The Portland daily press., 1863-12-14
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

1 =
servatives Caught; Army News IN Church,
Death of Gen. Saunders
%" the 4.h pagc-M Miscellany.
SE- The town of Yarmouth has advertised
for loan Of $4,000.
GB The Thermometer, at II O'Clock last
night, stood at fifty degrees.
aD-The railroads leading to Cincinnati
never have dcne so large freight business as
at present All The rolling stock is employed
| night and day.
SB~Among the new patents issued from
the U. S. Patent Office, for the week ending
Dec. sth, was one to William C. Clark, of this
city, Tor improvement in railway car coupling.
| V-The lecture advertised for Mr. George
II. Pearce at the City Hall last evening was
postponed, on account of the severity of the
weather, until Tuesday evening.
| syT Any person wishing to purchase an
excellent farm in the vicinity of this city, will
| find in our advertising columns, such an one
offered for sale
sB-The papers say that Professor Love,
the magician who ran away with Mrs. Jilson
OF Norwich, has got out of the scrape by
| going into the army.
aFThe Nevada Constitutional Conven-
ton has adopted an article compelling all
children between six and fourteen years of age
to attend school.
20 Iwenty-nine vessels entered this port
Tor loading last week, which, it strikes US, is an
unusually large number for this season OF the
year. The trade Of Portland by vessel is yearly
! increasing.
SB-We give place TO the minority report of
the Almshouse Committee, not because it con-
tains anything in itself of Importance, but be-
cause MIR. Harmon, its author, thought injus-
tice was done him in the columns of the Press.
| ia poor fellow at Augusta the other
day, on receiving his bounty, went and got
drunk; when he sobered off he was minus two
hundred dollars. Perhaps he will be wiser
in future.
sJ-The Aroostook Pioneer says dispatch
was received here Friday night announcing
the gratifying news that Augustus Cannon Of
that town, who was sentenced so be shot for
desirtioD, has been pa-doned. He belonged 10
the Maine 18th.
GT- We are requested to state that the
meeting OF the friends of Human Rights, to
make an arrangement for an emancipation
meeting, will be at the Mayors room on Tues
| day evening, instead of the school-committee
room, as before announced.
co. The first snow storm of the season
commenced in this city on Saturday morning,
and 1t continued showing moderately until
evening, when rain set in and dampened the
prospects Of those whose dreams were OF
"merry, merry bells"
Boston harbor, the papers say, is grad
ually filling up, and, If something is not done
to stay the evil, will in process of time no
| longer have an existence. Precaution may
be wise, but the event spoken OF, il threatened
must be many hundred years in the future,
judging from the past.
sB-There are three kinds OF men in the
world-thc "wills, the won'ts and the can'ts."
The former effect everything, the other OPP
poses everything. al will.' builds our rail-
roads and steamboats,. "Won't" don't be-
leve in experiments and nonsense" while 81
can't" grows weeds for wheat and commonly
ends his days in slow digestion of court of
bankruptcy.
sV- The Troy Wing says, Mr.. Beck, of
the Poughkeepsie Iron Works, proposes to
supply the poor with local this winter at two
dollars per ton less than the market rate, to
the extent of fifteen hundred tons. This is
| green spot in the desert of selilshness ev-
erywhere so prominent. Mr.. Beck probably
| purchased his coal at such rates that he
| can well afford to sell at the rates mentioned.
To- We learn that the pirates, who captur-
cd the Chesapeake, were looked upon as sus-
| picious characters when they went on board
! the New England, TO take passage for Boston,
and were watched by armed men during the
whole time they were making the trip. The
boat on the st. John route, has been prepared
for some weeks, for any attempt on the part of
pirates to take possession OF the boat. We
hare no doubt the Boston and Portland boats
are equally well prepared.
an Italian town who proposed TO erect mon
ument to his memory, objected in the follow
lug noble and patriotic words: GAS to the
monument beg you to dismiss the thought
| oft. Ifyou insist you win put me TO the ne
cessty ofsaying will not accept it. As long
as the soldiers of two foreign armies riot on
our soil, as long as the stream of civil blood
flows from the Toronto to the Strait, as long
as the glorious remains of our national battles
| die of hunger or their own hands in the midst
Of the insane rejoicings OF our cities, as long
as the boy wants a school or the orphan an as
| sylum, as long rs there is in Italy misery,
chains and darkness, speak not of monuments
and least Of all to me''