The Portland daily press., 1862-10-01
ORIGINAL AND SELEC CTED

"Perley" telegraphs that Gen. Hooker
has postponed his visit to the North.
lE-It was not an aggravated sin for our be-
loved Bath friend to steal an item to adorn his
columns; but if he adds denial to theft we
will not avouch for his absoution.
S Gen. Hunter, when called upon to en-
press his views respecting the Presidents
Proclamation, said he would do anything to
carry out its principles, except make speech.
ag- The st. Louis Republican thinks that
the reason why Gen. Harney has been called
to Washington is that he may fill the place of
the late Gen. Kearney.
lB@The Portland Advertiser has gone over
bag and baggage, to the opponents of the ad-
ministration, aud did not have to travel far in
accomplishing the journey Lewiston Jour
nal.
ce VIM. White, Esq, of Bowdoinham, has
been nominated by the Governor, for Commits
sioner for Sagadahoc County, to fill the vacan-
cy occasioned by the death of John Raymond,
Esq.
gge Hon. Benz. F. Hallett member of the
Suffolk Bar, and distinguished politician of
the Democratic school, died at his residence
in Boston, yesterday morning, at the age of "a
years.
sE The Orthodox Congregational Society
in Saco, have erected and are finishing very
fine church ediflce, in place of the one that
was burnt year or more since. The new
building stands upon the site of the old one,
and will be a very substantial structure, and
an ornament to this town.
s-We are very much obliged to our at
tentive correspondent "Skirmisher," for copy
ing and forwarding Major Hydes official re-
port of the 7th Regiment at Antietam Creek.
He will see that we published the same report
in Mondays issue. Major Hyde kindly fur
nshed us with copy.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT - The Lewiston
Journal says that as the freight train ON the
Androscoggin Road was passing along in Lis
bon, on Monday, an OK belonging to Mr.. J. l..
Davis was run down and killed. Another OK
was injured The engine was thrown from the
track, but no other injury was experienced
% We had proposed to serve upa liberal
entertainment of "opnions of the press" on
the Presidents recent proclamation, and will
do SO tomorrow ifpossible. The truth is we
are perfectly overrun with accepted commu-
nications literally sureited with good things.
We will work them up as fast as we can.
-The Boston Herald, not very good au-
thority, but no doubt correct in this instance,
says that the President, the Secretary of War,
Gen. Halleck, Gen. Mcclellan, and other Gen
erals, are acting harmoniously together, and
agree on the line OF policy to be pursued in
the future.
Y@At a meeting in Searsport few eve
nings since, 10 endorse the Presidents procla-
nation, Col Nickerson, of the 14th Regiment
of Maine volunteers, who has just returned
from New Orleans on a brief furlough, gave
an able and patriotic address, heartily endors-
ing the proclamation, and was warmly APP
plauded.
The MURDER IN STRoNG.-The Lewiston
Journal understands that a man named Law
renee Doyle, has been arrested on suspicion of
having murdered the girl Libby in Strong.
Doyle was a hired man Of the girls father, an
Irishnan of thirty years of age. There are
some circumstances which throw suspicion up
on Doyle, as having had something to do with
this horrible murder.
sr The Argus and Advertiser are both
ringing their charges about abolitionists and
abolitionism, and seem to be as we'll united as
kittens of the same birth. Why shouldn't
they, since they both advocate the same doc
trines; both oppose, with the same arguments,
the governmental policy, both hitch at the
same post, and both sleep in the same truckle-
bed