The Portland daily press., 1863-12-30
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

~ On the fourth page = Corrected
Markets.
sTThe Boston correspondent of the st.
Croix Herald states that Capt. Spear of that
city intends to place two steamers upon the
Boston and st. John route next season.
sTWe learn that there is strong proba-
biity that the balance of the quota of Port
land will be filled by re-enlistment of soldiers
from this city, already in the army.
CO. ID. G. Colcord, of the 18th Maine Vol
unteers is among the enlisted men who have
passed the necessary examination, and has
been ordered to join the Signal Corps, to re-
port to Capt. L. B. Norton, Chief Signal Off
Ger of the Army of the Potomac.
sr"Burleigh" of the Boston Journal says
some feeling was manifested at the New Eng
land dinner in New York, that on the reading
of a letter from Gov. Seymour, some one pro-
posed twenty-five cent subscription to snake
the Governor free moral AGENT
sV-Rev. W. s. Perry, late of this city, gave
the third of a course Of Sunday evening lee
lures at fremont Temple, Boston, on Sunday
evening last. The Transcript says, il was lis
tened to with much interest by the large au-
dience present.
eTMss Maggie Mitchell will close her en-
gagement at the Boston Theatre this week.
The Boston press, and gentlemen in this city
who have attended the theatre during the time
she has been engaged, say that in the line of
characters she has chosen, she is without ri
val.
ag-A dispatch from Chattanooga, 18th
instant, says that the Presidents message and
proclamation were highly satisfactory to
many rebel prisoners. They say il the Con-
federate soldiers see 1t they will flock into the
Union, and that they are now being kept out
by fear of punishment.
srIn Troy, the other day, while physi-
clan was hunting up one of his patients, he
stumbled into the apartment of poor wo-
man, and discovered that for lack of bed
stead she used her bureau-each drawer being
propped up and converted into a sleeping
bunk for her little ones.
s4-The three men, belonging to the school,
ner s. r. Hart, of Bangor, who were arrested
at Holmes Hole on suspicion of being concern
ed in the murder and robbery of Mr.. William
c. Luce, have been discharged for want of
testimony against them. Mr.. Luce's pocket
book was found on the shore, in the rear of
his store rifed ofits contents about $500.
To- Hon. Samuel II. Blake, of Bangor,
went to Boston on Monday, for the purpose
of presenting to the Governor and Council Of
Massachusetts, the views of this State, rela-
tive to the accounts between the two States
growing out OF the expense incurred in col
Letting the Massachusetts, claim against the
General Government for moneys advanced
during the war Of 1sl2-l5.
fF-The star Of fashion in Chicago is a
Canadian half-breed. She is said to be sur
passingly beautiful, and is the petted and
idolized wife OF rich man, who took her
when little child from her mothers lodge,
and had her educated in convent, and for q
time set all Chicago wild with his lovely for
eign bride.
u The ship Amanda, Capt. Jeremiah
Larrabee, burnt off Java Head, Nov. 10th, by
the pirate Alabama, was built in Bangor by
Timothy Crosby In 1861, as we learn from the
Wing, and was owned as follows; Thomas j.
Sewart, Timothy Crosby George Crosby, John
II. Crosby, Benjamin s. Crosby, James and
Anna Crosby, one eighth each; John b. Fos-
ter, ]. S. Wheelwright, one sixteenth each
Mrs. c. n. Pendleton, widow of her former
commander, one eighth.
- The Ellsworth American says two
young ladies of Brooksyille were drowned in
Walkers Pond, so called, in that town, one
night last week. The names of the unfortu-
nate ladies were, Miss - Walker, daughter
of John Walker, Esq, and Miss - Tibbets,
daughter of Captain Noah Tibbets They
were on the pond skating, with others, and
struck off farther on the pond for more room,
and skated into hole in the ice. They were
not found until the next day, no one knowing
certainly what had become of them.
sH-James Wood was recently hung in
Alabama, not for any overt act of treason
against the rebel government, but for his con-
nection with a Union organization. His crime
did not consist In acts, only in sentiments;
but for these the rebels hung him. How could
any knight of the Golden Circle escape the
hempif our Government were equally rigid?
How could any active Copperhead feel safe?
And yet it Is the Copperheads and the X. G.
C.'s who are constantly assailing the Govern
ment for its lack Of federation. The fact that
they are at large is the highest proof of its
lenity.
lr Colonel Edward N. Hallowell, of the
Fity-fourth Massachusetts, tColored) Regi-
ment, now at Morris Island, while riding
along the beach, ran his horse into "quick-
sand" and in Its struggles to get out the ami
nal broke It's own neck and threw the Colonel
of, injuring him considerably. Colonel Hal
lowell returned to his regiment in October,
when he had been at home on account o
wounds received In the storming Of Fort
Wagner. He being Lieutenant Colonel at
that time, when Colonel Shaw fell, the regi-
ment was led by him. He went through the
fight, reached the fort, and when carried off
had six bullet holes in him.
I-The Americans in London held Fes-
tival on our national Thanksgiving day, and
in speech by Mr.. Adams, our Minister, re-
ferring to his official arrival inthat country he