taken
prisoner at Chattanooga, declares himself
strongly in favor of the Union.
sE-The annual meeting of the Ocean In
surance Company will be held at the office
of the company on Monday the 4th day of
January, at 5 o'clock.
sE-The sermon OF Rev. Dir. Walker,
preached on the occasion of our late National
Thanksgiving, will appear In the Christian
Mirror Of next week. 1t will be read as 1t
was listened to, with the deepest interest.
sy-The Manchester American says of Fer
nando Wood, that he "is bad, mischievous
man, dangerous to the great cause of the
country, and, really, just as obnoxious trail
tor as JEFF Davis himself"
sE-The Secretary of the Navy estimates
the wants Of the Kittery Navy Yard, for the
next year, at s362.000. He asks for 100000
for the Notifications which guard Portsmouth
harbor.
sH-Hubbard Osgood of Hartford, engineer
on the Providence and Worcester railroad, fell
from his engine on Friday, and the wheel of
the tender passed over and cut off one of his
legs, close TO the hip joint.
ar-Several Bufialoes and three Elks have
recently been added TO the stock of wild ami
mails in the New York Central Park, where
there is quite menagerie of strange beasts
and birds.
sy- The suggestions made by friend who
has written US upon the subject of re-enlist-
ments, shall be carefully considered, and work.
ed up If we feel competent to handle the mat
ter properly.
nFThe loss of cotton sustained by the
Bates Mills, Lewiston, in the capture of the
Chesapeake, has necessitated temporary cur
failing Of operations. Thirty hands have been
discharged within a few days, as We learn from
the journal.
n1-A man has just been removed 10 the
insane asylum at Concord N. H., who buried
two children in Sept. last, and since then has
been in the habit Of standing sentinel by their
graves during the midnight watches to save
them from imaginary intruders.
sH- Gen. Washburn, whose operations in
Matagorda Bay have driven the enemy from
their strongly fortified position, which they
blew up and abandoned before our main for
ces really got at their work, is a Maine man,
and brother OF Ex-Governor Washburn of this
city.
TRev. w. A. p. Dillingham;, Of waterviIIe,
is now In New Orleans, upon business con-
nected with the Freedmen Association of the
South. In private letter received from him,
he speaks in the most hopeful terms of the
progress OF the revolution iu public feeling in
Louisiana and Mississippi.
~ Farmers have the least reason to find
fault with the high prices of dry goods and
groceries of any class. When they can sell
butter at 2S cents pound, potatoes at 90 cents,
and apples at dollar bushel with eye,y
thing else they have to sell In the same pro-
portion, they ought not to complain of the
high price of tea, sugar and cotton cloth.
VThe Commissioners TO locate Norma,
School have made another report to the Gov
ernorand Council, in which they locate
the school for Eastern Maine at Castine. Az
er enumerating the several items embraood