The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1864-12-30


Just think of him whose work thus helps
To wear away the winter,
And put this inquiry to yourself
Have paid up the PRISrERl
The rebels still hold about forty five thousand
Of our men as prisoners, and there are about
fifty-hve thousand rebel soldiers now prisoners
in our hands. The bulk of these captive Union
officers and soldiers are NJ present confined at
Florence and Columbia, IN South Carolina; Mt
Salisbury, in North Carolina; with small bod
les at other points in thes. and other States.
Since Mr. Lincoln's in ,uguraton in 1864,
there have been five charge in his cabinet:
Mr.. Stanton for Mr.. Cameron, Mr.. Usher for
Mr.. Smith, Mr.. Fessenden for Mr.. Chase, Mr..
Dennson for Mr.. Blair. aud Mr.. Speed tor Mr..
Bates.
1t Is reported that Rebel Congressman Foote
Of Tennessee has worked his way out OF Rebel
dom and is In town awaiting an opportunity to
get to Europe by steamer, in quest of that Sc.
questered spot where he can enjoy little free
dom from taxation.
Only five Revolutionary pensioners are sup
posed to be living Three of them enlisted in
New England, and one Of them, William Hutch
ings now one hundred years old, resides in
Pcnobscot. Hancock County.
The Dcs Moines State Register says there
were three counties In Iowa that polled no DEM
Ocratc vote, viz Emmett, Ida and Plymouth.
One county, Palo Alto, cast no Republican bal
lot Henry county gave the heaviest Union
majority, Scott next, Linn next, Black Hawk
next.
Tho gloom which the news arriving through
their own and the Northern journals has caused
In Richmond, Is unparalleled during the war,
while the rumors of still further disasters which
the public and the army believe has been sup
pressed by military authorities, causes n feel
ing Of dependency and uneasiness that cannot
be adequately described in words.
Josh Billings" is Henry G. Shaw, an auc.
tioneer at Poughkeepsie.
The candidates for President Of the Senate
nre said to DO Hon. ID. d. Stewart Of st. AL.
bans. and Hon. A. d. Mason OF Bangor.
In the North Carolina House of Commons on
the 10th inst, peace resolutions were tabled by
the narrow majority of two-52 against so.
The Lewiston Journal says the whole amount
of Internal Revenue tax assessed to the Andres
coggin Mills since the Excise Law went into ef.
feet (from Sept I, 1862, to Dec. 1, lS5i-27
months) is SlS7.i72 80 The Co.'s tax for o.
tober last was S23,GO6.lo, aud for November
S29,7O7.95.
The Italian Senate has adopted. by n vote of
234 against 81, the bill for the transfer of the
Italian capital to Florence.
The Rockland Gazette an excellent paper
published by John Porter & Sons, at 50 90 q
year-has entered upon Its Goth volume.
The Herald's Washington dispatch says since
Gen. Sherman left Atlanta II 900 rebel prison.
ers have been exchanged, and during the same
time we have captured nearly 80, 900 of the en-.
envy. At this rate three months will give us
the whole rebel forces.
Tho abolition of Slavery in Maryland is
being attended with the good results which
were anticipated. Emigration is flowing in.
to the State from the North. The large
landed proprietors who formerly titled their
lands with slaves, are disposed to sell out,
and leave to the new settlers tho work of re.
novating their worn.out soils by the aid OF
free labor, and u more economical system of
management.
DR.. Brown, the principal physician Of the
Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum, testifes in a
trial going on in New York, that Adier's Ger
man and English dictionary was written by an
inmate Of that institution He also says that
the leading editorial of one of the New York
papers is written two or three times week, by
person Of unsound mind confined there. The
first Is "stunner," but the last Is not hard to
believe.
A dispatch from Newborn says that trc-
mendous shock like an earthquake was felt there
on Monday. rocking the earth and rafting the
windows. II is supposed to have been caused
by an explosion Of great magnitude in the We
entity of Wilmington.
Gen. Sherman announces to the Secretary of
War that he intends To move up Savannah river
Immediately and capture Augusta, and the
news to-day Is, that he has already moved.
Sherman also says that after this he will swing
around upon the rear Of Charleston, destroying
oil Its railroad communications on the way.
The news from Thomas Is glorious. Ho
has brought Hood to stand on the north
side OF the Tennessee. The river being i'm.
passible, and Hood without artillery and
pontoons. Thomas proposes to move upon
Hood and force fight and surrender.
Three of the st. Adams raiders escaped
from Canada by secretins themselves in the
cars until across the line. They came to
Lebanon n. H., where they enlisted, and 70.
ceived the bounty. hoping to got back to
Dixie ut Uncle Same expense, but were dc.
tected. and are now in the State Prison ut
Concord.
AUnioa soldier who escaped from the prison
pen at Andersonville. Ga gives an account OF
his experience In Chicago paper. In which he
pays splendid tribute to the fidelity Of South
ern blacks. He aud his comrades, after escap
ing. went to the cabin Of negro, who provid.
ed them with sweet potatoes, hoe-cakes, and
boats by which they were enabled to escape
down the Congarec river. He says the negroes
throughout the South are as true as steel.
The claim Of Prof. Goessllng Ia German chem
ist, residing In Western city) to the discovery
of new process whereby crystallired sugar
can be made from corn starch, Is about to be
put TO practical test. II was said that the
Professor had succeeded by this process In OBJ.
tanning three and half gallons of beautiful
white syrup from bushel OF corn aud had
at last solved the problem which has puzzled the
chemists all over the world. by discovering q
method Of turning this syrup into granulsted
sugar, similar to the prodnct of the cane The
Importance Of such discovery would b i'm.
mcnse.