The Portland daily press., 1864-12-21
s0RIG1xAL AND sELE0TED.

IErUA4N4NAL <ANO cEAEO&EOs
EThe World Without End is the name of
new paper at Memphis, Tenn.
gyKissing is said to prevail to an alarming
extent, in the streets at Northampton, Mass.
gThe London Times, with its usual candor
and truthfulness, intimates that Mr.. Lincoln
secured the Irish vote.
- The rebel House of Representatives has
voted TO add $2,5OQ TO the pay of each of the
members, an increase Of so per cent. - .
RThe Richmond Wing assails the rebel Gen.
Kirby Smith for inactivity in the trans Missis-
sippi Department 8Ss4s IN
The Houlton Times will discontinue all
papers not paid for in advance Immediately after.
the lst of Jan. 4, s n.-g. aatyH r-~s-
The Legislature win commence its annual
session on Wednesday, the 4th day OF January,
two weeks from to-day
vi 81 The amount collected by The New York
turkey committee. for the soldiers thanksgiving
dinner, was fifty thousand dollars. $40 q
4 Gen. Sheridan was once newsboy.
That was where he learned to go to press
Early. Insio9 $3.50 f9sT308 nNSa
7 The mercury was fourteen degrees below
zero in Woodstock, Vt, on Tuesday of last
week. no. 20 S,e -
70 Frank Dickens, not long ago smart ac-
tiyenewsboy in Norfolk, Conn.,, has. recently
graduated at the Naval Academy at Newport,
r. l., with the highest honors.
p RMayor Mayo Of Richmond, fined Gull
prit in his court ten dollars, the other morning,
because he said ':the city of Richmond is very
poor. - *, - :, S2.AsA&
H Lorenzo D, Brown, ESQ.,, Of Ottawa,
Canada West. formerly of Concord, N. H., sent
to Gov. Gilmore eighty turkeys asa contribution
to the Soldiers Thanksgiving dinner.
BThe Anti Slavsry Standard says nothing
about being united with the Liberator, but it
proposes to advance its price the LIST Of
January.
VTf the rebels should emancipate their
slaves it will greatly simplify the work of re-
constructien, and forever bar out great many
yexed judicial questions. u,aD
20 At the public lectures in Worcester, Mass,
the ticket-holders who wish to 60 late and still
secure good seats, carry camp stools with them.
I hen the lectures are over they take up their
! lseafs and walk "a "a bsa daoM oel'ot
4 Al GS James ". Nye and W. W.. Stewart haze
been elected us. Senators from the new State
Of Nevada. Gen. Nye, who was recently gov
ernor of the territory of Nevada. is Of Cape
Il Soa origin. m9hnoh YEa4iitD Hioa
I RThat great monopoly, the Camden and
Amboy Railroad, has paid secret dividend 81
4 twenty-five per cent. shis year, in addition to
j its semi-annuai dividends of Eve per cent.
each. y y, .f : y. ses,. . i6
81 When Gen. Sherman was told that Gen.
1 Corse was wounded he remarked: ssWell, if he
j had half his head blown of, he would still have
more brains than some generals have under
\ = Y :. z ! ~ s'l ! : 2 81
R-S Some Of the Bostonians who returned to
] the assessors incomes much smaller than their
responses. say their returns were on gold basis.
The Springfield Republican suggests that they
pay their taxes in gold a n ~
The Boston and Worcester railroad pays a
semi-annual dividend of five per cent, free Of
income tax, being the second successive divi-
dendo Of like amount, and leaving large sur
plus
RGen. Veazie has pledged one day srecelpts
of the. Bangor and Oldtown Railroad to the
Ladies Sanitary Fair at Bangor, putting on q
full train of extra cars to accommodate all who
wish to attend. ~ O. lI93i b3go7g sad daidW Ia
H-In the rebel Congress, ON Friday, impor-
tant peace resolutions were introduced by Mr.,
7 Leach Of North Carolina. They were debated
at length and then laid over. The resolutions
1 propose the sending Of commissioners to Wash
ington.
The Richmond Sentinel of the 18th inst,
confirms the report that Gen. Sherman has de-
stroyed all the bridges across, the Savannah
river on the North side of the city, thus pre-
venting the escape of its garrison in that direc.
ton. I lCtl f1Cl 4Al n
yR Gov. Stoneof Iowa has issued q proclar
nation. calling upon the Iowa people to sci
apart the 3lst as a day of general contributions
for soldiers families. He offersa 500 banner
to the county that does the most in this good
work.
LIS ~ Fredlika Bremen ptters benedictions on
America in its grevious trials. She says her
heart is there now more than ever, and were she
younger che would be there soul and body, and
mix among those who take care of the sick and
1 Fwo1ndedI HTQ QTEGTTAlHHEEH
G9 Metropolitan papers often put ion airs,
and treat, ignore and yet steal from country
4 papers as though they were not worthy Of
public recognition, and yet they are as essential
to the city papers as the small brooks are to the
river. g.v.r "a .rssssr esn 6vo a.
% Lincoln is the only county in the State
without q newspaper g Aroostook, the most
Northern, the most distant from the sseaboarti,
in many respects the smallest county, has three
local papers, neatly printed, well edited, and APP
parently well supported.
RrReferring to the course Of Judge Coursal
in discharging the st. Adams robbers, the Phila-
delphia Press says, tits because the occasion is
serious. and we have the grayest reasons to-
complain, that all rash counsels should be dep
| 3recated. 4sfi te 5Ia6sssvaes sgg as8ea an ~
RThe Hihig which is decidedly hoggish in
some of its recent stories, says Estes 8 Hexter
havein their store, in Bangor, hog 1s months
old, which weighed, when dressed for sale, 940
pounds. The hog was raised in the town Of
Hudson. .aa
EA free school for colored female children
has been opened I'm Baltimore, styled, in COM
pliment to the author of the great Proclama-
ton, the Lincoln school. Such memorial is
better and will be more enduring than an obelisk
Of granite or statue Of bronze. 4
RIt was brilliant suggestion Of MORN
ing paper thatit would be for the interest Of
paper manufacturers to return to old prices, If
the monopoly, would allow them to do 50.
Interestingly make paper at ten cents pound,
at the present time Aboutas sensible as good
deal that has been written on this subject.
e. Referring TO recent lecture upon the
American Navy, the editor of the Christian
Mirror says of the lecturer, unfortunately he
failed to make himself heard and got less of the
audiences sympathy and attention than he 9TH