The Portland daily press., 1864-01-18
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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% First page Letter from Tennessee,
original; Recent Expedition into North Caro-
lima.
CO Fourth page-"When our Ship comes
in,' poetry.
GgrAlvall Osgood, Esq, has been appoint
ed Postmaster at North Bangor, in place of
Porter Wiley, Esq, the former incumbent.
s1-The sth Maine Regiment has re-enlst-
ed, and will shortly be at home on thirty
days furlough.
% The Machias Union estimates the ship
ment of lumber from that port during the sea-
son OF 1868, at 100000 feet. There were
7O2 cagoes.
as-Durng the past year the New York
city New England Relief Association has fed
and lodged 17,42s New England soldiers of
whom 1910 were from Maine.
U-There is now no probability that the
Communication section will be struck from the
enrolment act. The tide is setting very
strongly in favor of retaining it.
CT petition numerously and respecta-
bly, signed, has gone to Washington, asking
the President to put Postmaster Wakefield
into the New York Custom House, in the
place of Collector Barney.
ng We would inform our friend ~, c.,
who has written us from New York or the
Provinces, that no communication such as he
refers to has ever come to hand. We shall
ever be glad to hear from him.
To- Chipman's buildings, in St. Stephens.
were destroyed by fire on Thursday last.
They were occupied as grocery stores, and a
printing Office. Mr. William Andrews was
killed by falling chimney, and Mr.. Marcus
Upton had an arm broken.
svRev' Mr.. Fuller, pastor of the Congre
gational Church in Hallowell, is to be engaged
for time in the service of the Christian Com
mission, and will visit our soldiers in hospital
and camp, and minister to their spiritual ne
cessities as occasion may require.
sB- AT the annual meeting Of the Calais
and Barring r. r. Co., the following gentlemen
were elected officers for the ensuing year, viz:
Jas. Sargent, Geo. M. Porter, A. N. Mill, J.
McAdam, Z. \. Barnard, Directors; f. X.
Swan, Treasurer. At subsequent meeting
of the Directors, Jas. Sargent was elected
President and w. w. Sawyer Superintendent,
for the coming year.
eBMr. Dill writes the Lewiston Journal,
from Washington that DIR. Hersam, surgeon of
the 18th Maine, has just been brought to the
Sanitary Hospital, Washington, d. c., sick of
fever. The I'd Maine Battery at Camp Barry,
Washington, only men are of duty. in.
quarters and in hospital. IS men have re-
enlisted and viii go home in week or ten
days.
ga reconstruction movement is now be-
ing made in Louisiana for the purpose of
bringing that state into the Union on an anti
slavery basis. Mr.. Alfred Jarvis, agent of the
money to aid the movement. II is said the
committee have one fourth of the population
of the state with them and that one third are
for the cause.
vCopperheadism is getting to be aristo-
cratic and is putting on airs. The Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Atlas, a
copperhead member of Congress, speaks of the
passenger cars in which congressman ride, be-
ing "hlled with filthy soldiers" Such refined
gentlemen would put the soldier out of the
cars as they have the wel-behaved colored
map, and class him With Senator Hammond's
mad-sius and another southern aristocrats
s'greasy mechanics"
u The st. Louis Court of Common Pleas
has decided that telegraph companies are re-
sponsible for pecuniary damages occasioned
by the carelessness of their operators in trans
hitting dispatches. A merchant in st. Louis
sent dispatch to the office for New York, d.
recting large quantity of salt to be sent by
sail" The dispatch was sent, send by rail-
The salt was sent by railroad, costing the st.
Louis merchant s1024 more than If sent by
sail. The court awarded the ST. Louis mer-
chant that amount and interest.
eI-Brothcr Hay, of the st. Croix Herald,
on Friday, became citizen of the United Sta
ties by taking the necessary oath of allegiance
before the Judge of the Supreme Judicial
Court at Machias, as we learn from the Re-
publican. Judge Dickerson congratulated
him personally upon the occasion, remarking
that he had well earned his citizenship. We
were glad to see this tribute paid to SO meri-
torious case for we know of no one in these
parts who has rendered more valuable service
to the Union than Bro. Hay. Although his
paper has been once mobbed with violence
and actual attempts on his person, and not
withstanding he has Been abused, insulted
and maligned, yet be remains true TO the
cause of Truth and Justice.
Unawcd by influence unbribed BY gain