The Portland daily press., 1864-01-07
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

10 On the fourth page-the Silver We'd
ding; Miscellany.
90 The town Of Chatham, the quota O
which is five, has sent twenty-one men into
the service OH the last call.
TThe Louisville Union places the name
OF Abraham Lincoln at the head of its columns
for the next Presidency.
V-Why is a lawyer like a crow? Because
he wishes his caws to be heard (Since Civ
Ing vent to the above the author has become
raven mad)
aB-lt will be seen by the Congressional
report that movements have been made in
the House of Representatives in regard to the
reduction'of duties ON coal.
cit is confidently predicted by Washing
ton correspondents that Congress will imme-
diately extend the time for payment of natl
onal bounties, probably to the first of Februa
ry.
10 The N. Y. Worlds Washington Cor
respondent says, the special committee on the
reconstruction of the rebel States, Winter
Davis, chairman, are comforting with the adj
ministration in the arrangement of scheme
for that purpose.
Dispatches from Mr.. Pruyn, American
Minister in Japan, announce that the Japanese
government has agreed TO pay the claim for
damages of $4,000, for intercepting American
steamer Pembroke last year. This argues
good understanding with Japan.
VThe Cutter"J. S. Black" has been ordered
to perform guard duty in Eastport harbor, and
oboat or vessel is allowed to enter or pass out
of the harbor between the hour of 6 p. NJ.
and6 A. NJ. without being carefully inspect
ed.
y-Among those lost on the steamer Sun
ny Side was fortune teller who had accumu-
lated $4,000 by telling otherpeoples' fortunes.
She lost it all together with her life and her
two children, because she could not tell her
own fortune.
EB-one vacancy has already occurred in
the United States Senate Hon. Lemuel ].
Bowden Of Virginia, died in Washington on
Saturday. His term would have expired in
1860, in politics he was ranked in the conser-
alive side.
sEThe Washington correspondent of the
New York Express says that Gov. Sprague
has purchased, of the estate of the late T. II.
Hill, the large house on 9th street, Washing
ton, occupied by Secratery Chase. The price
is s33,000 Two vacant lots are included in
the sale.
sB-Large numbers Of Northerners have
recently visited New Orleans, intent upon
finding the royal road to wealth, by lucky
hits in cotton, sugar &c. The business, how
ever, is overdone, and some have been so un-
fortunate in their operations as to find it
necessary to borrow sufficient money to meet
their hotel bills and secure passage home.
aB-The Rev. Mr.. Shine, chaplain of the
House of Representatives in Iowa Legislature
on the opening Of the recent session, prayed
thus: "Bless Thou the young and growing
State OF Iowa, her Senators and Representa-
tives, the Governor and State officers. Give
us sound currency, pure water, and unde-
fled religion,-lor Christ,ssake. Amen.'
sVThe Bangor Wing suggests a method
ofincreasng our armies in the field, which
seems well worth nial. 1t is that the Gov
eminent shall call for from 10000 to $4,000
new recruits from the able bodied men be-
tween the age of As and 60, to perform garris-
ON and guard duty in the loyal States, thus
releasing the young men now employed in
this manner for active duty in the field.
%. DR.. Cresswell, of St. Catherine, C. W.,
has killed patient by an overdose of strych-
hide, and is reported to have forfeited his bail
and fed to the United states. 1t is said this
Is not his first "inadvertence" of the kind, and
that he had the reputation of being very in
temperate. He claims to be brother of the
late Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Judge of the Di-
vorce and Probate Court England.
aH-A stoker on the Grand Trunk Rail-
road attended party given by the railroad
company at Island Pond on Christmas night.
and enjoyed himself heartily. On getting home
with his wife he mixed cup of poison with
the greatest elaboration, drank it, and said
he was about to die, and spent the short time
he lived in calmly arranging business matters.
No cause is definitely known.
sH-The London Spectator says, with re-
ference to the Presidents late illness, that the
mind naturally glances at the possible calami-
ty the country might sustain in his death.
Few men of average ability ever manage to in
spire more profound trust in their integrity
and firmness than Mr.. Lincoln has contriyed
TO impant in both his friends and foes. and
certainly there is no man in his Cabinet, not
even Mr.. Chase, whom the world woultbtrust
as well.
srThe Lewiston Journal says the andre
scroggin Mills of that city pay a semi-annual
dividend of S1o0,Ooo--ten per cent,--their
capital being one million dollars. The same
dividend was.paid in July. The Bates Mills
with the same stock pay the same dividend,
The July dividend was also the same. The
Hill Mills declare dividend of ) per cent, in
July and the same in January. The capital
stock being 100000, each dividend was
$4,000.
nB-The Boston Journal says, there were
about forty or fifty men belonging to Maine
and New Hampshire who meteorological from
the hospital at Portsmouth Grove on Satur-
day, and arrived in Fall River in the even
ing and on Sunday morning in destitute
condition, most of them not having been paid
for six months. Provost Marshal Dillingham;
collected q subscription of 800 for the men in