The Portland daily press., 1864-11-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

- Non-combatants have been ordered to
leave " ilmington, N. c. An attack from the
Federal feet is expected.
Splendid farms in East Maryland are for
sale cheap. The Shareholders are selling out at
ruinous prices.
B The Republican State Convention of New
Hampshire, for the nomination of State officers,
is to be held on the 4th of January.
The Bangor Whia says all the mills in
Princeton were destroyed by FIRE few days
since. The tannery was saved.
R-0ur little joker says if the soldiers are
well fed on turkeys, they will be better able to
gobble up tbeenemy.-.Nsw Bedford Mercury.
e. Miss Lovely says that the males are of no
account from the time the ladies stop kissing
them as infants till they kiss them again as low
ers.
81 Travelling is said to take all that is wood
en- from men, as transplanting takes the woody
particles from cabbages. Sometimes, alas. there
is very little left.
Eighteen millions of new copper cents and
six millions of two-cent piece have been coined
within the last two months. And still no one
has any pennies to make change with.
20 An operator in the American Telegraph
Office in Boston. named Berryville fell in a fit in
street in that city, on Tuesday morning, and
died soon after.
ERThe article on Presidential votes and de-
feated candidates was in the hands of the COM
poster when J. w IS article was received. This
will explain why his does not appear.
- The Bangor Times says the wife of Rev.
Dan'l McGregor was seriously injured in Lubec
last week by being thrown from carriage while
crossing bridge.
- The Lewiston Journal says Charles r.
Kitteridge was seriously. if not fatally injured
by the premature discharge ola gun while firing
salute in Winthrop, few days since.
81 Edwin ]. March, Esq, a York County
boy, who studied law in Saco and emigrated to
Michigan, has been commissioned Colonel of the
I'd regt. of the Michigan Vols.
GEIt has been determined to call the Cana
dian Parliament together at as early day as
possible after the New Year, to consider the
scheme of confederation and other important
matter.
RThe Portsmouth Chronicle says. R, b.
Forbes, of steamship renown, was the holder OF
! the lucky number that drew the model of the
Kearsarge on exhibition at the Sailors Fair in
Boston.
EHon D. C. McRuer, stauneh Union man,
is elected to Congress in California. He was
formerly of this city, son of DR.. McRuer, and
his numerous friends here will be rejoiced to
hear Of his success Bangor Whig.
EA Baptist association in Georgia has re.
Gently resolved that the law of that State is de-
fsctive in not providing that the slave may have
4 Al. - L. svuf skukio Wbof a
commentary on the civilization of Georgia!
RA st. Louis paper says s'there are not less
than 300 900 persons in Missouri this day who
are little better than paupers, not knowing
where to get food to maintain them through this
winter"
EElisha Burritt, the learned blacksmith,
whose thoughts seem to run on the material he
had been so long accustomed to hammer, says
more than TO- 600 tons of steel are put into Grim
oline in christendom annually 4-Ns
EIt is reported that Gen. Tom Thumb has
declared that he would be the tGllest Mason in
America. He has already taken the thirty-three
degrees and is member of the Grand Orient of
France, over which Napoleon presides. II
EA vagrant named Henry Bliss in Spring.
field, was so anxious to obtain home for the
winter that he deliberately broke the glass of q
show case for which he was sentenced to four
months in the house of correction.
RMatthew Bolster, of Fremont Plantation,
was arrested by Deputy Provost Marshal Nc
Nally of Ashland on Monday night, for aiding
his son to desert while at home on q fprlough
He had re-enlisted and received his bounty,
EA Cockney tourist met Scotch lassie
going barefoot toward Glasgow. ''Lassie, - said
| he, 81 should like to know if all the people in
these parts go barefoot?'' s'Part of 'em do, and
the rest Of 'sm mind their own business was
the rather settling reply ss
RThe citizens of Lewiston are to have the
pleasure Of attending a course of lectures Sc
| cured by Messrs. Sands and Morgan, the first
of which will be on Friday evening, 25th inst
by Hon. Schuyler Colfax, one of the ablest
statesmen and orators in the country. LII
| Miss Francis Garrison of Paterson, N. j.
was burned to death on Thursday night, of last
week in attempting to light match, after re-
firing to her room, the phosphorus from which
fell upon her gauze dress, setting it on fire. She
had just returned from wedding.
~ One of the grandest results of the present
war is now being experienced in Maryland,
where, as if by the hand of the Almighty, slav-
cry is swept from the State, and free labor is es-
tablished upon its ruins Freedom now sits en-
throned where for 200 years, slavery has held
the sway, @
| RThe st, John Telegraph says when the
passengers were landing from the American
boat on Tuesday night, man fell from the slip
into the water, and would have been drowned
but for the timely assistance rendered by the
mate of the emperor" named Coughlan, who
jumped in and rescued him. oG
81 The cause of Rev. Jonathan Hall leaving
Manchester, N. H., as he did, is said to be ipan-
cial troubles, growing out of an unfortunate ex-
pertinent in chartering the Portland barge
| HComfort'' to getup excursions, in the hope to
make money to help support himself and pay
for his new church.
EThe St. Croix Herald says a call has been
made for the first instalment of ten per cent.
upon the subscriptions to the stock of the St.
Stephens Branch Railway. 1t is proposed to
put the portion between Moore's Mills and the
st. Andrews roads under contract immedi-
ately. Aka
EThe 54th Massachusetts, (colored) regi-
ment has been paid off at last, receiving every
cent for which they oontsnded. Forty thous-
and dollars were sent home by Adams' Express
in single day by the members of this brave
regiment who have learned to labor and to wait,
and many destitute families were made comfor-
table.
80 The Biddeford Journal urges the impoF-
lance of increased railroad facilities between this
city, Saco and Biddeford. We trust the time is
not far distant when another daily train from
Biddeford to Portland and back will be put on
The interest Of this city as well as the accomo-
dalton Of the people of Saco and Biddeford, and
on the line of the route, demands it.
81 The Louisville Journal says the question
Is no longer how slavery shall he saved from