The Portland daily press., 1863-02-18
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

original poem; New Years Day at Tremon
Temple; &c.
sg- A variety of very interesting matters
are unavoidably laid over till tomorrow.
10 Lewiston, having accepted her charter
as a city, will elect city officers on the 10th o
March. fr tf
sV- Col. VIM. Brown, first Assistant Adju-
tant General, of Mass, died at his residence
in Boston on Monday last, aged SO years.
sg- The Lewiston Journal learns that there
are several cases of smallpox at Mechanic
Falls, One case has proved fatal
II A full column of new advertisements
'ntype for this paper, are unavoidably laid
over till tomorrow.
why" inquiries friend, "for week
Dast have you seldom alluded TO the Advertis-
r?" Because We would not interrupt the re-
.,ose of the dying!
IF A paper is in circulation in Bangor,
avs the Wing, to purchase lot for Soldiers
cemetery and erect a monument to bear the
iames of the honored dead.
sE- The Bath Times says that Capt. Geo.
". Harvey, of Co. A, Sd Maine regiment, ar
ived home on brief furlough on Monday
asst.
rc The editor of the Augusta Age is al
owing some dirty scribbler to defle his col
INNS with personal attacks upon the senior
ditor of the Press. We bid him welcome to
II ha r1nrx N a ,xainaI in,
gr The n. L. Farmer states that thus far
he receipts of cattle from Maine i'm 63, at
Brighton, are about double what they were
Turing the same period in '62, and in '62 they
we're double the number OF 6l
sDr According to recent article in a mag
zine, nearly one-third Of the women of Eng
and never marry, and three millions of ie-
males are thrown upon their own exertions for
Import.
s- The western officers and soldiers are
handling the copperheads who now control
the legislatures of Indiana and Illinois without
gloves. Some of those traitorous fellows will
be likely to meet with hard usage when the
gallant soldiers return home.
er The Raleigh State journal of late date
says that three hundred stories" (loyalsts) are
confined in Salisbury prison, "only one of
whom could be found who was willing to take
the oath of allegiance to the Southern Con-
iederacyT
NE- The Democrats in the Illinois Legisla-
ture having agreed that they will not revive
the proposition for Northwestern Conference
at Louisville on the affairs of the country, the
Republican Senators have returned TO their
seats The copperhead insanity, it is said, is
curing itself speedily.
II The Chronicle says that on Friday
morning, orders from St. Louis were received
at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, for two hun
dred pound pivot gun-carriage, and in thirty
three honrs it was on its way to the depot, TO
be sent to its destination.
sB- In consequence of deficiencies in the
Canadian revenue, the. ministry will propose
an excise duty of one dollar per gallon on
spirits and one dollar per pound ON manufac-
tured tobacco. So says the Kingston News.
Put IL on; they have broad backs.
IL 1t is asserted that Gen. Hooker has
absolute command OF his army, including all
its officers. The President has given him the
power to dismiss OF. remove any General or in
ferior officer in the army of the Potomac This
will enable him to consolidate the army and
make it single machine, answering complete
ly to his will.
II How white man, who has been per-
sistent supporter Of Buchanan democracy and
worn lis shacklcs, can consistently sneer at a
negro because his race has so extensively been
doomed to slavery, is past our comprehension.
No son of Africa has ever so debased himself
since his great ancestor shipped on board the
Ark, under Captain Noah.
II The Washington Chronicle says IL
must not be forgotten that, in all the rawlings
of the sympathizers against the administration
and the war, they propose no remedy, and if
they hint at one, it IS that the Government
should consent to its own dissolution, or that
the loyal majority should allow the disloyal
minority, which began the rebellion, to dictate
the terms of peace!
gr Gen. Hovey and four Colonies OF reg
iments, all from Indiana, now at Helena, Ark,
have published card to the democracy of
Indiana, in which they have administered the
most scathing rebuke of the infamous course
of the copperhead leaders in that State. Every
work, like Spanish fly, will produce blister.
The gallant officers who thus speak, are all
democrats.
rY- The English Government, through
Lord Lyons and Mr.. Seward, have presented
a sextant and telescope to Capt. Dunbar Hem
oerson aud Mr.. Charles Burt, master and chief
mate OF the American ship Montebello, as an
acknowledgement OF their services in rescuing
the master and crew ofthe British brig Free
Trader off Cardiff, in the month of October
asst. Capt. Henderson belongs in Thomaston.
~B- The liberal terms of the charter of
Brown University exempted the entire prop
erty OF the president aud professors from tax
alton. The General Assembly of Rhode Is
land, in view of the present heavy burden up
on every other pursuit, have recently passed
an act, with the entire acquiescence of the
University Corporation and OF the officers in
terested, limiting the exempt estate of each Of
ficer TO ten thousand dollars.
Letter from G. G. Duncan-Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. 20, 1868.
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