The Portland daily press., 1864-12-08
0RIGINAL AND sELEOTRD.

RThe Wisconsin State Prison Is reported
vacant, and the keeper away on vacation.
R-Now is the time to interfere with the do
mestic arrangements of the caterpillars.
THE First National Bank in Bath has proved
eninently successful.
The National Sailors Fair in Boston. IL is
thought, will net $3.50 900.
% The New York Leader Democratic is soon
to be issued daily. It is opposed to the World,
.Nescs and Day Book.
The net results Of the great Metropolitan
Fair held in New York, have been finally figured
up, amounting to 81 $50 ,09l.27.
Ed The steamer Eastern Queen makes her
last trip for the season, from the Kennebec to
Boston, this evening. asaasfaC eos /,
EHoosac tunnel when completed viii be
two miles long : the longest in the United
States. 1Iel nZGr a1eT v
% The new state of Nevada sent to the q.
s. Sanitary Commission 1000 in gold and
silver. EAa
gWe shall publish full abstracts Of the De-
partment Reports as soon as we can prepare
them. FYfT Wnn Z az =
R The plow manufacturers in the North
west have advanced their prices twenty per
cent. = a. =
VProf Goodwin Smith is the guest Of Mr..
Bancroft, the Historian, in New York. He
leaves for home on the l4th inst Sat4
RA Democratic editor in Iowa says his party
in that State has taken the degree of L. L. d. -
Licked Like the Devil 20 ss
HIt is believed in the army that Roger A.
Pryor meant to be captured. He thinks he was
not properly appreciated by JEFF. Davis.
B-Scientifc observations show that Hartford,
Conn. is not o s'fast'' place-that it has always
been about two minutes behind time
9The Clarion says dry hard wood is worth
SO cord at Skowhegan, and oats 81 per
bushel afss4sises ss1,f.ss. -.s s
EThe number of ocean steamers between
Great Britain and America has SO greatly in
creased, that during 1863 vessel left either
side of the Atlantic nearly every day.
RThe Machias Union says little daughter
of Charles A. Drisko of Columbia. two years
old, died recently of strangulation, caused by
| thelodgmentof bean in her throat e
60 The whole number of our postofices ia
2s,S7S. Four thousand seven hundred and
thirteen postmasters were appointed last
year. e gag e ~
~ Mrs. Richie, better known here as Anna
Cora Mowatt, has been making sensation in
Florence in private theatricals which she has
got up there. @
B-A choral festival is to be held at Dresden,
in Germany, in July next. It is to last fsur
days, and to employ 10000 singers. The ex-
pense is estimated at $4,000
RThe Clarion says the dwelling house be-
longing to Mrs. Ann Hampton, in Bingham,
was destroyed by FIRE on the 10Th ult Insured
/ for $500 in the Somerset Company. sa
three of the marbles of Larkin G. Mead,
Jr., the young Vermont sculptor, have arrived
at Brooklyn from Florence, and are attracting
/ much attention as fine works of art
Cyan exchange suggests that theology in
England is getting to be genteel, since the COM
mencement exercises of theological school were
closed by ball.
BA railroad bridge is being constructed
across the Hudson. at Albany, in spite of per-
sistent opposition, and it is anticipated that the
cars will cross it early in 1865. 7a SIS
EIn Paris the fashionable ladies have their
poodle dogs dyed. red, blue, green, or any de-
sired color to correspond with the color Of their
dresses. 9aieEialEcl ~ u 1sss Sd 81
RThe right to subscribe for new stock in
the First National Bank at Newburyport,
sold the other day at auction, at $525 per
/ share. A4&A
his opponent, that man don'tamount to sum
in arithmetic; add hin up, and there is nothing
to carry p J 4te gHeiosaLa A.zIassaE'
e. A new witty paper, like the London
Punch, is to be started at New York. The
Figaro is its name, and European is to be its
editor.
RA law suit has been recently terminated
in Hungary, which had engaged the courts
in that country for one hundred and eighty
years. Esg sfsi esr.s8
/ - Drowned in the mill-pond Of Thaddeus
Bennett in Guilford, Charles, SON of VIM. N.
Bennett, aged IL years. His body was recov-
cred after being in the water about half an hour.
-[Whig. n&a~ts Tsa
They have commenced testing double
barrelled gun called the ttKellogg gum" at
Hartford, which will be q terrible instrument of
warfare, as it is said to be capableo Of firing 400
| shots minute. ~ Fsseg-ss,9~e = t3
The Hartford Post asserts, on what au-
thority we know not. that the printers strike
in Boston was "ordered" by the sUnion"; and
said Union was run and controlled by men from
the British provinces. ITgt 1rfF5etH
- The Augusta Farmer learns that Mr..
Charles Sawyer has disposed of his interest as
landlord of the Stanley House, to .AIessrs.
Wing & Williams, who will assume the manage
ment on the 10th Of the present month q
HGold in Richmond is now at premium
of 1000 per cent, or forty dollars for one, hay
ing advanced since the reelection, Of Lincoln
from about 24O0 per cent to its present
figure.
The December number Of the Northern
Monthly states that the whole number of mill
tary commissions issued from the Adjutant
Generals Office at Augusta. since the war COM
menced, is 1867. eassa.l q
RIt is estimated that it requires as much to
support one vice as would suffice to bring up
two children. If all the vices were thus COM
muted, it would require several worlds like this
to hold the children.
\ ETA letter from Madison, Ga, published in
the Augusta Chronicle, says: eff Governor
Brown tells the trnth in his message, we live
under a worse tyranny than was possible in the
old Union" +ssas -.
EWeare sorry to learn that Gov Cony is
still confined to his room from the effects Of a
severe sprain of the ankle received several weeks
since. He suffers mnch pain and prostration,
and it is feared that the injury may prove more
permanent in its character than was at first sup
posed.-E Farmer. s9e1ls So b +
4 RA despotic emperor wished that all human
necks were combined into one, that he might
sever them at single blow. A friend Of ours
often wishes that all female lips were condensed
into single pair, that he might kiss them oil at
single effort. ~ s'5saiass & s
ENever, within the memory Of the ssoldest