The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-10

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


shut down for the season.
syr Mr.. Speaker Celfax is New Yorker
by birth, printer by trade and for long time
a popular political editor.
lN- The Argus occasionally shows hope
full sign. 1t copies sensible" remarks from
radical" papers.
sR-Rey. Mr.. Gierlow, rector of ST. Marks
Church, in Augusta, has resigned his pastoral
charge on account Of i'll health.
~ Mr.. James Haley, of Whitneyville. was
| quite seriously injured at Machias, on Thurs
day last, by being struck on the head by
plank, says the Union.
sB@By General Order. No. %, which will
be found in our columns to-day, it will be seen
that Gov. Coburn has taken steps to prevent
the evils resulting from towns bidding against
each other TO fill their quotas.
sB- Can those persons who object to rad-
cal reforms tell us of anything so radical as
Christianity? Don't it go to the root the
foundation, the source of evil to commence its
work?
4
| not to be dead-that he was serenaded at Dali
! ton, Ca, on the 9Th inst He has been spared,
| perhaps, for future Democratic candidate
for the Presidency.
sg-The authorities of Augusta are insis-
ting on having all the liquor shops closed at
q O'Clock p. NJ. Perhaps they have too much
| pity for the poor dog 10 cut Off the entire tail
at one strike.
90 The next meeting Of the County Tenn
perance Association will be held at Cumbcr-
and Centre, on Thursday next, Dec. 18th at
7. NJ. 1t is hoped that the few who still re-
tain their interest in, and regard for this noble
cause, will not fail to be present.
GIVE are informed, on what we consider
good authority, that the credit of securing
the gang of horse thieves that have so long
invested our state, is mainly due to the energy
and perseverance Of Mr.. w. II. Paine, OF
North Gorham, whose horse was stolen, and
to Deputy Sheriff Hall OF that place.
sH-A cartman in New York, thinking he
had right to the public way against all
pedestrians, struck 4 gentleman who took hold
of the reins of his horse, that his daughters
might have chance after waiting long time,
TO cross the street. lie was fined and his H.
cense revoked.
sB-We regret TO learn that Hon. Hiram
Z. Warren of Canaan, has disposed of his
property in that town, and will leave for Gale
fornia about the first of January. Mr.. Warren
has been member of the State Senate for
sezeral years, and is highly esteemed where
ever he is known.
lE-The virtuous and chaste Bennett of
the New York Herald, puts Vice President
Hamlin down as "scurrilous, Incorporate.
without dignity, without breadth Of view, or
appreciation of the moral agony Of the ma
tion." Bennett, who has been horsewhipped
in half the streets Of New York for his indie
cencies and scurrility, ought to be judge in
such matters.
p- We heard gentleman of this city
loyal, but great respecter of Conservatism
-exulting that Mr. Colfax had triumphed
over the radicals, and that a conservative
Republican was chosen Speaker OF the House.
The New York Express, as We find it copied
by the Argus, says of Mr. Colfax, "He has in
dustry, capacity, ambition, and in the absence
of radical tendencies, ,couid make an excel
lent Speaker"
sy- The Houlton Times says good beef
sold in Fredericton last week, for two cents
per pound. The Bangor Times says good
young beef can be had in that city, by the
quarter, for 1-2 and cents We do not
know what beef is worth in this city by the
J quarter, but We have to pay from IA to Is cents
pound for steak. which is rather steep COM
pared with other places.
sB- The country should breathe easier
The New York Herald has settled the cause
of the war. Ignoring Stephens, Spratt, Yam
cey, id genus omnes, 1t has laid down the en-
| phatic doctrine that the cause of the war was
the agitation Of the sldcery question! Now
will it tell us'what caused that agitation? Un-
T less it does this We shall be obliged to look
upon the advent OF the Messiah as the cause
of the wars that resulted in the overthrow of
| Jerusalem.
IL The somewhat celebrated Matthew
Hale Smith, t"Burleigh," of the Boston Jour-
nall has twice applied for ordination as cler-
gyman Of the Baptist church, and in both
cases the councils have decided adversely to
his request. Mr.. Smith is son of the noto-
rious Elias Smith, and has boxed the compass
theologically quite as much as his father. He
has preached as Universalst, Orthodox,
Congregationa!ist, Episcopalian and Unitar-
an, aud now is ready for another denomination.
He has also practiced law, aud figured as
council in the Burdel- Cunningham case
og~A correspondent of the Bangor Wing,
writing from Augusta, attacks Portland for
alleged unlairness in raising her quota. Port
land asks no layor-only justice. She has at
tempted to override no town by Offering ex-
travagant bounties; she has confined her
bounty to the limits indicated by the Govern
| or, and she thinks it unfair that towns which
have shown total disregard of the Governors
| request, should be allowed if not encouraged
to take from her those for whose families she
will be obliged to provide. Men have been
enlisted for Portlands quota, receiving prom
Use of her bounty of $500, and then sold to
other towns for $780, the unprincipled recruit
ing officer pocketng the $3.50 besides his fees.
Ng@ referring to the recent death of John