The Portland daily press., 1862-10-23
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100000 has been recently ordered to be dis
tributed.
sg-Gen. Banks has recovered from his
lameness and, says newspaper correspondent,
sis looking WE'LL"
gB- Money is being collected in the Brit
ish American Provinces for the distressed
operatives in England.
l17- We understand that J. NJ. Burbank.
Esq, Sheriff elect of this county, has selected
for his Deputy Jailor, Porter Hamilton, Esq,
OF Waterborough.-lS Saco. Dem.
% The Advertiser keeps up its dirty firgs
at the Governors who recently met for con-
sultation at Altoona No patriotic or loyal
movement finds favor with that print.
20 The New York correspondent of the
London Times, says that city would prefer
JEFF. Davis to Abraham Lincoln. He must be
a Wooden headed fellow.
FIRST DIsTRICT.-The official examination
of the Congressional vote in the first district,
dispels all doubt, and shows that Hon. L. D. NJ
Sweat's majority is over one hundred.
ny-A dealer in this city sold quiet easy
going horse to a reverend gentleman from a
suburban town last week, but the animal was
returned Oh Monday. Reason = the horse
p0utd not eat cdbbdges.-I Journal.
SE- In the Press, yesterday morning, re-
ferring to the number of times the word ''nig-
ger' was used in Trains speech, the words
"only nineteen hundred" should have been
''nearly thirteen hundred"
20 The Newbern Progress states that the
Coniederacy gained some 10000 men bv the
conscrption act in North Carolina, and the ex-
amining physicians reported more than three
flfths ofthem as unfit for duty.
% In one county in Ohio. from which
2500 men have gone to the war the recent vote
was only 1T5 less than last year. In Cincinna-
Ii and Hamilton counties, from which 5000
have gone to the war; the vote has increased
Such facts are creating suspicious Of frauds.
% Does any sane man believe that if the
Democratic party was now in power, the war
would be prose- cuted with increased vigor?
Does not every one iee that a peace would be
sought by dishonorable concessions to the
demand of the South?
% A recent democratic convention in
ry to Mcclellan, and pledgng its candidates
to support the administration in all necessary
means, known to modern warfare, in the sup
preston of the present wicked rebellion.
The Lowell Courier says it is very
significant fact that none of our prominent Of
ficers, who have been captured and taken down
South, return with any other than the most
bitter sentiments toward both the rebels and
their peculiar institution
sYrTo-morrow we shall publish an able and
interesting article, entitled the "Danish West
Indies" which is perfect refutation of all the
nonsense gotten up to frighten unthinking and
uninformed people on the evils of elnancipa-
ton.
gB- 1t is stated that Gen. Simon B. Buck
| ner of Kentucky. who was released from Fort
Warren, and Immediately placed in command
of rebel INSTRUMENTATION in the act of parol-
ing some Union prisoners, counselled them
tn go home and vote the Democratic ticket"
IN. Y. Post
g-General Butler has ordered Uriah G.
Patterson, an ex-policeman at New Orleans,
| TO be confined for six months at Fort Pckens
at hard labor, with a twenty-four pound ball
attached TO his leg, for sending in an insulting
and seditious report to the United States au-
| thorities.
SrThe Louisville Journal pertnently asks
| if flour cannot be had Tor less than S42 per
barrel in Georgia, and S52 in Mississippi, n0,c,
| just after the wheat harvest, what will be the
condition of things in those States and other
Southern States, during the next twelve
months, supposing the rebellion to continue
18TH MAINE.-This regiment is in Camp
Stetson, near Fort Gaines, Washington, ID. c.
A private letter states that the health of the
regiment is not very good. There are about
100 cases of sickness among the soldiers, aud
thirteen deaths have occurred since the regi-
ment arrived at Washington.
10 The democratic papers are telling that
the Republican majority in Ohio, in the Presi-
dental election, was $1,000. This is not cor
rect. Mr.. Lineoln's plurality over Mr.. Doug
las, was $1,000, but his majority over Douglas,
Bell and Breckenridge, Was only 10000. The
opposition is now all combined.
Gg- The Philadelphia North American
thinks the complexion of the next Pennsyva-
mia Legislature which is to choose Z. S.
Senator, will be as follows s:-Senate-Un
20; Breckenridge b. House-Union 4S;
Breckenridge, so; two not ascertained The
election is to be made on joint ballot.
gg-The Lewiston Journal learns that Mr.
John F. Adams, late member of the 10th Me-
regiment, died at his residence in Auburn on
Thursday night. He has been in one of the
New York hospitals sick with fever, for some
time, and arrived home but few days before
| his decase.
y- Gov. Yates of Illinois. is Kentuckan
| by birth and education. He is warm sup
porter of the emancipation proclamation, and
says that slavery is doomed, and he believes
that after the blow is struck for its overthrow,
as it will be, that we shall look back and be as
tonished to see how rapidly it has melted. 1t
will disappear like an eeburg beneath tor
! rid sun.
sY- \ more wicked imposition was never
practiced npon the credulity of ignorant but
well meaning people, than the efforts now be-
ing made by the Portland Advertiser and kim
dred prints to impress the common laborers
with the idea that the emancipation of the
slaves will overrun the North with blacks, to
the serious injury and Inconvenience of the
| free white laborers. The authors Of such sug-
gestious know better They sin Wilfiillv