The Portland daily press., 1863-12-05
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


~ On the first page Review of Adam
jerks Completed.
s1-On the fourth page-The Calico Cloak
% Navigation to Bangor is closed, by an
ice blockade.
eB- Rev. DIR. Chaplin, OF New York, Is to
deliver the lecture of the Fraternity Course,
in Boston, next week.
eVWell executed bills of the Lincoln
County Bank, Wiscasset Maine" are in cir
culation. There is no such Bank
% The receipts of the Soldiers Levee in
Lewiston, on Tuesday evening, were S475
in money, beside hospital supplies.
% Mr.. Francis Alger of South Boston,
distinguished business man and scholar,
died in Washington last week.
~ We regret to learn that Hon. Leonard
Andrews, of Biddeford, is very i'll of typhoid
fever. We hope to hear of his rapid recovery
ey-The question of establishing an Ameri-
can line of steamer between Boston and Liver
pool, is being considered in the former city.
s1-Parsons' Cough Candy is genuine and
reliable remedy. See special notice column.
d2m.
VI Mr. II. S. Inman, n recent graduate of
the Newton Theological Seminary, was Or
panied as pastor of the Spring St. Baptist
Church, Auburn, Tuesday evening.
~ The Courier says barn was burnt in
Brunswick Thursday evening, belonging to
Mr. James Hall. Supposed to be the work Of
an incendiary.
nv-Herschell V. johnson has beee reflect
cd rebel Senator from Georgia by the follow
ing vote: johnson 1l6; Toombs 81; Cartel,
Is; scattering, IL.
~ Sergt. Henry A. Albee, of Co. f, Sd
Maine regiment, son of Rev. Hiram Albee OF
Halowell, who participated in eleven battles,
died at his residence or Thursday of last
week, aged 81 years.
~ j. Crapdon, Esq, of Columbia Falls,
has bought of Capt. f. Richardson, of jones'
boro, a block of timber land, saw mills and
ship yard, and is soon going into heavy bust
ness.
u-The Courier's Augusta correspondent
tells whom he saw at Senator Morrill's select
party. 1t is very ill-mannerly for outsiders to
peek through key-hole where select parties
are assembled.
~ Rev. j. NJ. Brewster, graduate of
Dartmouth College, was ordained at Spring
vale, Sanford, on Wednesday last, and in
stalled pastor Of the F. w. Baptist church in
that village. The ordination sermon was
preached by Rev. DR.. Graham, of this city.
V-At meeting of the stockholders of the
Somerset & kennebec Railroad, held at
Augusta, on Sunday last, it was voted to lease
the Somerset road to the Kennebec & Port
land road, for the term of 20 years, for $4,000
per year.
sy- The Advertiser and Argus have both
copied a half column of the Press original
correspondence, for which we paid money,
without so much as "by your leave" or a
word of credit Is this the courtesy Of the
craft?
sH-The Richmond papers deprecate the
advocacy of peace by certain southern papers
aud say that the policy of the south is war.
The Bridgeport Conn. Standard says
Copperheads will take notice of their friends
wishes and govoern themselves accordingly.
sBRobert Toonb's late speech was almost
wholly taken up with the exposure ofthe ar
bitrary and financial abuse of the rebel govern
ment He stated that the depreciation of
the Confederate money from March LIST to July
LIST had been at the rate of five per cent, per
day!
sV The ring-leaders of the gang of horse
thieves, of which mention was made a few
days since, the Biddeford Journal says, are
known to be John and Calvin Smith, belong
ing in WATERFORD and Limerick, who some
time ago escaped from Alfred Jail, the first
called "pumple-foot jack" to distinguish him
from the other. Through the exertions of
Sheriff Burbank, Deputy Tarbox and Jason
Hamilton, of York county, the gang of four
men were arrested In Bradford, Vt, on Mon
day last. The other two gave their names as
Roberts, and said they belonged in Lewiston.