The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-14
OR TGINAL AND SELECTED.

70 reaches are plenty In New York at
81 25 basket.
~ The New York Post says, for the week
ending Tuesday, there were nearly 1000 deaths
in that city.
20 The Franklin County Union Conven-
ton will be held at Pennington, on Wednes-
day. the 26th inst, at 10 o'clock.
sy- Rev. E. Ii. Chaplin and family returned
home by the China at New York, on Tuesday.
His health is much improved
D-Judge Holt has decided that drafted
man will be held responsible IL his substitute
proves to have been a deserter.
sg- The United States frigate St. Law
renee was towed to sea from the Kittery Navy
Yard, on Wednesday morning.
gB- An addition of forty feet is to be made
to the carriage shop at the State Prison.; a
much needed improvement.
gy- The mother of Judge Eastman, of
Conway, N. H., is now 1o2 years OF age, and
is able TO walk about.
@Er The gentlemen representing the West
ern Boards of Trade, at their reception in
Boston, did not forget to mention the mag
nifcent reception given them in this city.
s- The editor of the Bath Courier advis-
es his friends not to go to war. We should
hope for tie good of the army his advice
would be needed il they are all of his stripe.
.vDr. Chas. T. Chase, of Thomaston, has
received the appointment of Surgeon to the
Maine State Prison, in place of DR.. Baker,
removed.
sg- At a town meeting held at Rumford,
on Saturday last, it was voted to pay each
drafted man, who served himself or procured
a substitute, one hundred dollars.
IL WIN. w. Wells, of Chicago, was elect
ed President of the National Teachers Asso-
citation, at convention recently held in that
city.
sE- Gen. Shepley's speech, at Portland,
was more than the Copperheads of Maine bar
gained for. Ii Samuel Taylor should spend a
winter in New Orleans. he would get rid of
his copper, though he retained his brass.
New Bedford Mercury.
sE- Two town meeting were held in Beth
tit va 9AtuAtas atTt' OhS 'beSu w pay W t1eh
drafted man who was liable to 20 into the ar
my $500; the other voted $50 to those who
went into service.
rg- The emigration TO New York this year
is double what il was in 1862. During the
period between March and August, this year
the number of emigrants arrived was s5,046,
against 43, 40 last year.
sl- The Centennial Celebration of Drum
mond Academy occurred at Byfeld, Newbury,
Mass, on Wednesday. Several Maine men
were present, among whom was Judge Tenny,
a native of that town.
c- Grand Union Mass Convention is to
be held at Springfield, Illinois, on the Sd Of
September next, on which occasion some of
the ablest speakers of the country are to be
present and address the Convention.
rr Washington correspondent Of the
Boston Herald, says -" Ohio Democrats
write here that yalandigham will be defeated
by at least forty thousand majority. Efforts
are being made to induce him to withdraw.
g- Judge Advocate Holt has decided,
is not regarded as deserter in the spirit OF
the law until he is notified of the fact that he
has been drafted.
sJ- A man by the name OF Rooney was in
stanily killed on the Eastern Railroad, at Bey-
erly, on Tuesday evening, by being run over
by the cars. On his coat collar was metallic
badge, with the following inscription: No. /,
10. 5. OFT.
s- Mr.. Montague of Lake Providence,
Louisiana, Union man of the strongest kind,
and who enjoys the confidence of many Of the
planters who are now on the fence, asserts
that the Union feeling is growing wonderfully
in that State. The general impression there
that the Confederacy Is about played out.
sV-Four gentlemen, one from Chicago, one
from New York, one from Boston and one
from Portland, left the Chandler House, Beth
e, last Tuesday morning on fishing expedi-
ton. They returned in the evening with -four
hundred and seuenty.fee trout, taken from
the brooks in that vicinity.
E.At Democratic County Convention
held at Paris, on Saturday last, Thomas J.
Cox, of Dixfied, and David Colcord, OF Por-
ter, were nominated for Senators, William
Dow, OF Canton, for County Commissioner,
Samuel J. Gibson, Of Bethel, for Clerk of the
Courts, and Samuel z. Carter, OF Paris, for
County Treasurer.
Ev Clothes line thieves have been COM
uniting their depredations at Gardiner, rs We
learn from the journal. Mr.. S. knight had
his clothes line cleared on Monday night,
Which at the present prices of cotton goods
was quite loss. Why don't Brother Morrill,
look after the animals which are proving
round in the night time.
q Alta Friends meeting in New Bed
ford an Thanksgiving day, when only about
fifty persons were present, the sum of t,co
hundred and eighty.fre dollars, was contrib
uted 10 the Boston Branch of the Sanitary
Commission. A sermon was preached on that
occasion, says the Mercury, which would have
made the ears Of Samuel Taylor Jingle.
lVTo-morrow morning We shall publish
in full the very able Sermon delivered by Rev.
w. r. Clark, in Chestnut Street Church, on the
late National Thanksgiving day. A few extra
copies only will be worked beyond the num-
Der ordered up to four o'clock this afternoon.
We shall be prepared to answer all orders up
IN that hour