The Portland daily press., 1865-12-23
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

ITEMS OF STATE NEWS. 90
a&RNFEf& eER.@.
EB~ On first page, Mr.. Sumner on Recon-
struction, Letter from Iowa, An Amicable spir-
it and Copperheads on the Anxious Seat; ON
the last page Poetry and Sunday Reading.
Gg- Dion"-they inevitable and veracious
Dion f'Tappears in the Advertiser with a letter
devoted largely to Gen. Grant; says "Grant
has fallen from the high pedestal upon which
he was placed by his countrymen," that she
lacks all the clements of real greatness" and
that "the blood of $4,000 aaeediessly slain vic.
tins of the overland march, has dimmed and
obscured the record of the life of the former
tanner. Poor Grant, EuEE 20
gy- The Argus seems troubled because the
Press does not copy more yoluminously from
the Eceniag Post, and intimates that it will
hereafter befound sucking at the breast of the
radical Tribune" The Tribune holds this LAM
guage to its irnpracticable friends, and hence
the Arg,sS' fling at it:-sLet us know what you
propose to gain for black suffrage, and how
you mean to secure it, by breaking with the
President. Admit that we shall not get ON so
fast as we might wish in his company, show
"us how we are to get on faster by making him
our enemy" The Argus is evidently nettled
because the Press will not follow its lead in de-
nouneing Andrew johnson for disgraclng his
Office, and the nation whose representative he
is. 4zE. VI
EB- We:have been able to add to our list of
exchanges the Boston Recorder-the leading
Orthodox Congregational paper of New Eng
land. The Recorder was started about fifty
years since, by Deacon Willis, previously of
this city, father of Mp. Willis, the poet, and
Fanny Fern" Deacon w. had been previ-.
ously proprietor of the Eastern Argus, but be-
coming religious man his conscience rebelled,
he declined to do certain party work, and a
breeze arising in consequence he sold OUT
Query: has the character Of that paper since
- The First National Bank Of Biddeford
has declared aidividend of 71-2 per cent? 40
per cent. per annum), payable on the Sd Of
January s. az +,
g johnson Rideout, Esq, whose death at
Bath on Thursday evening, at the age Of 20
years, has been announced by telegraph. was
probably the largest ship-builder east of Bos-
ton, if not in New England. More than seven
years since we published in Bath paper a list
of vessels built by him. with date of launch
ing and size, prepared by himself, and at that
time the number was upwards of sixty, all of
them square rugged vessels or steamers. A'
U.s. The Biddeford Union says about sixty
young men of Saco, having hitherto patrorized
dram-shops too larg ely, have formed themselves
into an impromptu society by the name of
sDashaways,Y and pledged themselves to drink
Misunderstanding liquors for one year. They are
actively engaged in inducing others to join
| them. as ON hmm gTHD 09.sh 90
ER~ Mr.. Nathaniel Atkinson, recently pro-
prietor of the Eating Saloon in Fox Block on
Middle Street, in. this city, has become proprie-
tor of the York Hotel at Saco. so.asI q le
| .tBB- The Union says Judge Tapley has few
superiors, is learned in the law, and keen of
| perception, and will grace his new position. 4
EE- The Hallowell Gazette says the steamer
Star in the East, now being built at Boston,
for the Kennebec and Boston route by the pro-
prietors of the Eastern Queen, was launched
the past week.a9aiBit SINAI
EB One of the Sluice Gang was shot on
the ice at Midtown last Monday evening. A
number of young men were skating, when three
or four of the Sluicef Gang attacked a young
man named Smith, and beat him and drove
him off. He went home. got his revolver, and
went back with the determination of remain
:--s lung as no pleased and of dAfar,ai-.s
himself if again attacked. On being again as
saulted, he drew his revolver and put bail
through one fellow by the name of Condor, and
fred at another chap, and the rest left in hur-
ry. We understand Condor has since died.
The sentiment of the whole community is,
Eswish he had killed the whole gang."-[ Calais
Advertiser. nos --sf 4 tsd+e.Y .
/ EH@ A Rangely correspondent of the Farm
ington Chronicle writes that Mrs. Jacob Haley
of Rangely Plantation, was found dead upon
the floor at her residence, on Sunday morning
Dec. 17th Mr.. Haley was at work numbering
| in the swamp, and did not come home Satur-
day night, and the children on rising in the
morning found their mother ifeless upon the
floor, in front of the fire, where she had appar-
entity fallen suddenly after they had retired tor
the night. . GU4 GD0BI 4z9 s.
E The Rockland Gazette learns that boy
of about eighteen years of age, named Oscar
Perry, living at the Head of the Bay, was Sc
verely injured by the accidental discharge of a
| gun, on Friday last He was in the act of with
drawing the rammer, when the hammer caught
| in some manner, and discharged the piece, the
charge passing through his hand and wrist. 1t
produced very bad wound, which bled pro-
fusely. st-i7ll" 'to-iai- = .,S9
4 EH- The Hallowelll Gazette says two barns,
containing 70 tons of hay, two hay presses, one
| pair of oxen and two horses besides other prop
4 erty, belonging to Mr.. Edward Bowman of
Chelsea, were completely destroyed by fire, at
an early hour on the morning of the 22d inst.