The Portland daily press., 1862-11-22
ORIGINAL AND LECTE d.

q The Fall campaign Of the Southwest
has been so far series of triumphs.
r We see it estimated that 10000 miners
are now at work in the gold districts in Wash
ington Territory, east of the Cascade Range.
lY- Vanity Fair asks Gov. Boutwell, if the
general rule taxing dealers applies to dealers
at whist.
GV- The people of Lewiston are to vote
upon the question Of applying for city char
ter, on the 22d inst.
VIM. t. Smith with the Free Will Baptist
Society in this city has been dissolved.-lGar
diner Journal.
lB- The chairman of political meeting,
seeing rowdy who was raising his arm to
throw a stale egg at him, cried out; q" Sir, your
motion is out of order"
sB- Alfred Maddox, aged "a years, grad
uate of Middlebury College, committed sui
eide by hanging, in Boston, on Wednesday
last
gY- The mint in Philadelphia coins daily
about $4,000 nickel cents, all of which are dis
tributed as soon as made, but they are still
scarce. Where do they go.
gg-Can't the Argus afford to give credit
for the list of sick and wounded soldiers copied
given credit.
sV Simeon Barrett, Esq, of Sumner, has
raised squash vine this year, measuring 90
feet in length. 1t must have advanced almost
as fast tho arn,v Of fha pofomac
Ny- The health of Chief Justice Taney is
said to be feeble. He is over eighty-five years
OF age. He received his present commission
from President Jackson.
r The Belfast Journal says Mr.. G.. w. II.
Watts, of Englishman's River, Jonesboro', one
day last week, killed nine black ducks at sin
gle shot.
sY-A western paper says: "Never plead
guilty to poverty. So far as this wcrld is con-
cerned, you had better admit that you are an
internal scoundrel"
gr Mrs. Partington expresses her appre-
tensions that the people of the gold regions
will bleed to death, as the papers are constant
ly announcing the opening of another vein.
g Richard Aylward and his wife, convict
ed OF the murder of man at Belleville, Upper
| Canada, have been sentenced to be hung on
the Sth of December.
CoAL.-Up to the beginning of November
the quantity of coal conveyed over the Read
| ing PA Railroad since January /, was p,
04S,000 tons--an increase of $4,000 tons on
the same period last year.
sr The Hallowell Gazette says Mr.. Alex
ander C. Currier, of that city, has obtained a
patent for improvements in shot proof dome
| or cupola-one of the most important inven-
tions of the day.
nY-Among the recent deaths of Maine sol
diers at the Washington Hospitals, we notice
the names of Alonzo P. Gerrish, Co f, 18th
Regiment, and Charles J: Hersey, 9th Regi-
ment.
Gg-"Perley" telegraphs to the Journal that
the War Department has decided that post
masters, mail-carriers, sworn clerks, and others
connected with the mail service, are exempted
| from draft.
sB-The Gardiner Journal thinks if the po-
| litical friends and foes OF Gen. Mcclellan,
would consider him as he considers himself
"not as politician, but as soldier" we should
have seen much less trouble.
s1- The Telegraph says workmen are now
--.-h,n, ,n tho ra;,r.-A acpor puldIng III
Brunswick, and greatly improving its appear
ance. The work Of improvement has not been
! begun too soon.
| Last Saturday evening, 18th inst, stable
containing nine head of cattle, some other
stock, fifteen or twenty tons of hay, grain &C.,
| in all worth about S6OO-was burned In South
| Sangerville. 1t was the property of Mrs.
Scott. No insurance. Bangor Times.
ag- The Bridgton Reporter treats of court
ing and other tender subjects. We don't know
whether brother Lamson is a bachelor, but his
from her pretty name, and even prettier para
graphs.
gD- Mr.Wm. Miller of this town and man
by the name OF Bickford were thrown from
their wagon near William Spaulding's on the
South Norridgwock road on Sunday even
ing hast and received some pretty hard bruis-
es. Miller lost some of his front teeth.-tSkow-
hogan Farmer.
-Second- -four barrels sell for so
cents piece in Philadelphia, and new ones
can scarcely be obtained at any price. This
is owing principally to the scarcity of work
men in the barrel manufactures, and il is pro-
posed to create an establishment for making
barrels by machinery.
s- The Maine Farmer has an interesting
account OF the "Kennebec House," burned a
few weeks since in Augusta. 1t was built in
lIS4, and was one of the Oldest buildings in
the city. At the time it was built there were
but seven other buildings On the west side of
the river at Augusta.
gV The Brunswick Telegraph says John
Van Buren, makes an unmitigated ass of him
self, in nominating Gen. Mcclellan for the
Presidency. Didn't Bro. Tenney make an
"unnitigated" something of himself, in the
long lachrymose article which he perpetrated
over Gen. McClelans removal?
ry- Mr.. Ammi c. Fuller, of this town, has
in the Union army tive sons viz: Joseph
Fuller, I'd, Alonzo Fuller, Benz. Fuller, Alfred
II. Fuller and David Fuller. Next best for
Brunswick,-Mrs. Esther Doughty has four
sons in the Union army: Oliver Doughty,
Isaac Doughty, George Z. Doughty and II. NJ.
Doughty Brunswick Telegraph.
rY- Mr.. Briggs H. Howard, of Woodville,
on Monday, Nov. 10th, had his house burned