The Portland daily press., 1863-11-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

nv Captain Stanley of Pennington is rails
ing company of cavalry in Franklin County.
nV Rev. John Kennady, an eminent d.
vine of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
New York, died at Brooklyn ON Saturday
eEIt is estimated that the wool clip of
Minnesota the present year will not be less
than five hundred thousand pounds.
ga new paper to expound Union prin-
ciples and support the policy of the govern
ment is about to be established in Louisville
Ky.
% The majority for the Union in the
loyal States, as recorded by the elections of
the past seven months, will aggregate no less
than three hundred and fifty thousand.
GA great Sanitary Fair, similar to that
which proved so successful at Chicago,
is to be held in Boston in the month of
December.
VrAn attempt was made to fire the Kear-
sage House in North Conway on Friday, last
week. Several shots were fired at the incen-
diary but he escaped.
sVThe committee having in charge the
raising Of the Bates College Fund, held
meeting at Augusta on the 9th inst. Nearly
ten thousand dollars are already raised.
lVThe Calais Advertiser states that Fran
els Hoyt, of Machias, died of consumption in
the barque Oak Hill, August 22d, on passage
to Puget Sound.
sV We learn that an interesting revival
has been going on in East Machias under the
preaching Of Rev. VIM. G. Thomas We also
learn that Mr.. Thomas has had call by the
Baptist church in Belfast.
20 Those who have known Joshua r.
Giddings for the last twenty years, either per-
sonally or by reputation, will be amused to
learn that he has been arrested in Canada as a
kidnapper.
nB- The Friends Meeting House at Cen
tire Sandwich was consumed by fire on Satur-
day evening, 14th inst. 1t was the work Of
dred dollars.
% The only ward in New York in which
the copperheads did not lose from last year
was ward six-the "Five-Points" ward In
this they made net gain of seventy five votes.
Comment is unnecessary.
~ Mr.. Beecher was received by his peo-
pie at his Church in Brooklyn on Tuesday
evening. The reunion was cordial, and the
Rev. gentleman made one of his sparkling
speeches.
o. Mr.. George Bryant being on a visit to
st. Louis, took up newspaper and saw him
self reported the victim of foul murder. Mr..
Bryant Immediately telegraphed to his wife
and family that he was still kicking.
gr" Toby Candor" of the Boston Jour
nal, has commenced rather early to organize
our State Legislature and put his candidates
for the various State offices in the field. Bet
ter wait till after Christmas
gT The Maine Farmer is taking steps to
have all its subscribers pay in advance for the
paper. 1t says that the system of paying in
advance has gained largely among its patrons.
They like to read their own newspaper, and
save the extra bill at the end of the year.
sl- Rev. A. d. Smith, d. D., was inaugu-
rated as President of Dartmouth College,
Wednesday. Gov. Gilmore and staff, men,
bers of the judiciary, and imany Of the Alum
nj were present. The College buildings were
Illuminated.
CO. The citizens of Salem, have resolved
themselves into a committee Of the whole TO
aid the mayor in filling up their quota. Let
us do the same in this city, with the deter
mination to make up our quota before the day
Of grace is over.
~ The men of Massachusetts are enter
ing upon the work of filling up their quota be-
fore the 1st of January with a determination
and earnestness worthy of imitation in other
States. Let there be o laudable emulation
among the several New England States in re-
gard to the time of filling up their quotas.
ga man who gives his name as Samuel
Faulkner, and says he is from Wayne county
n, Y, has been arrested in North Conway as
the incendiary who fired Judge Eastman's
buildings week or two since. There con-
tinues to be considerable excitement in the
vicinity.
sV The Bangor Times says Mr.. Greenleaf
Elder, well known and much respected mer-
chant of Bangor, was found ON Wednesday
hanging from cross-beam in his stable.
When discovered life was extinct. Mr.. Elder
has been sick for about week past, and la
boring under great depression of spirits, and
committed the act under temporary derange-
ment. His age was about fifty years.
sVOn Monday night last says the Garden
er Journal an ARRAY occurred in rum-shop
in Augusta between a soldier named Sullivan
and Currie Boynton, low british fellow, in
which the former received a stab in the neck,
whereupon he drew a revolver and fired it at
Boynton, lodging the contents in his left
shoulder. They were arrested the next morn
ing.
gY- The Lewiston Journal says the heavy
rain of the past few days, beginning Satur-
day and continuing with only the slightest in
remission for more that Is hours have risen
the Androscroggin to pitch rarely if ever
attained to before. Persons acquainted with
the history of freshets on the Androscroggin