The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

u First page-Letter from Lady; Sub
stitute swindling; Cruel treatment of Friends.
B- Last page Poetry-The Churchyard
Lily; Miscellany.
~ The County and Senatorial Convention
meets to-day, at the City Hall, at ten o'clock
~ The Fryeburg centennial celebration
comes off to-day. A great time is anticipated.
sE- The Asbury Grove Camp-meeting will
commence on Monday, the oath inst.
sr Gen. Fremont and family are spending
a short time at Naiant.
l Co William F. Hall Esq. of Richmond, has
been admitted to practice as Attorney in all
the Courts in the State of Maine.
CO Plums and peaches are now sold in
some sections of California at such prices as
will scarcely pay the cost of gathering them.
% Rich and extensive gold mines have
been discovered in San Francisco mountains,
east of the Colorado river.
CT An Indian, drafted in the I'd Congress
sional District, has been accepted by the Board
of enrolment.
% Some Of the mills at Lewiston have
suspended operations in consequence of the
giving way Of the Golfer dam.
nv The ranks of the two veteran regi-
ments now being organized in this State, are
rapidly filing up. 9#
To- Gen. Butler and family have gone to
the White Mountains. The General travels
in his own private carriage. AA8
sg- Mr.. Ozro M. Smith, merchant in
Manchester, N. H., while sailing on Massabec
pond with his family a few days since, fell into
the water and was drowned.
o. The following were elected delegates
to the Union County Convention from Scarbo-
ro: John Watson, John Larrabee, Geo. w.
Parker, John d. Fayben, Stephen Sewell.
% Gen. Howard has received permission
of the Department to extend his Through
few days beyondlthe time for which il was
originally granted.
CO Rev. DR.. Massie addressed large au-
dience in fremont Temple, Boston, on Tues
day evening upon the subject connected with
his mission.
gy- Our esteemed friend s. J. F. has our
thanks for the box of fresh large berries sent
to our address. She has the thanks of poor
slave of the quill.
rF The S. j. Court of the County of Ken
nebec, commenced its session at Augusta, on
Tuesday,-Judge Rice presiding. The whole
number of entries were PIT.
nE- In the 2d Congressional District, up to
Monday, 1893 drafted men had been examined,
733 of whom had been accepted, aud It's OF
them had paid their Communication.
eE We learn from Capt. NJ. N. Stanley
that the mnster which was to have taken place
at Porter, the 26th inst, is TO be postponed on
account Of not being able to procure guns.
~ The dwelling-house and out-buildings
belonging to Mr.. John Getchell, yassalboro',
were entirely destroyed by fire on Sunday
night last. Loss about $500. Insured $1,000.
sr c. G. Woodman, Esq, of Boston, one
Of the best of-hand speakers that has ever Wis
tied our State, is to address the citizens of East
Corinth on Friday evening.
sV A New York paper says the genuine
copperhead platform is, ''The Union as It was
under Buchanan, the constitution as it is under
JEFF Davis"
Sv A correspondent of the New Bedford
Mercury says at a love-feast at the camp meet
ing at Yarmouth, Mass. conducted by Rev.
Mr.. Randall, of this State, one hundred and
fifteen persons spoke in fifty-seven minutes.
sE Rev. DIR. Wayland says the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
does not receive annually as much money as is
alone.
ga Democrat In the Advertiser stig-
matizes Gen. Shepley as " rene gade." Ev-
cry old Democrat who is Internationally
loyal to his country is renegade according to
modern Democracy.
gy- Hon. Leonard Andrews of Biddcfoll,
is to address Union meeting at Turner on
Friday afternoon, at o'clock. Mr.. Andrews
is an able and candid speaker, and will COM
inand the attention of those who may listen to
him.
CO. The St. Lofts branch Of the Sanitary
Commission, in addition to usual supplies, are
sending hundred and fifty mich cows with
calvesl to Memphis and Vicksburg, for hospi-
tai use. These are all giren BY western far
mers.
sr The loyal people OF Bath have very
nearly killed off Copperheadism in that city
They have riddled the poor animal so efiectu-
ally that it is not worth skinning, and in Sep
TENDER they propose to bury the offensive re-
mains out of sight forever. i
sB- The town of Phipsburg was the first
in the State TO vote Communication money to Its
drafted men. Now that the conscripts want
the money to purchase exemption or to pro-
cure substitutes, not dollar can they GET
They now realize how shamefully they have
been cheated, and their curses OF those who
have duped them are loud, deep and bitter.
IL A grocer in Patterson, N. j., obtained
a verdict for s25 against lawyer Of that city
who was accustomed to nibble his cheese, tax
ing crackers and butterng, aud other liberties
Of the same sort. IL we are not mistaken,
verdict was obtained few years since against
lawyer in this State for taking similar lber-
ties. tf.t A8esVf
.B- The excursion of the Sons of Temper
ance from Bath, to this city, bids fair to be
Al.