The Portland daily press., 1864-01-25

~ Gen. Frank Blair has resigned bis po-
sition in the army.
sB- We regret to learn, as we do from the
Lewiston Journal, that Maj. w. Il. Frye, Of
that city, is in a very low state Of health.
nv- Advertisers are requested to hand in
their advertisements as far as possible, before
one o'clock in the afternoon. DIFF
ga correspondent OF the Lewiston Jour-
nal says John Hamlin, Esq, Of Lewiston, has
been appointed Deputy Provost Marshal in
the Second District, in the place Of Samuel S.
Lambert, Esq, of Phillips, resigned.
syThe Bangor JefTersonian, says Lieut.
Percy Knowles, OF the 9th Maine, wounded at
the battle of Rappahannock Station, has arriv-
ed at his homo in that city. He is rapidly
convalescing, and will Job his Regiment at
an early day.
sBThe House ofDclcgates, in Maryland,
have passed by vote Of 81 to Is, the pream-
bic and resolution declaring that the true in
terests of Maryland demand that the policy
of emancipation should be immediately inau-
gurated within her borders. What say our
Copperhead friends to thate
spRev. T. w. Lewis, of Worcester Mass.
has been appointed under sanction of the
War Department. by Bishop Z. S. Jones, as
missionary of the Methodist Church for the
Department Of the South, with his residence
at Beaufort. He has already entered on his
labors.
hH-Wooden weddings are taking the place
Of tin weddings. The Utica Herald states
that one came of there recently, at which the
gifts were water pals, cradles, clothes pins,
boot jacks, wash tubs and rolling pins, pota-
toe Washers and rat traps, beefsteak maulers
and match safes, sugar boxes and washboards,
wooden trumpets and jumping jacks, WOO den
shoes and cord wood, etc.
sB- We learn from the Bangor Wing that
abortive attempts were made on Thursday
night last to blow open, and then to break op-
| en- the safe in the store of Holyoke & Baker
in Brewer. Guns worth fifty dollars were
stolen. The safe of Lorenzo Sabine was
blown open but no money found, and an I'M
store of jeremiah Skinner
sy-The Oxford Democrat, says that few
days since, Martha a daughter of Mr.. Ed
mond Wentworth, received wound in her
side by revolver, brother playfully snap
ped it at her, supposing all the contents of
the chambers to be discharged. At last ac-
counts she was doing well though it was fear
cd 1t might be otherwise, at the time of the
medical consultation, as the ball was not
found.
sg-The trial Of Hon. Luther s. Moore, of
Limerick, for forgery, commenced in the Su-
prenc Judicial Court at Saco Thursday last.
MIR. Mason, the complainant and alleged en-
-dorser of the notes, testified that he had not
embossed any notes since July 2, 1853. AT the
adjournment Of the Court Saturday the testi.
mony was not quite all out. Messrs. Howard
q Strout of this city, and Ira P. Drew, ESQ.,
are counsel for the accused. Mr.. Tapley.
County Attorney for York County, conducts
the prosecution.
SB-When the rebellion is crushed out will
our people be ruined by heavy debt p
Some short-sighted people suppose they will
be. They do not realize that our people are
all getting clear of debt; that though the gov
eminent will be in debt it win be to our own
people that no foreign capitalists will be draw
ing away our substance; that every man who
holds piece of Government paper will, to that
extent, be under bonds to stand by the Union
and that our public debt, being due to our
own people, instead of calling for or suggest
ing reputation will be one of the strong bonds
that will bind us together. The free people
free from personal debts, viii not feel the
moderate burdens OF taxation necessary to
pay the interest, but will meet it without q
feeling Of oppression, with scarcely thought
] that It is burden.