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

% 1t. Col. Hersey of the Maine Goth, is
graduate of TUFTS College, and was recently
Principal of the Belfast High School.
- The Bridgton Reporter says large
droves of cattle are passing there almost daily
for Brighton. Stock looks finely.
10 The Sagadahoc County Fair comes OF
at Topsham, on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of next week.
sB" Joseph K.>Longey of Kingield. sol
dier in Co. G, 18th Maine Regiment, died at
New Orleans, Sept. 1Ith. of fever. He was
the only son of his widowed mother.
STATE HORSE FAIR.-There is to be a grand
Horse Fair at Skowhegan on Tuesday and
Wednesday next, 14th and 18th instanis Pre-
miums are to be awarded to the amount of
5000.
FIRE AT FARMISGroN-On Saturday az
ternoon last, the stable of Mr. /. II. Edwards.
on Arson Street, together with its contents
some 9 or tons of hay was entirely CONSUMED
by fire. Patriot.
% Capt. Horace C. Little, of the Bridg-
ton Reporter, having donned the uniform and
responsibilities of a soldier, has transferred the
entire control Of that paper to Charles Lam
son, Esq. He has put it into excellent hands.
l5- Pat. Donohoe, the Catholic bookseller.
and Henry j. Gardiner, the original Know
Nothing, both signed the call for convention
in Massachusetts, to defeat the election of
Charles Sumner to the Senate. Politics do
make strange bed-fellows.- Biddeford Union
sD-Nothing has so lowered many army
surgeons in public estimation as the narrow
and foolish Jealousy that they have shown to-
wards the agents of the Sanitary Commission.
and of the various relief societies that have
aimed to alleviate the sufferngs of the sick
and wounded soldiers. VIGOROUSLY behind
the demands of the times, and the wants of
the suffering soldiers, they have met the efforts
oil volunteer friends, nurses and agents, with
a bigotry of professional jealousy, and narrow
ness OF views at once disgraceful and cruel
[Zion's Advocate
~ Gen. Dan Sickles, in assuming his new
command issued Il spirited order, in which he
said: "lnsidous attempts will be made to en-
gage our sympathies in political discussions
In the army we have nothing to do with the
civil policy of the government We have
sworn to obey the orders of the President, to
bear true allegiance to the United States of
America, and TO serve them faithfully against
all their enemies. Whoever seeks to SOW dis
content among you, by any means whatever,
Is as much your enemy as the rebel army you
have so often and so successfully encountered
A RIPPLE IN CHURCH TRANqUILIrY.-Th
general convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in session in New York, experienced
some considerable agitation, last week, and
made Tor itself a singular record Rev Mr.
Brunot of Penn. Offered resolutions requesting
the house of bishops to set forth, Tor the use of
the convention at its present session, special
form of prayer, asking the Divine forgiveness
for our national transgressions, and that God
Will give our government the victory over all
Its enemies, assuaging their malice, confounding
their devices, giving them better minds, &C.
and that he will restore our Union and bring
back Cody unity to the church, and other
blessings. The resolutions were laid on the
table by vote Of 10 to 81. On motion for
reconsideration of this vote, there was a warm
debate, but the reconsideration was refused by
vote OF Is TO 20.-lSpringfield Republican.