The Portland daily press., 1863-01-19
ORIGIN AL AND ELECTE ID :.

SB~The Pennington Patriot says the sleigh
ing is magnificent in that region.
sgr On the first page-Effect of the Eman-
cipation policy in England.
10 On the fourth page Poetry, Por
trait of President Lincoln, &c.
rgy- G. c. Coffin, the carleton" of the Bos-
ton journal, is lecturing in New Hampshire,
on subjects connected with the war.
% Elisha Burritt is in England address
ing the people of the manufacturing districts
on the American question.
% NJ. Dumont, French engineer, has set
on foot project to continue the present rail-
way from Paris as far as Constantinople.
-g-The Skowehgan Farmer-published at
the residence of Gov. Coburn-wishes it could
confirm the report recently started that the
Gov. is about to enter the matrimonial state
20 Paul Morphy was in Paris about the
LIST of January. He avoids chess matches as
far as possible, having other business, not
stated.
sB% The Pope has sent 2500 francs (S500)
to the Bishop of Liverpool, for distribution
among the distressed operatives of his do
cese.
20 The London American announces a
new monthly, to appear in London immed-
ately, under the name of the 1.-The Sculptor's
Journal
LEA man in Newly ork went to bed drunk
the other night, rolled out and broke his neck;
his wife fonnd him dead in the morning.
Moral-Shun the flowing bowl-or else take
the back side OF the bed.-Bostoa Post.
sT"A subscriber will find two addresses
from English working men to President Lin
coin on the first page to-day. They were both
in type when we received his note suggesting
the publication of one.
~ The New Bedford Mercury, in allusion
to the wood paper on which last Thursdays
edition of the Boston Journal was printed,
says it will be folly now to halloo for rags till
we get out of the teood.
Sg-Among the deaths of soldiers at the
Washington hospitals within the past few days
are those of George 5. Rollins, Co. G., Sd
Maine; Ezra Young, Co. +. 2ith Maine; VIM.
A. Furbush, Co. G., 10th Maine j. Bu-nham
Co. III, 18th Maine.
sB-Prof James Renwick, L. L. d., of Co
lumbia college, died in New York on the 18th
inst. Prot. Renwick was the author of sever
al standard text books, and liberal contribu-
tor to Sparks American Biography. He was
II years of age.
Sg- The Machias Republican says Lieut.
Albert W. Bradbury, son of Hon. Bion Brad
bury, of EastpoIt, has been promoted to the
| Captaincy of the LIST Maine Battery, vice
Thompson resigned. The Battery is now at
New Orleans.
sg- The Machias Republican states that
schooner Friendship, from Boston for Har-
rington, was blown- Off the coast and aban-
doned on La Have Bank, Dec. L. The crew
were rescued, and have arrived at Liverpool,
Ms.
rg-The following names are in the list of
wounded Union soldiers who have died in the
| prisons at Richmond, Va since the LIST OF De-
| cember last:-COrp. c. Knight Co. G, 4th
Maine, of a gun shot wound, on Dec 22d =
! Josiah b. Davis, Co. F, 10th Maine, gun shot
wound Dee. Goth; David NJ. Allen, Co. Ii.
| 4th Maine, gun shot wound, Dec 18th Jerome
| o. Clark, Co. G, 4th Maine, gun shot wound,
Jan. j.
.g- The recent election for u S. Senator
| in the Pennsylvania Legislature, was made I'M
der the intimidation OF a mob sent to Harris
burg in special trains by the democratic lead
ers. There they roamed around the town,
| slept on chairs and benches, and gave their
time to dissipation and revery. The Press
| says 1.-THE House and Senate met surrounded
! by mob, and legislated under the knives and
| pistols oflaw0ss men,"
g- An exchange says that in skating up
on pond at Bloomfield, New Jersey, some
days since, boy named Higgins fell through
the ice, remaining in the water out of sight
| some fifteen minutes, when he was taken out
for dead. A village physician, however, APP
| piled galvanic battery, with other means, and
after six hours labor succeeded in restoring
animation.
Sg- Old DIR. Beecher was once walking in
the country, carrying large book under his
arm, when seeing well known offensive ami
NAL and having no other weapon with which
ito assai him, he hurled the book at the in
truder upon his privacy. Afterwards when
asked why he did not reply to an attack from
he once issued large quarto volume against
skunk, but the animal got the better of him
S The message of Gov. Ramsay of Min
nesota represents that the receipts into the
treasury last year were 522l 900, and the dis
bursements 1884, 345, leaving balance on
hand of S36,655. About 500 refugees from the
Indian massacres arc supported by the State.
The Indian war is estimated TO have cost the
State 100000, which Congress is expected to
reimburse. Minnesota has furnished 1900
men to aid in crushing the rebellion, and in
the meantime queed Il formidable Indian out
break within her own borders. The State is
now eflectually guarded against the recur-
renee of Indian outrages. The Governor con-
siders an immediate removal of the Indians
beyond the borders OF the State as an impera-
tive necessity. The Governors comments up
on national affairs are patriotic and hopeful.
The Land Office, it is said is to be overhauled
without gloves. The incumbent is reported to
be a relation and protege of the new Governor,
who is himself largely interested in the timber
| lands of the State and of course interested in
the administration of the Land Office. How
the conflict will result only Republican leaders
can PREDICT Editorial Cor Advertiser.
The above contains only moderate num-
Der of untruths. The Land Agent-Mr Nor
ris-is not a relative of Gov. Coburn. Gov.
c. is not interested directly nor indirectly, in