The Portland daily press., 1862-08-30

obliged to defer our report of the Fort Pop
ham celebration until Monday.
B- The Pemigewasset House, at Ply
mouth N. II. was destroyed by fire at O'Clock
yesterday morning.
-r We hear of frosts in various parts of
the State, but think no serious damage has
been done.
sB-West Bath has voted 800 bounty, and
one hundred and eighty dollars gratuity to
her volunteers.
The Union Advocate published at Anson,
follows in the wake of the Saco Democrat,
Machias Union and others OF that ilk.
sBe One of the surgeons at Fortress Mon
roe states that from the 18th to the 10th of Au-
gust no less than sixteen thousand sick men
were removed from Harrison's Landing with
boats of the Sanitary Commission.
rE- The man who was for some time sup
posed to be the Nena Sahib, of execrable mem
ory, has died in a British Prison in India. An
order had just been issued for his release.
GBe To snake the end of rebellion sure,
| quick, and TERRIBLE" is the advice of that old
democratic statesman, Daniel S. Dickinson, of
| New York.
wg-A son of Mr.. VIM. Foster, of this town,
was seriously kicked by horse one day last
week. His knee-pan was badly broken
that it was feared the leg would have to be
amputated.TlSkowhegan Farmer.
lg-Anthony McDonough deserted from
| the nineteenth regiment before it was muster
ed in. He was arrested last Thursday, taken
to Augusta, and will be sent forward to his
regiment.
WAR MEETING IN BATH-There was
great War meeting in Bath Thursday evening.
The Sentinel and Times gives long list of
speakers, among whom we notice that of Hon.
j. ii. Drummond of this city.
rBr Wm Broadstreet of Gardiner, is build
ing fine ship in Pittston of about 1900 tons
She is about l93 feet long, and is built of white
oak. Her frame is all white oak, and she is
sealed with hackmetack. viii be ready for
launching soon. About thirty men are at
work on her. IIallowell Courier.
sB- According to the New York Evening
Post one of the soldiers of Maine regiment,
who was in the battle of Baton Rouge, boast
ed after the fight that he had the pleasure of
levelling his musket at the man who had been
his ftyorite candidate for the Presidency. He
was only too far off, the soldier added, to APP
preciate the full force of the compliment.
ANOTHER ENDoRsER. We have received
several numbers of the Portland Daily Adver-
tiser. The Daily is neatly printed on new
type, and, as Daily paper, far preferable to
the Boston dailies, as it gives us several hours
later news. The Advertiser is Republican in
poltics.--of the conservative type. We com
mend the daily TO onr redders.-l Union Ad-
vocate.
EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS TO EN-
LIsT.-The CIeretdnd Leader announces that
very pretty young lady of that city offers a
kiss to any able bodied, good looking young
man who will enlist. Improving on the idea,
the editor of a Wheeling paper suggests that
some of our pretty, rosy Tipped young ladies
offer TO marry such OF the young men as will
enlist, after they return from the war.
CAPT. GEORGE PRINoE.-We learn that
Capt. George Prince of this city, in command
of Company of the Maine Cavalry Regiment
was seriously injured by a tall from his horse
near Cnlpeprer, Va. He was on picket duty,
and in jumping fence his horse stumbled and
fell upon him. He is now at the Douglas Hos
pital at Washington, where his wife has already
joined him. Bath Sentinel ,S Times.
GENERAL SHERMAN on BRIDGE BURNING.
\ Memphis dispatch says that since the burn
ing of the bridge by guerillas, near Raleigh,
Gen. Sherman has announced his intention not
to allow residents of the vicinity to come or
20 TO the city over the only bridge left, or the
Randolph bridge. If the people want TO come
TO Memphis they must rebuild the burned
bridge, and hereafter protect it. A few more
such lessons and people viii not allow bridges
to be destroyed by guerrillas.
RosTER.-The following are the Field and
Staff officers OF the Goth regiment.
Adelbert Ames, Colonel Rockland
j. Lawrence Chamberlain, Lieut.. Colonel,
Brunswick.
Charles d. Gilmore, Major. Bangor.
John Marshall Brown, Adjutant, Portland.
Moses w. Brown, Quartermaster, Brown
VILE
Nahum A. Hersom, Assistant Surgeon, San
ford
Weston II. Keene, Sergeant Major, Bremen.
Andrew J. Philbrook, Drum Major, Thorn
aston.
Howard L. Prince, Quartermaster Sergeant,
| Cumberland.
LINCOLN CoUNTY.-A correspondent of
the Bath Sentinel & Times, giving an account
of the Republican and Union County Con-
ventions held at Damariscotta on the 9th inst,
at which the following Union ticket was mu-
tually adopted, viz:
For Senator, Hon. Isaac Reed, of Waldo
boro'.
For Sheriff, Col. James Erskine, of Bristol
For Clerk of Courts, Geo. b. Sawyer, of
Wiscasset.
For Register of Deeds, Calvin r. Haraden.
For Reg. Of Probate, Joseph j. Kennedy.
For County Commissioner, Benaiah S. Cate
of Dresden.
For County Treasurer, Edmund B. Bowman
of Wiscasset.
The candidates for Senator, Commissioner,
and Treasurer, were nominated by the IN
ion Democratic Convention, and the other
candidates by the Republicans.
SOMETHING NEw-A successful expert
twerp of small vessel propelled by steam, on
an entirely new principle. She has neither
| padde-wheels nor screw, but in the center
| machine which draws up water and elects it
| through two bent tubes, one on each side of
the vessel. Not only is the vessel by this
means rapidly propelled but it is steered with
out rudder, admirably and quickly by the
machine itself, by altering the inclination of
the aforementioned tubes. This vessel which
has succeeded beyond expectation, viii run
! between Luif and Seraing. This new pro
| peler is the invention of German, named
! Seide and may be applied either to sea-going
or river boats. 1t is far more simple than the