The Portland daily press., 1864-01-19

| poA III W ashlngfon,
~ The question of Emancipation Is en-.
| gaging the attention of the Legislature of Ma
ryland.
% A dwelling house in Ellsworth, occu-
pied by Stephen Monegan. was destroyed by
fire on Monday last
/ GB Sylvanus b. Macomber, a graduate of
| Waterville College, was ordained to the Cos
pei ministry at Cambridge, on the 14th ult.
gB- Rev. Mr.. Halves OF Waterville has
gone to labor with the Army of the Potomac.
Rev. MIR. Whittlesey will supply his pulpit
during his absence.
sB- The Bath Times says that the ship E.
A. soullard, wrecked at the mouth ofthe Ken
nebec river, was sold at auction on Friday, as
she lay, for $500. There were some articles
reserved to be sold Monday
sy- Semmes of the Alabama, speaks in a
letter Of schooling himself to endure the trials
of rover like "a Christian philosophical
Christian pirate. Pope Plus should send him
letter Of coincidence.
nH-A good story is told Of an Indiana sol
der. When accused by his colonel of stealing
a fine rebel rooster, he repealed the soft i'm
parchment, saying: 81 just saw this old fellow
sitting on the fence, and ordered him to
crow for the Union, and he wouldn't do it, so
l confiscated him for REBEL"
nT-A correspondent of the Biddeiord Jour-
nal says that on Thursday the It'll inst.
Henry o. Huniress. Oliver b.. Littlefeld,
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| Daniel Perkins, John G. Cummings and Free
dom Warren, of Co. l, LIST Maine Cavalry,
while after lumber, beyond camp only mile
and half, with six mule teams, driven by
man from Co. b, were captured by guerillas
in our uniform. Pursuit was Immediately
made but only the wagon could be recovered.
aH-The Cumberland Charity Temperance
Association, win hold its next meeting at the
| Congregational church in Gorham on We'd
nesday afternoon next at IL o'clock. The
friends of Temperance whether members of
any Temperance organization or not, are urg-
emily invited to attend. The question ofurg-
ing the Legislature to add an explanatory
clause to the Liquor Law win be under con-
sideration.
EH lHc fTleHuS Oh JONI MlnOf BOltS IN Tue
new Virginia legislature at Alexandria, few
days since communicated with him with a
view to electing him 10 the United States
Senate, to ill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of Lemuel j. Bowden. Mr.. Bolts declin~
ed the honor, principally on the ground that
he did not desire to become the representa-
tive at this time OF any one OF the several or
CARNATIONS claiming Jurisdiction over the soil
| of Virginia; but preferred to wait until more
| daG nil shn ha a1n taI i'm iat;
| 10 the affairs of the state.
aH-The Pennington Patriot, copperhead,
has changed hands, Messrs. Pillsbury & Lins-
colt having stepped aside for a Mr.. Brown,
whose christian name is not given in the num-
Der before us. The reason assigned by the
retiring parties is declining health, though we
have suspicion that the declining health OF
the paper is the main reason. The price is
henceforth to be raised twenty-five cents per
! annum.
| sg- A paragraph crept into our item col
umn the other day, TO the effect that some of
the salaries of Collectors of Customs amount
| to $4,000 or 100000 year. There is no such
salary in the Union that amounts to half of
the smallest sum pamcd. If Collector is re-
| quired to perform duties not appertaining le-
Ultimately to his office, he very likely receives
pay for it; but this is only because it is more
economical for the government than it would
be to multiply officers Of emolument.
sH-Fred Douglas said in his lecture at
Cooper Institute New York, that much as he
deprecated the influence of the Irish.in our
politics he could not forget that while yet a
slave, it was an Irishman who advised him TO
"cut and run" and that he was once warmly
received in Ireland, and welcomed to the plat
form of Cancellation Hall, by the noble O'Con-
nell himself. The Irish have been befooled
into the idea that work given TO blacks viii be
taken from them, and in case Of emancipation
there would be rush of freedmen to the
North to compete with.them in labor.
sY-A man died in New York few days
since from the effects Of inhaling laughing gas.
A post mortem examination showed that his
lungs were badly affected, and it was supposed
the gas produced congestion. Had his lungs
been in sound condition it was the opinion
of medidal men that he would have received
no injury, and while they exculpate the ad-
ministrator of the gas from blame, they adj
wise no person to submit to such an expert
ment without previous examination, to as
certain the ability OF the lungs to bear such an
unusual stimulant.
| LIE The veterans of the Massachusetts
regiments who arrived home ON thirty-five-
days furloughs on Sunday last, were received
with demonstrations such as their tolls and
sacrifices and readiness torenew them, so just
| ly entitle them. What the Journal says of
Massachusetts veterans applies equally well to
Maine. "The thirty-lye days allowed these
survivors of Fredericksburg, of Chancellor
vile, Of Gettysburg, in which to rest at home
from the tolls and dangers of war, should be
made, if possible, an elysium of innocent
pleasures and Strengthening encouragement.
| 1t is due to them both for their past and for
their future, and it is also due from Us out of
regard to the public welfare
IF Bro. Tenney of the Brunswick Tele-
graph, complains of inadequate support, and
intimates that, in consequence of the exorbi-
tant prices of stock, he may be obliged to sus-
pend the publication OF his paper. Mr.. I. has
worked hard and perseveringly for the local
! interests of his town and makes an excellent
local paper and for such services is entitled
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