The Portland daily press., 1863-10-06
ORIGINAL AND SELE FED.

I-On the first page Speech of Gov.
Noble of Wisconsin; The Organization of
| Colored Troops; A Clever Hit.
sg~ On the fourth page-To the Maine
| Soldiers; Miscellany.
! sB-There are twenty-seven papers in Mis-
'souri which favor immediate emancipation.
ag-yice President Hamlin returned home
on Saturday evening.
Samuel NJ. Emerson, leader of the
Band of the LIST Maine Artillery, died recently
at Fort Sumner, Nd.
Ng@An accident to our press yesterday
morning caused an unusual delay in the issue
Of our paper.
rB-Capt. J. E. Bryant, of the Maine Sth,
with two companies of black troops and tel
egraph operator, tapped the wires of the Sa-
vannah and Charleston Railroad and obtained
important information
IpLieut. w. +. Goodwin, of York coun-
ty, of the 10Th U. S. Infantry, was badly
wounded at the battle of the Chickamanga.
He was Immediately taken to Nashville Tenn,
where he now is.
GB-Capt. John L. Swift is giving his lee
ture on Banks Campaign in various towns in
New England. 1t would be listened to with
the deepest interest in this city and other sec
tons of the State as majority of our nine
months men were in that campaign.
GY-A correspondent of st. John paper,
rit from,
of the young men of that province leave it
yearly, and seek the pecuniary remuneration
in the United States they never could obtain
there.
ga more general activity in our army
movements is now manifested than for long
time before. For prudential reasons full ex-
PLANTATION of the movements of the army is not
made public, but news of the most thrilling,
and we trust of a cheering character must
reach us before many days.
sgThe Nashvsll Daily Journal is the
name of thorough going Union paper,
recently pnlished at Nashville. Col. L. C.
Honk, "A gallant soldier, and a true East Tenn
essee patriot, is editor. In his leader he says
sour regret is, first, that we voted for Bell
and Everett and next that we did not vote
for Lincoln
.B-Capt. J. L. Swift, who has been long
known as an able and eloquent speaker, and
has been with Gen. Banks during the entire
time he has been in Louisiana, gave at the
fremont Temple in Boston on Friday eve
ming, a lucid sketch OF that campaign. The
Boston Journal says it was one of the largest,
most enthusiastic and successful meetings
ever convened in that city.
ia goldheaded cane, richly finished and
beautifully inscribed, was presented, on Thurs
day evening, at Providence to Mr.. Mason, of
the firm of Bryant, Stratton & Mason, Principal
of the branch Commercial College located in
that city. This firm, that has branch Col
lege in this city. is comprised of energetic men
who thoroughly understand the business and
are bound to succeed.
1H-Ma L. b. Hunt. brother of Ex-Gov.
Hunt, engaged in the construction of SUBJ
marine battery at Brooklyn, n. Y, was so in
iured by fall into the hold of the vessel that
he died in few hours after. The New York
Times says he was heightened gentleman,
Christian and scholar, and greatly beloved by
all who knew him. He was devoted with all
his powers of soul to the service of his coun-
try, and although he did not die on the battle
field. he died with the harness Oh.
grThe Portsmouth IN. H. Journal, in
late number says: Fifty years ago this paper
was published by C. Turell. His workmen in
1914 were Nathaniel Greene, afterwards Post
master of Boston and editor OF the Boston
Statesman; George w. Bazin, the present pub
Usher of the Trumpet; John 7. Gibbs, of the
Dover Gazette; Thomas II. Granville of New
buryport: and Thomas Spinney now of Bos-
ton. 1t is a remarkable circumstance that Mr..
Turell and all his workmen OF that year are
still living"
sB-The National Quarterly Review contains
an article on "The Insane, and their treatment
past and present." showing the difference in
the success of the treatment of that unfortu-
nate class OF persons since it has been charac-
terized by kindness instead of severity. The
writer having visited numerous hospitals says
the difference in the mode oil treatment is ap-
parent to the casual visitor, even in the coun-
tenances and general appearance of the pa
tients. 1t presents evidence based on long in
vestigation in proof of the assertion, that close
application to literary pursuits does not in