The Portland daily press., 1863-09-12
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


membering; The voice of an old Democrat,
&c.
sr On the fourth page Poetry Mrs
Lofty and l."
gr Camp meeting at Charlestown com
mences on Tuesday next Rather late in the
season for camping out
sr The Pscataquis Baptist Association
will hold its next session at Dover on Tuesday
next.
sR- Gen. f. S. Nickerson is now in COM
mand of one of the four divisions of Banks
army.
Iy- Hon. Joseph Ii. Williams and Joshua
S. Turner, ESD, have been nominated by the
Union men of Augusta, for Representatives.
sg- A letter has been received from Rio
Janeiro, stating that the steamer Vanderbilt
was there having her boiler repaired
GB- The Lewiston Journal says that large
number of cattle are being transported from
Maine this fall.
y-A dispatch to the President assures
him that California endorses his policy by
nearly thirty thousand majority, and enthusi-
asticaly supports all his measures for the sup
preston of the rebellion.
sB-The citizens Of Pittsburg have tele-
graphed the authorities of Leavenworth that
they will furnish homes and education to
fifty of the children made orphans by GUAM
TREIL and gang in their recent raid.
sy-A young man giving his name as Chas.
Gould, of Bangor has been found guilty of
entering store in Dover, N. H., and sem
fenced to three years in the State Prison, as
we learn from the Portsmouth Chronicle.
sg- Arrangements have been made with
nearly all the railroad lines and steamboats,
coming to this city to bring and return dele
gates to the Universalist Convention, for one
fore for the round trip.
John ID. Lambert Esq. formerly of
Bangor tut of late one of the most promising
merchants of Dubuque Iowa, was found
drowned nearly two miles from that City
a short time since.
sy- Ethan Pettingill of Auburn. Me-, has
large bed of tobacco plants growing, which
are now nearly ready for cutting, the value of
which he estimates at 500. Mr.. p. thinks
that Maine can and ought to raise her own
tobacco.
The Loyal LEAGUE Rooms IN THE NEW
CITY BUILDING are open day and evening"
Copies of the voting lists are posted up in the
rooms, and all Union voters are requested to
call and see if their names are borne on the
lists. ed
sE- At Union Convention, held in Dover.
Piscataquis county, on Thursday of last week,
Elias j. Hale of Foxcroft, was nominated for
Senator. John Elliot of Abbott, for County
Commissioner, and Charles C. Kimball of Do
yer for County Treasurer.
sg- G. J. Prescott, Esq, of New Hamp-
shire, and Hon. Charles Holden, OF this city,
will address the citizens OF Cape Elizabeth
this evening. These gentlemen have been do
ing good work wherever they have address
ing meetings, and we hope they will be greet
ed this evening with large and attentive au-
dience.
sY- The copperheads Of Somerset selected
+. Q. j. Smith to meet any man the Union
party would name in public discussion. The
Union men selected Hon. james g. Blaine,
when 10! Smith backed down. His feathers
dropped. He attempts to get off as he did
with Leonard Jarvis, by claiming that the adj
versary is unworthy of his steel. Does he re-
member how Jarvis posted him on every pump
in Washington. as Liar, Scoundrel and
Coward?
% Gen. Butler in reply to an invitation
to attend the Springfield, Ill.,, Convention, AFTER
giving his reasons for not accepting the invita-
ton, and showing the folly of compromise with
the war. Bring every part of the country into
submission to the laws OF the United States
Then there will be no place for rebellion, no
parties for compromises, no occasion for recon-
struction, and clemency may be shown and
amnesties offered TO individual citizens who
desire them. Is there any other way to restore
the Union?n
20 The greatest anxiety is expressed in
every loyal State in regard to the election 10
take place in this State on Monday. More es-
pecially is that anxiety felt by the soldiers who
are imperillng their lives to sustain the gov
eminent. A rousing majority for Cony will
give confidence and courage to our soldiers,
strength to the Administration, and carry JOY
to every loyal fresde. Loyal men of Maine !!
are you ready and willing, one and all, to do
what you can to roll up majority of 10000
for Cony? 1t can be done il you say it and go
to work.
sg- The Copperhead papers are cautioning
their readers against news of victories just be-
fore election. Such news is very damaging to
their cause and disheartening TO those who by
their votes are sustaining armed rebellion.
Can't something be done to stay proceedings
at Charleston until after the fill elections,
as every victory of Importance by our
army adds to the Union vote and takes
from the Copperheads? Very unfortunate
that these Union victories shonld have oc-
CURED just at this time, when Bradbury
was SO sure of being Governor. Wouldn't
he like to call back the brave men who are
laundering at Charleston?
~ The Rockland Free Press says that
few days since A. p. Gould was advertised to
hold forth to the Copperheads of Washington
village-a place in Knox county-but did not
appear. A lot of returned soldiers were there,
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