The Portland daily press., 1862-08-28


10 Cape Elizabeth has voted to pay 800
bounty to volunteers, to fill her quota of nine
months men.
% The New Bedford Mercury says its no
joke, editing paper in next door to a recruit
ing Office The scream of the fife and rattle
of the drum, it thinks, do not tend TO compose
the thoughts. 1t don't operate so with us. We
rather like it.
cgr The friends of Lieut. Col Varney gave
him au elegant dinner at the Bangor House
last Tuesday evening. About one hundred
persons sat down to the bountifully spread Ia
bles. Col. Varney leaves Bangor this morn
ing, we understand, to join his regiment.
N1- The town of Monmouth held meet
ing on Monday, and voted to pay a bounty of
$40 to each volunteer under the last call of the
President, and $50 to the family of said volun-
teer; and if the quota of the town should not
be made up by volunteers, the same amount to
be paid to drafted men.
20 The editors of the Boston Commercial
Bulletin have been shown samples of cotton
from the Sandwich Islands. which for flneness
Equality and staple compare favorably with
our sea island cotton. 1t would seem that
with proper encouragement there is no reason
why cotton should not be extensively cultiyat-
ed at these islands.
WELL DONE, BATH.-The citizens of Bath,
through their Committee, ofiera bounty of fifty
dollars to each volunteer, and should the whole
number be raised without resort toa draft they
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ton, which will make about $50 a piece, ex-
elusive of the bounty of $40, offered by the
city.
"SKEDADDLE.--This newly-coned word is
puzzing the diggers in roots and derivatives"
The New Orleans Delta throws light on the
subject as follows THE Danes and Swedes
come nearer in pronunciation and meaning
than any of those Greeks with the jaw-break-
ing names. The Dane has it skehaddaddhal;
the Swede has it skydehel, to scut or scud be-
fore the wind; the Yankee has it scoot, and
Paddy has it shintydevil. This last one is, we
think, the raal source and mainin av the word"
LEGITIMATE REsULTs-We hear it stated
that in one town at least in York County. a
company has been organized to resist a draft,
and an orderly sergeant in another town has
returned his blanks, &C., to the Governor, hay-
ing refused to obey his instructions. Such are
the legitimate results of the pernicious teach
ings of the Saco Democrat. That is the way
IL and its followers propose to "resist the ,rar.
SgA correspondent of this paper having
proved from its own columns that the Argus
has but recently been opposed to the Constitu-
tion as it is, and goes for the war only because
ic hop for oil
further TO favor despotism, that paper really
laughs, and effects to make light of it. 1t re-
minds us of the anecdote of notorious char
acter in Augusta, who, when charged by a cit
izen with being vulgar bawd, and shame
less prostitute, very humbly replied, "Why, my
dear sir, you .fatter mel"
WEsTBRooK.-The town of Westbrook. at
legal meeting yesterday, voted to make a do
nation of 500 to each recruit under the nine
months call, who shall enlist to fill the towns
| quota prior to September 10th, and to extend
the same benefits to families as to those of vol
unteers under former calls. The meeting was
addressed by Mr.. Geo. L. Child. of Massachu-
setts,-"Young Bunker HILL. T. Gilman
of the Portland Press, and Hon. f. O. J.
Smith. The vote Of the town was perfectly
unanimous. Westbrook will do her whole
duty.
sg-At caucus in Union, of the "Constitu-
tion-as-it-is" Democrats, resolution was
adopted, demanding, in the name of Almighty
God" that National Convention shall be
called for the purpose Of attempting to stay
the ravages of war; Sc. A National Conyen-
ton could have no business, except to propose
changes in the Constitution. Seriously, is not
this appealing to Almighty God, in such mat
tiers, about "played out?r 1t would be inter-
esting to learn from the gentlemen OF Union,
who have sent their grist to the Saco Demo
Gratis mill, who could issue a call for such a
Convention, to which the seeded States would
respond. We can think of nobody, unless it
be the National Committee of the Breckin-
ridge democracy.
s-An anxious friend, probably not well
posted writes to know if Mr.. Sweat is likely
to be elected to Congress from the 1st District,
and says great hopes, on the part of the DEM
ocrats, are based on the fact that large por-
ton of Cumberland, and particularly Portland,
hung oil so long before giving their support
to Mr.. Goodwin in the Republican Conven-
ton. Our friend may lay aside his fears
The men who voted in convention against Mr..
Goodwin, are not the men to vote for Mr..
Sweat. They will be found shoulder to shoul-
der at the polls, swelling the majority of the
regular nominee Mr.. Sweat stands no more
chance Of an election than the man in the
moon. He will be so far in the rear that we
doubt if he will care to have the votes count
ed. He will prefer to have those given to him
put down as scattering"
A NoBLE-UEARTEp ENGLIsHMAN.--Atth the
great meeting of Monday night Rev. Mr.. Coll
yer, of Chicago, was among the speakers He
said he was an Englishman by birth. From
early childhood il had heen the cherished
dream OF his ambition to come to America. He
was married to poor girl one day and started
for the new world the next He was then
poor-very poor. He now had some money,
but not great deal; he had some influence,
but not much he had name, though a small
one, but for all that he was and for all that he
had, he was indebted to our free institutions;
all had been acquired under the stars and
stripes. With this feeling uppermost, when
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