The Portland daily press., 1863-10-30
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

g-yalandighams district in Ohio gives
Brough 1922 majority. .|.
~An exchange says that Vallandgham
is "the left man in a tight place"
To- Rev. Morris Holman has removed
from Kennebunkport to Deering, N. Fl.
R Hon. John p. Hale is making Union
speeches in Northern New York.
gChattanooga is Cherokee word, and
means the Eagles Nest.
sF-The new Lord Mayor of London is a
Unitarian. He is also an earnest friend Of the
Union cause.
svGen. Grant is still obliged to use
crutch and walking stick, but is improving
rapidly.
Sr Lieut.. w. b. Lapham, late of the 18th
regiment, is recruiting for the Veteran Caval-
ry. ...Hn ..E- t.
SE The New Orleans Times speaks of
well-known New York politician as "Booby
Brooks
sTGen. Rosecrans left Cincinnati for his
home at Yellow Springs, on Monday evening.
He had an enthusiastic reception at the Mer-
chants Exchange before leaving.
IL Major West is now in command of the
18th Maine regiment. 1t was in the skirmish
at Auburn, Va, but had only one man wound
ed.
% During the year 1862, our exports ex-
ceeded our imports by s20,OOO,OOO, and during
the last fiscal year our exports have exceeded
our imports by sS0O00,000.
nHOn Wednesday week two inches OF
snow fell in Chicago, Our Western friends
are bound to get ahead Of US on everything
but "clam bakes."
q The Cumberland Conference, (Con-
gregational )meets at New Gloucester on Tues
day, Sd of November, instead of the Both nst
as in the first notice.
IL Rev. George Sheppard, ID. D., Profess
sor OF Sacred Rhetoric in Bangor Theological
Seminary, has been engaged to deliver his
course of lectures in Lane Seminary the pres
ent year.
nT A contraband says Gen. Gilmore will
open the ball at Charleston by leading out the
Bedford Mercury intimates, ''the dance Of
DEATH
aBrJohn Hull, of Detroit, kept his word
and drowned himself because yallandigham
was not elected. There are other Copperheads
who would do their country good service by
following his example or amending their prin-
ciples.
sY- The New York Post brands as ga fool
ish story" the report that Mr.. Seward fur
nished the French Minister, Mercieu, with the
plans and maps of Gen. SCOTS campaigns in
Mexico, to aid the present French invasion
and conquest of that country.
% The people of Iowa understand the
true method of snake killing In their recent
great slaughter of copperheads they tried the
virtue ofa Stone, one throw of which crushed
the vipers so that their wrggling has become
perfectly harmless. ttt
sE- Union newspaper has been started
at Little Rock, Arkansas. Where the Union
army goes, letters fall, and the press springs
into life. Free limbs and free speech, free la
Dor and free thought, are the fruits of Union
conQuests. s s-. ss.s
% Tea made from skull-cap-one of the
best neryines extant-is recommended as a
preventive of hydrophobia, resulting from
the bite of mad dog-to be drank in liberal
quantities daily for a month or six weeks after
receiving the bite. 1910
neIt is estimated that $4,000 changed
hat lie Of la III. "a.
week. Ii this was not an exhibition for i'm
proyement of horses, encouraged and patron
ized by the moral and religious, it might be
considered system Of wholesale gambling,
for the decentralization Of the young.
sB~ Dr. Asa ID. Smith accepts his election
to the Presidency of Dartmouth College,
and will enter upon his duties at the COM
mencement of the Winter term. He is to be
inaugurated on the 18th of November, on
which occasion he will deliver an inaugural
address.
u The editor Of the Maine Farmer rec
ommends that a law be passed making the
stealing of fruit from orchard or garden a
States Prison offence. Would the editor of
the Farmer be willing to have it date back to
the time when he was boy, and own up be-
fore the court?
IF Parson Brownlow says, in card in
the Nashville Union, "The mediation shall
advocate until this rebellion is put down, will
be that of the cannon and sword. The prn-
ciples shall boldly set forth will be those of
the administration of Mr.. Lincoln, indorsing
all he has done, and finding fault with him for
not having done more!' -
sB-Unpleasant truths are frequently forced
into the unwilling rebels who throng the French
capital. For example: the Opinione Nation
ale-a Paris journal-says to this class Of de-
generate humanity, "From the moment you
| free the slaves the ,rdr ceases to hare any Oh
ject, as that is the ,car-cry Of the Federal ar
mics"
% The Boston Journal says "there is one
precaution which should be taken when bitten
| by dog, whether the animal is mad or not
or when wound is inflicted by nail or any
blunt instrument. The wound should be heal
| ed gradually under poultice. Ii the outside
is healed before there is healthy granulation
inside, lockjaw may superyene, with many of
the symptoms OF hydrophobia."
Major General Grant is now the senior
officer in command, taking rank from date of
! 10th of February, 1862. Major General Burn