The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-12-05


$36 to 500 per month.
BThe rebel army has just been supplied
with salt and soap, but even salt cannot save
it. ss.-ssss-sss
- The Springfield Soldiers Fair will ofcourse
have daily paper, the name of which is to be
'tThe Springfield Musket.''
HGen. Wayne who commands a body of
rebels in Georgia, is son of Judge Wayne of
the Supreme Court. rMs rs a
R The Chicago Post, leading Democratic
paper, favors the proposed amendment of the
constitution forever abolishing slavery
90 The city of Nankin, China, once popu-
lated with 100000 of people, has dwindled
down till its inhabitants now number only 2O0,-
900.
HA couple were recently married in Cana
da, the bridegroom being fourteen years old,
and earning a salary of four dollars per
month, and the bride twelve years of age.
H"Trooper'' writes us from the ID Maine
Cavalry at Barrancas, Fla, but we have already
published full report Of the matters embraced
in his communication
% Some of the female operatives in the new
millat Globe Village, Massachusetts,, have:adopted
the Bloomer style of dress for working Co.'S
tune.
80 Last year there were planted in the Gen.
trail Park, N. T., over 10000 trees and shrubs.
There are now twenty miles of walk in the Park.
and so miles of drive.
80 Several people were arrested in the White
House on Tuesday while cutting off strips
Of the tapestry Of the East Room as memen-
toes. 1850 VII
Bishop McIlvaine Of Ohio, who returned
with his family from Europe on the steamer
Etna, narrowly escaped being washed overheard
during terrific gale.
: - The case of the Florida has been difficult
one for the diplomatists, but the navy has
reached the bottom of the affair-eight fathoms
deep.-[ Prentice. asm
~ The arriyalin Richmond of Geo. D. Prem
tice, editor of the Louisville Journal, caused q
sensation. the people generally thinking he was a
peace commissioner.
~ From the post norton it would seem that
the Duke Of Newcastle did not die from morbus
softening of the brain as soon as the disease
touched the spinal cord.-[Court Journal. /.
ENow is the season of the year when coun-
try editors are becoming decidedly hoggish.
They are kept SO constantly gorged on fresh
sparerib, ham and other choice cuts that they
squeal with perfect delight.
BThe Bangor Times says the merchants
who paid in that city Grand Trunk freight bills
of $1o.565 for one weeks business, are BENZ.
Ill o. ~ - al
Geo. Fuller, recently of the 9Th Me. Regt.
R A locomotive with steam up was left
standing on turn-table at Newporta few nights
ago, when by some accident the machinery was
set in motion, and the engine tore off swiftly
into aneighboring field.
- The whole number of immigrants arrived
at the port of New York up to November 80,
this year-eleven months--is 175,352; nearly
10000 more than for the same period last
year.
EVA girl of sixteen was sentenced by mill
tary commission at St. Louis to be hung one
afternoon this week, but General Rosecrans
COMMITTED the sentence to imprisonment during
the war.
20 The Bath Times says Mr.. Augustus C.
Lincoln, Conductor on the Kennebec & Portland
Railroad, fell from freight train loaded with
ice, near the Depot, in that city, Friday, injur-
ing him severely on the head. He isnow doing
we'll
B The Washington correspondent of the
Boston .ddUertiser says that Gen. Grant is un-
derstood to favor such a modification of the ex-
listing law and custom as will abolish the en-
tire system of paying bounties to or for SOL
diers
q When Roger A. Pryor was brought into
our lines, he said that he was in the rebel SER
vice because he was poor; that he had seven
children, and it was absolutely necessary for
their support that he should continue in the SER
vice.
g4Mr. Evans, an engineer, testified the other
day in the investigation Of the railroad disaster
on the New Haven Railroad, that ON the Harlem
track s'sleepers were pnt down that were so
green that they grew after they were laid
down. za
EI-A dancer in Cincinnati theatre lately
came to sad and singular death. In passing
from the green-room to the stage, just after a
dance and in compliance with an encore, she
drank tumbler full of ice-water, from the
effects Of which she dropped dead in few sec
onds. in full view of the audience.
81 A special dispatch from Washington
to the Boston Post says: "Itis understood that
Hon.James Speed of Kentucky is to be appointed
Attorney General in place of Judge Holt, de-
clined. Mr.. Speed is a lawyer of eminent
ability, and personal friend Of Mr.. Lin
coin. g asa
% THE filing up of the ''Back Bay lands
in the city of Boston has realized to the State
the sum of $3.50, 900 over and above the cost of
filing and selling. About half the work has
been accomplished, within space of about
Eve years. The proceeds have been divided
amongst the educational institutions of Massa-
chusetts
Ex-Governor Bramlette of Kentucky, pro-
poses that thosein the State, whose slaves have
been taken for army purposes, should contribute
the sums which the Government will be willing
to pay them in remuneration, for the benefit of
the widows and orphans of the soldiers who
have fallen. The Governor heads the list with
the value of two of his slaves now in the
army. 4eefse
go Roger A. Pryor is now at Fort Lafayette.
On his arrival there says an exchange, he found
himself among friends who greeted him with
much warmth. He was particularly welcomed
by the Rebel General Page, of Mobile notoriety;
the interview between those men was particular
ly cordial. Pryor has been provided with money
since he was captured, and it is understood he
will be able to supply himself, under the regu-
lations, with such articles as he may desire dur
ing the period Of his confinement
- The Portsmouth Chronicle blames the
newspaper publishers in Boston for the strike;
says the workmen are not to be blamed, but that
the proprietors are because they do not combine
to raise the prices of their papers, The Chron-
icie is $40 year. The Boston Post, to be in
proportion, should be $780, The Chronicle is
mistaken in supposing the Union prices created
the strike. 1t was the attempt of the Union to
prevent publishers from managing their ow