The Portland daily press., 1862-10-02
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tire population is over 10000.
H-Commissioner Boutwell, says that until
the Government provide stamps, no penalty
will be exacted for their omission.
SB- The Newburyport Herald says that
Rev. Thomas Starr King is among the candi-
dates for United States Senator from Cali
| fornia.
| rB- We see it stated. on what authority we
know not, that Gen. Mcclellan cordially APP
proves of the Presidents emancipation procla-
| nation.
y- The Boston Post, We regret to say,
seems to be suffering from a severe attack of
| fault-fnding. We fear it has been bitten by
| the Courier.
lBr The Hartford Post publishes list of
births as well as marriages and deaths. We
hope nothing improper is squinted at by plac-
ing the births before the marriages.
nr The venerable Daniel Waldo, after
having passed his one hundredth birthday,
preached on Sunday at Albany for the Rev.
Dr. Sprague.
10 The London Times, in leader upon
the harvests of 1852, says the results are unex-
pectedly favorable. 1t is not quite an average
crop, but it is very little short Of the mark.
sg- The New Bedford Mercury, of the 3Oth
ult., was in mourning for the death of Hon.
Isaac Congdon Taber, Mayor of that city, who
died the day before at the age of Al years.
sye freight car was rather unceremoni-
ously showed off an embarkment near the mills
on Tuesday. 1t turned topsy -turvy, but was
not injured much by the accident Lewiston
Journal.
sY-Mrs. Nancy Root of Winsted, Conn.,,
lady nearly eighty years of age, was burned to
death by her clothes taking fire from lamp
she held in her hand, on Wednesday evening
She lived alone.
| Mr.. J. X. Lincoln, of the Bangor The
illogical Seminary, was ordained in that city,
on Tuesday evening He is to fill the Chap
laincy of the 22d Regiment, now at Camp Johu
Pope, in tAat place.
rB- Says the Poughkeepsie Press, very diff
ferent things are sometimes suggestive of each
other. The learned word propaganda" read
aloud, would make almost any one think of
proper gonder.
1r Gen. Phelps publishes in the NY
Tribune long communication setting forth
the facts which led to his resignation, and urg-
ing the Importance of abolishing slavery in or
der to exterminate the rebellion.
sg- The Grenada Appeal cnls the rebel
troops invading Kentucky 'the arrows of Con-
federate vengeance We guess that these ar
rows will soon be all in a quiver, says the Lou
isville Journal.
rE- The Temperance Journal thinks they
have been dispensing with" the Gospel down
in Durham-refusng to hear sermon on the
religion of politics. The skedaddle of the un-
terrified it calls casting out Devils"
INSTINCT IN A PIo.-Yesterday afternoon a
pig walked into one of our tailor shops and be-
fore he was noticed by the proprietor made his
way toward the cutting board; attracted,
doubtless. by the smell of cabbage in that To-
eality.-L Bangor Wing.
Sg- A correspondent of the Boston Post,
who has been TO see the hospitals in Washing
ton and vicinity, states that "eyery ounce of
lint sent to the army does mischief. Its only
use is TO cover up the blunders of bad surgery.
1t is seldom used by the best surgeons there.
sB- The Lewiston journal is glad to learn
of the prosperity of the Academy AT that place.
There are more than 100 students in attend
ance this term. Willard Small, Esq.,is giving in
struction in military tactics to the Students
good idea.
SB- The Newbern Progress of Sept. 22d,
gives notice of several meetings in the Old
Turpentinc State, 10 be addressed by Charles
Henry Foster, in behalf of enlistments for the
1st regiment OF North Carolina Union 'Volun-
teers.
sE- All the water used by the Union forces
at Fort Pulaski. Georgia. is condensed from
steam generated from salt water This makes
good drinking water for all ordinary purposes.
Before the erection OF these works, all the wa
ter had TO be brought down in vessels from
Beaufort and Bay Point.
10 We hope if vacancy occurs at the
head of some of our brigades, that President
Lincoln win appoint Mrs. Goddard TO the com
mand Our word for it, if she had been in
command at Harper's Ferry, that inglorious
and shameful surrender would not have oc-
Cured. f.,
sB- In speech at Frankfort few eve
nings since, Col. Nckerson of the Maine
14th claimed that the Proclamation would be
hailed with acclamations by the army in the
Department OF the Gulf, as the harbinger of
the earnest prosecution of the war, and an ear
ly and permanent peace.
% Amos b. Little, "A native of New Hamp-
shire, for years clerk in the Patent office, in
fit of insanity few days since, rushed into
the dining room of the National Hotel, at
Washington, and nearly severed his head from
his body with a carving knife. SO says a
special to the Journal.
IY- Parson Brownlow, in speech to ff-
teen thousand people at Detroit, on Thursday
approved of the Presidents Emancipation de-
cree, and stated that the rebels were about
doing the same thing afterwards proposing to
become colonies of Englond. Gen. Cass oc-
cupied a seat on the stand, and said he endors-
ed the sentiments of Mr.. Brownlow.
SUDDEN DEATH-Mr. John Connors, a
well to do farmer, residing in Jacksontown,
retired to bed on Saturday evening in his usu-
al good health and spirits. to all appearance:
his wife hearing him moan in the night feared
that he was in fit and sent for some of his
neighbors who got him out of bed into chair,
when he died almost mmediately.-IW Wood
stock On. b. Sentinel
-S- Mrs. Deborah Abbott, mother of Mrs.
Carlton, the well-known dramatic reader and
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