The Portland daily press., 1864-01-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

sF@On the first page Slave Abolition and
State Abolition; Gov, Scymours Message; ;
| Speech by Gen. Mead.
nJ-On the fourth page-Miscellany
aR-John Thomas stabbed James Crowley.
on Saturday evening in Bangor; John SAYS it
| was accidental.
sB- Ii is stated that the snow is forty feet
deep on the rocky mountains; an unsafe place
for 'short boys"
nE- 1t is said there never was better year
for railroads than 1868. This year promises
quite as well.
nB~The New York soldiers, who may be
in the field in November next will be allowed
to vote for President.
sy- The Edgcomb Quarterly meeting IF
W. Baptist will be held at Winnegance on
Wednesday of this week.
sN-We learn that there is quite an interest
in the F. W. Baptist churches in Hollis and
Lewiston.
E-Butter sold in New York, on the 14th
inst, for - cents pound for shipment.
Rather steep.
rH-Dea. Geo. b. Dexter, of South Boston,
died very suddenly on Thursday evening last.
He was 90 years of age.
g-Large piles ofclothing are being col
lected in Lewiston and Auburn for the Freed
| men.
| sy-A Washington correspondent Of the
Boston Traveller says four clerks in the Audi
tors office in Washington have the small pox.
sY-The Quarterly session Of the Grand
Division OF the Sons of Temperance will be
held in Bath on Thursday the Goth insinstead
of Friday 10Th inst, as has been stated.
| nH-The French Government fails to pay
the interest on its debt in coin. Mr.. Chase
has not yet found it necessary to resort to the
French dodge to meet the interest on our debt.
sg-The returning Connecticut regiments
were received on Fridaywith perfect ovation.
Cannon were fred, bells rung and the military
paraded the streets.
u-Capt. Lott of the Cunard line of steam
ers, has crossed the ocean three hundred
times, whereupon the Boston Post says he
must be as salt as Lots wife.
sB-A correspondent Of the Temperance
Journal says, twenty young men, members of
| Co. b, 30th Maine, signed the total abstinence
pledge few days ago. They could not have
done better thing, provided IT is kept.
lH-The Seventeenth Anniversary of the
"Penobscot County Missionary Association"
auxiliary to the American Missionary Asso-
ciation," will be held in the Hammond street
Church on Sunday evening, oath inst.
sH-The question of building railroad
from the Kennebec TO RockIand is being agi-
tated. The Gazette thinks the connection
with the Kennebec road should be at Rich
mond. Why not at Bath?
ng-George Ross of Bangor, convict in
the State Prison, has been pardoned by the
Governor and Council. He was sentenced in
September, 1862, for years, for larccncy OF a
horse and chaise.
sE-Gen. Scott says Mr.. Liucoln's amnesty
is practicable. Wendell Phillips is of the
same opinion. Both of these men have been
mistaken in their opinions and may be again.
Time will settle the question.
sVThe Lewiston Journal says the total
number of operatives who are engaged in that
city in our cotton mills, when all the machine
ry is running, is about $500: the total number
of spindles 10000.
sVJef. Davis holds the balance of power
in thu Sonoto Of Dannsvlvan;a and raf,eas-t<,
accede 10 propositions for the release OF SEN
ator White, who constitutes the Republican
majority in that branch of the Legislature.
sT-James E. Ripley, of Waite Plantation,
was killed on Monday evening of last week, at
Calais, by falling from the wharf on the ice.
1t is supposed he was intoxicated at the time
of the accident.
V-When the 73d Ohio regiment, comman-
ded by Col. orland Smith, formerly of this
state, started for home on furlough, having re-
enlisted, they gave Gen. Howard six rousing
cheers when they came in front Of his head
quarters, the Band playing lively music.
sy-At Beaufort, s. c., while Edward c.
Copeland OF the sth Maine was out cunning
on the LIST inst, and carelessly resting his hand
on the muzzel Of his gun, it was accidentally
discharged, and the wrist was so much injured
as to render amputation necessary.
nH-Secratary Chase says the first duty of
the Republic TO its soldiers and sailors, is
prompt pay and sure supplies, and it is hoped
that the Pay-master and Quarter-masters De-
partments are so arranged that in future they
win be realized.
IL The interest in the specifications of
the enrolment act is growing constantly less,
as the probability of raising the requisite
number Of volunteers increases. There will
he no necessity for resort to a draft In New
England under the last call.
sFThc accusation against Gen. French is
pronounced false by Gen. Sedgwick, who
pays high compliment 10 his personal bear
ing in the action in which it was stated that
he had by reason of intoxication failed to do
his duty.
The season ticket holders of the Fra
ternity course Of lectures in Boston, complain
of the committee for selling as many season
tickets as the capacity of the hall would war
rant, and then selling large number of even
ing tickets, which has led to much disturbance
We have heard of some such complaint here.
EThe Lewiston Journal says, there seems