The Portland daily press., 1863-10-31

10 iHts thvfiiiix ~ - q CLOCK, the Mercury
stood at 52 degrees above.
sy- Good hard wood is from SO to 81
cord in Bangor and Belfast, while 1t is SO
here.
% The elections in West Virginia, SO far
as heard from, have followed the other States,
and gone all for the Union Internationally.
.V~Thc Ninth Annual Report of the Soc-
ETY. for the Relief of Aged aad INDECENT Wo-
men will appear in our Mondays edition.
sg-Mr. Mason has arrived in London from
Paais, it is said, on business connected with
the seizure of Lairds rebel rams.
s- We would call the attention of our
readers to the winter arrangement of the p.
S. & p. Railroad.
sH-Parsons' Cough Candy is genuine and
reliable remedy See special notice column.
DIM.
New BooKs.-Mr ii. Packard has received
"An Essay on the Improvement of Time" by
John Foster. "The Jewish Tabernacle" by
Rev. Richard Newton.
y-The city authorities Of Manchester, n
H., are making arrangement to borrow $780,
000 for which the city scrip bearing six per
cent will be issued.
aV- Gen. Richard T. Dunlap, of Bruins
wick, died at his residence in that town Mon
day night, after an illness of some weeks. His
age was about Y years.
svThe Augusta (Ga.) Constatutionalist
says that Gen. Gilmore is constructing works
of most formidable character at Charleston.
where the Yankees may now be looked upon
as a permanent institution"
sI-The Houlton (Me.) Times says that
Mr.. A. G Hunt has horse which he drove
last Friday to Presque Isle and back, dis
lance of 81 miles, in IA IL hours, including
all stoppages TO feed and rest.
sH-The Ohio soldiers in the army of the
Cumberland gave 5000 majority for Brough,
Vallandigham had about 800 votes. Even an
Irish regiment raised in Cincinnati, gave
Vallandigham only twelve votes
To- 1t will be seen by notice in our adj
vertisng columns, that DIR. Newton has re-
moved his residence to No. lis Middle st.
He has had good success and is deserving of
patronage.
ga Democratic ratification meeting
was held in New York on Wednesday night
over which Judge Gilbert Dean presided, and
made u speech in favor Of prosecuting the
war. The sentiment dispcased the mass Of
copperheads who Kissed the Judge.
svThe Atlanta Appeal says that dur ng
late review of Bragg's army president Davis
was within one thousand rods of the federal
batteries. Afterward he rode up to the
Lookout Mountain and inspected the Yankee
camps
sV- A New Yorker went to Georgia
few years since and married niece of Her.
schel V. johnson said niece being cucumber
ed with a cotton plantation and lot of negroes.
He came North when the rebellion broke out,
leaving his wife to manage affairs. The reb
els confiscated all his property, $40, 900 worth,
and he and his wife are now in Troy n. Y.
% The Hartford Courant says Hon. Bion
Bradbury recently made speech in that city
at . flag presentation, in which he claimed to
be a war man, and denounced those in arms
against the government as traitors. Mr.. Il.
must be careful or lie will be considered not
sound on the goose by his late political friends.
sH-It has been intimated that Waldoboro
is not the only town in Lincoln Co., in which
frauds were perpetrated at the late election.
1t is said thirty-one persons voted in Bristol
who had no legal right to do so. We trust
the Legislature, as in duty bound, will probe
this rottenness to the bottom.
srWe have received from Messrs H. II.
Lloyd 4 Co., No. 81 John ST., New York,
new Military Mapof the Border and Southern
States, showing, by the different colors of the
map, the Territory held by rebels on the Ist Of
October, aud the Territory gained from reb-
els since Jan. list, 1862.
- Epitaph for the valandigham Democ-
racy; respectfully dedicated to Gen. Geo. b.
NJ, author of a recent political letter:
wen thinks of vat Pc
And vat used TO vas.
thinks fye trowtd my selfayay
Without sufficient eos -
sy-The Liverpool Post speaking of our I'M
conth, but nobly honest President, very Justly
says that he is "a man whose simple truth and
cultivated intelligence will not forever be con-
cealed by the unwieldness OF his frame or the
uncouthness of his manners. A contrast
was wanted to The suave deceitfulness and
emptiness of James Buchanan, and was
found in Abraham Lincoln"
PORTLAND X KENNEBEc RAILRoAp.--At
the Stockholders meeting Of this corporation,
held at Brunswick Wednesday, Messrs. Rich
ard ID. Rice, Ether Shepley, George +. Patten.
William ID. Sewall, ID. Alden, " NJ. Whit
more, II. 5. Hagar J. b. Brown aud I. Coburn
were chosen Directors.
1t was also voted to discontinue the early
train from, and the night train to Augusta.
.1-The farmers OF Dayton, Ohio, will inau
gurate system OF well-meriled charity or
rather Of discharging an obligation to sol
diers. on the first Saturday of November, that
is worthy of imitation everywhere. On that
day they are to form in procession in one of
the streets of that city, with their wagons
laden with wood, potatoes, apples, flour, pork,
beef, &C., for the families of volunteers in the
field. We would rather see that procession,
says the Albany Journal, than witness the
coronation of hundred kings.
sy-Gov. Yates, of Illinois, recently made
q speech before the Union League at Wash
ington, in which after quoting the wellknown
verse, Sod moves in mysterious wayne
is reported to have said, "I We had triumphed