The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-01-11
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

sg-On the fourth page-Our Work.
sg-The sleighing was probably never bet
ter in this region than it is at present.
sgTThe sleighing is excellent in Washing
ton.
B-The receipts at the Cincinnati Santa
ny fair are put down at oo,ooo-the largest
yet.
sg-The severe weather of the past few
days has been excellent for the ice crop Of
New England.
sy-Wm. NJ. Thackeray, the great English
Novelist is dead-died in the midst of his la
bors at the ripe age of ffty-three years.
Sg-The National Democratic Committee,
will, this week, fix the time and place for hol-
ding their National Convention.
ag-Nathl Wiggin of Dover, n. H., has
been appointed Provost Marshal of the LIST n.
ii. District
lE-Delegations OF Quakers from Maine,
Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania,
have been before the Military Committee,
asking exemption from draft.
1g~The death Of the King of the Sand
witch Islands is announced. He was thirty
years of age. His brother succeeds to the
throne.
gB- John 5. Godfrey, OF Rockland, was
fatally wounded On Wednesday, by the acct
dental discharge of gun on which he was
leaning.
| EEThe launching of the ship New Hamp-
shire from the ship house at Kittery Navy
yard, which was TO have taken place on the
sth inst, has been postponed.
sy-The sale ofpews in Henry Ward Beech
ers church which took place on Tuesday eve
ming last, including rents and premiums,
amounts to about $4,000.
sY-Mrs. Stanton, President of the Women's
League, says 100000 names have been OBJ
tanned to the petition of ladies for the passage
of general emancipation act by Congress.
1y-The American illustrated papers for
this week have been received at the book and
periodical store of A. Robinson, No. 81 Ex-
change street.
sg-Rev. DIR. Eddy has gone to Washington
to lay before the heads of departments there
the plan Of college to be founded for the
benefit of the sons of soldiers who die in the
service of their country
LEA hotel in Athens, occupied by Mr..
Sawyer, and new store recently built by Mr..
A. w. Cook, together with the store of Leav-
lit 4 Tobey, were destroyed by fire on Sun
day last.
sB-It is thought Senator Davis of Ken
lucky will be expelled for his disloyalty TO the
Government. 1t is time to purge the nation
al legislature of such reasonable elements,
aud allow the people, now grossly misrepre-
scented, to be heard.
LIZ Governor Andrews address TO the
Legislature OF Massachusetts covers a whole
page of the Boston Journal, small type. 1t is
much longer than Gov. Conys, and nearly or
quite double the length of the Presidents
Message.
sB-The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune says that the Senate Ju-
dicary Committee will report fayorably on
Mr.. Harlans bill for enabling the justices OF
the Supreme Court of the United States, on
reaching certain age, TO retire with pension
GE-The Argus stated few days since that
1t. Col. Greene, of the 18th Infantry, of the
regular army, had been promoted for merito-
rious conduct. We are informed that no pro-
motions in the regular army are ever made
for such cause until The rank of Colonel has
been attained by regular promotion; that Col
Greene's promotion was in regular line.
sg-The Baltimore Sun says monument
is to be erected to the memory of the late
Captain JOHN ii. Gleason, who, when in Lib
by Prison, uttered this sentiment: "Rather
than say my Government should recede one
inch fromher position as to the exchange of
prisoners, would endure the suffering
twelve months longer"
rV-The Pottsyille Miners Journal for
January I'd announces that the miners in five
mines belonging TO Messrs Heckscher & Co.,
have stopped work, coerced thereto by certain
''leadersn and committee men," who take it
upon themselves to force honest workmen to
lay down their industry and leave their fami-
lies to suffer, at their arbitrary command.
The acquittal of Mr.. Bailey, on the
charge of numbering the bank clerk at Maiden
was iiituc tie OCCt>fOu Ol feiuarkaDie uctlOn-
stration by his townsmen. He was drawn
from Charlestown in a six-horse sleigh, and
received by the cheers and shouts of over two
thousand peoplewhilc flags were displayed,
bells rung and guns fired all over the village.
s- The Maine State Press, the weekly
edition of this paper, is now the largest paper
in New England-thirty per cent. larger than
the Boston Journal weekly and very muchlar-
ger than the weekly y. Y.-Tribune, and at the
same price of those papers. Orders are being
daily received for from one to ten copies, and
yet there is room. We ask the loyal people
of Maine to give il n circulation Of from five
to ten thousand. Postmastcrs requested to
act as agents. Specimen copies sent Tree.
sBWe were absent from the city when
81. N" paid his respects 10 the Press in the
Advertiser of Jan. It'll He says the Adyer-
tiser was his "fayorte paper and adds, show
ever much it may disturb the self-complacency
of the Press, shall write for il whenever it
suits my convenience We believe every pa
per in the city has been -. Ms" favorite by
turns, until his convenience has proved any
thing but convenient TO them. So far as our
selfcomplacency is concerned We assure him
he win not disturb ii by writing for any paper,