The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-01-30
ORIGINAL AND sELEC FED.


who was taken prisoner at Brashear City,
has been heard from in Texas.
sE-At the last accounts, the 18th Maine
regiment was at Matagorda Texas, with the
exception of Co. X, which is at Fort Living
stone, La.
request of the Governor, to make our coast
delences more efficient.
IH- A school house in the Walker Hill
District Wilton, was destroyed by fire on
Monday evening last.
orTwo murders have been committed in
houses of ll-fame in Detroit, within the last
month.
srThe hay crop of the Uuited States
amounts to s2O0,0oO,o00 year. How long
will it require for the farmers to cut down
our national debt?
LEA Sanitary Fair is to open in Buffalo
on the 22d of February, of which Millard
Fillmore is to be the President.
~It is generally understood that Arch
duke Macmillan will sail shortly for Vera
Cruz on his great adventure as Emperor OF
Mexico.
edward Everett, it is said, has been
engaged to deliver a lecture at the Sanitary
Commission Fair in Washington, to be held in
February.
sI-The Calais and Bangor winter road,
ria Milford and Princeton will soon be fit to
travel, by which a person can go from Bangor
to Calais in day.
sHThe Clarion says there was scrim-
mage in one of the schools in.Norridgewock,
one day last week, in which clubs were freely
used and pretty hard blows given.
gFThe Augusta correspondent Of the
Lewiston journal says the three companies
of the old 10th regiment, now at Chattanooga,
will Join the Goth at New Orleans.
ay-The county jail at Auburn was empty
for a single day last week, the time OF the last
man having expired before another was COM
mitted.
sY-The school committee Of Newport X. j.
have distributed raw-hides among the school
teachers of that city and ordered them to
use them.
nR-Thrty-two contrabands came to Gen
Meade's headquarters on Monday from point
thirty-five south Of Culpepper. They confirm
the reports OF the forlorn condition of the
rebel army.
LEA spirited controversy is going on be-
tween Philadelphia and New London CT. in
relation to the location of a Navy Yard. Bet
ter settle the controversy by establishing it at
Portland, better place than either of them.
~-The Oldest paper in the world is pub
lished at Pekin China. 1t has been published
1000 years and is now printed on large
sheet Of silk. In what form or manner it
was issued at the commencement we are not
informed
ey-Drunken soldiers are punished at Angus
ia by being made to march up and down all
day before the barracks, labelled "Drunkard,"
with three or four bottles tied around their
nee..s. Drunken officers are probably provid-
ed with good quarters at first class hotels.
sV-James d. Clay, who recently died in
Canada, was son of Henry Clay. He early
espoused the cause OF secession and has resid-
ed at Montreal, waiting and hoping for the
success of the Southern Confederacy, His
| remains are to be taken to Kentucky.
sy-Some Psychologists being driven to their
wits end to discover cure for the dipthera
claim that it has been occasioned by the in
PRODUCTION and use of Kerosene oil. How is
| it then that those who burn nothing but tai
low candles have been most severely afflicted
by it?
| sy-The Arson Advocate says mysterious
disease has made its appearance in the town
of Concord, in that county, which has SO far
bafiied the medical men. Several persons
have already died and many more are sick
| six in one family. The disease resembles the
cold fever, which ragged SO fatally in this sec
ton forty years ago.
sYMr. A. C. Lewis, No. II Market Square,
has just completed very fine group of phot-
ographic Pictures, embracing the entire Po-
lice force Of this city, including the Marshal
and his Deputies. The likenesses are very
correct and life-like, and the getting up of the
whole affair is in good taste, and reflects great
credit upon Mr.. Lewis, who is one Of our
most successful Photographers.
TEA Fair will be held at Saccarappa on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of next
week in aid of the Sanitary Commission. We
judge from the programme, rs stated to us,
that it will be an exceedingly pleasant affair.
Friends OF the object in this city and the neigh
boring towns are invited to be present and
participate in the hilarities Of the occasion.
sY-In some sections of Illinois there are
but few barns, the weather being sufficiently
mild to admit of cattle being left out during
the winter During the cold term the first
part of January, thousands of these cattle,
swine and sheep persisted, the thermometer
indicating degree of GOODNESS such as char
acterizes Maine.
sB-The Argus, with characteristic fairness
copies simple proposition from the Press in
relation to Gen. Mcclellan, carefully emitting
the reasons given for the proposition, and then
stigmatizes the writer as "a knaye or fool
We will cheerfully submit to the candid reader
to decide where the knavery lies, if he will
copy the entire article from which he meanly
snatches brief paragraph.
Ey-The Argus writhes like an eel impaled
on spear, at the truth everywhere staring it
in the face, in all loyal papers, that the last
men in the United States to give up slavery
will be the copperheads of the North and yet
traer remark was never uttered, as every