The Portland daily press., 1863-09-16
OR IGN AL AND ELECTED.

sy- Gen. Cass is said to be in very feeble
state of health. He is now in the s1st year
of his age.
sg-A miner at Pixies Peak writes that the
miners are very much discouraged They
have to dig through a solid vein of silver
four feet thick, before they can reach the gold.
Auful trying isn't it."
sE- DR.. b. F. Buxton was a candidate for
representative from the district composed of
the towns of Warren and Union, hut he was
defeated by Mr. Emery f. Joy, who was elect
ed by II majority.
Ley The Worcester horse railroad is
great success-passengers 1000, and receipts
500 per day; the track is being extended to
new streets. and two new cars, making IL,
have been ordered
IF The new ghost machine at one of the
London theaters, instead of the ghost, present.
ed the figure of u carpenter in his shirt sleeves
drinking a mug of ale. The utter uncon-
seriousness of the man below the stage as to
what was passing, made the scene excessively
ludicrous.
srThe Washington Star, edited by Doug
las Democrat, says Mr.. Lincoln's letter will
meet the hearty appreciation, all the loyal and
patriotic everywhere. None but those, (says
the Starr who would sooner see the Union per-
ish than have the rebellion crushed, will fail.
to agree with its conclusion
ag-The Portsmouth Steam Factory, at
Portsmouth, built, and heretofore used for
the manufacture of fine muslns, has been con-
verified wholly into mandatory of spool
cotton thread of great variety, and is pro-
badly the largest single mandatory of that
kind at present in the country.
% An agent of the Christian Commission
writing from Gettysburg says that as the
weather begins to grow cool, wooden stock
ings, shirts and drawers will be in great de-
mand for the soldiers in the hospitals, who
have already begun to ask for them.
gJe Gen. Robert Toombs-the furious
announces himself as opposed to "reconstruc-
ton," preierring rather to "unite with the
thousands OF his conntrymen who have found
honorable deaths, if not graves, on the battle
field.,, Sir Roberts method of saving himself
from farther connection with the people of the
North will be warmly applauded by all loyal
men.
sgrWho needs further evidence than is
afforded in the returns of Mondays election,
that Mr.. Sweat is the misrepresentation of
his constituents political sentiments? As an
honorable high-minded man how can he con-
sent to take seat in Congress under such cir
cumstances? We appeal to him to say if he
is not called upon by every consideration of
honor, to resign, and allow the people to Sc
leet man who is in sympathy with them.
gye The sub-editor of the Advertiser is dis
satisfied with Mr.. Summers recent great
speech in New York, on our foreign relations,
though it is speech which seems to command
general approval. "We almost forget to say,n
says he, "that we have been unable to find the
point to this remarkable document Well, it
is the misfortune of some people to be unable
to find the point OF any thing, especially at a
late hour of the day. They can discover
pint much more readily.
sE- Robert Toombs publishes letter in a
Georgia paper, saying: 81 can conceive OF no
duced in which l would for single moment
entertain any proposition for any union with
the North on any terms whatever. When all
else is lost, prefer to unite with the thousands
OF our own countrymen who have found hon
orabe deaths, if not graves, on the battle field.n
AS Mr. TpQmbS ia a favnrita ba
men of the North it might be well that they
make note of his sentiments.
sE- The Argus bore up under its crushing
defeat with a commendable degree of CON-
posure and philosophy. 1t confesses that
there is little comfort to be derived from the
returns, and then talks incoherently of "the
persistent lecturing of ministers, the har-
rangues of stump orators, the influence of Of
flee, patronage and contracts, and the mag
netism of greenbacks," &c. But then, the
Argus has taken serious turn, religious
cant, and 'prays that its apprehension OF evil
may not be realized" Alas, the prayer of the
wicked is an abominaton, &c.
~B-Because the Press allowed a cores
pondent to question the wisdom of Gen. Nc
Clean's policy when he was in command of
the army of the Potomac, the Advertiser of
this city denounced us, and labored hard TO
incense the soldiers against us. Now that in
dignant sheet charges nearly every military
commander in the field with treachery, and
says they have been bribed by the President.
1t is lucky the soldiers of Burnside and Lo-
gan are not in Maine: il they were that infa-
nous concern would go the way of Burke's
Concord Standard.
-r The loyal men of Bath did nobly on
Monday last. The majority for Cony was go,
two more than Portland, with much smaller
vote. The copperheads of Bath were conf
dent of success. They had invested largely
in paper to maintain their principles, which
it has not failed TO do, as well as to outrage
decency. The outrageous doctrines advocat-
ed by the copperhead organ of Bath has done
as much as any one thing to swell the Union
majority in that city. If they should keep the
thing running six months longer, there would
hardly be enough of the party left to form
corporal's guard.
10 There is one fact in the Presidents
letter to the Illinois Convention that Copper
heads should read and consider well. Speak
ing of the time when we shall have an honor
ahia no ca a naoca which s.,r;lI gonna IN stav