The Portland daily press., 1864-12-10
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

% Henry W. Longfellow, the poet, pays an
income tax upon $l4.1n.
% The increase Of the population Of Rome
for the last nine years, has been nearly 10 per
cent. kaSS 84
E The rebel post-ofice department does not
half pay expenses, and the deficiency for nine
months has been million and half
BRev J. K. Mason, formerly Of Hampden,
has assumed the pastorate of the Congregational
church and society at Thomaston. avr
B-Mr. Hale has been left off of the Senate
Naval Committee; fact which will cause no
regret in Secretary Welles' Department 81
% Gen. Grant has the utmost confidence in
thesuccess of Sherman expedition, and that he
viii reach his objective point.
EA Masonic Commission has been inaugu-
rated in New York to furnish coal and Aoar to
the poor Of the city at cost.
RA large meeting looking to immediate
emancipation, has just been held at Covingtsn,
KY. 81 5ss 81 l.
% The Lewiston Journal understands that
the Androscoggin Railroad Company propose
purchasing Jones' Block in that city, for a
Station House.
V The Richmond Wig Of Tuesday, says
there is nothing new along Lees lines, but it
has no doubt that Gen. Grant will soon be son
to Richmond
a Harding, formerly an officer in the U. s.
Navy, but now the husband OF the notorious
Belle Boyd, has been captured, and is now in
the Old Capitol prison.
90 The pay roll of the largest corporations
in Lawrence, Mass, amounts to $225, 900 q
month. or at the rate of 81, 100000 per an
mum.
RFourteen tons Of the old farmers Al
manac, Boston, are said to be printed an
nually, going into the hands of a million Of
readers. tsi F
RThe Biddeford Union has long leader
on the Senatorial question, leaning hard towards
Mr.. Hamlin ON the ground that Mr. Fessenden
cannot be spared from the cabinet. The article
is highly complimentary to both gentlemen.
RWhen Frederick Douglass delivered his
recent address in Baltimore, he met with his
sister, freed Maryland slave, Whom he had not
seen since he made his escape from his master,
thirty years ago. asl c5%es 1ea
90 The Palmetto Herald says that in one
graveyard twelve thousand prisoners lie buried.
The rebel surgeons begged and implored for
medicines, but the Confederate government was
unable to fill their acquisitions.
~ lions .advocate, the Baptist paper of this
city and state, has been published thirty-seven
years. lisa paper of excellent spirit, and is
worthy Of liberal support. Rev. VIM. H.
Smaller, D. D., is the editor.
RLynn is being torn and distracted by
depot war; the question being Whether The rail-
road depot in that city shall be or not
kbe-where it now is, A great deal.of steam has
been raised over the matter. baais1o
The papers are asking, ssWhat becomes OF
the cents ~ of which in November there were
coined at the mint in Philadelphia five millions,
six hundred and ten thousand cents, and forty
five thousand two cent pieces.
EThe tunnel under thelakea at Chicago for
supply of water goes on well; it has pro-
crossed out HOO feet, nearly quarter Of mile,
goes ahead 10 feet day, will be half mile
long next May, and all done, two miles out, in
1866.
| HSix votersof Wells, have been bound over
in the sum of $500 each for their appearance at
the next term of the Supreme Court at Saco, for
riot at the Town House during the late Presi-
dental election, in attempting to prevent col
ored man from voting. f &aef
% The fatality among Democratic papers in
| the west is as marked as it has been in this
state. We have to add to the list of deaths al
ready published, the Illinois State Register, pub
lshed at the capital of the state; the Des Moines
Statesman, published at the capital of Iowa,
and the Bloomington Qowa) Citizen.
% The Oxford Democrat says the first tape
manufactured in this country was made at North
Monmouth by an Englishman, who gave the idea
of q loom to Yankee mechanic, which he made
and putinto operation. From this two large
factories are nowin operation in that village,
making tape and webbing. nl
90 The rebel papers state that the two wings
of Sherman's army have been united and s'are
marching with measured tread toward the At
lsntic Coast" At Milledgeville, where the union
of the army was accomplished, they. only de-
stroyed the arsenal, the depot ard the peniten-
| tiary. eu 2
81 In Ninety-nine counties in Kentucky
nearly the whole state-where the Democrats
claimed SO 900 majority, including the soldiers
vote, Mcclellan receives 63,ss6, and Lincoln
q, PAT; McClellan's majority, 36,459. Nearly
all the returns are in. Lincoln carries twenty
ty-two counties in the State.
% The Richmond WING doesn't see what
effect Sherman's exploits will have upon the
issue of the war, but il is yexed to find him get
ting off SO cheaply after having been told by the
highest authority in the confederacy that his re-
treat from Atlanta was to be more disastrous
than Napoleon's from Moscow.
BA son of Increase Blake, ESQ.,, of Far
mington, about is years of age. was severely
wounded by the explosion of the breech of a
fowling piece on Friday week. The Chronicle
says an iron screw penetrated the boy face Just
below the left cheek bone, breakinga piece from
the cheek bone and from the upper jaw, and
penetrating into the nose beneath.
R-One ]. J. Bennett, in New York, purpor-
ting to be an Advertising Agent, has been send
ing to publishers advertisements of LIQUORS. re-
questing them to accept in payment notes to be
paid in the wares advertised. When ssrotgut''
is made lawful tender we may consent to do bus
mess for this Mr.. Bonnet, but not before that
time, at any rate.
Egg shells of gigantic size have been found
in Madagascar. measuring twelve inches in ex-
treme length, being twice as long as the eggs of
the ostrich. They were fouudin the debris of a
recent land slip. The bones of gigantic birds,
belonging to no known species, have been distu-
TERED, and Prof Geofroi st. Hilaire, at Paris.
r,,oAo NJ xf
he named Epyornis. as5i
The Postmaster General, in his annual re-
port, indicates that nearly million of dollars is
paid to foreign steamship owners for carrying
the mails. Three and q half million dead letters
reach Washington annually, and twenty Xix
hundred photograph and daguerreotype like
nesses were missent in the same period. Over q
hundred thousand letters are llegibly directed
per annum. .sft,,-y -
~ The Macbias Union suggests that tba