The Portland daily press., 1862-09-18
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED ID I.

cleaned out of rebel prisoners. There were at
one time in the camp over eleven thousand.
I@ A letter from Charleston S. c., says
cotton is worth from IS to 20 cents there. In
New York it rules at so for middling qualities
sT Major Gen. Sumner entered the army
as private, and has risen through all ranks
to the highest. He is now 66 years old
DEATH OF Con-. PERCIvAL.-Commodore
John Percival, U. s. n, died yesterday morn
ing at his residence in Dorchester
- The annual session of the United
States Convention of Universalists has been
held in Chicago the present week.
s- The troops are pouring into the Camps
at Bangor, Augusta and this city, with won
derful rapidity. The people are becoming
thoroughly awake.
1VThe Montreal Commercial announces
that Hon. Charles S. Morehead, of Kentucky,
passed through that city Friday, Ell route for
Europe. sfN
gHr The telegraph extension to Skowhe-
gan is about completed. The Clarion of Mon
day said it would be in working order in a day
or two.
gBe The Machias Union (dem.) comedies
that Hon. F. A. Pike is reelected to Congress
against him, but Hancock, Waldo and Knox
are largely in his favor.
BrA shark was caught iu fish weir at
Lubec, last week. The monster was 80 feet
long, and is feet girth around the body. The
liver when cut up filed IL barrels, and yield
ed 10 gallons of oil.
SThe Oxford County Agricultural Soci-
ETY. will hold its Goth Annual Exhibition and
Fair, near South Paris, commencing Sept 30,
and continuing three days. The managers
have our thanks for a complimentary ticket.
ggr The editor of the Skowhegan Clarion
has used his "porringer" so much, and so per-
tinaciousy to gather up the gratuites of his
friends, that it has come to differ very little
from piqgin.
IFThe drafted men of the nine months
regiments are permitted to enlist in any of the
old three years regiments now in the service,
receiving the bounty and advance pay from
the States and UnitedStates, amounting to
$97.
sB- Mr.. Dennison, the popular Post Mas
ter at Brunswick, gave a splendid dinner to
the nine months quota of Brunswick, Harps-
well and Durham, at the Tontine Hotel, on
Tuesday last. Mr.. ID. has son who is among
the recruits from Brunswick.
Ng-Col. Robert Cowdin, who has fought
bravely, nobly, unlnchingly, from the first ac-
tion at Bull Run to the present hour-who has
gallantly led his fearless First Massachusetts,
Regimentin thirteen bdtttes-has been recon-
mended by his fellow citizens of Boston for
promotion to Brigadier General. L Boston
Post.
sg- An apology is due few of our mail
subscribers for sending them half sheets yes
terday. The fact is, that notwithstanding we
added several quires TO our edition on Tues
lay, we had not papers sufficient to send all
our subscribers, and were compelled TO supply
the deficiency with half sheets. We shall be
careful to guard against a repetition.
sBrThe racy editor of the Bangor Times
takes exceptions to our statement that the
itSs HIS udhN FtttItfS rs ally udiiN Ill TIE
State, and reminds us of the large circulation
of the dalies of that city. Dear fellow; does
he know that each number of the Press is read
by from to 5000 persons, while it is doubt
ful if any paper in Bangor is read by one third
the latter number!
.B- The Argus, looking in its own glass
will persist in charging intentional wrong up
on those who speak disparagingly of its pets.
We made an item of three lines from long
paragraph in an eastern paper, in relation to
the arrest of Capt John Odom, mot Adams
as misprinted in our coumns,) for resisting
the draft, and our captious neighbor virtually
takes us to task for assailing a respectable old
gentleman.
rS-Com. Foote described Gen. Pope few
weeks ago, by saying, "He is good man for
dash. Give him ten thousand men to carry a
certain position, and it is done promptly. He
has courage, energy, enterprise, and in small
er field was remarkably successful. But on
large theatre of action, entrusted with the
command of hundred thousand men, he is
out of his place, and nothing but failure could
be expected.
sB- few years since very benevolent
physician, whose sands of life" had nearly run
out, aided in humbugging the public by ad-
vertising wonderful panacea for all the ills to
which flesh is heir. His ''sands" having ell
tirely run out, we notice now that "a retired
clergyman, having been restored TO health in
few days." is trying ON the public the same be-
nevolent dodge.
sB- The Boston Journal states that letter
was received by gentleman in that city, on
Monday, from an officer on board one of our
war steamers, which states that there were
twenty Federal gunboats lying off the port of
Charleston, S. c., and that, probably, by the
time TIE letter would be received in Boston.
news would also arrive of the fall of that city.
In the fleet was Stevens battery, and as many
rifle guns as would blow Fort Sumter "out of
the water"
.g-Our friend Rev. E. w. Jackson chaplain
of Armory Hospital, Washington, says that
nothing is more eagerly sought for by the inva-
lid soldier than newspaper from home. "One
daily newspaper is worth more "he says" than
bundle full of tracts, and could their friends at
home see with what intense eagerness they
look for the papers, more would be sent them"
We are sending several copies of our daily now
to the Armory Hospital, ,butmore are needed
Who will furnish them?