The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-01
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

10 On the fourth page-Would he care
to know? Miscellany.
sg- The town of Perry has filed its quota.
ngr A girl six years old Ind weighing 200
pounds is exhibiting at st. John, n. B.
sy- A new Division, Sons of Temperance.
was instituted at Dennysyille, last week.
To- The rumor that Gen. Sigel is to take
the place of Gen. Schenck is unfounded.
o. There are s42 patients in the lunatic
asylums of Upper Canada.
IL The U. S. sloop-of-war, "Iuon is at
Bath, receiving recruits for the navy.
sg- The Gospel Banner says the quota for
Augusta is full.
sB-If Cocoa" will give US his real name
his article will appear-noa otherwise
I~A confederate dolisr is now worth in
the market just n picayv ne in good federal
currency.
ag-Mr. F. c. Tobey,-a respectable trader
of Hyannis, died few. days since from bleed
ing at the nose.
Gg- VIM. A. Gar anon. Co. ID, eth Maine,
has been sentenced to be hung on the 4th Of
December.
~ The Russian Naval officers at New
York, have cont ibuted $500 for fuel for the
poor of that Cit.
To- The sth Maine Reg't is on Folly Is
land, the 11th on Morris Island and the 9th on
Black islsnJ near Charleston, DC.
u Co... Andrew presided on Sunday
evening al meeting in the Old South Church,
Boston, in behalf.oi the Western Sanitary
Comm iss ion.
SB~ 1t is thought that Dalton, Ca, will be
the next battlefield between Grant and
Bragg s armies. 1t is IS miles from Chatta-
nooga, on the way towards Atlanta.
a. The new Ferry Boat has commenced
r'inding between Woolwich and Bath, for
VFich the people who have occasion to pass
Over the river will have cause for rejoicing.
sH- The Bath Times says Mr.. d. 0. Blais-
dell has Just stretched the keel for schooner
OF about l40 tons. at his yard, formerly '2ccu-
pied by Messrs. Hall, Snow & Go.
~ The receipts for Mr.. Beecher's speech
at the Academy of Music, New York, Tor the
benefit of the Sanitary Commission, were s4,-
600.
eV-Mr j. NJ. Hayes has been appointed
Clerk of the Courts for Sagadahoc County. A
good appointment. Mr.. Hayes is practical
printer.
sVThe editor OF the Bath Times gives
the man who steals the reading of TIE Times
when he is able to pay for it, TO understs nd,
that he is no gentleman.
~ KEY. MIR. Southworth, now with the
army of the Potomac, is expected to return
to his labors in South Paris, during the pre.'-
ent week.
sV The Lewiston Journal says fifteen
shares of Andrcscoggin Mills Stock sold i'm
Boston on Wednesday at 1880, and twenty of
Bates at 157.
u Congress will meet tomorrow, Dec
I'd. If the organization is not delayed, the
message may be delivered Oh Thursday. If
so we shall probably lay it before our readers.
Friday.
H- The news from Charleston is encour-
aging. Gilmore is giving the fira-aaters.,ynss.
doom has probably come to that Internal nest
of treason.
GI- Arrangements are being made to have
course Of Chemical Lectures at Brunswick.
during the winter, from Mr.. Cyrus F. Brack-
EFT, assistant instructor in Natural Science in
Bowdoin College.
sg The wife Of Gen. Fitzpatrick died in
New York on the oath ult The Genera
was informed by telegraph of her condition,
but did not reach home in time to see her
alive.
sr Acting Master Robert O. Pat terson,
of Belfast, is honorably mentioned in connec-
ton with the capture of the blockade runner,
X. Z. Lee. Capt. Patterson brought the cap
tured blockade runner Cornuba into Boston.
% We are indebted to some attentive
friend in the Army of the Cumberland, for
copies OF Knoxville and Chattanooga rebel
papers, printed in Georgia after the occupa-
ton of those places by our Union troops.
ga little girl, -four years of age, daught-
or OF Mr.. Donahue of Springfield, Mass. was
burDt to death on Wednesday, from her cloth
es taking fire at a bonfire made by some chill.
dren.
gV The Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune, says it is feared that
the provisions and clothing sent to the naked
and furnishing Union prisoners at Richmond
by the Government, the rebels have appro-
priated to their own use.
LIZ A steam sawmil in Bethel was entire
ly destroyed by fire on Sunday evening last.
1t was owned by john Lynch, Esq, Of this
city and partially insured in Boston office.
The fire was probably the work of an incendi-
airy. The mill will be Immediately rebuilt.
sYThe New York Commercial says that
about 100000 yards of prints, bought last
Thursday and Friday, in expectation of an adj
vance, are now being sold by obbers at an av-
erage OF one cent below the manufacturers
prices.
nVLord Palnerston, Prime Minister of
England, though fourscore years of age, is
charged with seducing the wife of clergy
man from her marital integrity, but whether
he is guilty, or whether the pretended injured
husband is attempting to extort money from
the old Premier the courts are to decide,