The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-01-22
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

VIZ OH tue iouIiH pdge-Ouf 1altle-OfiS-
inal poetry: Noble Blusco, an interesting
story.
sE-"Epsilon" will appear tomorrow.
nI- Maior-Gen. Reynolds has assumed
command of the defences of New Orleans.
CO The project of starting Wooden Fac
tory at Skowhegan has proved failure.
H- Capt. Samuel Parker of Skowhegan, is
getting out frame of a gunboat
gB-'Eury, take the arness hoff the 'orse
put the alter hover is cad hand give i'm some
'ay and hoats.'
@B-Nearly three hundred tons OF hay have
been purchased and pressed by parties in
| Skowhegan.
| sY-We are indebted TO Hon. Hiram Chap
man, State Land Agent, for copy of his Re-
port, which we shall notice soon.
sB- 1t is said that ex Mayor Opdyke is to
take Mr.. Barney's place as Collector Of the
port OF New York.
sY-Hon. Daniel Webster's Law Library
was sold at auction in Boston on Tuesday of
this week.
H-Artemas Ward is speaking his piece
to large crowds in California, and if fortunate
will return with "big pile
| ny-The Maine Soldiers have allotted to
their families, through the State Treasurer,
during the past year s42s ,s57.7s.
GY- The Bowdoinham (Baptist) Quarter
| " Meeting will be held in Monmouth on Tues
day. Feb. 10th, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
nE-The Richmond Examiner says ii has
been expected that Sumter would fall for a
week back. Not more for ,ceok back than
a broken front, we fancy.
sB-Loyal papers are now published in yir-
ginia, North Carolina and South Carolina,
Mississippi, Tennessee, louisiana and Arkan-
sas--more than half the rebel States.
LIZ A Dutchman's heartrending soliloquy
Is described thus: "She loves Shon Mickle SO
Peter as l, because he has got eoople tollers
more as has,"
90 Rev. G. NJ. Herring has resigned the
purpose OF engaging in the employment of the
| Christian Commission.
sy- The First National Bank of Bath has
been designated as a permanent Depository Of
Public Money and Financial Agents of the
/ United States.
kR- The Gardiner Journal thinks that city
should be the point at which the Rockland
railroad should connect with the Kennebec
road.
g- All persons who are recruiting in this
State for other States, are hereby informed
that the Provost Marshals are on their track,
and If detected "wll find themselves in a
very tight place, they say
TEA. Williams & Co. have published lis
Our Prosperity Delusion? Our National
The volume is raid against greenbaeks in
seventy pages. For sale in this city by A.
Robinson.
ny- An order has been issued authorizing
General Burnside to recruit and ill up the
Ninth Army Corps, of which he is comman-
der, to the number of iiity thousand men, for
such duty as may be specially assigned to
said corps by tire War Department.
nE- The editor of the Bath Courier CON-
| plains bitterly that his subscribers won't pay
up. We mistrusted, when he was Boosting so
largely on his list, that all his subscribers did
not pay in advance. A big non-paying list
viii not support a paper in these times. He
| says be shall publish his paper with interims
as circumstances may require. Gardner
| Journal.
eB-The terrible tragedy at Santiago Chill
brings to mind the burning of the Richmond
theatre, which caused so much excitement at
the time. 1t took fire during the performance
on the night of Dec. 26th 1911, while it was
crowded with spectators, Of whom upwards Of
seventy persisted in the flames, including the
Governor of the State OF Virginia.
1- The Gardiner Journal says that on
Saturday last at about 2 O'Clock in. the
morning., a house about half a mile above the
New Mills, occupied by Asa Libby, was con-
sumed with nearly all its contents. 1t was
owned by T. A. Bradstreet, Esq. Mr.. Brad
streets loss was about $500 - Mr.. Libby's
about s200-no insurance.
ay- The Gardiner Journal gets out of the
mistake it made last week about the dictona-
ries very honorably and says the statement of
the kennebec Journal that the order was sub
stantialy that passed at every session, of two
dictionaries, for the use Of the House, has
raised the inquiry what becomes of those two
dictionaries at the close of the session?
gThe arguments OF counsel in the Stan
dish election case came off before the Com
mttee on Elections in the Representatives
Hall, on Wednesday afternoon last, Hon. J.
W. Bradbury. of Augusta, appeared for Mr.
Lowell, the sitting member, and Hon. Warren
II. Vinton, of this city, appeared for Mr.. Wes-
colt, the contestant.
sr The fearful loss Of life at Santioga
should be suggestive to city and town author
iites who have charge Of the erection Of large
halls and public buildings in which a large
number Of persons will assemble. In the con-
struction of school-houses, churches, halls
and places of amusement, regard should be
had TO the means Of escape in case of fire.
Let us profit by the lesson of the Santioga
calamity.
ag-Silas Wright, who was one OF the purest
and best democrats OF his time, once said: IF
among US there are any who are prepared, for
any earthly object, to dismember our corfed-