The Portland daily press., 1863-01-05
ORIGIN AND ECTED


,F On the fourth page-the New Year,
an original poem; Miscellany.
sy- A clothcs-line thiefin Bath, has been
fined five dollars and costs.
sg- The Boston Post highly extols Gov
Seymour's inaugural.
q Mayor Lincoln will be inaugurated in
Boston to-day.
sg- The Lewiston Journal says, "Nobody
but dead man has been successfully arragned
for poor generalship, and his name was Milesw
gr The Belfast Journal says considerate
clothes-I,ne thieves ofBangor take shirts only,
leaving on the lines the-other kind.
sD- A large amount of silver coin has pass
ed through Burlington, Vt, from Canadian
bank for New York.
sy- The Republicans of New Hampshire
have made very fortunate nomination for
Governor. Mr.. Gilmore is one of the strong
men of the State.
sY- The Bath Times says John Shaw, Esq,
of that city, has slaughtered pig only seven
and half months old, that weighed AIS
pou2ds.
sg- The fire in New York last Thursday
night began in Fulton reet,spreading tc Gold
and Beekman streets, and destroying eleven
buildings. Loss $124,0D.
sB- The Skowhegan Clarion is happy to
learn that rags are rapidly falling; that ped
lars in Penobscot, who had paid five cents a
pound for rags. on carrying them to Bangor
could obtain but three cents.
.- The Boston Journal recently pilfered
from our columns brief item in relation to a
classic judge, and now all the smaller fry are
using it as though one of their own legiti-
mates.
sg- The Price Current has been amused
to see horse chestnuts pass for % cents, on
the purchasers promise to redeem them in
sums of quarter and upwards. That is car
rying horse-pitality to the extreme.
% The Belfast Journal boasts of sub
scrber who thinks the speech of the rebel Ex-
Gov Morehead-recently published in that
paper-worth the price of years subscrip-
tion. Nothing to boast of, we should think.
- Miss Bronte's famous romance, "Jane
Eyre has been dramatized and is now
brought upon the stage at the Friedrich-Wil-
helmstadt theatre. Berlin, under the title Of
The Orphan of Lowood."
-- The rumor flying round in print, says
the correspondent Of the Boston Herald, that
Secretary Chase Intends leading to the altar
Mrs. Senator Douglas, was old even in Wash
ington six months ago, and has no foundation.
S1- The bells were rung in Bangor in hon.
or of the Presidents Proclamation. We have
published the ringing Of a few Bellies in this
vicinity on New Years day, but we think they
were entirely disconnected with the Procla-
nation.
IL The publishers of the Price Current
have got up card, very convenient for all
business offices, containing list of all the
stamps required by the stapp tax law to be
affixed to various legal and other papers, also
the amount of license for different kinds of
business. Price five cents.
ry- Who can fail to perceive the motive
which eau influence a democratic paper, at
the present juncturet to reproduce and reprint
articles and arguments in favor of the right Of
rerolution? Can any one fail to see in it dis
position to justify and vindicate the southern
rebels?
sB- Every column of the last number of the
Belfast journal abounded with abuse Of the
administration, of the republican party, of the
abolitionists, and of the conductors Of the war,
but we searched in vain for the first word ad-
verse to JEFF. Davis or the Southern rebels; !;
yet who dares hint that the Journal is not 10y
| al?
.B- The Office of attorney general of New
Hampshire has been for upwards oi fifty years
in the Sullivan family. John Sullivan, after
wards governor, held it from 1882 to 1896;
George Sullivan, his son, from 1906 to 1907,
and again from 1915 TO 1885; and John Sulli-
van, grandson, from 1s4s till his decease in
| November last.
- The Memphis Argus reports a reason
assigned by a rebel officer at Grenada, for Mr.
Dayis's late Western tour: "Davis was coming
out to stralghten up things, which had got
crooked as hell" That will never do; it has
been only by hook and crook,-that Davis,
Floyd & Co., have attained any measurable
success.
sg- Canadian newspapers report a great
fire in London, W., on Saturday evening
2Sth ult., beginning in the store and dwelling
ofMr. I. Baxter and extending to the stores
of Messrs. L. Forbes d Co., ON the east side,
and of Messrs. Shaw & Vennor, on the west.
The whole loss is roughly estimated at $780,
600, about half covered by insurance.
sr Under the call of Congress, the Presi-
dent is preparing all correspondence between
Government and Gen. Mcclellan, including
letters, telegrams and reports, growing out OF
the Peninsula campaign. 1t is asserted that
this correspondence will show Gen. McClel-
lans testimony before the Mcdowell Court OF
Inquiry to have been essentially incorrect in
many important particulars, especially in re-
gard to the number of troops left for the de-
fence of Washington.
v Speaking of frauds npon the govern
ment in Boston, Senator Hale, of New Hamp-
shire, said in the Senate, not long since, :" |
have heard of a case where one asks $24 1000
for his vessel and they will buy it if he will
5DQ ont of which he brok kpr 90 is to ha