The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-12-01
'oRIGINAL AND SELECTED.

RA paper collar and cuff company has been
organized in Boston, with capital of $500, 900.
R-The consumption in tobacco is said to be
falling off. Who will lose by it!
EEThere is no lack of Senatorial candidates
in Illinois to succeed Mr. Richardson
RUp to last Friday there had not been an
alarm of fire in Boston for twenty-five days.
G5rThe steamer Katahdin will make her last
trip of the season from Bangor on Monday, De-
cember Sth.
RThe new comet discovered by NJ. Tempel,
at Marseilles, on Sept 80, has been named
ssTerpsichore. -
EAbout four thousand books have been
added to the library of Congress during the
present year.
RIn consequence of a break in the large Ca
nal at Lawrence on Friday, nearly all the facto-
ries are idle.
BJohn B. Cough was offered $500 to repeat
his lecture in Boston, but prior engagements
would not allow him to do 50.
R-The people of New Haven have subscribed
fifty thousand dollars to form Goa at cost
company.
RHenry w. Beecher was paid $500 for his
lecture recently delivered in Boston, before the
Mercantile Library Association.
W We understand the proprietor of the .Ar-
gus has effected contract for the composition
and press-work of his paper for one year.
R-A large bear was shot at Pennington Falls
on the 10th instant, after a chase of about hal
an hour.
% Mayor Gunther of New York recommends
that reward of $4,000 be offered for the de-
lection and punishment of the incendiaries who
plotted the destruction of that city.
% The store of Thomas Allen, on Exchange
street, Bangor, was entered on Saturday night
and S75 to 500 worth of butter, tea, coffee and
tobacco stolen therefrom.
80 Patents have been granted to Walter K
Foster, of Bangor, for improvement in carriage
wheels; and to George F. Waters, of Waterville,
for improvement in printing shears.
RRev. Mr.. Inman of Spring Street Baptist
church, Lewiston, has rendered his resignation,
says the Journal, and his society have voted not
to accept it.
RA Pennsylvania editor, in an appeal to
his patrons, says: ''The editor wants grain,
pork tallow, candles, whiskey, linen, beeswax,
wool and anything else he can eats
The printers in the Boston morning daily
offices are on strike. The Printers Union of
that city is as despotic as JEFF. Davis, but their
tyranny, it is hoped, may be short-lived.
EThere has been only fifteen deaths in the
hospitals at Augusta the last six months, though
there have been during that time more than
twenty-five hundred sick and wounded soldiers
in hospital.
RThe Boston dailies yesterday looked mea-
gre enough, owing to the strike among the
printers, but it is hoped they may hold out, and
refuse to submit to the infamous despotism
which is attempted upon them, AA
! 50 A merchant of this city paid the Grand
Trunk Railway company $10,565 freight on
-four and grain received from the Wess last
week. Quite heavy bill for one weeks re-
ceipt-Baggor Wing.
/ ~ Hon. Henry Tallman of Bath, who for
several weeks lately remained in very critical
condition. his friends having small hope of his
recovery, has so far recovered as to be able to
visit his Office. WH
- By break in the bank of the Erie Canal,
near Rochester, a few days since, damage to the
amount of $50, 900 resulted. The cause of oil
this mischief is supposed to be muskrat, Dor
ing through the bank.
BC Crime is decreasing in Wisconsin. The
number of convicts at the State prison is reduc-
ed by the expiration of time, and there are no
convicts to make good the decrease. There are
now one hundred and fifteen prisoners there.
! RThe Vineyard Gazette says the story that
trunk containing $500 in greenbacks came
ashore on the south beach in that town is only
half true. That is to say, the trunk came
ashore, but there was no money in it.
BrIt costs $500 to get up fashionable fu-
neral, from fashionable church, in New York
The mortality ought not to be large in city
where it costs SO much to die and get decently
underground.
The son of Ex-Governor Cooper, of Della
ware, was recently convicted of being rebel
spy. The President commuted his sentence to
imprisonment for life, and it is stated he has
been sent to the Albany penitentiary.
| 81 Amherst, Mass, has voted to ask authori-
ty of the legislature to tax herself $50, 900 for
the State Agricultural college, that being the
condition on which the location of the college
was secured to the town.
/ ~ Col Mark F. Wentworth has been ssre-
stored to his place. as Naval Storekeeper at
Portsmouth Navy Yard ; and John Wentworth,
the late incumbent, we learn takes the clerkship
In the Ordnance Office recently vacated by Mr.
Butler [Chronice.
50 Our merchants lose goods of considerable
value in the course of year from the operations
of light-fngered females. One of this tribe
few evenings since gobbled up piece of silk
valued at $75, but no clue has vet been found to
| (yI1il tor Of I've Toxv
nal
ETA special dispatch to the Boston Herald,
Nov. 2Sth, says: SIN the rebel Congress, on
Friday, the resolutions offered by Mr. Leach, of
North Carolina, concliatory to the United States
Government, and favoring pacific measures on
the basis of state rights and the original status
of slavery, were unanimously rejected
B-The condition of our prisoners recently
received by exchange from Georgia, is horrible
They have suffered to the extent of human en-
durance; and thousands and thousands have
persisted from exposure and want of nourish-
ment and medicines
ga large rolling-mill, for the manufacture
of boiler and sheet iron, galvanized gas pipe and
gasometer iron, will soon be erected at Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. About three hundred
hands will be employed, and some operatives
from England are already engaged.
80 The sinking of the pirate Florida in nine
fathoms of water near Fortress Monroe, settles
the Brazilian question SO far as her restoration
to that government is concerned. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that the pirate crew captured with her,
could not have been settled with her.
- At the town election in Hartford, Conn,
last Monday 4,5O6 votes were polled, and not
6O2 as reported by telegraph. The Democratic
msjorities ranged from 142 to 21O. About 900
less votes we're polled than at the Presidential
election.
RA slave woman fifteen years ago ran away
from her master in Maryland, and came North
to Hartford. A freedman, recently brought