The Portland daily press., 1862-10-06
ORIGINAL AND LECTED

% A Washingtonian being asked the
meaning of synt1r, wittily replied, "the tax
one has to pay Tor getting drunk"
10 The Peoples State Convention, for
Massachusetts, is to come off tomorrow, at
Faneuil Hail.
% The Boston Transcript says the reason
why front are SO sharp sighted, is that they all
wear specks.
Gg- The report that the perpetrators of the
foul murder in Otis, Mass, have been discov-
cred, proves to be without foundation.
sB- Rev J. C. Snow, of Norway, has been
appointed chaplain of the 23d Reginent-Col.
Virgin's-now at Camp Abraham Lincoln
N-A new asteroid was discovered on
Sept. 26, by Henry NJ. Parkhurst, of New
York. 1t is in the constellation Pisces, and is
OF the eleventh magnitude.
sy- Ex-President Buchanan is said to be
lavishly expendng money, to defeat the re-
turn of Thaddcus Stevens, from the Lancaster
district ofPennsylvania.
SB- An interesting explanatory letter in re-
lation to the operations of the Sanitary Com
mittec on the battle-fieds of Maryland. will
be published on the 1st page tomorrow.
s4-A large meeting was held at Chicago
on Saturday last, to endorse the Presidents
proclamation. Two war Democrats were
among the speakers.
LEA yoke of oxen belonging to John Has
lam, Jr., of Waltham, weighing 2.2OO pounds
only, hauled on the Fair Grounds. Tuesday, a
drag load of stones weighing 4,037 pounds
Ellsworth American.
g-Dr. Cotton is 10 give another of his
Laughing Gas exhibitions in Augusta next
Thursday evening, and at Lewiston ON Friday
evening He will more than please all who
attend.
y The Aroostook Times learns that a
man in Molunkus who had volunteered as one
Of the quota OF that place, deliberately cut one
of his hands of at the wrist, in order to eyade
soldering.
~ Mr.. Edward Carswell the famous
Temperance lecturer, is doing good service
down east" He is heading towards Bath,
where he Is to lecture on saturday evening
next.
Perley" telegraphs that Gen. Banks
has personally taken measures to remedy the
abuses prevailing in the camp for convalescent
soldiers at Alexandra. which have excited
much indignation among the soldiers and their
friends.
FATAL AccIDESr.-A man namsd Belyea,
residing in the vinity of Oak Point, took out a
gun few days ago for the purpose of shoot
Ing some pigeons, when by some mishap the
piece went OFF, lodging the whole charge in the
unfortunate mans throat, Immediately under
the chin, and causing instant deaih.-[St. John
Globe.
.S- Judge Holt says thas mo one can
doubt the power of Mr.. Lincoln 10 issue
proclamation ofemancipatlon." He had not,
probably read the comments of the Advertiser
and Argus, upon the Presidents proclamation,
nor the Ages sage remarks about his "cutting
loose from the moorings of the Constitution"
sE Hon. William L. Dayton, Minister to
France, writes home that there has been
perfect rush to the legation in response to Mr.
Stewards note inviting emigration to this coun-
try, which was published in French papers,
The eager Frenchmen thought they were to
have their passage paid TO this country by the
government, and were much disappointed on
learning the contrary.
- The Washington correspondent of the
New York Evening Post says:
Governor Stanley still fingers here, unless
he has departed this afternoon. He had a cor
dial interview with the President YESTERDAY
morning, and with Mr.. Chase later in the day.
He does not seem to be at all "put out" with
the emancipation proclamation.
BowpoIN CoLLEGE.-The annual catalogue
of Old Bowdoin, for the year 1s62-63, Just is
H. n..kI 80 l.
OF 255 students-senior Sophisters Al; Junior
Sophisters SO; Sophomore "A; Freshmen So;
in the Medical School 6S. The College Libra
ries are now among the most extensive in the
country, embracing in all over thirty thousand
volumes.
sy- The Calais Advertiser says that on
Tuesday week barn belonging to Mr.. John
Grimmer, in st. Stephen. caught fire and
burned down. 1t contained quantity of hay
and fire wood, which was destroyed By the
timely assistance of the engines Iron Duke
and Washington, the dwelling house near by
was saved. Loss $500; insurance $500.
sr The Cumberland County Agricultural
and Horticultural Society will hold its thirty
second annual exhibition at Brdgton, Octc-
Der 10Th and 10th. The receipt of two pieces
of complimentary pasteboard," as Bro. e.
well calls them, serves to remind us of the
wide gap between here and the place of exhi-
bition, which another piece of the pasteboard,
properly Inscribed, would serve to bridge over.
sB- An exchange is informed on what is
regarded as reliable authority, that there Is
"manufactory" in Cincinnati, where one bar
rel of whisky is ''rectifed' into three or four,
by the aid of cco,soapsuds, arsenic, strych-
nine, and several other 'palatable and whole
some' ngredents-which "rectifed" article is
declared to be decidedly superior to the orig
inal.
GH-Accordng to the accounts given of him
in the Cincinnati papers, Gen. Nelson, who
was shot by Gen. Davis, was a coarse, ill-bred,
ungentlemanly man, without the first quality
of heart to recommend him, and from his Ian
guage and bearing towards Davis, one ceases
to wonder that the latter, ,stung to madness by
his insults and indignities, shot him like dog.
Davis will undoubtedlylbe acquitted las he
should be.
- We learn that difficulty occurred at
Bowdoin College few days since, growing
out of violation of the rules, and that the
whole Sophomore class were either suspended
or expelled A portion of the refractory
"Sophs" backed down and returned to their