The Portland daily press., 1862-11-21
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

The Press yesterday gave its readers
the price of whiskey, but said nothing about
"Catawba."-Argus.
The readiness of our neighbor to notice the
whiskey quotations only shows the direction
in which his thoughts most naturally gravitate.
sY-Recent news from Hilton's Head says
the malaria which prevailed there, and of
which Gen. Mitchell died, has greatly abated.
sy-The Republican majority in Iowa is
10000, including the soldiers vote; without
that vote it is about 5000.
ar Rev. II. C. Leonard of Waterville, has
been transferred from the Chapaincy of the
Sd to that of the 18th regiment.
sr The Bath Times learns that Col Sew
all of the 10th Maiue Regt., has joined the ar
my; his health is much improved.
sB-At sale of Government cotton at
Philadelphia on Monday, the prices ranged
from sixty to sixty-eight cents per pound.
PERsoNAL.-Capt. A. P. Harris, of Co. G,
9th Maine regiment, returned to this city
yesterday morning, on a furlough of two
weeks. He@eft Catlett's Station on Monday.
LEA dispatch from Cairo to the Chicago
Tribune says that cotton is reaching there in
large quantities. One steamer from Memphis
brought 900 bales.
| nrRev. .Parsons Cooke has retired from
the position OF editor of the Boston Recorder.
on account of i'll health. Rev. E. P. Marvin
of Medford succeeds her,
rB- The Machias Union learns that the
house, barn, hay, furniture, &c, of John S.
Joy, at Cherryfield, were recently lost by fire.
No insurance. Loss about $1,000.
GB- The Bath Times says Lieut. r. C.
Harris, of that city, Co. c, 2lst Me. regiment,
has been detached from his company to join
the signal corps of Gen. Banks.
sg- The Machas Union states that the old
Phoenix mill, now owned by Messrs. Hemmen-
way & Holway, is being converted into a
steam mill.
10 Adjutant General Seth Williams, of
Augusta, recently attached to the department
staff of General Mcclellan, is retained upon
the staff of Gen. Burnside in the same capa-
city.
gB- The Woolen mill tCol Frye, Agent, is
running night and day. The company recent
ly bought several thousand pounds of wool at
Topsham. They experience no difficulty in
procuring wool. Coarse wool rules higher
than fine, just now.-l Lewiston Journal.
sY- We invite attention to the advertise
ment of G.. A. Susskraut in another column.
Mr.. S. having been educated as Furrier in
Germany, has superior facilities for importing
and manufacturing articles in his line. He is
deserving of liberal patronage.
REMIrTANcEs FROM THE 18th REGIMENT.
The Eastern Express Company, last evening
brought to this city eighty packages, contain
ing in the aggregate $500, remittances from
soldiers of the 18th Maine regiment at New
Orleans.
.B- In the Augusta eetton factory about
10000 yards of sheeting and cotton flannel is
now manufactured weekly. The factory is
running on full time, giving employment to
290 operatives, of which number 225 are fe-
males So says the Farmer.
sH- The Belfast Journal having nominated
Gen. Mcclellan for the presidency in 1854, the
Rockland Free Press says: "The first paper to
run up candidate for President is demo-
cratic sheet; ahd that same sheet has been
very loud in denouacing loyal men for imagi-
nary President-making"
nH-The Democrats of n York and Pennsyl-
vania must scsd-ss missionary to Missouri.
That benighted State does not sufficiently ap-
preciate the blessings of slavery, and there Is
reason to apprehend, may repudiate it before
the party in the more enlightened States that
have just declared in its favor may have time
to introduce it to their admiring fellow-citi-
zens.-[ Prov. Journal.
~ The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald, Democratic paper, writes as
follows of Secretary Stanton:
Secretary Stanton, the head of the War
Department, Is hard at work. and full of fight;
he means to turn the cannon upon the enemy
in full force. He believes in gunpowder and
its efficacy upon the rebels. In this opinion
he re-echoes the sentiments of the country.
p- Capt Francis Geyer of brig John H.
Kenney, of Waldoboro, was severely wound
ed in the leg at Ellsworth on Monday night
last, by sheath knife in the hand of a sailor
named John Rider, who had deserted from the
vessel, and whom Capt. Geyer was assisting to
arrest. Rider did other damage, but was fin
ally arrested, put in irons and lodged in jail
We gather the facts from the Bangor Times.
"a Rear Admiral Farragut has written
letter to the Secretary of the Navy in behalfof
Commander Preble, expressing the earnest
hope that he may be granted "a hearing before
a Court Martial, or Court of Inquiry, so as to
enable him to show his country and his
family that he has not sulied the brilliant es-
cutseheon of his grandsire [unclel by any want
of fidelity to his county"
sg- The Argus denies all responsibility for
the deceptive "iac sinile ballots" in West
brook, and says it never saw any such nor
heard of them until after election. Then our
neighbor did hear of them after election, but
has he ever administered word of reproof to
the guilty parties? Has he been as ready to
reprove the sinners of his own political house
hold as he has been to talk of the iniquites of
the Republicans?
FRIGHrFUL Acc1DENT--A young man
aged II, named John Landers, living on Pearl
Street, was endeavoring to remove large
boiler OF boiling water from the fire on T les-
day morning, when his foot slipped he drop
ped the boiler, and tipped forward into the
water, over his head and shoulders. He was
shockingly scalded, and was entirely helpless