The Portland daily press., 1862-09-26

on him during the battle, stunning him for u
while, necessitating his removal from the field.
gg- The Conlederacy gained some 10000
men by the conscrption Act in North Carolina
alone, and the examining physicians reported
more than three-fourths of them as unfit for
military duty.
DISCHARGE OF TRANsPoRTs.-The Acting
Quartermaster at Alexandria has within the
past week discharged over two hundred YES
scls, the greater portion of which have been in
the employ of government since the army of
the Potomac took the water route to Rich
mo2d.
PRIZE MoNEY-The New York CONNER
cial figures up $20,000,000 in prize money for
sailors in our service-on the Mississippi river,
thirty small craft, worth not far from 100000
Confederate armed vessels, captured, over
$4,000, ,000-the rest mainly from vessels under
the British flag.
sg Speaking Of the Presidents proclama-
ton, the Springfield Republican says:-"In
Massachusetts we think the conservative move
hiciit ItCtINtu w neu IL comes
to- we shall see what it will do The procla-
nation has taken away good deal of its cap
ital, and it may think best to give up the ghost
altogether, but we guess not"
sr Coffee was selling in Richmond few
days since at So 80 per lb; tea at Sl6; sugar
6Oc, 81; salt 60c per quart; molasses 81 per
gallon; butter 81 potatoes 81 per peek treas
ury notes 100 per cent. premium; calico 81
so per yard; hoop skirts Sl5 pair; paper of
pins 81 so; spool cotton soc; no ribbons to be
obtained; CATERS II a s15 per pair.
The NEW SENATOR FROM OREGoN.-The
newly elected Senator from Oregon, Benz. +.
Harding, was formerly United States District
Attorney for the Territory, and the first Speak
CT of the House in the Oregon Legislature
He is about forty years of age, lawyer by
profession, and was Douglas democrat in
1860.
ARTEMAs WARDoN ENLIsTMENTs. Young
man, inist right OIL. Air you afeared it ill
spile your beauty? Let me tell YOU that the
best and pritties girls in this country are here
after goin to be courted by fellows on crutches
who have done great things in the battle, and
you chaps vino staid at home in your country's
dark hour won't stand no more chance of get
tin one of 'em than j. Davis does of goin to
heaven in balloon. Enlst-enlist! In the
language of Hamlet's daddy, list, oh list
VANITY Fair
- letter in the New York Commercial
says: 1t is understood that as soon as the Off
cial reports have been received by the Presi-
dent, he will promote large number OF those
who ought so bravely at South Mountain and
Antietam, including number of meritorious
'enlisted men," This can but stimulate re-
cruitng, and incite those who carry muskets
to exchange them for swords, by proving their
right to command by bravery in the field.
A STRANGE CIRCUMsTANcE-Mr. Josiah
Conant, of Gardiner, lost a COW last week by
death, and upon examination twelve-penny
nail, three inches and quarter in length, was
found in her heart. 1t entered at one side and
worked its way through, so that it came out
on the opposite side, making hole through
the heart larger than mans finger. The COW
had been well through the summer and had
given good quantity of milk, until six or
seven days before she died, and the only symp-
toms of disease were loss of appetite and
weakness of the limbs.-LW Worcester Spy.
sg- In this age of Mimic rifles, telescope
sights and sharp-shooters,- it will not do for
our soldiers to wear red. An aim which might
be uncertain at green, blue, grey or neutral
tint, becomes fearfully exact when it is brought
to bear on a flaming red target. The fate of
those two fine, daring regiments, the New
York 5th Tor Duryea Zouaves) and the Brook
lyn 14th, of which red is the distinctive color,
proves this. Each of these regiments is re-
ported to have lost far more than its proper
ton of men in every active engagement
About three-iourths of the casualties among
them are said TO be in the red-trowsered leg.
A RESTLESS GENERAL-Maj Gen. o. NJ.
Mitchell, the new Commander, has arrived at
Port Royal in his new Department On the
18th inst, he addressed the 4Sth New York
Regiment at Fort Pulaski. In his address, he
said, " am very restless. DO not know how
to be STILL" Speaking of his instructions, he
said, " / find that those instructions permit Inc
to do pretty much as please, and shall en-
deavor to do the best l can-I assure you of
this-that will omit no opportunity of giving
active employment"
sg- Gen. Hooker declared with great free
dom that the Proclamation was issued too late
rather than too early; that the time had fully
arrived when it was impossible to prosecute
the war vigorously and with a certainty of sue
cess without it. Prominent West Virginans
now in the city say that the Presidents Proc
lamation of freedom will be heartily endorsed
by majority of the loyal people of their State
this fall. The public sentiment of Western
Virginia has undergone radical change, they
say, since Carlile was elected to the Senate.
The rebels here are greatly frightened by the
appearance of the Presidents proclamation.
Wolf had been cried so many times idly, that
they didn't believe the real wolf would ever
come. He is not welcome.-I Washington
correspondence of the New York Tribune.
THE CROPS In IowA.-The yield of wheat
is estimated at 20,000,O0O bushels this year,
being 10000 bushels more than the crop of
1861. There have been ,225 900 acres culti-
waited this season in corn, which will yield
76,250 900 bushels, cor an excess over the crop
of last year of 100000 bushels; oats will
reach 100000 bushels; hay 1,0O0,000 tons !;
sorghum 100000 gallons, and potatoes double
last years quantity. The State will be able to
export this year 10000 cattle and 100000
hogs. The increase of sheep has been about
one-third during the past year, making the
number in the State $4,000.
GY- The recent tone Of the New York
World, and its undisguised ill-will towards the
administration, have been almost inexplicable
IN many of IFS readers hut renort now has il