The Portland daily press., 1863-01-24
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

song for sneaks; A Virginia Blacksmith.
gy- subscriber to the Transcript has no.
titled the publishers that he must stop his pa
per, as he is going to be married and COM
mence raising boys for the army.
| O" The British revenue in 1862 was great
er than it was in 1861 by almost s12, 100000,
which goes to show that our troubles have not
injured British commerce.
sB-The Hallowell Gazette says Lieut.. Geo.
A. Nye, of Co. E, Sd Maine regiment left that
city on Tuesday of last week, to join his COM
mand in the field.
sB- We find the last conundrum in New
York newspaper. Why is the President like
an owl in the daytime? Because he is always
a blinkin'.
| % Montreal newspapers report intense
cold on Saturday-l2 degrees below zero at 5
a. m. The st. Lawrence was frozen over at
that point Monday morning.
sg- The Richmond correspondent of the
London Times writes that the north is fnan-
cially used up-yet directs his employers
agents in New York to remit him his wages in
| greenbacks
sB- We learn by gentleman direct from
Skowhegan, that Col. Wildes, recently of the
Maine 10th, is confined to his room by dis
ease pronounced by his physician to be mod
| flied type of small pox.
sBD The English iron clad steamer Warrior
misbehaves shamefully at sea, conducts her
self in fact like an unmitigated failure. at is
/ ma ir - sg.lo
whose mission it was to seize ships, should be
able to do nothing but ship seas"
sEe The Providence Post boasts of a sub
scriber residing in that city, who has bathed
in the water near the head of the cove every
morning during the last thirteen years--in the
winter cutting hole through the ice
q Gen. Grant is Selling all the steam
boats in the vicinity of Memphis, for the
transportation of his army. Teams have al
so been pressed into his service, and on Thurs
day, the 18th, fourteen regiments are said to
have been en- route southwark.
sB- Count Gurowski has been indicted by
the Grand Jury of the District of Columbia
and City Of Washington for "a libel on Mr.
Hunter, chief clerk of the State Department
Marshal Lamon arrested him, and he is held to
bail to answer
SB-The Missouri Democrat says grimly of
Ex-Governor Claiborne F. Jackson who died
recently at Little Rock, Arkansas, "His dis
ease was cancer in the stomach All that can
be said of him is that he is now the right man
in the right place"
sg- The New York Express has given the
Administration notice that, hereafter, the ar
rest of traitors in that State will be resisted by
the whole democratic party, aided by the de-
mocracy Of New Jersey and Connecticut
The democracy, it seems, are determined to
protect their own Jaithfti members,
- Seymour is appreciated in Virginia.
| correspondent of the New York Times,
who visited Fredericksburg the other day, I'M
der flag of truce, says the rebels are "good-
natured and jocular about the late fight, and
/ much interested in Gov. Seymours message
and the late aspects of Northern politics.
| sg- Mr.. Abbott, of the famous New York
! Spinger Institute for young ladies', has been
| turned out of doors. He purchased the Towns
bend house on Fifth Avenue a few years ago,
for 100000, paying $4,000 down, the balance
remaining OH a mortgage recently foreclosed.
The house was sold to A. T. Stewart, who
made New Years present of it to his wife.
% A gentleman says: Il met Gen. Banks
in New York city few days after the surren-
der of Fort Sumter. He was expanding all
his funds tn military books. 4 am going into
this war; he said. But do you Think asked,
that 1t will last long enough for you to post
yourself in military aflairs?' 1T tciu last
three years. replied the General. He did not
say how much longer"
u The Boston Journal says, "a retired
Boston merchant, now nearly eighty years of
age, residing some thirty miles from the city,
is in the habit, twice or three times in the
week, OF going five miles by rail, and mile
and half afoot, to fav,rite pond to skate,
The silver of his hair is whittier than the ice on
which he loves to glide, but he invariably dis
tances the whole party of nieces and nephews
who oltentimes accompany him."
LEA lad, the son of Mr.. L. T. Smith, of
Winsted, Conn, is either very unucky or very
imprudent. A few weeks ago he skated over
mill dam, getting several severe bruises
soon after he broke through the ice into deep
water, and came near drowning. More re-
Gently he ran into fence, while coasting, and
broke two or three ribs. A year or two ago he
nearly lost his eyesight from the effects of
camphene explosion.
% Harris j. Morey, of Manchester, n.
H., heard suspicious noise in his shop
Wednesday night, and on investigation found
the back door forced, the money drawer ri
fled, and the burglar, Edward Smith by name,
concealed in the cellar Smith drew pistol,
and talked tragedy, but finally yielded to per-
suasion gave up the money and was arrested
by the police before morning; all of which
will be found in detail in the Portsmouth
Chronicle.
Sg- The Oxford Democrat says the Buck
field Branch Railroad has been purchased by
Mr.. Morrill,, of Massachusetts, a gentleman
who thoroughly understands the business, and
will give his personal attention to its manage
ment 1t has come into his hands on iavora-
Bile terms and he states that he will run it two
years, when if it shall pay expenses and inter-
est on his investment, it will be kept in opera