The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-01-13
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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Regiment.
Ig-On the fourth page-Corrected Markets.
Sg-lt is said the suffering among the poor
at Mobile is fearful.
sB-Mrs. Dorcas Perry of Cumberland
died very suddenly on Saturday last.
ay-A life of Gen. Grant has just been pub
lished.
agr The Russian fee. will not visit Boston
until Spring.
lT New Orleans has lately been sub
merged 3 feet by freshet on the Mississippi
river.
To- Gustayus G. Smith oil Holmes Hole.
has been arrested on a charge of the murder
OF VIM. c. Luce.
ag- Frederick Douglass gives a lecture at
the Cooper Institute, n. Y, this evening, on
the mission Of the War"
sE@ Mr.. James ii. Marsh of Boscowen,
y. H., was almost instantly killed on Satur-
day last, by falling limb.
s-Judge fancy is much better and will
probably resume his seat on the bench in a
few days.
lg-It is Stated that Col. Alex Cummings
of Philadelphia, is about to visit Arkansas,
with a commission from the War Department
to raise colored troops in that State,
ag-The New York sanitary fair is post
poned from February % to March IL. A spe-
cia building for its accumulation has got to
be erected.
lg-Miss Stewart, of Georgetown as we
learn from the Bath Times, was burned to
death short time since by her clothes taking
| fire.
Thomas Packet recently pardoned out
of States Prison froze to death near Newcastle
on Friday, while on his way to Bath, where he
formerly resided, as we learn from the Times.
I-The Richmond Examiner, in review
of the "gloomiest year Of the war;" declares,
in epigrammatic phrase, that "thc only happy
people in the confederacy are those who have
black hearts or black skins"
U-A correspondent of the n. Y. Evening
Post says fifty thousand man could be raised
in two weeks, who would go under General
Fremont to Richmond, to liberate our suffer-
ing soldiers there.
sD-Prof. DeMorgan, Of one of the lead
ing English Universities, author of the
"Theory of Probabilities" and the "Diferen-
tial Calculus" has become convert to the
theory of spiritualism.
Startling developments are promised
as the result of the investigation into the con-
nection of some of the employees in the n. Y.
Custom House, with the blockade runners
which left New York for the South.
TEA secret expedition has recently left
New Orleans, probably to occupy Pascagoula,
Miss, so miles west of Mobile. This point
will be base of operations for an early move
on that city.
sB-In July, 1862 the rate for discount at
the Bank of England was per cent In Oc-
tober following it was advanced to per cent,
in January following it was still further ad-
vanced to 4 per cent, and now it is per cent,
or 400 per cent more than in July, 1862.
10 George II. Stewart, Esq, chairman of
the United States Christian Commission, ac-
knowledges the receipt Of eighty-three thous-
and four hundred dollars from the ministers
and churches, being the Thanksgiving contri-
buttons.
lg- The friends of Palmer, private secre-
tary of the n. Y. Collector, who has been ar
rested for completely with the rebel agents,
claim that he has been more snned against
than SHINING. The old story of fast company
and expensive habits.
el-Over 500 men, women and children
were brutally murdered in the Minnesota In
dian hostlities and six millions property de-
stroyed. Government viii reimburse the suf
ferers in property, and the Indians owe the
U. S. nearly enough to pay the whole.
sB -Starkosch, with Cordeir and one of the
PATHS, was rowing the West on all operate
concert tour, when the late great snow storm
and cold came and caught them. They were
shut in, frozen up, their song CONCEALED, and
their engagements broken up. Think Of Ital-
ian songbirds in such snow bank.
eg- John Parker OF Derry, y. H., who had
been missing for three weeks, was found FRI
day night in North Andover woods, about six
miles from Lawrence, with his skull broken.
He is supposed to have been murdered bya
| Frenchman, who was last seen in his COM
| pany.
sTPeter Sinclair, whose visit to this coun-
| try some years since as temperance lecturer
| from England will be remembered by many
| of our readers, has once more arrived on our
shores, bearing letters of commentator from
| some of the truest and best friends of the
| American cahse in Great Britain.
! sB@The Now York Tribune announces
the perfection of an electro magnetic rotary
engine, by Captain John Reeves of New York
! producing new motive power which it is
claimed will work the most powerful machi-
merry, and at an expense Immensely reduced
| IRON steam.
ag-Gov. Seymour's message, which finds
more fault with our own government than it
does with the rebels, and which is little better
than plea for treason, finds warm place in
the columns of the Argus. Its southern at
mosphere is exceedingly grateful to the con-
! ductors of that delectable sheet.
rV-Gen. Dix, at the late New England
dinner in New York, uttered sentiments as
thoroughly radical as any that we have yet
found vent upon the subject of the war and
the reconstruction of the Union. Gen. Dix
/ EXPRESSED himself in the strongest terms