The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-01-07
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

g-E TACK Your cares IN as small q space as
you can, SO that you can carry them yourself
and not let them annoy Others. FTF n
EEThe January Term Of the s. J Court for
York County is now in session at Saco. Judge
Danforth presiding.
BWe are indebted to Prof. Whittlesey--we
don't know whether his military title is Major
or Colonel-for late copies of Savannah papers.
90 The New London Chronicle is no more.
1t was formerly arepublican paper; but it back
slid and behold the result ! - ~
80 Senator Wilson will introduce a bill ap-
pointing acommission to make new reciprocity
treaty with Canada.
9The New York .News celebrated New Years
day by publishing the rebel constitution in full
and praising it in a leading article. wagg
30 The Portsmouth Spool Thread Factory
turns out25, 900 dozen spools Of cotton every
week. rE -r
R Mrs. H. B. Walbridge, last surviving
sister of Chief Justice Chase, died at Toledo,
Ohio. on Friday week. ......s.
80 The Hartford Times argues that the negro
is inferior to the white man because the former
was never known to have the delirium tremens.
81 is said that by an agreement between
the French and italian governments,s all the
italian refugees in Rome against whom there are
arrest warrants are to be expelled. 3, y,
% The Pope has issued q bull condemning all
modern religious and political errors having a
tendency hostile to the Catholic Church, and ex-
horting the Bishops to confute them.
- Mr.. Morse, formerly of the Boston Irap-
eller, is now the chief editor Of the Boston
Courier. 1t said that purse of $35,O0O has
been made up to aid the paper. ga s
B Mrs. c. B. Merrill of Windham, writes to
the Maine Farmer that she has woven 700 yards
of domestic cloth since last June, besides doing
all the work for family of four. ~ ss-rs,s. ,.
AT Silver City. Nevada, on election day,
the Union men nailed rebel flag upon the side
walk in front of the polls, that every voter might
trample it under foot, while the star spangled
banner was flying overhead. ~va r
HDouglas Jerrold once said to an ardent
young gentleman, who was desirous of seeing
his name in print, "Be advised by me young
man; don't take down the shutters before there
is something in the window" sN rk 81
Rev. DR.. Ross, the pro-slavery preacher
| of the New School Presbyterian Church, was
4 arrested in Tennessee last week by Gen. Stead
man for disloyal talk, and is now in prison at
Nashville.
Mr.. sSpurgeon has announced his inten-
ton to publish new monthly magazine with
this edd title-"The sword and the trowel; or
record of combat with sin and labor for the
Lord.'' y
j The Brunswick Telegraph severely criti
cses the illustrations in Tieknor& Fields edition
of Enoch Arden. They are not artistic, but
simply grotesque and coarse, according to oul
contemporary. aSsaei fsNee0 sessa aap Z
4 % Rev. Dan Perry, aged IS years and foul
months, died in Oxford on the 10th ult He wa
formerly travelling preacher Of the Methods
Episcopal church Hon. John j. Perry and 7
s. Perry, Esq, of Was hington, are his sons.
90 The Uniyersalist society in this city tool
up a collection on Christmas Day for the vener
able ssFather Stetson'' at Brunswick, amountin.
to $1,000 and sent it to him as Christina
present. sts40@ Ca &EA N9St
% The Democrat says the Station-house a
South Paris, took fire last Friday, and but TO
the most earnest efforts Of the people woulO
have been entirely consumed. The fire was sub
dued after doing some two hundred dollars, wort
of damage.
% The Massachusetts Legislature, at its pres
ent session, will choose a q. 8. Senator for tn
six years commencing March 4th next. Hon
Henry Wilson's term then expires, but he wi
h. Tfn;on 1ots :. : .aoueht without an onnnsn
% The money market at Richmond, like tina
) at New York, is affected by the war news. Tn
failure tocapture Fort Fisher and Wilmington
by the Union forces, brought gold down by tn
run, SO that fifty paper dollars would purchas
one ofgold s88.H@ as@g WeB
9The Richmond papers virtually comics
that if the storm, the severest known on tn
coast in many years. had not delayed Porter
feet, Wilmington would have fallen Let an,
one who is disposed to ridicule the expedition
remember that.
80 Does the Argus usually publish "items o
news knowing them to be false, and knowing
them to be concocted to subserve anything bu
an honorable purpose, relying for its justiica
ton upon the fact that it "gives proper credit
to their malignant author We hope not 9dT
WA whale was caught in September in Da
vis's Straits, and in its body was found imbeddet
. large piece of harpoon, ON which was en-
graved Traveller, Peterhead ;-1s3s. . ThiI
was the name of vessel lost about eight year.
ago in Cumberland Straits. 30
1 "a 81 Its related that in New York the other
day horse fell and died in front of the Asto,
House, and before the animal had ceased kicking
an enterprising bill poster had him covered witt
" Cash paid for Old Rags at No. 10 Ann
| street, # Ss ss,.s H ~ -. x 5spaa feH
% On the 18th December the coiling Of the
new Atlantic cable was commenced from The
mandatory at Greenwich to the ship Amethyst
lent by the British Admiralty for conveying the
cable to the Great Eastern at Sheerness. The
coiling was proceeding at the rate Of two miles
per hour. ae seai .a3asioa
q BrA portion of our edition containing the
Message of Gov. Cony was worked off with
three paragraphs, which should have been under
the head of 'Fugitives from the Draft,'' mis-
placed. They simply skedaddled into the next
column. They were properly arrested, however,
and restored to their proper place.
- Mr.. Loring Moody has called our atteu-
ton to few verbal errors in his communities
ton the other day on 'sThe Freedmen but
they were not vital errors, so that correction is
scarcely necessary. Government was spoken of
as granting poaoer instead of passes This was
the most important Of all fsvP
80 The "trick" of the argus in getting out
the message before information was received of
It's delivery, was not in any unfairness towards
the other papers SO much as in making its recu-
iar subscribers pay an extra fire cents, and the
next morning sending them the same thing for a
cold breakfast az l3saf q a8sssda as-s4f
EThe New York Evening Post says: awe
are glad to learn that the remarks we made the
other day in regard to Mr.. Fessenden's manage
ment of the Treasury Department were to some