The Portland daily press., 1864-11-21
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

BT They have good skating in Montreal.
Cd London is now connected with Salem and
Jerusalem by telegraph.
R-The report of Gen. Canby's death is be-
leved to be erroneous.
RThe cotton mills in Fall River have been
put in operation.
~ Why is the tail of dog like the heart of
tree? Because tits farthest from the bark.
GE A supplementary draft has been ordered
in Penobscot county, to make up a deficiency.
RDepreciated paper-rebel currency and
copperhead journals.
60 The National Sailors Fair is to be kept
open until Tuesday evening.
80 The National Sailors Fair in Boston has
been perfect success.
RJ. w. Marshall, the discoyerer of gold in
California, still lives at Coloma, a'spoor but re-
spectacle citizen
g'It is reported that Hon. Charles Francis
Adams is DESTROYS of being relieved of his duties
as Minister to London.
~ The st. John papers complain of the
prevalence of small counterfeit coin. We are
happily spared such nuisance in this region.
R A waggish boarder calls ii ssgoing it
strong" when his landlady puts two plates of
butter upon the table.
~ Sound winter apples only should be sent to
the soldiers. Any others will be of no value to
them.
B-An atrocious eonundrum from the Boat
swain's Whistle:-What is worse than raining
pitchforks Hailing omnibuses
81 John B. Cough 8 new lecture, "Fact and
Felton, occupies an hour and three-quarters
in delivery
H-A man was convicted of stealing 500 in
Nevada lately, and hung for ittwenty- -four hours
after
H-A dealer in refuse lumber proposed to
purchase the Chicago platform for frewood,
but he found it had been so long stepped in R.
G. whiskey that it wouldn't burn.
ETA friend who has kept dog simply to
give an alarm when clothes-line thieves prowl
around his yard, proposes to save expense by
hanging up chain of sausages in his kitchen.
R-J. 5. Cushing, Esq, Treasurer of the P.
& K. Railroad, was presented on Thursday last,
by some of his old friends and neighbors with
an elegant silver tea-service.
BA lad named Palmer of Boothbay. while
III.
land, was seriously injured on Thursday by the
accidental discharge of gun.
RThe store of Mr.. W. o. Fuller, Rockland,
was entered by thieves on Thursday night, and
| goods to the amount of several hundred dollars
taken therefrom.
% The Richmond Enquirer calls on Vice
President Stephenst to resign, eff in his eyes the
antagonism existing between him and the ad-
ministration is too violent to permit of co-ope-
ration
% The Belfast Journal is advertised for sale.
Copperhead papers, like last years almanacs,
are slow of sale. They should be soldeto the
soap-boilers. They are valuable chiefly for the
large quantity of lie they contain.
R Andersonville where SO many of the Fed
eral soldiers are held as prisoners, is in Sumter
county, Georgia, about forty miles west from
Macon, and is laid down on some maps as An
| derson.
4 Eeutenant-Ce Commander George A. Stephens
has been detached from command of the Pom
toosuc. and is waiting orders. The Pontoosuc
is the gunboat thatl laid idle SO long at PASSPORT
when sent after the Tallahassee.
- The most popular lyceum lecturers have
raised their prices this winter Beecher and
Cough have $3.50 an evening, and the gentle
men who formerly asked $50 now demand
! 300.
R-A New York correspondent ofthe London
Morning Herald has just revealed the fact that
the notorious essay on Miscegenation,' was
the work of democratic writers after all, as was
suspected at the time. Boston Advertiser
"Crowbar, . in the Argus, INDUCES in a
joke about his umbrellas . and Lincoln
friends p but it would require microscope of a
powerful magnifying power to discover its point,
as it would to see McClellan's military victo-
ries.
The Advertiser says ''It is striking fact
that three of our ex-Vice Presidents = Aaron
Burr, ]. c. Calhoun and ]. C. Breckenridge
It may also be truthfully added that "each, in
his day." was leader in the Democratic
party.
HA grandson of Louis PHILIPPE lately mar
ried the eldest daughter of the emperor of Bra
iii, who will be empress of Brazil when Don
Pedro dies. Another grandson of Louis is to
marry the other Brazilian princess. If our rec
election is not at fault, the present empress is a
daughter of Louis PHILIPPE.
@The estimated loss by the recent fire in
Princeton, is $40, 900. The fire was discovered
in the gang saw-mill belonging to Messrs. Bel
more Young, whose loss was about $4,000, in
sured for $4,000. Among the sufferers are Put
nam Rolfe $4,000, insured for $4,000, Sam'l
Darling $4,000 without any insurance C. Waite
& Co. had an insurance of $4,000 in gold; Cope
land and Duran $1,000, no insurance.
~ Funeral services over the remains of the
late Rev. Geo. Knox were held at Lewiston on
Thursday forenoon, which were participated in
1 by Rev. Messrs. Inman and Wood, Lewiston,
Drs. Smaller and Wilson, Portland, and Rev.
Mr. Quincy, Topsham. The last resting-place
of his remains is the Riverside Cemetery, to
which place they we're followed by large num-
Der of mourners and friends. \
R There is no doubt remaining but that
i Sherman has started for Charleston, Savannah,
Mobile, or somewhere else, with one of the best
armies that ever moved at the word of COM
mand, and no fears Feed be entertained, but that
he will strike where he aims, "a most terrible blow
upon the head of rebellion. Time, and that not
far distant will tell the story. We have only to
wait patiently and hopefully
EA correspondent of the Calais advertiser
states that Mr.. Knowlton Of Liberty, COM
missioner sent to the army of the Potomac by
Gov. Cony to take the soldiers votes, was ar
rested by Gen. Foster on suspicion of being one
of the bogus agents from New York, but he was
able to afford satisfactory evidence of his au-
thority, and of course his arrest was brief He
took the matter quite complacently, and felt