The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-11-14
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scoggin County, on the calls of July and Au
gust, for additional troops, is As.
sE-The steam fiigate Minnesota was taken
into the Dry Dock at the Portsmouth Navy
Yard for repairs, on Wednesday.
LEA Richmond letter in the Charleston
Mercury says that John Mitchell is soon to
join the rebel army.
ga genuine Arab has made his appear
ance in Newburyport. He is follower of the
"Great Prophet" and is engaged in selling
amulets and books.
nB- The Lewiston Journal says that par
ties are securing the country in every direc-
ton, purchasing barley for shipment to New
York where it is used for distilling purposes,
"Perley" telegraphs from Washington
that Gen. Fremont has received orders to re-
port for duty. He was to be in Washington
yesterday.
sTAfter assiduous inquiry at Warrenton,
a correspondent of the Tribune says that he
could only find two captains and two lieuten-
ants who resigned in consequence Of Gen.
McClellan's removal.
GB-The Carleton Sentenal says that the
cars are now running regularly on the st. An
drews road from which we infer that the diff
culties with the workmen have been amicably
arranged.
gr The Bangor Wing states that there is
some reason to suppose that the steamer NJ.
Sanford will be taken very soon by the gov
ernment for transport service-probably with
the Texas expedition.
gE-The bark Restless, sailing craft of our
navy, has made no less than seventeen cap
lures of prizes English and rebel) since the
18th of February last. She is commanded by
Lieutenant Edward Conroy.
g- The acting Commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue has decided that the coupons on
the city and town bonds, issued for the benefit
Of the Kennebec & Portland Il. r., are sub
iect to the three per cent tax under the U. S.
excise law.
PATESTs.-George NJ. Clements. of Ken
duskeag, has been granted patent for i'm
provement in cultivators.
Alexander C. Currier, of HallowelI, has
beeu granted one Tor improved shot-proof
dome or eupola,
WIVES AS AN OFFSET FOR MULEs-A
French officer, now serving in Mexico writes:
.'Onr Colonel made razzia in a village be-
longing to some guerriilas who stole our mules,
and in turn we carried off their wives The
Arabs, under similar circumstances, never tail
IL.
the custom of the Mexicans is in that res
pect."
SOLDIER DECEASED. - Nathan c. Tread
well, of Co. /, 35th Massachusetts regiment,
died in the Winchester Seminary Hospital, at
Frederick, Nd, on the 18th of October, of dip
iberia. He Is supposed to have belonged in
Maine. Further particulars may be learned
by addressing L. p. Rowland, Jr., Young Mems
Christian Association, Boston.
KIDNAPPING.-Alden Brigham, of New
burg, has been bound over in the Police Court,
Bangor, on a charge of kidnapping or conceal
ing boy four years old, child of Mrs. Inman,
which had been left to board with Brigham
and his wife, while the mother went TO Cali
forna. Mrs Inman returned from California
after her children, and Brigham and his wife,
as alleged, refused to give up the boy. Mrs.
b. was included in the complaint, but she has
concealed herself, as well as the boy.
PERsoNAL.-The Chester County (Pennsyl-
vania) Teachers Institute recently held ses-
sion at West Chester which continued five
days. Among the lecturers were Professor
Walter Wells, of this city, who gave lectures
on various points of Physical Geography. The
Village Record, published in that place, in no
ticing those lecture says-"They were highly
interesting, Astounding in facts, many of them
discoveries Of the past year. The Professor
enlivened the dry facts and details of his sci
ence with frequent poetical descriptions, and
lofty flights of Imagination
A CURIOUS ExPERIMENT.-Take piece of
pasteboard about five inches square, roll it into
a tube with one end just large enough to fit
around the eye, and the other end rather small
err. Hold the tube between the thumb and fin
ger of the right hand, lido not grasp it with the
whole hand) put the large end close against
the right eye, and with the left hand hold a
book against the side of the tube. Be sure
and keep both eyes open, and there will ap-
pear to be a hole through the book, and objects
seen as if through the hole instead of through
the tube. The right eye sees through the
tube, and the left eye the book, and the two
appearances are so COMPOUNDED together that
they cannot be separated The left hand can
be held against the tube instead of the book,
and the hole will seem TO be seen through the
hand.
How THE PRESIDENT INrERPRErs THE
MISUNDERSTANDING to the Washington
correspondent of the New York Times, there
that President Lincoln rightly interprets the
results of the late elections as condemnation
of the hesitating policy which has controlled
the management of the war. He is confirmed
in this belief by assurances received from
prominent members of the opposition, of their
readiness to sustain him in any policy looking
to a speedy suppression of the rebellion.
These promises, of course, come from thor
oughly loyal Democrats, whose party ties have
bound them to their party for the purpose of
keeping the Democratic organization from
wholly falling into the hands of sympathizers
with treason.
THE REMOVAL OF GEN. MCCLELLAN
The Washington Morning Chronicle,-which
is a sort of administration organ,-refers to
the displacement of Gen. Mcclellan as fol-
lows:
The necessity for active operations in Vir-