The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-29

SB-The Argus still continues to "kick
against the prick" inits impotent rage against
the Independent Lectures and the Sanitary
Commission. Editorially aud through CORES
pondents il empties the walls of its wrath.
Let it foam. Truth and loyalty are as Often
sve to it as water is to mad dog.
CT Major Henry White, member of the
State Senate of Pennsylvania is a prisoner
at Richmond. That Senate has Union ma
jority of one. Mr.. Whites absence makes
tie and may prevent sn organization. Some
of the Richmond papers have proposed 10 hold
on to him on account of this very fact.
nr The Bridgton Sentinel says William
II. Powers Esq., of that town, died in New
York on his way home from the South. He
enlisted early in the war without waiting to
be assigned position that his abilities enti-
tied him to expect, thus showing that he was
governed by no sordid or ambitious motives
nJ-The Lecture Committee of the indie
pendent Course, have received letter from
Rev. Robert Collyer of Chicago, who promi-
SEES TO lecture early in February. Mr.. Collyer
10 OuC VI lhC dulCcb uCi III tuC WuOiS ANOitu-
west. He is an Englishman by birth, but
man whose heart has been Americanized to
its Utmost core.
% The operators and clerks in the Bos-
ton Telegraph Office, presented Mr.. J. S. Bed
low, the enterprising Superintendent Of the
Eastern Division of the line, with testimo-
NAL of their esteem Oh Christmas day. The
testimonial consisted of a beautiful photo
graphic album containing the pictures Of the
various attaches of the Boston office.
aTThe New Bedford Standard says that
on Thursday three of the crew of Bangor
schooner were arrested on board their vessel.
In the harbor at Holmes Hole, on suspicion of
having been the murderers of Mr. William c.
Luce at that place the preceding evening.
They arc supposed to be the same who were
seen going into Mr.. Luce's store, and one of
them has been identified.
GA bill has been introduced in Congress
which provides that whenever mariner Or
able seaman be drafted, he shall have the right,
within eight days of notification, to enlist as a
seaman, the district or locality in which he
may have been drafted being credited with
his services as an enlisted man. Such seaman
is to be entitled to all bounties he would have
received on entering the army.
svThe Memphis Evening Bulletin of the
18th instant says that movements for recon-
struction in accordance with the Presidents
late proclamation will be commenced at once.
1t will require less than 10000 votes in the
whole State to do it. The Bulletin pertinent
ly asks "Can any one doubt that it will be
done? East Tennessee can do the business
ITSELF"
10 The publishers OF the Waterville Mail
have very wisely decided to increase the price
of that paper to 81 year, on and after the
first of January. 1t is richly worth the money,
and the man who declines to renew his sub
scription on account of the rise in price, ought
to be sentenced to pay the bills of news
paper, for the next six months, from the cur
rent income.
T-The citizens of Calais have been alive
with excitement fora few days past on ac-
count of rumor that rebel agents in the
Province were about to make raid upon
them. A company OF 20 men was raised to
do guard duty, and the tread of armed men,
the Herald says, is heard in the streets at all
hours of the night. Our border friends may
be unnecessarily alarmed, but it can do no
harm to keep an eye open.
u The Argus is woefully mistaken in
supposing any of its vigorous attacks upon
the Independent Lectures, or Sanitary Com
mission disturb the nerves of the Press. We
would no more have it withhold such exhibit
tons of its instinct than we would have JEFF.
Davis, while persisting in his treason, indulge
| in complimentary expressions towards the
government which he is laboring to over
throw.
TThe editor of the st. Croix Herald,
whose proximity with the Provinces, gives
him good opportunity to form a correct
opinion, says in regard to the course pursued
in relation to the Chesapeake, that the sympa-
thies of the British authorities are unmistak-
ably with the Southern traitors, and it is just
as well that we should no longer hesitate in
making up our minds to that fact. Their soil
is refuge for pirates and murderers, and the
people extend protection to them.
sI-Hon. John Dickerson, for many years
an eminent citizen of East Machias, and lately
resident of Amherst, Mass, his birthplace,
died suddenly in the latter place on the Sd inst
at the advanced age of 81 years, as we learn
from the Machiss Republican. His vigor and
vitality had been failing for some months, but
he was about the streets as usual the day be-
fore his death. He fell dead while dressing
himseliin the morning without the slightest
previous warning.
" If there is any one thing for which
Honest Old Abe" has reason to thank Hea-
ven more than another, 1t is that the n. Y.
Herald has abandoned him. The Herald
won't stand by any body long, who wont down
with the dust, and the course pursued by the
Herald is another evidence Of the honesty of
the President. The Herald has had its steel
ers' out for some time to fluid a man who
wants to be President and is willing TO pay
literally to be brought before the people.
sH-If further evidence were needed that
the copperheads are mad with "nigger OH the
brain" it would be found in the circumstance
that many of their papers have styled the
Goddess of Liberty, in bronze, which has re-
Gently haen placed on the (anifol at WASH