The Portland daily press., 1863-10-08
OR IGINAL AND SELECTED,
sy- On the first page Affairs at Chatta-

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B-The great Eastern will make no more
trips to America at present.
W-It is asserted on good authority that
Macmillan has accepted the Mexican crown.
sB- The Legislature of Vermont convenes
to-day.
DB- Provost Marshals are instructed not
to reopen cases once decided.
sg- Augusta Jail is overlooking with de-
serters.
NTW We call attention to the advertisement
| of Gloves, Hosiery &C., sign of the Red Stock
ing, Middle street.
SBT Michael l.. Sullivan Esq, for many
years one of the largest farmers of Ohio, made
from his farm, clear profit, last year, $4,000.
Syr Gen. Blunt, who is doing such good
service in the Southwest, is a Maine man,
born in Trenton, Hancock county, we think.
le Edward Everett is busily employed in
Boston on his great work, "The Law of Ma
| tions."
G- The long-closed hotel at Saccarappa
has been re-furnished and opened by Mr.. E.
| c. Sturgiss.
r Cotton is steadily on the rise. 1t has
already reached Sc and So cents pound, and
no one can tell whent will stop.
sy- The soldiers convicted of desertion at
the late court martial at Augusta were all sent
to Fort Warren.
TP. 7. Barnum has a"f1ve-horned RAM"
and at a recent cattle show he labeled him
"an incorporate sheep, which has taken at
least three horns too much.'
g- Two hundred and forty-eight thousand
bushels Of wheat changed hands at Milwaukee
one day last week, the largest days business
ever done at that place in wheat.
gD- The rumor afoat that Helen Weston,
the favorte and brilliant actress, is dead, is
contradicted by the N. Y. Clipper, which is
authority ON such matters.
l- Farmers DESTROYS of securing good
farming hands will find reliable boys at the
State Reform School, whom the Trustees will
doubtless be glad to bind out.
vGen. Ripley, late chief of the ordinance
bureau, has been ordered to make quarterly
inspection of the armament of the forts, &C.,
Of New England.
sTBrig. Gen. Sherman, who was severely
wounded before Port Hudson, has SO far re-
covered as to walk out on crutches. He is
stopping at Newport, X. 1.
LEA collection for Tufts college was
taken up in Rev. A. A. Miners Church. School
st. Boston, on Sunday last, amounting to
s15,5lo.56.
rr Lieut. Edwin III. Rich, 10th Me- regi-
ment, has been highly complimented by Gen.
Burney for bravery, and is to be promoted on
his return to duty.
y Capt. J. W. Freese, It'll Maine vols,
returned from Washington last week, where
he had been ordered for examination for
colonecy. We learn that he passed a sue
cessful examination.
sD- The emigration from Europe to this
country landing at New York during the year
1852, was 10000. Already the number for
this year is computed at 100000, and more
coming.
Democrat writes from Kansas, that two of the
three presses destroyed by the recent raid will
soon be in operation, viz the Tribune and State
Journal.
% E. P. Kingston, late agent for Miss
Kate Reynolds has been engaged, it is
said, by ARENAS Ward for his California
trip. If any extra labor were needed to get
full houses, Kingston is the man to doit.
sBr Gen. Grants position is unmistakable,
and it must make his Copperhead fiatterers
squirm, it is so radical. He says, II am salts
fled that the North and the South can never
live together in peace except as one nation,
and that free nation"
ny- Next Tuesday the people of Ohio are
to render their verdict in the action, Vallan-
digham Us. the Government. 1t is believed the
traitor will be buried so deep that his friends
will never muster courage to attempt his ex-
humation.
sgc The newspapers have put Gen Thorn
as in command of the Army of the Cumber-
land and made other changes which will re-
qure the endorsement of the powers that be,
before these men can exercise authority in
such positions.
sr An accident occurred on the Western
railroad near West Warren, as we learn by the
Boston Journal, by which Frederick Williams,
the engineer, and Henry Bills, conductor of
the freight train, were Immediately killed, and
Mr.. Goodrich the road master, and a stranger,
were dangerously wounded
rY- We are glad to see Fitz John Porter
claimed as democratic general. An officer
who for his treachery was cashieled and ex-
PEELED from the service of his country, like
Valandigham who was banished for his trea-
son, is fitting representative of modern So
called democracy.
HeThe troubles on the borders of Missouri
and Kansas, from present indication are far
from being settled. The Union men are not
fully united on the proper course to be pur-
sued by the President and he is therefore
placed under very embarrassing circumstan-
ces.
sr"Burleigh," of the Boston Journal, says
Brown, the keeper Of the pewter Mug" in
New York, who was shot by the returned SOL
der, was formerly keeper of Tammany Hall.
The sympathies of the public are with the
soldier, who is said TO be quiet, unofiending
man.