The Portland daily press., 1862-10-27
RIGINAL AND SELECTED ID I.


ment from California is 5000.
Nc Admiral Foote left New Haven Thurs
day to resume the duties OF his official posi-
ton.
s~ Prentice thinks woman always dress
es the truth up little. She wouldn't for the
world exhibit it naked.
s- 1t will be seen by the letter we publish
from Washington that Col Fessenden is now
acting as Brigadier General.
r We shall give a characteristic letter
from Prof Swett' of Brunswick, tomorrow.
He is now at Washington, in the Maine 25th.
g- In Vienna company has been formed
for the purpose of washing the windows by
machines. The charge is one cent per win
dow
gv Now that cotton is so high it will be-
hoove every "well-regulated" farmer to make
arrangement for another season, to raise
plentiful supply Of fax.
rY- The New Bedford Mercury, recently
heard of gentleman who had read the Presi-
dents emancipation proclamation with intense
disgust!
Ng- The Boston Courier seems to think
| Vallandigham is only little ahead of the con-
servative sentiment of the country. A good
many people regard JEFF. Davis as only a very
| little ahead of the Courier.
.B- The Advertiser frequently whines be-
cause, as it alleges, the Press has expressed
doubts ofits loyalty. 1t only places the Press
in the same category with hundreds of the for
mer subscribers to that now delectable sheet.
.Y- Mrs Goddard will lecture in Bath. Oh
| Wednesday evening, on the surrender of Har-
! per's Ferry and incidents of the campaign. We
would urge the good people of that city to
turn out and fill the house to overfowing.
lB- John Mitchell, ex-patriot Of ireland, is
at Richmond He has two sons in the rebel
army. The Richmond Enquirer hopes soon to
see him at the head ola brigade ito meet Cor
coran or Meagher."
sg- When Pope's officers, taken prisoners
by Jackson, were examined i'm Richmond as
to their politics, General Prince, who had been
Breckenridge man, replied "A Democrat"
but almost instantly added, mo; put me down
rs an abolitionist.'
.Y- 1t is said that B lchanan will in a short
time present to the people of the United States,
his long-prepared and elaborate defense of his
administration. Well, Heaven knows that no
administration ever stood more in need of a
defence, not excepting John Tyler's.
.g- 1t is reported at Washington that
Thurlow Weed, or parties acting through him,
have purchased the National Intelligencer,
with view of converting il into an organ
bearing semi-oticial relations to the govern
ment.
% The Daily Press, only four months old,
now has an edition at least four hundred ldrq-
er than any other morning daily in the city.
| We knOlc this to be a fact We ask business
men, who wish to advertise in the best medi-
um, to think of this.
rg- A North Carnolna (rebel) paper, the
Wilmington Journal, speaks of seeen negro
regiments As having been well drilled and pre-
pared for service in garrisoning certain points
| during the sekly season. Isn't it unconstitu-
ti0ndi to use colored menin this way ?-I Bridg-
port Standard.
IB- Mrs. H Beard and Mrs Curtis Beard
| of Wateryille, Vermont, whose husbands are
both gone to the war, having got the corn
raised on their farms into the barn, made
"husking," aud invited the women of the
neighborhood, and husked out 80 or 40 BUSH
els of ears.
sg- We commend the letter of Gov. An
drew, on the first page, to our two morning
contemporaries, in this city, and hope after
reading it, they will cease looking for "nig-
GER in the Altoona wood pile. The letter is a
| rfiacta i'm uiSha a tba
ed in relation to that meeting.
ry- While the pirate Alabama is on her in
cendiary cruise, burning and destroying, it
should be remembered that she has been pur-
chased by British merchants manned by Brit
ish seamen, sailing under British flag, and
that British newspapers are exuItingly and
openly boastiDg of others that are building. TO
be sent on similar piratical missions. And
this is British neutrality. Il Hartford Post.
% Freshly picked green pears in late
October are decidedly out of season; but we
have upon our desk as we write, a well-fllled
pod, picked in the garden of VIM. l.. Southland,
Esq, of Westbrook, not only of the second
crop, but raised from seed that had grown on
the same ground the present season. That's
what we call precocious vegetable.
sg- In the Press OF Saturday, two religious
notices were married by typographical errors.
Sanitary" was used in one for Samaritan"
and in the other more ludicrous blunder
crept in. We can account for it only on the
ground that the compositor having been read
ing the Argus, was not in religious frame of
mind when he put them in type.
e The Boston Post says Senator Trum-
bull of Illinois, made speech at Jackson
Michigan, in which he thanked God that the
Federal arms were defeated at Bull Run. and
on the Peninsula and under Pope, for without
such defeats we should not have had the
Emancipation Proclamation" We published
Senator Trumbulrs speech, and there waa not
line or word in it to justify the assertion of
the Post.
sg- The Belfast Journal denies that Val
landigharl was defeated by the aid of demo-
Gratis, or that he lost votes. The Journal says,
'two years ago he was elected by 134 maiori-
ty He now has in the same counties 100 ma
jority, the largest he ever received" and was
defeated only by the addition of strong re-
publican county to his district. So much the
more shame for Ohio democracy, if such be the
facts.