The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-22
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ronage.
sr The Cumberland County Temperance
Society will hold its next Monthly Meeting at
Saccarappa, at IL o'clock P. NJ, Tuesday,
August 9TH. 1t is hoped that the friends of
the cause will see that the meeting is fully at
tended.
Nor So.-By a telegram to the Associated
Press yesterday, from Augusta, we learn that
the telegram from Brunswick stating that Prof
Chamberlain of Brunswick College has been
rendered the Colonelcy of the Goth regiment is
not true. 1t is not probable that twentieth
regiment will be raised. One half of Names
quota is required for the old regiments.
There is good story spoiled.
CorToN BURNINc.-The people of the South
are said to be burning their cotton and consid-
er it no sacrifice. One widow lady in Louis
lana burned all she had, 5000 bales. In Texas
every man has his cotton so stored that the
torch may be applied at any time. Some have
their bales piled on foundations of light-wood.
LEA correspondent of the Mobile Adver-
tiser says that the family of Hon. Mr.. Wicliffe,
Union member of Congress from Kentucky,
has deserted him ON account of his fidelity to
the Union. His daughter, one the wife of
Judge Merrick, and the other of Senator Yu-
lee, have given him up. Three of his sons are
in the rebel army, and his wife declares she
cannot side with him, and will never again
cross the Ohio river.
nyThe grain crop in Texas this year is
the largest ever known in that State. In vir-
ginia, also, the harvest is very heavy.
sg-Gen. Howard was to address a war
meeting in Waterville last evening.
sBcWe once heard of man who gained a
comfortable livelihood by minding his own
business.
sgrSilyer change now commands twelve
per cent premium and it has been suggested
that the merchants and traders-the business
men of the city-should receive and pass sill
yer quarters at % cents, other coins in proper
ton, thus avoiding much difficulty in making
change" and perhaps preventing speculations.
The use Of postage stamps may produce a re-
duction in the premium at which gold and sill
yer is now held.
srThe Letter from the Backwoods,' on
our first page, win be found very interesting.
STOCKING MILL-The Commercial Bulle-
tin says there is mill at Bridgton which is
said to be the only one in Maine for making
socks. 1t runs by water power and has ma
chimes for carding, spinning and knitting. The
latter are curious and complicated, but do the
work rapidly and substantially. At present.
the mill uses about 500 lbs. of wool a week but
the facilities and power are sufficient to do
much more work than at present.
% Those who think the rebel leaders are
fighting simply for the independence of the
South, or that they will be content to secure
such independence, were never more fatally
deceived The present struggle is one in
which one section or the other must be con-
quered. If we don't conquer the rebels they
intend to conquer us. JEFF. Davis more than
intimates as much in his recent address to his
army in Eastern Virginia, the concluding sem
tcnce of which is as follows: Let it be your
pride to relax in nothing which can promote
your future efficiency; your one great object
being to drive the invader from your soil, and,
carrying your standards beyond the outer
boundaries Of the confederacy, to wiring from
an INSCRIPTIONS foe the recognition of your
birthright, community, independence"
sg- While Buchanan was President the
Pottstown Bank came into existence. and out
of compliment to him the notes contained his
portrait But of late the Bank has received so
many mutilated notes, with the words traitor"
Judas Iscariot,' &c, inscribed under the por-
trait, that it has resolved to call in all the notes
bearing the likeness and reissue new ones.
sg- Rev. Mr.. Bradley, pastor of the Epis-
copal Church in Augusta, has announced his
intention of resigning his pastorate. Mr..
Bradley is, We believe, a native of Charleston,
5. c., and his sympathies, known to be with
his native State, have undoubtedly led him to
resign. As christian and private gentleman,
he is, says the Journal, above reproach.
aB-Dr. Loring, of Salem, leading Breck-
inridge man in 1860, was one of the speakers
at the late Faneuil Hall meeting, and is re-
ported in the Boston Post TO have said-s.If
the question is to be whether the Union and
the Constitution shall perish, or slavery be
now abolished, If one or the other must now
fall, then say slavery must be at once exter-
minated, cost what 1t may" and to this senti-
ment all the people, with one consent, shouted
Amen!
DEEDS, NOT WoRDs.-The foil owing patri
otto, whole-soued men of Portland. viz: Ed
ward Fox, VIM. w. Thomas Samuel Z. Spring.
Thomas Hammond, Ether Shepley r. Cram.
John Lynch, N. j. Miller, John b. Brown, and
Rufus E. Wood, have subscribed 800 each,
for the purpose of paying bounty of so each
TO the first hundred men, enisting within ten
days for the regiments now in the service from
this State.
PIANINos.-This is the name given to a new
Improvement in pianos They combine all the
modern Improvements and power of a large
sized square piano, ranging from 6 1-2 to 7 oc-
taves without occupying much more than half
the space. Prices range from $40 TO $3.50.
~ The Wing says that the new company
now recruiting in Lincoln, already numbers
eighty men.
q Ex-President Van Buren,, now in his
Slst wear is danrerouslv i'll nj his raSidance in