The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-27
OR IGN AL AND ELECTED.

nB- On the first page Letter from the
Potomac; Letter from Mrs. Fogg.
sB- 1.-THE last page-Poetry-"New Eng
lands Dead;" Miscellany.
sy- Every house in Buena Vista, Wis, was
blown down by tornado on Friday.
gD- Women are engaged in making shoes
in Haverhill, from the lasting to the finishing.
GY- Walcott Hamlin, Esq. of New Hamp-
shire, is addressing Union meetings in Penob-
scot county. t.sz
1E- The scarlet fever and canker-rash have
been very prevalent and fatal in Mt. Vernon
the present season.
Sy- The loyal Sunrise" says the growing
crops in Madawaska are unusually promis-
ing.
.V The York County Agricultural Society
will hold their annual cattle show and fair,
commencing Sept. goth, and continuing thu
days.
Sy- The Boston Post says no information
has yet been obtained of Pryde and Sherman
who escaped from Fort Warren on Tuesday
night of last week.
sg- Ten houses are being erected in Au-
burn, and several fine residences are in pro-
cess of construction in Lewiston, as we learn
from the Journal.
sv Daniel Durham of Bath, Co. C, 2lst
week, while on bis way from New Orleans to
his home.
ey- The blacksmith's shop of Messrs. Max
well & Jameson, in Topsham, was destroyed
by fire on Monday night last, as we learn by
the Bath Times. 9Hatt
s~ Free negroes voted in North Carolina
until the amendment of the Constitution in
1925. A distinguished North Carolian eman-
cipated large number of his own negroes in
order to make them voters to elect him to the
Legislature Of the State
r Along with body guard of General
Grant, says an exchange, rides his son, Fred,
stout lad of some twelve years. He endures
all the marches, follows his father under fire
with all the GOODNESS of an old soldier. and is a
"chip of the old block"
- Those Copperheads who denounced
the $500 claim in the CONSUMPTION law, have
been very ready TO avail themselves of the
provision when the wheel of fortune has
placed them among the drafted. How was it
in Waldoboro?
sB- The Sunday Morning Gazette says it is
an encouraging fact that there is not a single
Copperhead paper in New England that is
self-sustaning. The Boston Courier consid-
ering itself in the category and particularly
hit, pitches into the Gazette in most undig-
ntied manner.
% Mr.. Joseph Donald, OF st. Stephen,
exhibited stock of tobacco in the streets of
Calais, raised on his farm, which measured 6
feet inches in height, with some of the
leaves measuring 3 feet and 3 inches in length
and 10 inches wide. He thinks there is no
more difficulty in raising tobabco than in rails
ing cabbage in this region.
sB- The Albany Argus, after finding out
that the report of an anti-drat riot in War
rem county, Pennsylvania, was a hoax, very
gravely remarks: Warren county is Repub-
lican stronghold, and ifihere had been riot
it could hare been chargeable to that party
On that hypothesis to what party is the rict in
New York chargesble?
sB- We notice that the delegation to the
Sagadahoc County Union Convention was
composed of at least IL per cent. of those who
have heretofore voted with the Democratic
party. They are probably no less democrats
than they have been, but cannot 70 with a
party that refuses to sustain the authority of
the government
lg- The Provost Marshal in Portsmouth,
in accordance with orders from the War De-
partment, does not make public the particular
disease with which an exempt may be affected.
The only cause given is the general one of
disability" The Provost Marshal of this
District has received an order TO the same eff
feet.