The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-01-27

poem; Vermont Strategy as-
.B-The st. Croix river is still open, and is
,ot likely to close during the present winter.
THE arrivals of vessels at Calais. from
IAN. to Dec. 81, 1862, numbered 466; the de-
artares, All. &Ef4
The number of students at the Univer-
ity OF Vermont, Burlington, is reduced TO 30,
account of the absence of young men at
he war.
gg-The citizens of Portland are sadly
roubed by the dust. The difficulty will prob
bly, be remedied in day or two.-Le,riston
fourndi.
Right 1t was all mud yesterday.
rEe Miss Ella X. Hayes, of Great Falls, n.
l., on the 10th inst, skated from Cocheco rail-
DAD wharf, Alton, to the Weirs, some twenty
allies, in less than three hours. She is the first
idy who has skated the whole length of Lake
,Vinnipiseogee. So says the Boston Journal
sg-The speech of Hon. Warren II. Vinton
4 favor of the contestant in the Yarmouth
ase, before the House Committee on Elections
Friday evening, was a masterpiece of its
.ird, and was listened to with much pleasure
" the large audience present. Kennebec
Journal.
SB- The annual pay Of an English soldier
is 800, and that of French soldier, $50. A
French Colonel has 81 800, an English Colonel,
$4,000. In France a Vice Admiral has $1,000,
in England, $4,000. A French Naval Lieut..
has to find his uniform and food out of 120f
month, or less than $500 year.
sY- The Halifax Chronicle says the re-
turns received by the Chief Gold Commission
err for the month of December afford conclu-
sive evidence Of the productive qualities of the
Nova Scotia gold mines. At Sherbrooke, the
average yield per ton of quartz was two and
one-half ounces of gold.
sB- The principal cartoon in Punch for
January, entitled, --latest from the Spirit
Land" represents George III as saying TO
Washington: swell, Mr.. Washington. what
do you think of your fine republic now, eh p
What dye think? What dye think, ell ~
The reply to this question is simply, Humph."
~ The Boston Courier. in quoting from
this paper, invariably designates it as the New
Bedford Mercury (abolition.r This is very
correct; but we suggest to our contemporary,
that il is unnecessary: as much so as 1t would
be Tor Rosa Bonheur TO write "horses" under
the painting OF the horse-iair or for us TO
print secession after the Boston Courier
New Bedford Mercury.
- The Argus complains that the Agent
of the Freedmens Relief Association had
nothing to say Saturday evening for the ''poor
soldiers" and their suffering white fami-
lies There is little to urge in favor of"poor,
soldiers; but Mr. Dudley should really have
alluded to the Widows Wood Society. the
Maine Liquor Law aud the Skating Carnival
sg-In the case of the steamer Adelaide
which has been some years in the U, S. Court
a decision has been rendered at Washington
In favor of the Company. thus reversing the
decision of the Circuit Court. The amount
involved was $4,000. The Calais Herald says
there can be no doubt Of the justice of the
final decision at Washington.
% NJ. Foucault, French savan, claims
that he has found mistake in the received es-
innate of the velocity Of light, and that it
moves at the rate of S94 900 600 feet per second,
instead of 927 100000. If he is right the COM
iHou VI ulrtdUCt pl heavenly
bodies from each other and all calculations
based thereon, are incorrect.
% Mr.. Mason Jones should understand
that in this community the adverse criticism
of the Argus is understood to be very high
compliment. Thus his lecture of last Wednes-
day evening receives the following flattering
notice: The deductions OF the lecturer we're
"badly drawn, and show either no historic stu
''dy, or else the worst of judgments; and we
NOW go further. and say that erery one Of
breadth of assertion in this passage, which
marks the hand of a master-of impudence.
sH-The St. Csoix Herald states that the
schooner Two Brothers left Boston the 10Th of
December for Calais. There was heavy gale
on the following day, and it is supposed that
she was wrecked and all hands lost, no tdings
having yet been received from her She was
commanded by Capt Solomon Jordan of
Calais, and one of the hands named Kendall
also belonged there. The other two hands be-
longed, one to Deer Island, N. b., and the
other, whose name was johnson, lived at Rob
bnston.
- The firm of Winans Brothers, of Bal
timore, Md, have been underbid by French
company, and have lost the capital job of run
ming and keeping in repair the great Russian
Railroad from st. Petersburg TO Moscow
The Frenchmen have taken the contract for
four years. All the Americans aud English
men employed ON the road left with the WI
nanses. Most Of them stopped in England,
and are employed by the Messrs. Winans in
the construction of large iron vessel after
the plan of the "eigar steamer" built in Bal
timore.