The Portland daily press., 1862-10-23
sy- Tom Thumb has been duly initiated

day noon for S11 ,5O0-just in time.
grP P. 7. Barnum addressed an audience
on Temperance, on the Capitol grounds, at
Washington, on Sunday afternoon.
Gg- Messrs. Trufant, Drummond, & Co., of
Bath, launched fine ship only few days
since, and will commence operations on anoth-
er as soon as the materials can be procured.
DRowNED.-A little boy aged about five
years, son of Mr., Joel Cole of Machiasport
was drowned inthe river at that place OH the
afternoon of the 18th inst.-IRepubican.
ey- In Schuyler Cofaxs district, Indiana
careful return shows 14,O64 men enlisted
| S,l10 Of whom were voters-of these 6,125
| were republicans and 1885 democrats
gBr The Cincinnati Gazette says the story
of large force being in front of Nashville de-
manding surrender, telegraphed via New
York on Friday, is canard.
gB- Our secession friend of the Machias
Union, speaks of the key that will let us into
the next world. Our impression is, that if ex-
act justice is done, the key that will let him
into the next world will be the turnkey!
TAn intoxicated soldier attempted to
cross at the railroad bridge at Skowhegan. a
few evenings since, and walked off the south
end, falling twenty or twenty-five feet without
serious injnry.
gT Gen. Wright, commandant of the Pa
cliic Department, issued an order on the 18th
OF September enforcing the confiscation act,
and threatening the full penalty Of the law up
on all disloyal persons.
GB Hamilton, of Texas, and Bougny, of
Louisiana, are both in Washington at the pres
ent time. They are the only members OF the
last Congress, when the Union was complete,
from the extreme States, who still stand firm
who are still for that Union.
sy The Jeffersonian, a Breckenridge paper
in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, recently said
"Let the Union be dissolved in Gods name!
The farce of restoring the Union is played
OUT"
sBr 1t is said that there are few negroes in
that part of Virginia where seventeen negroes
are reported to have been hung for fear of an
insurrecton, and the Washington Star denies
the correctness of the story.
SB- We have mentioned the terrible acc-
dent in Bath, on Monday evening last, to a
young girl named Esther Douglass, the result
of her clothes taking fire. She survived until
Tuesday night, when death terminated her
sufierffgs.
sBr Heaven and earth and the other place,
are being moved in Massachusetts to defeat
Gov. Andrew. Let every patriot remember
that Andrews defeat will cause more rejoicing
at Richmond, than it can possibly occasion in
Boston.
q The Boston Transcript says it appears
that the reason that Gen. Mcclellan does not
advance is owing to the want of proper cloth
ing in the army for long march. The sol
diers are said to be deficient in drawers. socks,
overcoats and shoes. Who Is to blame?
% If the Democrats should come into
power tomorrow would the rebels feel that
their prospects of success were diminished?
Ii not, then do not Democratic victories tend
to laid and comfort" them, and to encourage
them to persevere in their rebellion?
A MARROW EscAPE-Dea Geo. Chapman
of Bethel, now 50 years of age and totally
blind, one day last week, stepped from the top
to the bottom of his chamber stairs without
any special injury. This is rare case of a
person so old to escape broken bones from
such a fall.
Sg- Gen. Lockwood has rescued about two
hundred and fifty Of the four hundred slaves,
freed in Accomac and Northampton Counties,
Va, by the act of Congress, for working on
rebel entrenchments, from the clutches of their
former masters, by granting them the eviden-
ces of their liberation.
% Donald Mckay, the well known Amer
lean ship builder, has just returned from Wis
it to England and France, where he personally
inspected the iron fleets now building in those
countries. In a letter describing them, he
doubts the propriety of our constructing so
many vessels of the Monitor pattern, as he ev-
identity regards them as inferior to the large
vessels building abroad for offensive purposes.
10 The Harper's Ferry correspondent
the Philadelphia Press says winter campaign
is expected, and there are indications that
Gen. Mcclellan is preparing for active opera
tions. -Four fighting corps d'drmee are in
Virginia, and ready, in nearly every partcu-
lar, for an advance. Two other corps in Ma
ryland are ready to cross in support, and
vast reserve is forming that will make its mark
in the field, even should disaster befall the
grand army, which is highly improbable.
ga Washington letter in the New York
Commercial says there is a vast camp across
the Potomac. Regiments are arriving and de-
parting almost daily, and as yet there is not
the slightest idea of winter quarters. No log
huts are going up in the place of the tents
that whiten every hill. The troops are being
brigaded and drilled in field movements. and
the grand reviews that are just being inaugu-
rated, remind one forcihly of similar scenes
last autumn.
sY- The Bangor Times states that a man
calling himself III. S. Lombard, from n. York."
put up at a hotel in this city last week with his
lady but after day or two it was uoticed
that the lady changed frequently. The last
one was young girl from Ellsworth, who, it
was supposed, had been led astray by this
scamp He was arrested by officer Walker,
and then gave the name of Brainard, and is
said to have wife in New York He was TAX
en- before the Police Court, and bound over in
the sum of $1,000.
sH- The Poet Whittier says in published
letter: