The Portland daily press., 1862-11-07
ORIGIN AL AND SELEC TED,

Gym. Sleeper's majority over Mr. Rice is
only thirty-four votes.
sB- Col Durham of the Maine 9th, is re-
ported sick of typhoid fever at Washington.
sc The biggest liar on record-Goah of
Gath.
s- We are indebted to Mr. D. D. Aker-
chief clerk in the Post Office, for late copies
of New Orleans papers.
gB-The telegraph reports the deaths of the
following Maine soldiers Il. r. Kenney and
c. P. Crosby, 10Th Regiment; G. J. Scott, 1st
Cavalry.
n-The steamer City of Bath was sold for
$1,000 cash, and not $4,000 or SCI 900, as
stated in the marine lists of the Advertiser
and Argus yesterday.
% The New York World is exhibiting
SeymOur's election as an "emphatic condemna-
ton of the Presidents emancipation procla-
nation"
| Congregational churches was held in Hal
lowell last week. The exercises were interest
ing and well attended.
G- At meeting in New York on Monday
night, John Van Buren, stated that his copy of
the Scott letter was the original draft and was
given to him by General Scott himself
To- A special dispatch to the Journal says
Judge fancy has postponed the trial of sixty
three Marylanders, who have been indicted for
treason, until April next
|
ID- Capt j. b. Thomas of San Francisco,
| formerly a resident of Pittston in this State
has subscribed $1,000 year to the fund tor the
aid of sick and wounded soldiers in the Union
army.
Y- The Rockland Free Press says that
Rev. Ebenezer Knowton, of Montville, has
been engaged to supply the pulpit of the Free
Will Baptist Church in that city, for the en-
suing year.
.g- The Kennebec Bridge Company, and
| Freeman's Bank Company, have issued print
ed bills of fractional parts of dollar, which
pass very currently as change in this commu-
nifty Augusta Journal
sg-The Lewiston Journal says that Messrs.
A. G. Reed and A. X. Stevens of that town,
while blowing field belonging to the former,
a few days since, turned out nest of 1852
snakes of all sizes and colors
gr The Augusta Journal and Age have
issued their prospectuses for tri-weeklies dur
ing the session of the legislature They will
contain the fullest published reports of the
proceedings of the legislature. One dollar
each, for the session.
sT The Ne,c South states that General
Mitchell died calm, resigned, and even happy,
as only the Christian soldier can die His
body was inferred in the graveyard of the
Episcopal Church at Beaufort with appropriate
military ceremonies.
"Contemptible exclaims Bro. Lincoln
of the Bath Times, in noticing the large num-
Der Of divorce cases before the courts of this
county. Lincoln is bachelor, just about put
ting his head in the moose. Perhaps divorces
will not appear so contemplate to him five
years hence.
sY- The New Monitor Passac, which has
just made her trial trip at New York, has
monster gun on board that weighs 24,0OO lbs,
is 15inch calibre, and throws solid cast iron
shot weighing $50 pounds. The gun was test
ed on board, and worked satisfactorily
sB- A blatant agent of the PENNSYLVANIA
contractors announced in Western Harnpden.
Monday, that he was 'going to give Dawes
hell" We have often heard the expression,
and are glad to know now just what it means
"a majority of 1900 votes.-lSpringfeld Re-
publican.
sB- The Advertiser of this city rejoices
over the New York election, considers it the
victory of P" conservative Republicans and De-
mocrats, claims itself to be the organ of con-
sentative republicans, and then puts down
Senator Fessenden as one of its conserva-
tves"! Funny, isn't it?
% A letter from an officer in the army.
acknowledging the receipt of our paper, made
the following complimentary remarks:
1T certainly is rery tceicome visitor. 1t
IS real live Maine paper, just what the
Maine soldiers like to see. 1t is an ornament
to Portland, and to our mother State.'
% The Bath Times learns that on Satur-
day, Nov. l, Miss Cornelia Sedgley, aged 10
years, in stepping over shaft in Macombers
Mill, in Bowdoinham, caught her dress, and
before assistance could be rendered both of
her legs were broken and otherwise horribly
cut and mangled. Her recovery is doubtful.
sY- Allowing a solid shot weighing $50
lbs, to be thrown from a cannon with force
that will carry it horizontally four miles,
with what momentum, calculated in pounds,
would it strike ships side at the distance of
one mile? We ask for infor nation; will some
mathematical reader inform us?
sE The Springfield Republican, anti
Sumner, says of the Massachusetts, election
"The Legislature is overwhelmingly Republi-
can, and whether all pledged to go for Sumner
or not, will doubtless do it." The same paper
says-"Mr. Sleeper is an old Wing, was form
erly editor of the Boston Traveller, and was
the writer of the Hawser Martingae stories.
~ The Advertiser has not yet corrected
its false and mischievous statement that the
public Indebtedness OF the United States a.
mounts to the enormous sum of 81 600 100000.
Mr.. Chase, the man of all others who should
know best, has stated within the last three
weeks that it does not exceed S640, 100000. 1t
is by publishing and sticking to such false
statements that the Advertiser supports the
Government.
g-After this week, those who pay for the