The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-08-01
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

! uth AL oOIllprNlllp. Mass, anu
killed. Another man was knocked down and
somewhat injured. A barn was burned in
Dudley, Mass, by lightning, during the same
tempest. A woman was fatally injured in
Roxbury, and various other casualties occur
red, all resulting from the same cause.
gB- Ex-Gov. Hicks of Maryland, it is said
| is going to take the field and raise brigade of
volunteers.
| Gg-The fare from Bangor to Boston, by
rail, has been advanced to SO, and to this city
to $3.50.
gE-The Bangor Wing says that Captain
Atwell has rendered his company, with full
ranks, to General Butler. The company is
composed of volunteers from Orono and Old
town, and few from that city.
AGENTS TO PAY RECRUITS. We are re-
| quested from Augusta to state that it is advs-
able that all cities and towns, providing boun-
ties for soldiers enlisted within their limits,
have an agent at the place of the rendezvous
| of the Regiment to which their quotas are as
signed, to pay the bounty due the men, and to
receive it and distribute it as they may desire.
Agents for those having men in the 10th Reg
iment must to be in Augusta as early as Mon
day of next week, and for the remaining regi-
ments, certainly before Saturday of next week.
srCapt. Charming, Of the It'll regiment,
arrived home last Wednesday on a short fur
Tough. Capt. Heath formerly of the Sd regt.,
now Lieut.. Col. of the 10th regiment, arrived
at the same time
sY-Gov. Washburn has issued proclama-
ton for special election in the I'd (old) Con-
gressonal District, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the resignation of Judge WALTON
The election will take place on the I'd Monday
of September-the day of the annual State ell
ection.
sERecent accounts from New Orleans
state that Gen. Butler has had severe attack
of bilious fever, but was quite well again and
showed himself frequently in public.
TThe Argus has lugubrious article up
on the union of the democratic party, and
winds up by saying: sour convention is soon
to be held. Let there be full representation
of the calmest, wisest, and best men, and see
what can be DONE" sour conventionm How
does that sound to the Jameson men. who are
so feelingly urged to come into the ranks of
the Bob Elliots, the John Babsons, and men of
similar ilk? Will Peters, and Jewett, and
Blake respond, 'Lo, we come, a band of BROTH
ers! sour convention Having crushed
out, denounced, and abused all the loyal men
of the party who would not stultify themselves
by voting the war an unholy one, to cease
all military operation, and to offer compromises
to the rebels, they now roll up their loving
eyes and ask them to come back into our con-
vention! "Come into my parlor," &c.
gE-In Stamford Township Canada, recent
ly, a woman named Bourret, du ring a fit of
insanity murdered her seven children and
then committed suicide.
sB-The st. John Globe says that in Liver
pool n. s., on Sunday morning week, the
mansion House" was burnt, and one man
over so years of age, was so badly burned
while attempting TO arouse the sleepers, that
he died. Several barely escaped in their
night clothes.
-"The old man from Kentucky is be-
coming bold in his enunciation of treason
Read what is said of his speech in the des-
patches to the evening papers. He is for the
Union II it is made subordinate to slavery If
that is to be interlered with he would let the
Union slide. 1t is high time such men should
be regarded in their true light. He is one of
Kentucky's worst enemies and no man can
wish him heartier God-speed in the proclaim
alton of such sentiments, than JEFF Davis him
SELF
sg- The exercises of the graduating class
Of the Bangor Theological Seminary took place
in that city yesterday forenoon.
been found discouraging enlstments, Secreta-
~ Seward has ordered United States Marshal
Murray to arrest every one found in the dis
loyal work, and place them in Fort Lafayette.
We hope the Secretary of State, will see that
similar order is extended to this State, and en-
forced, too.
DRowNED.-A little son of Mr.. p. ii. Gil
son, aged about three years, was accdently
drowned in the lock near the mou tn of the
Cobbossee Contee, on Sunday last Gardiner
Journal.
~- A letter from an officer in the Army
at James River, written July 26th, received in
this city, says that the position of Mcclellan is
safe from attack.
sE- Our community were at fever heat
yesterday afternoon, by false report that de-
spatches had been received that Mcclellan was
outhanked, his supplies cut of, and that his
whole army must retreat or be bagged by the
rebels.
sb- yhe Gardiner Journal says that Henry
c. Long of Buckfied, a member of the Band
of the 18th Maine regiment, and formerly Of
the Gardiner Brass Band died in a military
hospital at New York, July eth, of typhoid
fever.
sB- Those persons who think negroes can
not become good soldiers, betray gross ig-
norance of the facts of history. The best
troops in South America, as well as in some of
the West India Islands, are black, and white
troops there know what ugly customers they
are to cope with.
c- At the exhibition of the Sophomore
Class at Bowdoin College, Monday evening
last referred to by our Brunswick correspond
ent, the following young gentlemen took part,
to wit: Charles Bennett, Bridgeton, Chas. Il.
Daggett and John III. Woods, Pennington,
John L. Dow, Jr., Augustus L. Libby, Charles
L. Libby and james III. Maxwell Portland,
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