The Portland daily press., 1862-10-22
ORIGINAL AND LECTE ID.

y- Gen. Devens has accepted the Peoples
nomination for Governor of Massachusetts,.
@B- The Advertiser falsely represents Ed
ward Everett to be an endorser of the Seymour
movement in New York.
Jameson is quite low, and some of his friends
fear the result of his illness. -,-,
~ Oliver Frost, one of the old veteran
Democrats of Boston, has taken decided
ground in favor of supporting President Lin
coins administration to the end of the war.
gv In Indiana the Democrats have gained
but one Member of Congress, while in Iowa,
by the new apportionment, the Republicans
have gained four. ,
s- boy named Martin Kinney, 10 years
old, had his leg broken at Rockland few days
since, by block of wood which fell upon him
from ship on the stocks.
gg- The Bangor Whig regrets to hear that
Col. Plaisted of the Maine 18th was again ta-
ken sick upon his arrival at Fortress Monroe,
and was in the hospital there at last accounts.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-On Monday morn
ing, Miss Esther Ann Douglass, residing on
Shepard street, was most shockingly burnt by
her clothes taking fire from sparks from the
stove. DIR. Child was called. Her recovery
is doubtful Bath Times.
sB- The oral performances of Geo. Francis
Train, sink as far below his published London
discussions, as ARENAS Wards Babes in the
Wnode Ia balou hos off In
Fair. II isa pity for Trains reputation that he
ever returned from England.
s- The steamer Cosmopolitan, owned by
the Messrs. Sanford, has been lost at sea off
the coast of Florida She has been in govern
ment service since she was built, little over
year ago. Since the news of her wreck
nothing has been heard from her. and it is
thought the loss will be total. 1t is reported
that there was no MISUNDERSTANDING Whig.
g- We learn that the Express Train,"
always at least "an hour ahead of the rest of
the world" us stated by the chairman of Mon
days evening meeting, was little too late for
the regular railroad train yesterday morning,
which was shooting out of one end of the
depot as he drove up to the other end.
q John Tanish, private body servant to
Gen. Howard, and to whom the Gen. has been
accustomed to confde his personal effects, and
who has had access to outgoing and incoming
letters, has been detected in stealing money
from soldiers letters He was searched upon
suspicion. and money and express receipts
were found to the amount of about 5000. He
is under arrest, aud it is believed the soldiers
would kill him ifthey could get at him. A cor
respondent of the Tribune gives the facts.
gg CAPT. HASKELL NOT DEAD--It is
with unfeigned pleasure we learn that the re-
port of the death Capt. w. L. Haskell, of the
Me. 7th, was unlounded. His friends have re-
ceived intelligence from him later than the de-
spatch upon which the report of his death was
based, informing them that, though very low,
and in a very critical condition, there is rea-
son to hope for his recovery He is still in
Chambersburg, Pa. 1t will be remembered
that he was shot through both knees.
PUT THAT AND THAT ToGETHER.-James
Brooks, one of the editors of the n. Y. Ex-
press, has been nominated for Congress by the
Constitutional Unionists. Mr.. Brooks was
once editor of the Advertiser.-Portland Ad-
vertiser, Oct. 20.
The Charleston Mercury of Oct. 7th, pub
fishes with ''sincere commendation," and un-
der its editorial head, the speech of Hon. James
Brooks of n. Y, made at the late ratification
lSeymour) meeting in that city.
What kind ofa Constitutional Union man,
can that man be, whose speech can be copied
with approval by a South Carolina seeesh or
gan? Nuf ced.
Commemorate. O. A. Ellis of Co. E, Ist
Maine Cavalry, writes US from Frederick Nd,
Oct. 14th, to correct mistake in late letter
of Lieut. Goddard, of TIE same Co.. that three
privates, Bailey, Burgess and Faulkner, were
lost in the retreat from Rappidam to Washing
ton. They were not lost, but were sick in the
hospital Bailey has returned to his company,
and the other two are doing well. 1t. Ellis
says there was no loss from Co. E, in the ad-
vance or retreat, and only three wounded in
the Regiment" He says 1t Goddard "was not
with his company from the eve of the Cedar
Mountain battle till it had arrived safely across
the Long Bridge, on the Washington side"
To this fact he attributes the error in his let
ter.