The Portland daily press., 1864-12-24
ORIGINAL AND gEIECTED.


Ezion's .4dSoeats comusncss new vol,
ume--the 3sth-with the next number.
R-The Belfast .dgs Gays the steamer Lady
Lang is crowded with business every trip. W
e Altered bills from rs to SIS on the Sears
port Bank are said to be In circulation.
R Flora Temple, the queen Of the turf, is
about twenty years old.
E The small pox is quite prevalent in New |
Bedford. = SA4A " s 49, ssA
EThe friends of John P. Hale have proposed
him for the vacant French mission.
- The Gardiner Home Journal has COM
menced its 18th volume. Mr. Morrell makes q
spicy paper of it.
EAlex. H. Stephens, rebel Vice President, is
reported ct Richmond presiding over the rebel
Senate
81 The New York Tribune says Of Mr.. JUS
tce Coursol, he is not the first goose whose cack-
ling has saved state. Fg8
RGov. Cony has nearly recovered from the
injury he sustained sometime since by jumping
from his carriage s-'}ese ~ sssa sna
HE G. Bailey, Esq, of the Boston Herald,
is corresponding for his paper from Virginia.
Dec. 10Th he wrote from Norfolk.
GIVE learn that Rev. Prof. Shepard of Ban
gor, will preach in the Congregational church at
Saccarappa tomorrow.
H Rev. Mr.. Bolles will give the third lecture
of his course on Preachers and Preaching, to-
morrow evening, in the Universalist church
H-The overland immigration during the past
season is estimated at over $50 .Ooe persons, end
there is still room for several more. Sirf
: RGol. N. G. Taylor, the eloquent Tonnes
sean, addressed public meeting in Brooklyn,N.
T., ON Wednesday evening so
= - Rev. James NJ. Palmer will be installed as
pastor of the second Congregational church in
Biddeford, on Tuesday, 9th inst. Sermon by
Prof. Shepard Of Bangor. sA4o1
R The Richmond Eraminer Of the 10Th,
notices the fact that large numbers Of negroes
have recently stampeded towards the Yankee
lines. est aessaa1 a9 tsal
R-St. Silva Gomez, the President Of the
Province of Bahia, has been dismissed from his
office, and the Florida trouble is in fair way to
be settled.
The Senate Judiciary committee have taken
no action on the Louisiana senatorial cause,
further than to hear the statement of General
Banks,
TThe Quebec correspondent Of the Toronto
Globe says that Mr.. Coursol's Judgment sis
deemed q tissue Of nonsense-false in fact, bad
in law and suspiciousin motlve.'' G5
The solid men of New York at the Cham
Der Of Commerce, have voted to raise $780, 900
as testimonial to Admiral Farragut. Twenty
thousand dollars we're subscribed on the spot.
BThe Biddeford Union says that on Thurs
day of last week Mr.. Samuel Downing of Ken
nebunk, an aged man, injured himself quite Sc
verely by slipping, striking the ''small of the
back" against the edge of the door step.
q So much interest is felt in the Weed
Opdyke libel suit in New York, that it is said
money has been offered to the janitor of the
court room for early admission and good
seats. kSs
Since Admiral Porter assumed command
of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
in September last, his share OF the prize
money, it is ssid, will amount to nearly $780,
900.
HrWe are indebted to Hon. John H. Hub
bard, Representative from Connecticut, for q
copy Of the Congressional Dictionary-a book
invaluable for the amount of information it con-
tains
~ ~ Referring to Gen. Forrest, Of Fort Pillow
notoriety, whose death is reported, the New
York Tribune says amore active, resolute, and
blood thirsty scoundrel did not exist in the Con-
fsderacy. sT
10 81 There lisa class of persons who are all
ways growing about and finding fault with our
cold down EAST and always looking West
for an Eldorado. Are they aware that the sun
neDer rises In the West1 s.siaas
- Report says that in boring for oil near
Chicago last week, subterranean lake was
reached, at the depth of about 700 feet, from
which the water aowsin copious stream. Re-
port, in our opinion, is lying bore. 9d
n % The new Congregational church erected
in Biddeford. for Rev. Mr.. Tenney's society, is
completed, and the pews have sold for enough to
pay all the biIlsand leave about. forty pews in
the hands of the parish. The ediice cost over
$50, 900. asg iass se ts7haai sao 1879
~ The taking out letters of administration,
at the Probate Court in this city, on one estate,
required $500 in stamps II man is worth
anything it costs about as much to die as it does
to live. There is no necessity for law against
suicide.-[ Newburyport Herald. ''-
| Secretary Fessenden told several senator's
who asked clerkships for women, that he had
more. applications from women known to be
worthy and destitute than could be provided for
in the next ten years, without sweeping reno
val of those already employed.
- Look out for counterfeit fifty dollar green
backs. A bill Of this description and denemina-
ton was detected yesterday by Mr.. Eaton, OF
the International Steamship Company, and pro-
nounced counterfeit at the banks. 1t was very
clumsily executed ssi s.
- Mr.. Beecher, in speaking Of the beauty Of
vegetation, referred to the carrot. which be
raises, hetops for himself and the bottoms for
his horse. In beauty they are equal to the
fern. and he is never tired Of looking at them
he likes them everywhere but in his soup. a,
HrThe sisters of charity of Detroit lately
buried $500 in specie in the cellar, for fear Of
raid from Canada. When the impending storm
passed by they went to get the money again,
but it had disappeared. Suspicion rests on the
man who was employed to bury it.. s ssa ..,a
The fact that the immense armada which
left Fortress Monroe, last week, under command
of Admiral David D. Porter, is destined to at
tack Wilmington, N. c., has become generally
known. The fleet, exclusive of transports,
numbered sixty eight vessels and six hundred
and forty-nine gnns.
RThe Gardiner Journal objects to Mr. Gar
rison's style Of lecturing; has no fault to find
| with his ideas, but thinks his lecture in poor
'taste and insuferably dull.' The Gardiner
people evidently prefer thunder to lightning,
forgetting that it is the latter which rives the
| oak. as5 tis5 1911 .res essifs ~ I'd M
RThe London Erpress says new drama,
entitled Mr.. Briggs, or the Murder in the Rail-
way Train,'' is drawing crowded houses at a
penny theatre in Dundee. One of the scenes