The Portland daily press., 1863-12-17
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,


Ing Soldier, original.
sg-The quota Of Auburn i, full.
-"Skirmishers" letter is In type, but I'M
avoidably crowded out till tomorrow.
sY-Adjt. Gen. Thomas is dangerously i'll
in the Southwest.
sT" Mr.. A. J. Locke will commence his
next term for new beginners in dancing on
Monday evening next. See advertisement.
IA Fair held by the American ladies in
Montreal for the benefit of the Sanitary Com
mission yielded the sum Of s7OO.
sTThe Bangor Whig says-provisions
are SO high nobody can afford to live very
long at current prices.
nTcIt is estimated that the whole number
of cnlistments made under the recent call, to
be credited to the quota ofthe state,i is nearly
| 1000.
GV-The Louisville Journal denies the
truth Of the statement that the son of J. G.
Breckenridge, captured at Chattanooga, talks
| Union.
sTGen. Grant says, if the emancipation
proclamation was revoked and peace was re-
stored, 1t would require large army to enforce
slavery upon the negroes.
sy-It is said that General Grant has cap
tured, since his campaign in the West COM
menced, no less than four hundred and seven
ty-two cannon and ninty thousand prisoners
from the enemy.
s1-The Toronto Globe cordially endorses
the Presidents proclamation to the Southern
people, predicts that it will be great success,
and believes the great rebellion is on its last
legs.
| sH-Thc Maine Farmer says ashinglc mill.
owned BY b. d. Dudley, of Mt. Vernon, was
destroyed by fire on the morning OF the 18th
ut. Loss s400. No insurance. Supposed
| 10 be the work OF an incendiary.
sg-Gov. Bramlette Of Kentucky has de-
clined 10 be candidate for the U. S. Senate.
Those still considered as candidates are Guthrie
re, Bell, DR.. Breckenridge, Gen. Rousseau
and Holt.
sY-Rey. J. c. Fletcher has returned TO
New York from Brazil, where his mission was
very successful. He had an interview with
the Emperor, by whom he was very cordially
received
The quota OF Stoneham, Oxford Coun-
ty, was seven, and twenty-five have volunteer
ed Ninty-two soldiers have enlisted from
this town, leaving only seven,y-two enrolled
men in il.
GA firm la Bath, Me-, is known by the
name OF Frost & Sparks. They ought to be
able to "blow hot and cold" says the Ports
mouth Chronicle. In Detroit is a firm BY the
name OF Gun & Locke--yery appropriate in
these piping times OF war.
.1-The Wing says the average of IS bush
els Of mail matter is daily received inst he eve
ming mail at Bangor from the West. About
1000 letters are daily received by this mail.
Sunday and Monday nights 1000 letters are
mailed
GJ-The Governor and Council have author
lied Maj. Seward Dill of Phillips, SO visit the
various camps aud hospitals containing Maine
soldiers connected with the Army of the Po-
tomac, to look after their wants and necessities
and make weekly report of his doings 10 the
Governor and CouncilD
TEA dispatch TO the Richmond papers,
from Milledgyille, Ga. says that the lcgisla-
ture had postponed indefinitely, by a large
majority, the bill restricting the planting of
cotton TO one acre. Georgia is indisposed to
submit to all the exactions of the Davis des-
potism.
V-Flunkneyism las no end. A number
of literary gentlemen in New York have ten
dered complimentary dinner TO newly
arrived Cockney quill-driver, who has come
over to correspond for one of the most often
sive rebel-sympathising sheets in England, the
London Telegraph. They will fete and feed
him and in turn he viii kick and cuff Them
B~Toombs in his late speech states that
the Confederate authorities had issued six
hundred millions Of currency up to last
March, and the depreciation had averaged five
per cent. a day since the beginning. 1t re-
quires seventeen Confederate dollars TO pur-
chase one Of gold
sVFrom foreign paper we learn that
among the speakers at the meeting OF Ameri.
cans in London on Thanksgiving Day, were
George Thompson, Judge j. G.. Winters,
Hon. Freeman II. NOISE, and Capt Mayne
Reid. Hon. Charles Francis Adams on clos
ing his able speech on President Lincoln's
successful administration said: Hehas succeed
ed because he, has from the beginning TO the
end, impressed upon the people the conviction
OF his honesty, and Of his fidelity TO one great
purpose.
aB-Gen. Butler has issued an important
order providing for the enlistment OF eolored
soldiers and the care Of their families In the
Department Of Virginia and North Carolina
The recruiting of colored troops, says General
Butler, has become the settled, policy of the
government, and he declares ii to be the duty
OF every officer and soldier TO aid in carrying
out that purpose by every proper means. ir-
respective Of personal prediction.
- Mr.. VIM. P. Merrill has called upon us
to explain in relation to the case of Thomas
CURLY, alias John Sullivan, enlisted for the
quota OF Gorham, which was spoken Of in the
Press yesterday morning. Mr. Merrill dis
claims all connection with the contract made
with the said CURLY for bounty, says he has
had no business connection with T. S. Flies,
that CURLY came with Files 10 his Office to
enlist, that he said his name was CURLY, that
he was of sufficient age, &C., and he enlisted
him. He took him to Augusta, there found