The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-04
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

&C.
H- On the fourth page-A call TO Walters
original miscellany.
If The new Universalist Church at Me-
chanic Falls is nearly completed, and win
probably be dedicated about Christmas
CO a fishing schooner arrived at Sears
port last week, whose crew consisted of an
Irishman, a negro and Yankee.
W-A newspaper in Aroostook county has
leader entitled, "Hell - its influence on
Man."
% The military school at West Point is
now full. Forty-six have been appointed the
past year, from the United States volunteers.
n1~The full returns from Ohio, which in
clude the soldiers vote, come in as follows:
majority on home vote, 81, 1852; majority on
soldiers vote, 3s,57s total majority, 100,330
u Rev. II. ". Brown, pastor Of the Uni
tartan society at Augusta, has obtained leave
of absence on account of i'll health. DR..
Wheeler is to supply the desk during the win
ter.
sB-A city paper says England and France
firted long time with rebellion, but both
seem at last to have discarded their abiect and
pertinacious wooer. 1t would be well if
that paper would follow their example, and
stop flirting with rebellion.
90 A conscience stricken purloiner of
money belonging to the publisher of the Lew
iston Journal, sends SIP. as principal and in
terest of the amount stolen. The money,
$40. was sent to the Journal several years
since
s1-The Argus proposes Burnside as fit
ting man TO sit for knace for the Union
cards. We could wish no worse fate for the
traitorous wretch who thus asperses that no.
BILE soldier, than that he should fall into the
hands o: the soldiers Of the man whom he
thus maligns.
u Though the persevering efforts OF Rev.
U. B. Bartlett, North Leeds; and the liberality
of the people of that village, hundred bar
rels of vegetables viii be sent to this city for
the soldiers. Thirty dollars were collected
on Sunday last in Mr.. Bartlett's congregation
in aid of the object.
~ The tide of events is taking along the
most conservative on the slavery question.
Rev. Mr.. Fiske of Bath, in his Thanksgiving
sermon said: If it be necessary to preserve
the integrity and freedom of our country, to
strike the shackles forever from the limbs of
every slave, the true and intelligent patriot
from the depth OF his heart will say Amen"
MA city paper says, in giving an account
of the great meeting of Wednesday night,
"They held a war meeting at the City Hall,
DC" The ''they" is appropriately used, for
the disloyal copperhead who wrote the para
graph has no more sympathy for war meet
ing than Benedict Arnold had for the cause
of Acknowledgements.
aJ-The Portsmouth Chronicle having suf-
fered some from the bursting up of a specula-
ting advertising customer, comes to the not
unwise conclusion that the difference and dis
tinction between what is popularity termed
speculation, and that which is called gambling,
is decidedly in favor of the latter, in all but
the name-as being, If fairly conducted. the
less risky, and a more open and aboye-board
business.
1- William Harrison Smith, member of
Co. h, 10th Maine regiment, fell a victim to
the savage cruelty Of the rebels. He was
taken prisoner on the I'd of July at the battle
of Gettysburg and taken to Belle Island,
where he suffered from starvation and ex-
posture more than tongue can tell He was
among the $50 discharged prisoners who were
landed at Annapolis, barefooted, and nearly
naked, starved to skeletons. Mr.. Smith was
relieved by the merciful hand O. death, on
the 18th of Nov, from the sufierings caused
by the treatment Of those who disgrace hui
manity. His funeral will take place at West
Buxton, to-day Dec. 4th.
1-The Brunswick Telegraph says the
fall of water at that place is 45 feet between
the level of the upper dam, and the level be-
low the lower dam, on the Androscoggin, and
granite bank on either side, aflording the
very best foundation for mills. With such
power and facilities for building, so favorably
situated for transportation of the manufac-
tured articles and importation of the raw ma
terial, Brunswick might be one of the most
flourishing business places in the state 1t is
the case in some places, and may be so at
Brunswick, that valuable power is controlled
by persons who will neither occupy it them
selves nor sell at a reasonable price, but time
makes its changes and death loosens grasps
that nothing else can. We hope to see at no
far distant day, the power at Brunswick occu-
pied to its fullest extent and the hum Of the
spinning jack and the din of the shuttles be
heard as at Lewiston and Lawrence.
~ Leslie Goombs of Kentucky, whose
"spicy letter" to Carl Schurz is going the
rounds Of the copperhead press, and is COB
bled up by them with the same gusto that
buzzard exhibits in swallowing putrid rat,
shows that he is not only spicy but an
intensified backyard, and though his old age
would suggest that he should be preparing
for the grave, that his ancient instincts-love
OF slavery and hatred of the negro - are
stronger than his respect for the common pa
ternity and the common brotherhood of the
race. Coombs refers with evident pride to
his being an ''old soldier" as though that
would excuse his present doubtful patriotism.
Benedict Arnold was an older soldier than
Coombs, and JEFF Davis and Gen. Twiggs
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