The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-02-07
ORGINA IL AND SELECTED.

SvThe Commissioner ofInternal Revenue,
does not require stamp.
sB- The flower of love can never flourish
upon soil that Is not moistened with the dews
of respect and admiration.
CO The leading hotels in New York raised
the price of board last Monday, from $3.50 to
$500 day. The second class hotels have put
their board up to $500.
cEc Men who finch now, in the pinch of
the game, are prone to talk of the Constitut-
ton. The only thing Constitutional about
the looms unconstitutional cowardce.
sg- The dwelling of Mr.. VIM. Bates of
Strong, was consumed by fire on Saturday
morning last, the family barely escaping from
their beds. So says the Skowhegan Farmer.
sv Two Prussian officers, educated at the
military academy at Dresden,who served eight
years at home, and arrived in this country but
three weeks since, have enlisted as priyates in
one of the New York regiments.
nr 1t is said that the secessionists of Tex
as, in the event of our opening the Mississippi
mean to declare their Independence and throw
themselves upon France for protection. The
Yew York Post is responsible for the rumor.
IL The heaviest man in the Legislature is
said to be Asa Bucknam, Esq, representative
from Eastport. His weight is 275 lbs. The
gross weight of a dozen of the heaviest rep
resentatives is 2452 lbs.
ggr OF the 5000 shares of the stock of the
Bates Co. at. Lewiston, only nine shares are
owned in Androscoggin comfy, and scarcely
hundred in the State. The principal part
of the stock is owned in Boston.
sV-We are glad to learn that the health of
Capt Cowan OF Bddeford is improving, and
that he is now considered out of danger,
though still confined TO his room, and for the
most of the time to his bed.
s- The Bangor Times states that Mr.. Z.
A. Rand, of the Theological Seminary in that
city, has been elected to the Greek Tutorship
in Bowdoin College. He graduated from the
College in the class of 81
LIZ The Augusta correspondent of the
Lewiston Journal thinks the business of the
ter this week, making the session shorter by
10 or Is days than it has been for several
years.
r The late unsuccessful attack upon
Fort Donelson was designed to embarrass
Gen. Rosecrans, who receives his supplies by
the Cumberland river. 1t would have been
necessary to abandon his present position and
open the river to navigation again, had the
fort been lost.
s1- A bill has passed the Legislature to
increase the capital stock of the Franklin Co.,
at Lewiston, 100000. at is contemplated"
says the Lewiston journal, ito build the addi-
ton to the Porter Mill, contemplated in the
original plan, next summer; hence the pro-
posed increase of the capital stock.
sV- The Bangor Wing has heard recently
of party Of amateur fishermen, embracing
one or two of the Augusta clergymen, who
became lost in the fog upon Winthrop pond a
| few weeks ago, and wandered about all night
| in drenchng rain. Not even a minister
could lead that party in the right way.
sv- The Belfast Age says that intelligence
has been received in that city that the bark
Sarah A. Staples, trecently built in Belfast)
was struck by sea when ten days out, and
Llewellyn Durgin, James Buckmar, and the
mate, Mr. Staples, were washed overheard.
The two first mentioned belonged in Belfast,
and the last in Searsport
aV- Soon after the battle of Murfreesboro'
al hi \.
and widely circulated in the rebel army coun-
terfeits of the Nashville Union, in which was
conspicuously displayed Startling news Four
States seeded from the old government! Mis-
souri,, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky This
was followed by an editorial bewaiing the loss
of these States. So the newspapers say, but
they will lie-some of them.
sB- Senator Powell moved the repeal of the
fishing bounties this year, with rather less sue
cess than usual. Mr.. Fessenden, of Maine,
declared that the Senator was instigated by
purely personal motives. HE doesn't like
Goldfish" said Mr. Fessenden. "He ex-
'pressed to me his dislike particularly of dried
''codhsh. 1t doesn't smell well; and as he
doesn't like it, he pitches into it on every pos
"sibe occasion"
sy- Senator Hale said in defense of the
fishing bounties the other day, Whatever is
''done for Massachusetts is done for New
England; and if anybody feels disposed to
"grumble at that, it is said they do not stand
"by New England. l have myself found fault
with the great number ofappointments made
''from Massachusetts; but they are set down
"for New England, and zoe are part Of Mas
"sdchusetts."
u Gen. Banks is having trouble with the
officers in his command. He ordered mill
tary board to assemble at Baton Rouge on the
18th ult., to examine as to the capacity and
qualifications oil officers. Forty officers were
ordered before the inquest, and every one of
them resigned, and theirresgnations were ac-
cepted. Among these were nine line officers
OF the oath Connecticut, and the Lieut.. Colonel
Major and four line officers of the 18th Con-
necticut
.Y- The Bangor Wing says that on We'd
nesday evening teamster started with load
of goods from that city for Stetson, but from
some mental or physical obliquity took the
wrong road and got on TO the railroad track,
over which he drove nearly or quite, when he
was suddenly brought TO By an approaching
| train which killed ono of the horses and dis