The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-01-12
soRIG1xAL AND sELECEED.

% The losses in the late Tennessee battles are
given-2O, GOO rebels, 1000 federals -
80 Lewiston has voted bounty Of $500 for |
| three years men to I'll her quota. VW |
I'd am on the trail Of DEAR as the |
fellow said when he stepped on one of the female |
street-sweepers
BThe easiest and best way to expand the |
chest is to bave a good large heart in it. 1t |
saves the cost of gymnastics.
| 80 late rebel papers show that jeff Davis |
has now on his hands quarrels with the Gov |
ernors Of Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama.
% In New York they have fancy balls ON |
skates, pond having been prepared for the |
purpose near Fifth Avenue BFs s4&&N
80 GENERAL Grant has subscribed $500 to the |
testimonial which the people Of Ohio are getting
up for Gen. Sherman.
| B'Director" is crowded ont by letters from |
Augusta and foreign news. He shah be heard |
| tomorrow.
| 81 The Legislature have passed an order re-
curing all petitions for private and special leg
islation received after the first day of February
next, to be referred to the next legislature. 4 8
HW W. Lincoln, Esq, of Savannah, re-
Gently reported at New York, is brother of |
Royal W. Lincoln, the local edtoro Of this paper.
He has resided at the South for many years.
| gThe Lewiston JournGt says Msja d. d. |
| Perkins, who died in Georgetown, D. c., Satur-
I day. was married few days previously to Miss
Harvard of Bath. .4e5 glss, ~ \. sSs e.sa
| - Gen. Mcclellan leaves for his European
tour the first week in; February. He has declined
the offer of the private vessel rendered by his
friends. He leaves in the steamer China.
81 The Saeo Democrat understands that
Maj. VIM. Hobson of that town has been appoin-
ted Assistant Inspector General on the staff Of
Gen. Mott sos ieetaHs sagg'g g 1Ha9ilqqgn "a
R The Chicago Times says that no less
sum than six millions Of dollars was expended
on new buildings in that city during the past
year. ral eiH ~ gosa a5,5s ~
1A photograph Of old John Brown wrsathed
in laurels is now hanging in the parlor Of the
mansion formerly belonging to H. A. Wise who /
hung the original in another part of the State. a
81 Boston has 104 churches and halls opened
on Sundays for religious worship, and the aver
age attendance is found to be 6s,475. The pop
!. ulation of the city is 1866 00Oss a5axaspsC- as
R-The Richmond Vhig says It is the report
that numerous engagements of marriage were
made in that city contingent on the reelection OF
Mr.. Lincoln. sels9 IL a7si1sa obi.3 Il islansi 5uG
! E8-The Richmond papers indicate the fears Of
4 the Davis dynasty, that Georgia-s'the empire
state Of the South will throw off the confed-
| crate yoke and come back to the Union. 1iseJ
I RVoltaire,s heart has been presented to
museum at Paris. It had been kept for . long
time as a curiosity BY family into whose pos
| session it had come. a-aa3i .i $50 81 aianaaA
RThe entire state of Tennessee, for the first
time since the rebellion began, is free from rebel
armies. If there are Union men to act, what
now prevents its return to the Union issAE gsi1a
The Boston Advertiser says that Simmons,
the promising young sculptor of this city, is
now in Washington, and is engaged, it issaid, in
modelling the heads Of several distinguished
generals m m IN
i ~ The Newburyport Herald says though
Gen. Butler is virtually shelved ne can take him
self down again when it salts his purpose to do
sos for he is not the man to be still against his
4 win.
i HGen. Butler has been relieved of his COM
lnand and ordered to return to Lowell, Mass,
and report in writing to the War Department.
The reason for this action has not yet been made
public. E4s A4uAss MEEN In 5sA4
HThe o. s, Steamer Wando, from Boston
Dec. IS, bound to Port Royal, sprung aleak
during a southwest gale off Cape Hatteras, and
put into Beaufort, N. c., with three feet of
water in her hold, The vessel is badly strained.
50 Since the tst day of the present month We
have had the pleasure Of entering upon our
Daily subscription list, 154 new names, and upon
the Weekly list liz do This is pretty, for
sie 'S'eannuuaNss-IYTnTa gE4W VTTSlu7l
1.-THE rebel papers at Richmond have denied
the reports of inhumanity to the people of
Georgia by the troops Of Gen. Sherman; such
reports as have been given to the public through
the copperhead papers of the North. s,ss T III I
RThat Gen. Sherman proposes to cut . wide
swath through South Carolina as he has already
done through Georgia, there can be no doubt
The details of his plan are not to be made pub
lie. @8 III
RIn consequence Of the Enforcement of the
new passport system on the Northern frontier,
it is said that the transit of Americans through
!, Canada is now completely stopped. Both the
Great Western and Grand Trunk trains west Of
4 Toronto are running nearly empty. e aoisqo g
Hs The Richmond Whig prints testimony
from Savannah clergyman, Gen. Wayne and
Gen. Beauregard,' that the atrocities charged
:. upon Gen. Sherman army at Milledgeville are
wholly unfounded. The ladies of MilledgeYille
also write that no such violence; was ever at
tempted ~ -
! EA sreliable gentleman who has recently
/ visited Richmond reports that preparations are
being made to evacuate the city, that JEFF Davis
i has become convinced of his inability to hold
Richmond much longer, and that the whole city
is being mined, with the design Of blowing it up
as soon as it shall have been abandoned.
i EAt recent church fair at st. Paul, Min
nesota, a number Of conundrums were read,
i and o set of Cooper's works were promised to
the person who should answer them most appro-
priately. The winner. after reducing himself to
state of great mental exhaustion, was some
4 what chagrined on being presented with series
of small wooden pals alsss sos saios 1iIs
- Senator Wilson'S bill to emancipate the
wives and children Of the colored soldiers .ooca-
stoned an animated debate in the Senate on Mon
j day, and was passed by a vote of n to 10. Itis
estimated that the bill will Immediately make free,
in Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky and Mis-
souri,, from, eighty to one hundred thousand
women andehildren. I on "a .aG
81 pro-slavery clergyman was once travel
ling from New York to Boston. Being told
that one of his fellow passengers was Wendell
Philips, the noted Abolitionist, he determined to
argument he said. '"But if you are SO opposed
to slavery, Mr., Phillips, why don't you go down
South and preach to the rebelsrs 'For the
same reason, sir" was the reply, chat you do
not go to hell to preach religion to sinners -
j The interlocutor sloped
B-The New York bn sendsnt says, .ehat the
path of duty is the way to glory is instanced in
the career of Col. Henry, G. Thomas, who was
the first officer of the Regular Army to brave
the prejudice against colored troops. He is pro-
noted from command of the 10Th U. s. c. 7. to
Brigadier- Gsneralship, for conspicuous gal