The Portland daily press., 1864-01-06
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


sY-On the fourth page-Corrected Mar
| kets.
@vrThe mountain house on Mount Monad-
mock blew down Friday night.
sg-The n. II. Union State Convention is
| to be held at Concord, on this Wednesday,
Jan. 9th.
sY-The Manchester, N. II. Print Works,
have declared a semi-annual dividend of TWEEN
ty per cent.
GV-The Portsmouth Chronicle says Mayor
Dearborn is dangerously sick at his residence
in that city.
GH-The semi-annual meeting the Penob
scot County Congregational Churches, will be
held in Odtown on the 18th and 18th inst.
| sV-One of the heaviest Confederate stock
brokers on the London exchange has failed
for s150OO0.
| sH- Samuel Smith, formerly well known
merchant in Bangor died at Pittsfeld, Mass,
on the 9th ult.
aB-Dr. Lord, ex-President of Dartmouth
College, is recommended for the Copperhead
nomination for Governor of New Hampshire.
sR-Seyeral robberies ofstores and counting
rooms have been perpetrated in Bangor with
| in a few days.
sy-One hundred and twenty-eight men
are employed in the Portsmouth navy yard on
| gun carriages and ordnance equipments.
DB-The NY. Commercial Advertiser, which
| has Just passed into the hands OF new propri7.
etors, was established seventy years ago by
Noah Webster, the photographer.
E-Look out for fun on Saturday evening
when Duprez and Green's great minstrel
| troupe will give an entertainment at Deering
Hail. just look at their mammoth posters and
| see what amusements are offered
Mayor Lincoln, in his Inaugural Adj
| dress to the City Council of Boston, urges the
| repeal of the Maine Law and the enactment
oil a stringent license law with proper penal
ties. 1t is said revolutions never so back
ward, but legislation sometimes does.
sgAt the annual meeting Of Washington
| Hook and Ladder Co. No. /, held on Monday
last, the following persons were elected officers
for the ensuing year,. NJ. Jewett, LIST Di-
rector n. E. Redlon I'd Director; A. G. Corliss,
Clerk L. +. Dyer, Steward.
sg-Three men recently sold at Bangor a
rare lot of American half eagles, such as have
not been seen in circulation for thirty years.
They are part of deposit which has been
buried in the town of Frankfort for fifty years
and recently taken up by the heirs of the es-
tate to which they belonged.
GIT is proposed to re-organize the U. S.
Supreme Court, and TO have a number more
Judges of Circuit Courts, as the business has
greatly increased within few years, in sew
eral Circuits. And this is especially true Of
the first and second, made up of New England
and New York.
sH-Rev. Dr. Foster, of Springfield, Mass,
in review of the war, stated that 100000
men had been called into the field, and 1000
battles and skirmishes had taken place; 2i0,
600 men had been killed, wounded or made
prisoners since the war began; and yet such
was our recuperative power that, in the mean
time, $4,000 young men had become of mil
itary age.
II The Montreal Transcript of Saturday
says that Justice Smith rendered justice in
the case of Redpath against the American
Consul General Hon. Joshua Il. Giddings, on
Thursday. The judgment was given at great
length, and went to sustain the capias, and, as
consequence, hold the bail-Mr. Harrison
Stephens and Mr.. Ira Gould-good for the APP
pearance of the defendant, and the damages,
should such be given.
sETHE "MAINE STATE PRESS large
quarto weekly newspaper. containing all the
important news of city, State and country, is
issued to-day at 10 o'clock. The issue of to-
day contains the proceedings, in full, Of the
Emancipation meeting held in this city on
Friday, the first of January, with the intro
ductory speech Of Judge Davis and the Grafton
of Rev. Mr.. Stebbins, and all the important
news of the day, foreign and domestic, up to
the time of going to pIess. The Weekly Press
can be obtained at our Office, done up care
fully in wrappers, at five cents per copy.
sH- The st. John Globe says that inform
alton was sent TO the Halifax authorities that
Braine on Tuesday night last, had left Truro
for Halifax. A squad Of 100 soldiers was
sent TO surround the station, whilst the police
arrested him. When the train arrived Braine
was not on board. He had probably got out
at some of the way stations. The Halifax
Chronicle says that Braine is positive that the
| Confederate authorities will despatch COM
missioner to Halifax to claim the Chesapeake
for the Confederacy, she being captured, as it
is asserted, by regularly commissioned Con-
| federate officers.
ny-Mr. Geo. Thompson, who is expected
to arrive in this country the ed inst, and
who is engaged to deliver one of the Indepen-
dent course Of Lectures, in this city, in letter
to friend says:-"For the last three years,
have done what could to serve your country.
My labor has been one of love as well as duty.
have tried to look at American affairs from
the standpoint Of an American; to do as
| would have done If l had been an American
citizen. In all your Affections l have been
afflicted, and have not been ashamed to drink
the cup prepared for you. My knowledge of
your country has been Of great use to me
and has enabled me to indoctrinate men of far
greater influence than myself"
NOBLE SENTIMENTs.-A meeting of the
Woman's Soldiers Relief Association was late
| ly hold in Rrook1vn V which vao al