The Portland daily press., 1863-11-11
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Wy Ou tue HIST pdSc-DIuJM ITcdtulcnt
of Union Prisoners in Richmond; the old
soldier and the negro sentinel.
10 On the fourth page Corrected mar
kets.
1-The United States Marshal has confls-
Gated and sold the New Orleans Commercial
Bulletin.
1- Thirty-two thousand nine hundred
and forty-six tons of coal arrived in Boston
in three days of last week.
~ John Brough, Governor elect of Ohio,
is printer by trade, and has been one of the
leading editorsof that State.
GAN exchange thinks that an Indian
and his squaw padding down the Mississippi.
are interesting specimens Of canoebial felicity
sy-The lately elected Governor of Iowa,
when studying law twelve years ago, worked
eight hours day for the purpose of earning
money to pay his board and tuition.
% Fhe Bangor Wing thinks the surplus
potato crop of Maine will sell for s50O.OOO.
The sales at that city amount to from 5000 to
10000 bushels day.
V-Benjamin Barker, farmer in Eexter,
N. H., seventy years of age, committed suicide
on Tuesday morning, Sd inst, by hanging him
self in shed attached to his premises.
10 1t is reported that fears are enter
tanned in Cuba of a slave instruction, in con-
sequence of the small number Of troops in the
Island.
sH-The Boston and Maine Railroad has
leased the Dover and Winnipisseogee Rail-
road for fifty years, paying annually for the
use of OF it. $4,000, and buying all its rolling
stock.
U-The late Union victory in Iowa surpass-
es all precedent. Out of about 1870 members
of the Legislature, the copperheads return
less than 10, scarcely enough to raise de-
cent funeral hymn.
n-Eforts are being made to render passa-
BILE this winter, the road that has been laid out
from Milford to Princeton. This route will
shorten the distance from Bangor to Calais
some twenty or thirty miles. with railroad facil-
tiles for nearly half the distance.
~ Several towns and cities have offered
bouRties of 5000 for volunteers, among which
are Portland, Belfast, RockIand, and some
others. 1t very desirable that these bounties
should be uniform, and 5000 will probably be
the maximum amount, making the bounties
for new recruits 5000 and for veterans $500
IA correspondent writing from Halifax,
Eastern Township, Canada under date of the
10th. srys an awful tragedy took place in Wolf
stown last night. The wife OF one James
Sheridan, while in state of insanity, killed
OF her children the eldest being fine girl
Of fifteen. the instrument used was an axe
with which the bodies were shockingly man.
gled. Unfortunately her husband was absent
at the time,
CT Mr.. George f. Lothrop, who has been
published in the list of deserters, from this city,
is, and has been for the last three years, resi-
dent of Boston, where he has paid taxes, and
where he was regularly enrolled and stood his
draft. We have seen a certificate from the
Provost Marshal's office in Boston, stating
these facts. 1t is only in justice to him and
his friends in this city, that we make this
statement
sTA larger amount OF money will be paid
to the farmers in this state, this year, for neat
stock, sheep and horses, than in any previous
year. Nearly 100000 will be required to
purchase the number of horses needed for the
cavalry regiments. The farmers are findnga
ready market and get the highest prices for
everything they have to dispose of, and gen.
orally have the ready money to pay for what
ever they have to purchase.
nB- 1t has been stated in several papers
that in case the quota Of town or city is not
filed by volunteers on or before the 9TH of JAN
uary, such town or city will not only be called
upon to raise its quota of the last call by draft,
but the deficiency on the previous call Such
may be the fact, but we see nothing authorta-
tive on which the statement is based. Our
impression is that the 100000 men called for
by the President are all he expects to raise
under this call.
u The Copperhead Journals of Pennsyl-
vania are down upon our fellow citizen Wal
ter Wells, characterizing him as an Abolition
stump orator from Maine, and charging him
with advocating ''amalgamaton" and the con-
founding of the distinctions of race The fact
being, that in a discussion upon the "White
Man and the Black Man., Mr.. Wells takes a
more favorable view Of the capacities of the
Ethiopian, than is palatable to the negro-hat-
ing faction.
nr Several mistakes occurred in our no.
tice yesterday morning of the Anniversary
Festival of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, but one OF which we deem of sufficient
importance to need correction and that is,
attaching Rev. to the name of Geo. III. Stewart,
Esq. of Philadelphia. We have no apology
to offer for that mistake, for every one who
listened to his eloquent and affecting remarks
on that evening will bear us out in saying, il
he is not Clergyman he ought to be one of
that profession.
CO.. VIM. Savoy, of Biddeford, is published
in the list of corresponding conscripts as a
"deserter.' A letter received from his father
desires to have it stated in our columns-and
we cheeriully accommodate hm-that his son
is not a deserter, but has been and now is in
the service of his country; that he is a men,
Der of Co. A, 18th Mass. Regt.; was wounded
at Antietam; fought and was captured at
Gettysburg, and is now a prisoner at Rich
mond, Vale is therefore, as he has right
to be, exceedingly sensitive to the charge of
desertion.