The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-05
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
sB- First page,-Boston Correspondence.
to- Last page,-Markets.


gY-Mr. M. L. Fisher, who has received the
democratic nomination for Governor of Iowa,
has declined.
sB-Provost Marshal General Frye has de-
cided that substitutes between Is and 20, will
be accepted with consent of parents.
sy- The Cumberland Association (Congre-
gational) will hold its next meeting at Wind
ham, on Friday, 18th inst, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
Sermon by Rev. Mr.. Boardman.
sg- Gen. Gilmore, commanding the opera
tions at Charleston, states that the killed,
wounded and missing, at the three engage
ments on Morris Island, amounted to 1895.
sv-A party OF seventy-two refugees from
Richmond reached Baltimore on Wednes-
day. Similar parties are almost constantly ar
irving at Washington.
sY- Col. John d. Campbell, General Super
intendent of the Michigan Southern Railroad,
died suddenly at the Revere House in Boston,
on Friday last.
sB- fog-bell, struck by machinery, has
been established at Whales Back Light House
Station, and will be kept in operation from
and after August LIST, 1868.
sY- 1t is now generally believed that the
Stars and Stripes will soon waive over Mo-
bile, as General Grant left Vicksburg several
days ago, with his baggage marked for that
place.
gS The amount of lumber surveyed at
Bangor, from January LIST to Aug. 1st of this
year, was S2,11S,054 feet, which was nearly
100000 feet more than during the same
months last year.
sB- A Union County Convention is called
in Androscoggin County, Tuesday, Aug. 25th,
at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ, TO nominate county Off
GERS and transact such other business as may
properly come before it.
.B-The Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting
will be held the present year, at the old place,
commencing on the 10th inst, and continuing
one week. Rev. Paul Townsend, of Providence
will preside.
sBr John H. Morgan, the noted raider
was formerly a professional gambler, having
his headquarters at Lexington, Ky. His raid
into Ohio was desperate game in which his
entire pile was staked and lost.
.TDeacon Josiah Bracket of Charleston,
73 years of age, has been notified that he is a
conscript in the 9th District. Massachusetts,.
Deacon Bracket will appear as ordered only
regretting that he is some thirty or forty
years too old to come within the limits of the
law.
SHThc Golfer dam. at Lewiston, from the
shore near the sawmill to the Island, as we
learn from the Journal, was partially carried
away on Friday night. 1t had been completed
bu. few weeks at great expense, and its
being carried away will cause delay in bull
ding the stone dam.
sy-The Cumberland County and Second
District Senatorial Conventions, have been
called to meet at the New City Hail. in this
city, on Thursday, the goth inst, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ. The County Committee will be in ses-
sion at that Hall at s o'clock A. NJ. of that
day. See official call in another column.
E We would not intimate that the editor
Of the estates and Union," Portsmouth, in
dulges immoderately in the use of the bewild-
ering beverage, but he is evidently muddled,
befogged or blind-folded, as, when last seen,
he was cropping around, enquring pathetical-
ly, "Where are We now?"
sy- A Washington correspondent says
Mr.. Lincoln contemplates making visit TO
the New England States during the present
month. He will decline all receptions and
ovations and proceed quietly to the White
Mountains, where he will meet Mrs. Lincoln
and his eldest son.
LEA woman by the name of Elliott, re-
siding at Jackson Brook, was committed to
Jail at Machias few days since, charged with
poisoning her daughter-in-aw with strychnine
administered in a glass Of rum. At the coro-
ner's inquest, it Was not fully settled whether
her death was caused by the strychnine or the
rum.
sE- We understand, says the Lewiston
journal, that Attorney General Drummond
has given an opinion that the act of the last
Legislature, which provides for a bounty of
500 to "every person drafted under the con-
scription, and who shall be mustered into the
service of the United States as principal, sub
stitute or volunteer" gives the bounty also to
the Veteran Volunteers.
gr The 22d and oath Maine regiments, as
we learn by telegram from Cairo, arrived at
that place on Sunday, on their route home.
They will probably pass through this city on
Wednesday or Thursday OF this week. The
I'D, formerly under the command of Col. Jer-
rard, went into camp at Bangor and is CON-
posed mainly of men in that vicinity and east
of that city. The oath is under the com
mand Of Col. Atwood, of Gardiner. 1t went
into camp at Augusta and is composed of
men belonging in The vicinity of that city and
in Franklin and Somerset counties. These
are nine months regiments that remained with
Gen. Banks after their term of service ex-
pred.
gg- The Sd and 4th Maine regiments are
highly complmented for brilliant charge at
Mapping Heights, in which they gallantly
drove the enemy from ti.-;-- f,oul position on
a hill, where they were in strong force. An
order to advance being given, these veterans
Of kearneys old Division, crept silently and
unobserved up the face of the hill. On gain
ing the summit, they sprang to their feet, de-
livered a volley, and with most determined
charge, cleared the hill, gaining number of
prisoners and spreading the ground with