The Portland daily press., 1864-02-15
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
B~on the first psge-Lcttcr from vir-

sBeRich specimens of gold obtained from
mines in Halifax, have been received in Bos-
| ton.
| lBrGreen the Maiden murderer has been
indicted by the Grand Jury of Middlesex
County.
aR- Attention is invited to the advertise
ment of Tufts College, which will be found in
another column.
1H-Rev d. Parsones Cook, formerly
editor of the Puritan and Recorder, died at
his residence in Lyman, on Friday.
sg- Judge Daniorth is holding his first
term Of the Court, under his new appoint
ment, at Rockand.
gg- The Bath Times says Lieut. Hinckley
of Georgetown, Of Co. X, 10th Maine, was Sc
riously wounded on the 18th inst.
gY- Bishop Eliot of Georgia urges the reb-
| els to fight on, and not submit TO "infidel
fanatics with crowd of greasy soldiers at
their back
Eg-Green, the Maiden murderer, was APP
pointed Postmaster, under Buchanan's Admin
istration and retained by the general desire of
the citizens.
EvThe Aroostook Times says that one
night last week a pack of wolves chased
deer from the woods into the village Of Sher
man and finally captured him, sucked his
blood and left the carcass in the road.
nHr Hon. Hannibal Hamlin has our special
Iv. II Al 81 Lib
and Hon. Sidney .Porham has laid US under
obligation for copy of Gen. McClellan's Re-
port.
LIZ The lateness in the delivery of the
Press for the last few mornings has been ow-
ing TO change Of pressmen, which was I'M
avoidable. We are breaking in new hand,
and all will be right in a day or two.
ng- There is rumor that Gen. Fremont is
to succeed Mr.. Dayton as minister TO Paris,
and another that he is to be run for the Pres
idency, on an Independent ticket. We do not
believe either of these rumors.
nY- The voice of NJ. Theirs is again heard
in the French legislative hall. Twelve years
ago he was led from the same hall to felon's
prison. Such men, like truth, though crushed
to earth will rise again.
% A letter from Charleston, dated Jan.
"a, says the weather is delightful, as pleasant
as in Maine in the summer. The 9th Maine
was to embark for home Immediately, having
all re-enlisted-
eE- The Bangor Wing says that on
Wednesday morning last Hiram Chase of Alb
bolt, at work cooking in numbering camp
near Shirley, committed suicide by blowing
out his brains. He was about 2G years of
age.
rEMajor Gen. Howard received very
fiattering receptiod in. Boston, on Thursday as
he passed through there, on his way to Cha
tanooga. He was met by the most prominent
and influential citizens and was warmly
greeted
aV- Rev. James Alexander, pastor of
Trinity Church, Georgetown, d. c., and al
ternately Professor of Theology, Philosophy,
Scripture and Hebrew, in Georgetown Col
lege, died there a few days since, aged 40
years. lie was undoubtedly one of the most
erudite living Greek and Hebrew scholars.
sE-Some Of the papers are speaking Of the
farm offered to the state by Hon. +. o. J.
Smith, as worth $4,000 Mr.. Smith puts no
such value upon it. He says it is said to have
cost former owner that sum. We under
stand it cost its present owner not over s. 900.
The location is very beautiful one.
lBrThe Steamer Merrimac was detained
at this port four days, at an expense Of from
81 900 TO 81 800 day, because the 30th regi-
ment was at Augusta, and could not be remov-
ed here except on Sunday. When the expen-
ses of that regiment are figured up we would
suggest that this small item should not be
overlooked
sIrA correspondent of the Maine Demo-
GRAFT gives an account of the Quarterly Meet
lag of that apostolic body called in honor of
their great leader, "The .Bullockites." He
says "we did not during the meeting hear
paper preaching or ,oooden singing, but all
were free to express their feelings in the way
their minds led them"
hgEdward Shaw of Cape Elizabeth, serv-
ed in the 10th Maine. the full time of his en-
listment, and the next day after his discharge
shipped for Europe. Ue returned to this
port on Friday, and on Saturday was enrolled
in Capt. Benson's Company in Bakers Caval-
ry, has been examined and excepted. With
such men to fight our battles success is sure
sE-Mr. Willard Harding of Fryeburg as we
learn from the Bridgton Seminal was fatally
injured at the landing at East Fryeburg, on
Wednesday last, by falling limbs from tree.
He was found dead by his brother, who, be-
coming alarmed by his delay, went out in
search Of him. Mr.. H. leaves wife and four
children He was good husband and kind
father and oblging neighbor.
eE-Mr. Bright in his great speech at Biz
mingham, in speaking of the affairs of the
country said he must be blind and deaf, and
worse than blind and deaf, who does not per-
ceive that through the fundamentally of
this strife, the most odious and most indie
scribabe offence against Heaven, the slavery
of the South-the bondage of four millions of
our fellow-creatures, is coming to certain
and rapid end.
sB-Hon. Il. b. Washburn says, when Gen.
Grant entered upon his great campaign for
the possession of Vicksburg, he took with him
neither a horse, an orderly, nor a servant
camp-chest, an overcoat, nor blanket, nor
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