The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-10-11
ORIGINAL AND LECTED

sB- I'D. Baldwin, ESQ, editor Of the Wor-
cester Spy, has been nominated for Congress.
sr The York County Agricultural Socie-
tvs Fair came off at Saco, the past week, the
18th, Sth and 9th
% Mr.. Carswell, the celebrated Canadian
Temperance orator, lectures in Bath this eve
, ming.
RAILROAD CoMMIssIoNER.-Allen Hanes,
Esq, of Portland, has been nominated by the
Governor, as Railroad Commissioner, in place
of E. III. c. Hooper, resigned.
syAocording to the Richmond papers of
the 9th inst, the belief there is that Gen. Nc
Clellan designs making his next attack on that
city from the south.
LEA special dispatch to the Boston Jour
nal states that Charles E. Hall, master of trans
portation on the Boston & Maine Railroad,
died of congestion of the brain at the Glen
House, Thursday night
sB- On the first page we give liberal ex-
tracts from Senator Summers speech. Car
pers and shaky patriots will find it less diff
cult to swear at, than to refute,its propositions
and arguments.
sB- Rev. III. A. Philbrook of Calais, has
been assigned the Chaplaincy of the Maine 9Th
regiment, now at Beaufort, and will resume
the pastorate of his society in Calais and st.
Stephens.
PARDoNED.-Peter Rooney of Portland, who
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house of Mrs. Richards, and sentenced three
years in the State Prison, has been pardoned
by the Governor and Council.
ILLNESS OF GEN. SIGEL.-The New York
Express says private letter states that Gen.
Sigel is not in good health, and that if he 1.-THE
General) lis not shortly released from active
duty for a few weeks he will sink under the
continued assaults of fever, exhaustion and
professional annoyance.
20 The London Shipping Gazette of Sept
27th learns that the rebel steamer Alabama,
Capt. Semmes-formerly Of the Sumter,-has
been creating havoc among the American
whalemen of the Pacific. She had taken and
burnt four whalemen, and also took an Ameri-
can schooner OH FLORES.
s- Bro Lamson's invitation to visit the
cattie-show is tempting, and if we have four
days next week that zee haze nothing else to
do, look for US at Bridgton. We would like
to see the place where one of the neatest, ra-
ciest and most genial papers in the State is
made.
sg- The Boston correspondent of the Au-
gusta Banner refers to Geo. Francis Train, as
"the observed of many, and the admired of
few" He further says, she has boyish look,
and is evidently somewhat inflated. He fur
nishes another illustration of the truth of the
poets saying, distance lends enchantment to
the view"
% The article which we publish to-day
relative to the employment of negroes for war
purposes. was contributed by one of the best
legal minds of New England. We only wish
we were at liberty to give his name: it would
carry with it a moral power that would reach
the hearts of hundreds who would fly into
passion at any suggestion made by men whom
they have been accustomed to regard as radi-
Gals.
sg- The town of Hutchinson, near Crow
River, Min, in which the celebrated Hutch
inson Family" have large interests,-about six
ty miles from St Antllony-has been overrun
by the Indian raid, and the Hutchinsons are
large loosers. They hope, however, so ASA"
informs US, that the difficulties will soon be ov-
ercome, and that their property viii again pos
sess value.
DIED.-In Gardiner, October sth, Captain
Nathaniel Kimball, the veteran steamboat
master of the Kennebec. Capt X. command
ed the first regular passenger boat between
the Kennebec and Boston, the old New Eng
land, that was lost by collision with schooner
near Boon Island nearly twenty-five years ago.
He has been actively engaged in the steam
boat business as master or managing owner,
ever since. His age must have been not far
from seventy.
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