The Portland daily press., 1863-12-25
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ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

n1- On the fourth page A Christmas
Hymn; Miscellany.
sB@ The Lincoln Mill, in Lewiston, which
has not been in operation for some time past,
is being started up again.
aB- Capt. Mason G.. Whitney, of Co. X
Zvul MISSOURI volunteers, who belongs in Gar
diner, was captured at the battle at Ringgold.
GB-The Gardiner Journal says the ice in
that vicinity is piled up in bad shape for the
ice operators.
IB~The new Universalist Church at Rum
ford Point is 10 be dedicated on Thursday
next.
GE-The resolution offered by Mr.. Dixon in
the Senate, exempting clergyman from enroll
ment was lost by a vote of s yeas and SO nays.
gVThe U. S. Steamer Ella and Annie,
Capt. Nichols, from Halifax, arrived in Boston
on Wednesday forenoon.
Barney Williams, the great Irish COM
median, has been fined $1,000 for assault upon
man named Waters, in New York, growing
out Of words alleged to be disrespectful.
gg- The net proceeds of the Fair at Var
mouth, got up by the Soldiers Aid Society,
was $500, which will be paid into the treasury
OF the Christian Commission.
To- The Columbus Crisis intimates that
suspicion has been excited that John Morgan
escaped out of the front door of the peniten-
tary, with the connivance of his keeper.
sBThe Universalist Church at Mechanic
Falls will be dedicated during a two days
meeting, which will be held on Wednesday
and Thursday, Jan. 9th and eth. r.s,
aY Two barns belonging to John X, Lev
enseller, OF Waldo, containing twenty-five
tons of hay, with all his grain and farming
tools, were totally consumed by fire on Sum
day, the 9th inst.
CO The Gardiner Journal says a small
child froze to death In Pittston, while its pa
rents both lay drunk! The one who sold the
rum to those miserable parents will not escape
the guilt of that childs death.
s1@Itis the prevailing impression, strength
ened by the fact that Congress has adjourned
to the 9Th of January without perfecting the
NhahSSS IA thS ChioiMCut ACT, that luc uTdlt
will be postponed until the first of February.
LEA proviso was inserted into the Senate
enrolment, on motion of Mr. Fessenden, that
no bounty be paid after the 9Th of January,
except such as is now provided for by exist
ing laws. Those who are intending to enter
the army will find no better time than now.
hrThe Sons of Temperance in Augusta
have thrown open their hall for public Tenn
perance meeting on Friday evenings. The
Gospel Banner suggests that the clergymen
in the place arrange series OF temperance
lectures.
GA woman named Mary Black, who was
committed to the Tombs in Boston for drunk
enness, on Tuesday evening, died in fit, ear
ly on Wednesday morning The Transcript
says she was only % years of age, was quite
beautiful and was originally from this State.
To- The following was the direction on a
letter that passed through the Post Office in
this city yesterday:
"To Henry Wright, seaman bold,
Who is worth his weight in brass aud gold
On board of the Mystic, a U. s. ste amer.
Look out for her, rebels, she's regular screamer
Three cents the postage. will pay,
To Hampton Roads, Virginia.
s1- At a meeting in Lewiston on Sunday
evening, Prof Packard of Bowdoin College,
who was present, stated that his experience Of
40 years in dealing with young men, had DEM
onstrated that there was no other vice so much
to be dreaded, and which had made shipwreck
Of so many promising youths, as intemperance.
IeGen. Rosecrans expresses the opinion
that one new soldier put into an old regiment
is worth two and half in a new regiment.
The new soldier has to learn for himself in a
new regiment, in relation to duty and sanitary
regulations, what in the old regiments others
stand ready to tell him.
TMr. +. w. Andrews, Treasurer Of the
Managers Of the Boston Sanitary Fair, sent to
Mr. Higginson, Treasurer of the N. +. Branch
of the Sanitary Commission, on "Wednesday
last, check for 100000, as part of the pro-
ceeds. In the opinion of the committee the
net proceeds of the Fair will not fall short of
$4,000.
~ The entertainment given by the schol-
ars of the New Jerusalem Sabbath School, at
Mechanics Hall, last evening, was a perfect
success every way. The hall was filled, and
the exercises went off handsomely. Every
one present enjoyed the time, and none more
so than those who were spectators OF the
scene.
LIE Mrs. Schaetfer, the widow of the poor
fellow who was murdered on the Chesapeake
by the pirates, has been left entirely destitute,
and is now lying i'll in New York, with babe
only few days old, in great suffering and
want. The case appeals strongly to the be-
nevolent and the Journal Of Commerce asks
for contributions for her.
GA story is told of Mormon priest who
made nerve and bone all-healing salve, and
thought he would experiment little with it.
He first cut off his dogs tail and applied some
of the salve to the stump. A new tail grew
out Immediately. He then applied some to
the piece of tail which he cut off, and new
dog grew ont. He did not know which dog
was which.
~ We learn from the Loyal Sun rise that
a few nights ago the house of Mr. Silas
Lawrence, of Maysyille, was consumed by fire.
A portion of his provision was also burned;
his furniture and bedding mostly saved. Mr..