The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-09-16
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% Kossuth, says Scottish newspaper, is
in the final stages of consumption.
sv Skirmisher's letter was miscarried and
was re-mailed at Kennebunk, arriving here
too late for insertion this morning.
q The country has heard with satisfac-
ton that the President will soonissue call for
100000 more men. Work is to be done. sr
ag- The quota of Houlton go mcn) was
! filed within twenty-four hours after the town
voted to pay 500 bounty.
| g-Mr. Frank w. Hackett, of Portsmouth,
has been appointed Acting Assistant Paymas-
ter in the Navy. q go -ss -a
| gTThe Company which has been stationed
at Fort Clary, for some months past, was mus
tered out Of the service on Saturday morning.
| Portsmouth Chronicle.
nB-A dispatch to the New York Post says
the Government is using all the contrabands
that can be found. More are wanted than we
now have
| sD-Gen. Fitz John Porter, whom Gen.
| Pope particularly censures in his report of his
campaign in Virginia, Indignantly denies the
| truth of Pope's allegations.
| sB-The number of persons in the city of
| Philadelphia snbectto military duty is S0,473;
| adding to these the number now in regiments,
1929, will make a total OF 99,7o1.
V- With the death of Senator Thompson
| of New Jersey, the last Democratic member
| in the free states, east Of Indiana, disappears
| from the U. S. Senate.
Tn <xf Al
| culvert in Philadelphia, there has been a great
| flood in that city, destroying property to the
estimated value of 100000.
lg- A letter from New Orleans dated Sept.
l, says that nearly eight thousand citizens are
fed by the Relief Committee, and the number
is daily increasing ~..s-. y
ny- Minister Harvey at Lisbon, notifies
the Secretary of State that the Portuguese Gov
eminent had issued decree admitting foreign
breadstuffs free of duty.
SgeThe Portsmouth Chronicle proposes to
wager with us "a dish of that Popham chow
der, on pain of eating it." if he loses. We
should like to know who he could find willing
to hold the stdkes'
% The Newburyport Herald refers to
Hon. E. X. Smart as "the chief Douglas man
now in Maine!' Well, Douglas didn't get the
vote of the State, and we shall no longer won
der at it.
SB-Prominent Pennsylvanans say the reb-
els could not have done a worse thing than to
rouse the pride and anger of old Pennsylvania.
Two hundred thousand fresh men will speed
lily arm in that State alone, if needs be.
lH-Gov. Morton, Of Indiana, has issued a
proclamation, exempting from the draft the
people called Shakers, or Quakers," but re-
curing them to pay. an amount of money
which shall be deemed equivalent for such ex-
emption.
slr "Perley" telegraphs from Washington
to the Journal that the First Maine Cavalry
distinguished themselves on Friday afternoon
in skirmish with the rebel Cavalry under
Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, about three miles this
side of Frederick.
SB- 1t is Mr.. J. d. Furnel, and not James
Furnel, who is the travelling agent for the sale
of the Wilton Yarns, referred to by us in a no
tce of these popular fabrics yesterday. He
will visit the city with his goods in the course
of a couple of weeks.
DEATHS IN THE EIGHTH REGrMENT-Our
correspondent at Beaufort, S. c., informs us
that the following deaths have recently oc-
CURED in the hospital at that place Charles
f. Larrabee, Co. E, New Sharon Samuel
Holt, Co. c, North Turner.
ID
the night of the LIST inst, the house of Peter
Black in Waldoboro', was entirely destroyed
by fire with all its contents. The house was
occupied by Mr.. Black and Mr.. d. w. Kent,
with their families, and the inmates escaped
with their lives, losing everything.
gB- We copy in another column the speech
of Thaddeus Stevens, on the war policy of the
Government, not because we are particularly
pleased with its style, but because we would
have our readers know something of the feel
ing that pervades the old Key Stone State at
the very home of Mr.. Buchanan. Mr.. Ste
vens represents Mr.. BIS district
,g-We understand, from lady nurse who
has been connected with our army hospitals
for over a year, and has had opportunity to
see thousands of our wounded, that she has
never yet heard the first Union soldier express
the slightest regret that he had enlisted, no
matter how severe his wounds, or how dark
his prospects of recovery.
sg- Pike of the Augusta Age, who can
scarcely see hole in ladder oftener than
twice week, admonishes the Portland editors
to beware of Sambuci and Catawba. Poor
fellow, he was never known TO approximate
cold water but once, and that was when he
tried to light his pipe with an icicle. He is
conscentiously opposed to water, as, since the
flood, it has tasted strongly of sinners.
r- The New York World says of Gen.
Mcdowell; '"rhe belief is universal, that he
has proved himself incompetent to command
a large army, but the opinion is not at all gen.
eral that he is disloya, and he deserves, as one
who has done the best that he was able, but
whose ability was limited, to be relieved from
all odium that is undeserved'
lY-The Argus, which was so readily to
pick up typographical error in the Press
few days since, contrived in its Saturday issue
to make Mr.. Jones the wife of Mr.. Geo.
Otis, and mixed things up generally, as though
something more entangling TO ones senses