The Portland daily press., 1864-12-29

rived at Fort Pophaw, and will soon be noun
ted.
R-A tribute to the late Capt. VIM. ]. Haskell
of the Maine Seventh, viii be found upon the
last page. ss
R The remains Of the late Acting Master
Charles A. Thatcher, recently killed by guer-
rillas on Red River, have arrived home at BAN
gor for burial. ~ ~...' SA
EDuring ashooting match at Detroit ON the
10th, prize Of $500 was won by Cook Cousins
= Canadian, he having killed forty birds on the
wing out Of fifty, sprung from the trap. f
TWeare informed that the burnt district in
Eastport is fast being built over again, and that
the town is nobly recovering from its severe Ca
lamity. n, 81, d, sfais h. n ss.ss1.
- Secretary Fessenden has sent to the Presi-
dent the appointment Of Robert s.. Rantoul, a.
Collector at Salem, in place of Willard ?. Phil
lips, resigned. @ 40
e. Arrangements have been made in New
York to give a fitting reception to the remains
Of Mr.. Dayton, soon expected to arrive there
from Paris. akN7a nFINsia
ETA rat-catcher at Sheffield, England, put in
heavy claim for Naturalization by the Com
missioners, because the rats he used to catch
were all drowned in the great inundation. ~
- Recent accounts from London tell Of six
deaths from starvation in one day. And yet
Lord Wharncliffe holds fairs to aid the suffer-
ing secesh in this country. e.liT0t8
e. Prominent senator's and representatives
have signed paper inviting Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher to deliver lecture in Washington for
the benefit Of sick and wounded soldiers "a
81 Chandler Hall, indicted at Norridgewock for
passing altered bills, has had his trial postponed;
meanwhile he is lying sick in Jail. and the Clar-
ION expresses doubts of his recovery.
81 Sidney Smith one day observing Lord
Brougham's one horse carriage, on the panel of
which appeared 'sB" surmounted by coronet,
said to q friend There goes carriage with q
bee outside, anda wasp within g
Z u About one thousand muskets per day are
now made at the Springfield arsenal employing
twenty-six hundred men. 1t is said to be the
largest establishment of thekind in the world.
RThe New York World few days since
contained an article to show why Hood did not
annihilate our army at Franklin, Tenn. 1t
needed no effort to satisfy its readers of its re-
greet that he did not 10 SO.
ETA woman in Detroit recently in q fit Of
rage with her husband, threw his favorite dog
through the window. The spouse retalated by
throwing the baby after the dog, when peace
was agreed upon. 80 - "a
RSome of the personal and political friends
of Governor Andrew, presented to him on Sat
urday last, an ancient clock, which marked the
hours during the days Of the opening battles of
the revolution.a seas gsssss sa sal
EThe Buenos Ayres Standard Of Oct. 26th
announces that in the Province of San Juan,
which is situated almost at the foot of the Cor
dilleras, gold has been discovered in almost in
credibly large quantities 81 .ssoss .
R-The Baltimore Clipper, one Of our best
.'.ssa ass IS sold for two cents copy, and yet
publishers must live by the loss, certainly they
cannot by the profits. 4
R-The Boston correspondent of the Spring
field Republican writes, that the Governor is
causing denomination of the case of Green,
the Maiden murderer, to satisfy some doubts as
to his mental condition and responsibility for. the
act when committed. psS1 rs
EWe cannot and we will not insert articles
on the Senatorial question that speak disrespect-
fully Of either Of the distinguished candidates
The reputation Of both is 3 part Of our national
Inheritance. Maine may well be proud Of both
lof them. ~ .,s. s, 81. 90, silslS ~. y
p - At Woodford Hollow, VT, man sued q
cobbler to recover pair of boots left TO be re-
paired, which were withheld till an old debt of
70 cents was paid. and the jury returned this
verdict: owe, the honorable jury, do decide that
the plaintiff and defendant pay each one-half
the cost, and the defendant return the boots,
effer taking off one Of the taps r.
EThe escape of sHardee and his army was
notunexpected by the government, for Genera
Sherman's first dispatches from Savannah indi-
Gated that he could not so invest the city as to-
prevent it, as the river was so full of obstruc-
tons that General Foster could not get at it with
his gunboats. ss
RMr. Golden is severe on Faculty at OK
ford. In recent speech he said that if map
of the United States were laid before the gmem-
bers and professors of Oxford University, and
they were asked to designate the position Of
Chicago, he did not believe that one of them
could come within thousand miles Of it.
The Boston papers are engaged in making
up the programme for our State Legislature
Toby Candor" has fixed the whole thing M, So
that is scarcely needful for the legislature to
meet at all. We have thought great deal Of
s'Toby's" wisdom, ever since he described Cape
Elizabeth as San arm Of the sea. 1essiit p
RA young lady advertises in the waukesha
wis Democrat for husband, who "must be
possessed Of OF least an ordinary share 81. COM
mon SENSE Her case is hopeless saysthe Ouin-
cy Herald for no man with an ordinary share Of
common sense will ever answer such an adyer-
tisement. ssil ssfsh taesloaD 80
9rGov. Smith of Virginia, in his recent mes
sage said, Il will not say that under the provi-
dence Of God we may not be allie to triumph;
but do say we should not, from any mawkish
sensibility, refuse any means within our reach
which win tend to enable us to work out our de-,
sEsut '3iA2 7o3 So
Enforcement is making efforts to find out
who divulged the secret of the destination Of
Porter's feet. Wewere applied to by an enter
prising Gothamite, who proposed to furnish us
with all the details of that expedition for
specific price, who said he had stipulated to fur
nish the information to two New York papers
We declined his offer.
EThe New York, Commercial, copied by
the .argus, filings at Sherman, don't think much
Of "army promenading," and intimates that the
capture of Savannah is of no account. This
Commercial is often referred to by Democrats
rs Republican paper, but it is the yoke-fellow
Of the World, and its union with that paper
has been talked of and foreshadowsds for
months.