The Portland daily press., 1863-11-17
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

correspondence; A substitute for cotton;
Better than Romance; Slavery dead in Ten
nessee. -
sB- On the fourth page Imperishable;
Miscellany.
CO The ladies of Lewiston are getting up
Fair for the benefit of the sick and wounded
soldiers, to take place on Thanksgiving day.
sE- A Soldiers Monument Association"
has been organized at Norridgewock, of which
Judge Tenney is President.
~The Skowhegan Bank was broken open
on Sunday morning, but the burglars becom-
ing alarmed left without getting any money.
sT Rev. Mr.. Halves of Waterville, who
has been absent some three months in the
| army, returned home. on Wednesday in good
health.
sr A man, whose name is not given, was
so badly injured at a launching at Stockton,
on the 18th inst, that he died on Saturday, as
| we learn from the Bangor Wing.
y- A course of ten lectures is to be deliv-
cred in Bath this winter, of which Rev. Mr..
Butler will give the first on Wednesday eve
ming next.
sB- The Houlton Times says Col. Twitch-
| ell, who has a recruiting office in that town,
| will have his company of cavalry for the new
regiment recruited in three weeks from the
time he commenced
u The Ministers Institute of the Maine
Western Yearly Meeting of the Freewill
Baptists will hold session of three days,
commencing to-day Tuesday at 0 o'clock,
at Cape Elizabeth at Rev. Mr.. Eaton's church.
ay- The article yesterday morning, giving
resolution passed by the Swedenborgian
! convention of Michigan and Northern Indi-
ana, should have been credited to Detroit
paper.
sg- We received good report OF the gal
liant conduct of the Maine 9Th at Rappahan-
mock Station, from Lieut.. Patterson, of Co.
c, but not till we had published the official re-
port of Col. Edwards.
o. Another fearful colliery explosion has
occurred near Swansey, England. Four men
were in the pit; bat the explosion only ex-
tended to part of the workings. Thirty-six
| persons are known to have been killed.
nD- We learn from the Bangor Wing, that
German by the name Christien Hansen, at
tempted to commit suicide in that city on
| Sunday morning last, by cutting his throat
with a razor. He has been taken to the Aims
House and will probably recover.
sH correspondent of the New York
Tribune says W. McFarlan, of Co. D. of the
I'd Bcrdan Sharpshooters, lost both legs in a
| recent engagement at Brandy Station, and
died soon after. He was from Ellsworth,
where he leaves widow aud three children.
sB- 1t is proposed, at the next session of
the n. Y. Legislature to abolish the Supreme
Court of New York city, of which McCunn,
has been elected Judge. 1t is said to be a use
less tribunal under any circumstances, but
with McCunn for judge it is worse than that.
sD- All the members OF the next House of
Representatives are now elected except one
in Delaware, and one in New York to fill
vacancy. Giving both of these to the oppo-
sition, and the entire Kentucky delegation,
and the House will stand, Administration, 81,
Copperhead, So.
" The st. Croix Herald says the editor
of the Machias Union was awarded a premi-
UNI of % cents for the best cabbage head, at
the Jonesboro Fair We should judge from
some of the recent leaders of the Union, that
the same kind of acabbage head presided over
that department Of the paper.
aT- Two of the Penn. Judges who have
given decision adverse to the CONSUMPTION
law, were candidates for Office at the late cleo
tion-Woodward for Governor and Lowrie
for Chief Justice-and both were defeated.
Lowrie vacates for a Union man in January
when their rebel-pleasing decision will be re-
versed.
% We would invite the attention of our
readers who are engaged in agriculture TO
communication on our first page on the cult
vation of flax, to be used with, or as substi-
tute for, cotton. The time, long ago predict
ed, when we must have some substitute for
cotton, has arrived, and there can be no doubt
but that flax is among the best.
sH- Capt. James f. Miller, Acting Mayor
OF New Orleans, arrived back to that city
from his brief visit to the North, about the
first OF the month, and entered upon his Off
cial duties. The Era says "the affairs of the
city have been ably and judiciously managed
under his administration, and New Orleans is
indebted to him for many valuable improve
ments.'
GE- At the request of the U. S. Marsha
for the District of Columbia, that two Assis-
tant Marshals should be appointed from each
State to assist at the conservation of the Ma
tional Cemetery at Gettysburg, Gov. Coburn
has appointed for this State Hon. b. w. Nor
ris ofSkowhegan and Charles Clark, Esq, of
this city, who have already started for the
place designated.
sr Week before last an organization of
lrishmen, known as the Fenian Brotherhood,
having branches in every State of the Union
and in each of the British Provinces, held
convention at Chicago, the results of which
are shortly to be published. A banquet was
held at the close of the convention, at which
there was good deal of talking The Chca-
go Tribune ays:-"Whatever was said against
England or English policy met with vocife-
rous and hearty response from every man pre-
sent. Indeed, we could not help noting that