The Portland daily press., 1863-02-12
o II IGINAL AND SELECTED.

Verse; Sale of Wife; &c.
sy- Gold is again declining, and stocks
have taken an upward tendency.
gV David Wilkins of Knox, Waldo Coun-
ty, killed on the 2Sth ult., a hog weighing,
when dressed, 1014 pounds.
gB- A new Brunswicker asked German
farmer if he had any sour krout for SALE
NO" said he, "cos we only made two barrels
dis year for sickness"
VThe following names are in the list of
soldiers who have died recently in the hospitals
at Washington: ]. F. Cotton, I'd Maine Bat
terry; Daniel Cobb, Co. II, 10Th Maine.
gr lap dog, biting piece out of male
visitors leg, his mistress thus expressed her
compassion: "Poor dear little creature, hope
it will not make him sick"
sHr Drs. Geo. S. Currier of Readfeld Israel
Putnam of Bath, and p. Harding of Ellsworth,
have been appointed Examining Surgeons, by
the Commissioner of Pensions.
1g In large mercantile house in Phila-
delphia the porter, man 20 years old, gets a
salary of 81 week, and his son, a clerk in the
same store, gets $500 a year. As the son
sells goods the old man iauls them to the side
walk. There are stranger remances in life
than ever were written.
sE- A venerable friend in the country, APP
ponds to a recent letter the following bit of
excellent advice:
Be warned each night. the day review
Idle or busy, search il through,
And while probafion's minutes last
7 Let every hour amend the past.
" The Augusta Age, in its anxiety TO
say something smart, pokes its nose into the
private business matters ofthe Press, and does
it in way to show its utter ignorance of the
facts which it pretends 10 give. We had sup
posed that in all such matters, the parties most
directly interested should be allowed to make
their own statement.
sr The Machias Union has taken on a
new wrinkle. 1t blazons its column head
with extracts from Republican papers approx
ing the Presidents proclamation and the re-
moval of Mcclellan. The Union intends to
run hereafter, we infer, on the triple track Of
defense of slavery, defense of Mcclellan, and
opposition to the war.
sg- The Bath Times says "the span of
horses belonging to Col. Z. X. Harding, took
fright while coming down High street on
Monday last, and became unmanageable. The
driver jumped out, and the horses dashed
down Pine street, and brought up against the
house of Mr.. Jones. The horses were some
what bruised but not materially injured"
sE- Charles c. Burr was recently in Phila-
delphia and made a speech at democratic
meeting, and the Press of that city says tae
following atrocious language was received
with applause. Said Burr: "The members Of
the Administration are not fit to be boot blacks
for my honorable auditors. Abraham Lincoln
is greater traitor than jefferson Davis. What
has JEFF Davis done? He has merely infrng-
ed upon our territorial jurisdiction. He has
not struck at the Constitution
u The Bangor Times says that on Mon
day afternoon runaway horse, with pung
attached, while furiousIy dashing down Main
Street, ran into another team, laying the latter
horse fiat, aud causing the sled to turn CON-
pletely bottom side uppermost. Neither horse
was seriously damaged, but Mr.. Watson, of
Parkman, who was driving, was thrown out,
run over, and was taken up for dead. 1t was,
however, ascertained that though seriously
bruised and cut about the face and head, his
Injuries would not be likely to prove fatal.
er The gentlemen who attempted the re-
cent demonstration in the Common Council,
seem unwilling to admit that there is any dis
loyalty in this city. Suppose a case. Suppose
a consequential citizen should say, in the pres
ence of a lumber Of his fellow-citizens, that
he rished all the army officers uould resign
and come home! Suppose he should be told
that such an act would probably place us all
under the rule Of JEFF Davis. Suppose to this
he should respond, 20, JEFF Darts is pretty
cterer sort Of a an,'-what do our sensitive
friends OF the Common Council say to such
suggestions? Would they suggest the idea
of the slightest disloyalty!
Ex-senator Nesmith of Oregon--a Maine
boy, by the WAYS a bit of a wag. In speak
ing in the senate recently of the necessity of
more discipline, vigor and activity in the army
and the evil of having so many officers off du-
ty, he said: ave see thousands of them about
the streets here, and in Wizards Hotel they
are tucked up in feather beds like heroes with
their martial cloaks around them. Some one
told me that he threw a rock at a lame dog at
Wizards the other night and knocked down
two Brigadier Generals; and it was not a
good night for Generals eitherv'
sH-The Augusta Age has our thanks for
informing the numourous readers of its tri-
weekly, that "the mooted question as to which
newspaper in the State has the largest circu-
lation," has been settled by "the powers that
be" 'n favor of the Portland Press, in the
case of Capt. Bachelor, Of Co. b, Sd Maine
Regiment" The Age very truly says, "the
finding and sentence OF the Court Martial in
his case having been ordered to be published
in the newspaper of the largest circulation, in
the State of Maine, they are, il seems, publish
ed in the Press Officially We again thank the
Age for its kindness and courtesy. Such a
display of these qualities towards political
opponent is truly refreshing.
sD- We hope to be pardoned for briefly
vindicating former statement. The Adver-
tiser takes exceptions to our notice Of its i'm
provements, aud denounces as a "misstate-
ment' the remark we made about the large
space devoted to reading matter in the Press
compared with that of the Advertiser. Now
We did not speak at random, nor do we in
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