The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-10-18
ORIGIN AL AND LECTED.
10 Gen. Sickles has been nominated for
Congress, in Ben Woods district.


Y-SIGNIFIcANT.-To see "secesh organs"
quoting approvingly from the editorials CT the
Portland AdAertiser.-L Hallowell Gazette.
% During the past week the Penobscot
Musical Association has been holding an inter-
esting session in Bangor
.v- Twelve vessels laden with cotton from
India, reached Liverpool, the Goth of Seplem-
Der.
sB- Mr.. King, the Boston aronant is to
make a balloon ascension from Bangor, on
Wednesday next.
" Rev. WIN. L. Hyde, son of Henry
Hyde, Esq, of Bath, has been appointed Chap
lain of a New York Regiment.
sB- We are promised regular correspond
ence from the Maine 25th Regiment, which re-
Gently left this city for the seat of war.
aB- The Petersburg Express says the Un-
ion forces about Suffolk are estimated at So
900.
NB- An old lady-it must be Mrs. Parting
ton-says she can't understand why the rebels
cdccindte all the large places Bridgton Re
porter.
- The Belfast Journal says Rev. F. A.
Hodsdon, pastor of the Universaist Society in
that city, has been appointed Chaplain of the
oath Regiment.
THANKsGIvING.-Ap private dispatch from
Augusta, informs us that Thanksgiving in this
State, has been appointed for Thursday, Nov.
9th.
sg-The 18th Maine Regiment, as will be
yesterday morning, and Immediately proceed
ed to Washington.
FALL IN THE PRICE OF GoLD.-Gold sold
in New York Wednesday at 1871 SO. Yester-
day it sold for $50 3-S. Somebody has got
bitten in the speculation.
gg- The editor of the Pennington Patriot
has been presented with a big cabbage head.
With an additional head in the sanctum per-
haps that paper will be improved.
N5- The potatoe business is now quite live
ly in our city-buyers for shipment having
commenced in earnest on the new crop. Prices
are low, ruling from 80 to 3j cents for good
Jacksons.-l Bangor Wing.
sg~ The Hallowel Gazette says the Ken
nebec and Portland Railroad company are now
erecting new bridge in that city over Water
street, at the North end 1t will be sub
stantial structure.
s- The Louisville Journal says that by
the time the rebels get out of Kentucky they
will probably find that for every horse, mule,
or bull, COW, heifer, sheep, or hog they have
taken, they have lost man.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-John Quinley of Lyn-
don, fell from his barn on Thursday last, and
was so much injured that he survived but a
few hours. He was man about 80 years OF
age, and formerly resided in Sangerville, Pts
cataquis County Aroostook Pioneer.
c- A young man about eighteen years
old, son of Ephraim Staples of Elliot, Ne.
fell in the dry dock at Portsmouth Navy Yard
on Tuesday afternoon, striking upon his head
and inficting an injury to the brain which il
is thought may prove fatal.
s- 1t would be refreshing to receive an oc-
casional copy of the old New York Day Book,
the special organ of treason and slavery.
Dark as IL was, rub it upon the present "reli-
gious daily"-the Woodland it would leave a
luminous mark.
sr The Portsmouth Journal says that DR..
Nat. Bachelor of Epping, recently released
from Fort Constitution, is the first martyr in
New Hampshire to the liberty of talking Sc
cession and cursing the government under
which he lives.
WASHINGTON CoUNTY--The Commission.
ers OF Washington County have examined the
votes and declared lgnatius Sargent tRepubli-
cam elected County Treasurer, by majority
Of six votes, aud James c. Adams, tRepubli-
cam Register of Deeds, by majority of 43
So we learn from the Machias Union.
.rThe editor of the Augusta Age evil
IDENTIFY is opposed to the emancipation of the
slaves, because it will cost more to feed them
than they are worth. Ii that rule had always
been acted upon by the Creator, it is doubt
full if the people of Augusta would ever have
enjoyed the illuminations of his brilliant gen.
ius.
CoMAfIssIoNERs.-The following persons
have been appointed Commissioners to take
dispositions, &c, in their respective regiments
viz:-Col. VIM. W. Virgin and Enos L. Luce
23d Regiment; Col. Francis Fessenden, 25tl
Regiment; Col. Rufus p. Tapley, 27th Regi
ment; Col. Ephraim w. Woodman, 2sth Reg
iment.
% Pike, Of the Age, styles the writer O.
this an "X-pounder of the Constitution" Il
We were required, under oath, to classify
"Daniel" among the Ks, We should style him
an X-sponger, for, from boyhood he has con,
trived, no matter what party was in power, to
sponge his living out of the State, and his IL
quor out Of his triendsi
y- The prizes for sharp-shooting, offered
by the Sagadahoc Agricultural Fair. were
awarded, LIST, Sl0,to c. w. King of Brunswick,
and the I'd, So, to Paul Hall. Prizes of So, 81
50 and 81 were awarded respectively,to Misses
Z. A. Campbell, Brunswick. Julia Anabele and
Martha E. Hebbard, Topsham, and Frances
q. Bradley, Brunswick, as the four best female
equestrians.