The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-08
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

sB-ou the first page-New Hampshire
Correspondence; Midnight Charge of the
Mule Brigade; Slavery in Missouri.
Sy-On the fourth pagc-Three Cheers !;
Miscellany.
sE Mr. j. NJ. Bass, of Pennington, recent
~ purchased in Vermont three Spanish Meri-
no sheep, for which he paid the sum of $50.
sy1 Gov. Andrew has received from the
War Department authority to raise cavalry
regiment of coored men.
ay- A horse in Gardiner saved himself from
being run over by railroad train, by jumping
down an cmbankment fourteen feet.
sT The roof of the Orphans Home, in
Worcester, Mass, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday.
u Adjutant General Schouler, of Massa-
chaseets, is reported dangerously i'll at his res
idence in Lynn.
TEA doughnut, one of the big 'lwisteis,"
was sold in Bangor on Thanksgiving eve for
SIS, for the benefit of the Sanitary Commits
sion.
sg- grand musical festival is to be held
in Music Hall, Boston, in which choir OF
twelve hundred children are to sing in connec-
ton with the great organ.
give have large crowd of acceptable
articles awaiting insertion in our columns, but
shall not be able to give place to them till the
Message has been disposed of.
sv The death of the King of Denmark Oh
the 18th ult., seems to have given rise to per-
picking difficulties in relation to the success
sion.
sg-A Washington dispatch states that the
naval steamer Sassacus, built at Portsmouth
Navy Yard, made an average of II miles an
hour on her recent trip TO Washington.
sVThe Baltimore American places at the
head Of its columns the name of Abraham
Lincoln as 4 candidate for the Presidency in
1864.
sB- Our venerable friend in Woodstock,
VT, has our thanks for his favor We shall
make use of it in few days to good advan-
rage.
sH book by G. c. Coffin, Carleton of
the Boston Journal,) entitled MY Days and
Nights on the Battle Field" has been publish
ed, and the orders exhausted an edition of
1000 before it was ready for delivery.
sy- A special to the Journal from Wash
ington says letters from officers in Gen. Banks
Texas expedition, report large quantities of
cotton in the interior of the State which the
owners are anxious to sell.
gg- Messrs. Chickering & Sons, of Boston,
intend to present two OF their $1,000 grand
pianos to the Fair for the Sanitary Commits
sion, to be held in that city, to be disposed OF
by lot, the tickets So each.
sB- In the list of events copied by the Mon
treal Witness from the Southern Almanac, as
published by US, the dates were one year ahead
They should have been go and 81 instead Of
81 and '62.
Mr.. ANA sa Copp, formerly of Water
vile, who was conductor on a night train
leading out Of Chicago, was killed by falling
from the train and being run over on the 18th
inst. He was 81 years Of age.
sVSome one has stolen Geo. W. Curtis
new lecture on "Politica Inidelity." The
thief will probably attempt to pass it OF on
some audiences as an original production of
his own. Such things have been done.
sBIt is reported with a reasonable proba-
bility of its being true, that Gen. John G..
Breckenridge has died of wounds received at
Rnggold. A son of Breckenridge and one of
his cousins, were among the prisoners cap
tured.
vThe number of pensions granted by
the Pension Office during the month of No.
ofpensions to widows, mothers and orphans
allowed during the same month, was POOP,
making total Of 409T.
sH-Capt. Thomas Z. Wentworth, OF the
10th Maine regiment, writes from Libby prison
under date OF Nov. 10Th, acknowledges with
gratitude, the receipt Of two boxes. containing
food and clothing, sent him from Boston. A
third box was received subsequently.
~ Referring to Gen. Shepards patriotic
lecture at the City Hall, the Advertiser says
"We can tell the Press that we saw soldiers
leave, uttering their disgust Soldiers OF
fortune, like the editor of that paper and the
man who owns him.
The two morning papers stoutly deny
having copied a half column OF Augusta cor
respondence from the Press, and aver that they
copied from another paper. 1t is curious
fact that few changes in the article which
We made in our Office are followed by both of
our neighbors.
rg- The Advertiser goes out of its way to
tell an unequivocal falsehood, when it says
we accused the Boston Journal of thievng
from our columns. We said "the Journal
copied in good faith'-crediting another
paper what should have been credited to the
Press.
sgThe Clarion says the fellow who stole
watch lately at Skowhegan halls from Ches-
terville, Franklin Co. His name is Hiram
Judlins. On Friday last he was arrested for
stealing SIS from the dwelling house of Luke
Sawyer Of Madison, and jailed. He desired to
be jailed at Pennington in preference to Nor
rdgewock as he was better acquainted
having been In jail there before.
- The Belfast &c says Lieut.. Command.
ing j. F. Nckols, of Searsport, has been ap-
pointed to the command Of the steamer Cher
okee, which is now being fitted out at the
Brooklin Navy Yard. The Cherokee is re-