The Portland daily press., 1863-10-22
ORIGINA AND SELECTED,

ey- On the fourth page - Something Left
Undone; Miscellany.
SFGov. Curtin is laying seriously i'll at
his residence In Harrisburg.
vThe Union men will have one majority
in the Pennsylvania State Senate, and they
claim four in the House. Last year the Dem
ocrats had majority on joint ballot.
sE- The Hutchinson Family will give con-
certs at Bangor on Thursday and Friday eve
nings OF this week and not at Readfeld as was
stated a few days since.
eFTwenty men were buried alive in Troy,
n. T., on Monday, by the cavng in of sewer
which they were digging. Three were saved
alive.
sVThe 18th Maine regiment has been
permanently detailed as part of the defenses
of New Orleans. Many of the members are
suffering from ''chills and fever
lVThe Providence Journal states that an
acre of ground at the Dexter Asylum farm
this year bears five hundred bushels of 5eets,
worth dollar per bushel.
sB-The President has granted respite of
one week to DIR. Wright of Norfolk, whose ex-
ecutiou was to have taken place on Friday
last, for the unprovoked murder af Union
officer some months since.
py-The quotas of the several States under
the Presidents proclamation for 100000 vol
unteers, have been prepared and will, without
delay, be forwarded to their respective Gov
ernors.
sTThe Cincinnati Commercial says that
''the venerable Catholic Archbishop Purcell,
at the polls in that city on Tuesday, and voted
an open Union ticket"
yThe Secretary of State is in good spir-
its over the recent change in English affairs.
He does not impute it to fear or other evil
motives, but says, "Old England is hersel
again"
gI-The Louisville Journal learns by
gentleman recently arrived from Natchez, that
the defenses of that city are being greatly
strengthened Not less than five thousand
contrabands are engaged on the works in the
rear of the city, and it is thought that Natchez
will soon be equal in strength to Vicksburg.
GAN Augusta correspondent of the Lew
istan Journal says that at the last session of
the Grand Jury there, an indictment was found
against the Age, for publishing the greenback
report concerning DR.. WILDER of the examin
ing Board.
vThe receipts of money paid by drafted
men now amounts to nine millions, which it is
expected will be increased by one or two mil
lions more. The whole of this sum is to be APP
propriated to recruiting under the new Proc
lamation of the President.
10 The next meeting of the Cumberlan
County Temperance Association will be held
in Gray on Thursday the Goth inst. The peo-
pie of Gray always give the friends of Tenn
perance warm reception, and we hope there
will be such turn out on this occasion as will
put their hospitality to the test
U=-Col. Dan. McCook, of the Fifty-second
Ohio regiment, has destroyed the home OF the
murderer of his brother, Brig Gen. McCook,
who was butchered while lying in am ambu-
lance. The avenging brother left not one
stone upon another, and made it a place of
desolaton. The house was near Huntsville
Ala.
II Pollard. in his Southern history of
''The first year of the War;" says with refer
ence to Floyd, shat when Secretary Of War
under Mr.. Buchanan's Administration, he had
by singular order, effected the transfer Of
$4,000 muskeis and rifles from the Springfield
armory and Watervlet arsenal to the different
arsenas in the South"
- The appearance of Col. Wardwell, in
Jackson, n. H., with detachment Of men who
had been under fire, soon cooled Off the ardor
of those who had expressed 4 determination
to resist the DRAFT to the bitter end. The re-
volvers with which the rioters were armed
went off, but they were accompanied by their
owners.
lv The newspapers find it as difficult to
marry Gov. Sprague and Miss Kate Chase as
1t is to kill rebel general SO that he will not
turn up again the first engagement that comes
of. 1t is announced that the Governor is now
to be married, certain, as the Invitations are
out, but we have serious doubts whether or
not the time has been set for the wedding, at
any rate, no invitations have reached US.
% We learn from the Bangor Wing that
fatal accident occurred in that city on Sat
urday evening in the following manner: "Mr.
James Whalon, foreman at Heller's Brick
Yard, was walking along high embankment
at the yard, when the bank caved in, and he,
jumping to save himself, fell upon newly
sharpened wood-saw which he had in his hand,
cutting him SO badly across the side as 10
cause his DEATH
sH- We learn from the Machias Union that
schooner Onslow, Capt Diggins, of and from
Eastport, bound to Ireland, loaded with deals,
went ashore night of the 18th, near Dead Har-
Dor, Jonesport, and became a total wreck.
The vessel was owned by Z. II. Andrews Esq !,
at Eastport, Chapman and Bolton, st. Stephens,
and others. Cargo insured: not learned of
any insurance on the vessel. The wreck, car
go, &C., were sold for $780,
sVThe colony of freedmen on Island No.
10, in the Mississippi, is in highly prosper
Gus condition. There are in all nine h undred
persons, two hundred and twenty of whom
are children at school. The colony owns a
sewing machine, and there are a number of
women already capable of making their own
garments. At Corinth there is u similar colo
ny. numbering 2lS6 men, 1862 women and SIS
children. Over 800 men are in the employ of
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