The Portland daily press., 1862-09-25

rB- OF the quota Of forty-fve men from the
years of age and under.
gVA A letter from the 18th Maine below
New Orleans, says Gen. Butler needs $4,000
men in his Department
hold its annual Show and Fair on Wednesday,
Oct. Is.
rr Hon. Thomas Ewing. Jr., chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Kansas, has resigned
his place and joined the eleventh regiment of
that State.
gvAmong the casualties reported in the
unfortunate reconnaissance at Sheperdstown,
are NJ. Veasey and M. Mclaughlin, Co. b,
Maine I'd, wounded.
GE- The London Mechanics Magazine
states that there are 10000 miles of telegraph
lines in Great Britain; and 1900 miles of
submarine cable laid in various parts of the
world.
Cr The steamer Sanford, which was run
upon the rocks sometime since, is being repair
cd in Boston, and will resume her place upon
the Boston and Bangor route about the middle
of October.
se On the 25th of the present month the
Confscation Act passed by Congress goes into
effect. BY the provisions Of this act the slaves
OF the rebels continuing in resistance to the
government, amer the expiration of the sixty
days notice, will owe no further legal or com
pulsory service to their masters.
Boy take the tongs and throw the foul
sheet ont of the window, and never let another
come into the Office. Miscreants who will lie
like that are to be loathed and Stunned like
the leprosy. 1t were idle to correct them
they will tell two more such while you are re-
futing one.
gTA newly initiated Son of Temperance,
bought one Saturday night large piece Of
beef This was SO unusual that one of the
children coming down stairs on Sunday morn
ing, exclaimed in the innocence of her heart,
'Father, are you going to keep a provision
store ?"-lTemp. Journal.
gy-The September term of the Supreme
Judicial Court for Androscoggin county
opened at Auburn on Tuesday, Judge Davis
presiding. After a charge to the grand jury,
the docket of continued actions was called.
There are PIT cases on this docket, of which
142 were marked for trial.
rR- The greatest humbug in this day of
stern realities is the miserable cry about aboi-
ton. II means nothing-is nothing but a
word TO arouse and keep alive old predjudices
but it operates upon shallow minds with
magic more wonderful than the charmed words
of the most potent conjurer. Rockland Free
Press.
cH-"Those in power have done much to
justify this rebellion" sayss Mr. Seymour.
When such a sentiment is uttered by the rep
resentative of the Democratic party Of the
State of New York, is i. strange that the rebels
persist in looking Northward for encourage
ment and support ?-[ Albany Evening Jour
nal.
gg- In the whole of Gov. Seymour's speech
there is not a cheerful word or an encouraging
suggestion. 1t is all dark, dismal and dspirit-
ing, as If its mission was to render the people
despondng and hopeless! Its like the ravens
croakings on the battlefield, in anticipation of
its feast of human carrion.-Albany Evening
Journal.
1E-Mr. N. p. Cram, son of Hon. Marshall
Cram, of Brunswick, died in that town last
Thursday. The deceased was about twenty
three years of age, a graduate of Bowdoin
College, Glass of 81. He enlisted in the SER
vice of his country last year, and during the
winter, while performing his duties, was taken
down with the measles, which left him with
diseased lungs, under which he has been sink
ing rapidly.
&c. Leslie Beale, of the 9th Maine Regi-
ment, who was taken prisoner in the seven
days battle before Richmond last June, has
been paroled, and is now at Annapolis. He
represents the Richmond prisons as dens of
untold wretchedness. The rations of the pris-
oners consisted of small piece of fresh beef
or a half pint of "bean swill," and quarter of
loaf of bread in the morning, and quarter of
loaf at night, all without salt. They had no
medical attendance. Men died from one to
five daily. es..I