The Portland daily press., 1862-09-05


sY- 1t is said that the imperial nursery of
France will have another inmate before long,
to the great delight of "the nephew of his
uncle"
s- Gen. Lew Wallace has declared mar
tial law in Cincinnati. All business is sus-
to leave the city.
1D-The Tribune says Gen. Corcoran has
received offers of troops from all parts of the
Union, and will return to the field at the head
of Division, instead of Brigade.
gE-A raft nearly 500 feet long, by 80 wide,
arrived at Chicago on the 4th inst 1t con-
tanned 10000 feet of lumber, and over 700,-
600 feet of spars, booms, gaffs for rigging yes
sells, and square timber.
rrTHE FEDERAL ARMY has been so near
TO Richmond that our troops could see the
spires of the churches; and the rebels were so
near to Washington last week that the smell
of gnnpowder reached the city from the bsttle
field.
The medical journals treat of the evil of ~
ing too much in bed. The habit of lying out
of bed seems to us the greater evil. This
world, however, is given to lying any how.
srWe shall be laid under renewed obliga-
tions to the officers of the Ward Caueuses
called for tonight, if they win report the re-
suits at our office, as early in the evening as
convenient
sD-The New Bedford Mercury mentions
the case of little girl in that city, only four
gears old, who has presented to the Relief So
eiety box containing eighty-one packages OF
lint, the work of her own little fingers during
four weeks sickness.
% We learn by our Post Master that the
Ladies of Trenton, by the hand of Mrs. n. III.
Higgins, have forwarded twenty dollars to s.
G. Howe, Agent ofthe U. S. Sanitary Commits
sion.-l Ellsworth American.
FOUND DEAD.-An unknown man was
found dead in the ditch by the roadside near S.
III. Whittemore's house in East Machias Mon
day evening last. An inquest was immediate
ly held, but with no satisfactory results as to
his Identity Machias Republican.
4 GLORIOUS PATRIoTIsM.-Michacl Curran.
an Irish carinan in New York, mounted the
platform at the war meeting in New York I'm
his shirt sleeves, said he owned nothing but
his horse and cart and hundred silver dollars,
which he had earned, and he wished to give
them to aid in recruiting the Corcoran Legion.
He has done it.
sy- The demand for the new Postal curren-
cy is altogether beyond the powerof the Treas
ury Department at present to supply. and it
will probably be a fortnight yet before a free
circulation of the new currency viii be estab-
lshed.
L. The New York World says that for
once red tape has been cut. 1t is an extraor-
binary fact but it is fact, that while the half
starved regiments of Gen. PoPE were ma
neuyering, marching, and countermarching in
preparation for Saturdays battle, and while
the regimental quartermasters were searching
fruitlessly for their men among whom to dis
tribute rations, it was ordered that any regi-
ment which was hungry should be fed from
whatever food was nearest, and it was done.
sg- Diamond dust is said to be as poison
Gus as strychnine, and chemicsl analysis shows
the similarity. The celebrated poisoning case
of Cook by Palmer, in England, for which
the latter was hanged, took place by means OF
diamond dust, it is now believed
srRev. T. S. King has been enjoying a
vacation in Oregon. He has spoken on the
war and lectured for the benefit of a Presby-
terrain Church in Portland. BY invitation Of
a Methodist clergyman, he preached in the
same place the first Sunday in August; being
the first Unitarian minister ever listened 10 in
that far Off mmonwealth.-Boston Tran
script.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.-The National debt
July l, 1862 including all liabilities known at
the Treasury Department, which embraces de-
mand Treasury notes, certificates of indebted
ness and temporary loans, was five hundred
and eleven millions. On that day there were
seven millions in the treasury subject TO draft.
leaving the balance of debt five hundred an
four millions, in round numbers. Sixty mill
ions of this amount is old debt, aud the pres
ent Secretary has paid for old Treasury notes
and interest on the funded debt twenty-one
millions. The expenditure therefore, on all
accounts, from March 4, 1862. is four hundred
and twenty-three millions. This amount di-
vided by four hundred and eighty days, gives
the total expenditures per diem at eight hun
dred and eighty-one thousand two hundred
and illly dollars. The liabilities not known
on those claims that had not yet reached the
Treasury, are not includedd in this statement.
THE KING AND THE SoLDIER-Frederick
of Prussia had great mania for enlisting gi-
gantic soldiers into the Royal Guards, and paid
an enormous bounty TO his recruiting officers
for getting them One day the recruiting SER
geant CHANGED to espy Hibernian who was at
least seven feet high; he accosted him in
English, and proposed that he should enlist
The Idea of military life and large bounty so
delighted Patrick that he Immediately con
scented.
but unless you can speak German the king
will not give you much"
"Oh, be iabers p said the Irshman, "sure it's
| that don't know a word of German"
But said the sergean, and these you can
learn in a short time. The king knows every
man in the guards. As soon as he sees you
he will ride up and ask you how old you are
you will say 'ticenty-seren;;' next, how long
you have been in the service? you must reply,
'rhee ,oeeks; finally, il you are provided with
clothes and rations; you answer, both"
Pat soon learned to pronounce hts answers,
but never dreamed of learning the questions,
In three weeks he appeared before the king in
review. His majesty rode up to him. Paddy
stepped forward with 'present arms"
''How old are you?' said the king.
"Three weeks" said the Irlshman
"How long have yon been in the service ?"
asked his majesty.
twenty seven years"
sam | or you IA fool?" roared the king
"Roth . rnnlial potriek who wac instan4I,,