The Portland daily press., 1863-01-28
ORIGINAL AND SELECTE

ington.
sy-On the fourth page-The Dawn, an or
iginal poem; California Story, &c.
DE- The Cameron bribery case is to be
made the subject of inquiry on the part of the
United States Senate.
sg- Two separate attempts at highway
robbery were made near Lowell last Friday
night.
sE- We are indebted to Vice President
HAMLIN, to Senators FEssENDEN and NOR
RILL, Of Maine, and to Senator WILKINSON,
of Minnesota for valuable public documents.
sH- The New York World attacked Mr..
Southland bitterly for his part in fitting out the
Banks expedition. The Argus comes to his
defense. st. boy! 'st,boy! Two to one on the
Portland dog! He's dirty little animal, but
he's dangerous.
.B- There is vague impression abroad
that countless officers and privates are now
absent without reason from their posts in the
Union armies. Who are heyp II any man
knows but single case of this kind, let him
speak out, and let those who shave suspicious
verify them or be quiet
sH- The report in our telegraphic columns
that Gen. Wool has ordered the New York
State militia to report to him, is an error
lie undertook to control the new recruits en-
listed in his district, believing them after mus
ter subject to his control as United States
officer. A different opinion prevails at Alba
ny; but no serious difficulty can possibly arise.
~ The new Eastern Railroad depot in
Boston is externally complete. Trains ran
from it on Monday. The building is of brick;
the front square, two stories high, surmount-
ed by a clock tower which rises 20 feet from
the ground. The track is covered by an iron
ramed roof sef-sustained, on which the states
are placed Immediately, making it completely
fre-proof
~Br The latest story about " Stonewall"
jackson, is told by a correspondent OF the Pc
tersburg Express. The night after the battle at
Fredericksburg, council Of war was held by
Gen. Lee, TO which all his Generals Of Divis-
ion were invited. Gen. Jackson slept through
out the proceedings, and on being walked and
asked his opinion, said CURLY, Drive 'em in
tHt IiNeT! urlNe en- III the rlNeT.
La Mr.. James Bailey, the principal pro-
prietor of the Sagadahoc Ferry, at Bath,
having received the cooperation of the City
Government on satisfactory terms, proposes
soon TO put upon the route new, large, SUBJ
stantial boat for ferry purposes, furnished with
powerful engine, and properly sheathed to
encounter the ice, and thus furnish safe
mode of crossing the river at all seasons of the
year.
sH- The Dailies Of this city furnish as much
news as any business man can find time to
read. There is no general intelligence known
to the Washington, Philadelphia, New York
or Boston papers that is not simultaneously
communicated to our city press-and the news
appears in our morning papers contemporaries
ously with the dailies OF other cities Our city
papers give us the news-some five or ten
hours after, the Boston dailies bring us the
big letters, sensation heads, and exclamation
points -lChristian Mirror.
sE-The Lewiston Journal learns that some
efforts are being made in that place to have
only one sermon Sundays. 1t is claimed not
only that one good sermon is as much as any
minister can easily prepare in a week, but also
that the vital energy necessary to the success
full and energetic delivery of sermon is ex-
hausted after one sermon is preached, to such
degree as to interfere with the success of the
second sermon.
ga special Washington dispatch to the
Boston Journal states that Gov. Andrew has
been authorized by the Government to raise
detached companies of volunteer heavy artil-
nd 81 ;nr A.
deem expedient, for three years, unless sooner
discharged: and is further authorized to in
clude in the corps so enlisted persons of Afri-
can descent, but to have them organized into
eparate corps.
sB- Major General Joseph Hooker was
born in Massachusetts,, and appointed Briga-
der General of Volunteers from California on
the 18th May, 1861. His commission as Major
General OF Volunteers is dated July 4, 1862
A delegation of Calilornians left Washington
for Acquia Creek Monday afternoon to pre-
sent him apar of shoulder straps bearing the
three stars he is now entitled to wear mag
nificent sword, also the gift of Calfornians,
will be presented to him in few days.
~ VIC icdrH tAdl tnc meInDeTS Oh COH-
panies and ID, of the Maine Sd regiment
have presented Samuel L. Allen, Esq, of
Bath, with fine gold hunting watch and
chain, as a token of their gratitude for the I'M
wearied pains he has taken to procure and
forward such articles of supply as have been
demanded for their comfort, and particularly
for the accommodation of their regimenta
hospital The companies referred to were en-
listed in Bath.
sge Here is morsel from notice of the
last Atlantic in the Argus: -. r. Lowell has
"one ofhs Biglow papers, in which murder of
'the kings English is regarded to be wit. We
"are glad TO say that the author promises to
discontinue his contributions" What kings
English sis regarded to be" murdered by Mr.
Lowell, pray? and how can the demise of the
Reverend Homer Wilbur be construed into a
promise Of Mr.. Lowells or even of Hosea Big
lows, to discontinue their contributions to the
Oceanic Miscellany?
sB-The latest gossip from Rome, published
in some OF the foreign papers, is that cap
tain in the papel zouaves who had been ar
rested by the French military authorities as a
swindler and an accomplice in murder, was
formerly the paramount of the young ex-queen
of Naples. One morning the king came to
her chamber very suddenly, aud when the