The Portland daily press., 1863-09-30
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTED.
.gOn the first page-Boston Correspon-
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| agent ior late New Brunswick papers.
sg-A large number of agents of the SAM
tary Commission, have arrived at, and more
are on their way to, Chattanooga.
seFifteen thousand soldiers heretofore re-
leased on parole, are to be added TO the efiec-
tive strength Of the Union armies.
STTwo thousand exchanged prisoners,
day night.
SB~ session of the Aroostook Baptist
Quarterly Meeting will be holden in Patten,
commencing Oct. Sd.
IB-The Eastern Express Company has
laid us under obligations for late Provincial
popers.
The young woman who shot man
dead in Pttsburg for seducing her has been
legally acquitted.
n- The York County Cattle Show and
Fair is being held in Saco. Continues to-day
and tomorrow.
nY- The Autumnal Unitarian Convention
will meet at Springfield, Mass on the 18th of
Oct.
sBrWhy should leading traitors become
like neatly made bank-notes? Because they
should be ,ceU executed.
Engine Co. No. 3, of Lewiston, accom-
panied by the Lewiston Brass Band, are to
visit Bath on Friday next
.B-The Portland organ of Mr.. Valan-
dighan contains his latest manifesto to the
people of Ohio, from his hiding -place under
corner of Victoria's petticoat.
aB-The railroad collision near Kalamazoo,
Michigan, on Friday last, by which five per-
sons were killed and twenty wounded, was
caused by rum.
sB-The Waterville Mail says 50 cars laden
with live stock passed through Waterville on
Monday of last week, for Massachusetts
markets.
s1- 1t is said John C. Calhoun, Thomas H.
Benton, Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren,
and Lewis Cass were born the same year, 1892,
of whom General Cass alone survives
Gg-The army of the Potomac is in motion.
Their destination can only be ceniectured. as
those who know are not permitted to tell We
shall hear from it in few days.
spThe Oxford County Agricultural Soc-
ETY. will hold its 2lst annual exhibition, at the
Fair grounds, between Paris and Norway vii
lage on the It'll and Sth Of October.
.rThe recent speech of Mr.. Sumner in
New York, on our foreign relations, is having
tremendous run. 1t is one of its distin-
uniShad hac
sBrThe Bath Times says the store of Capt.
John Wolston in that city, was entered on
Sunday morning, the drawer cut through the
bottom and rified of its contents.
sg-To read only copperhead papers per-
son would be led to regard the abolition of
slavery as the drest calamity that can beial a
free nation. Slavery is neediul to them to en-
nance the blessings Of their own liberty.
Fifteen major and brgadier generals
fell in the recent Georgia battles while fight
ing against their country. There must have
been tagging on the part of the prvates to
require so many generals to take the front.
ggThere was severe snow storm on the
White Mountains on Tuesday of last week,
which made it very uncomfortable for the few
remaining visitors. The thermometer at sun
rise on Wednesday stood at 20 degrees
sB- In our advertising columns will be
found advertisement of I'd hand Church or
gan for sale, at Bath. 1t is the instrument for
merly used in the Unitarian Church in that
city, and is said to be good instrument.
.Y-At regimental election in Bangor, on
the 22d inst, David Bugbee of Bangor, was
elected Colonel, H. NJ. Hall of Ellsworth,
Lieut.. Colonel. and Libbeus Oak of Garland.
Major.
IF Henry Ward Beecher says: "Life
would be a perpetual flea hunt, if a man were
obliged to run down all the inuendoes, inve-
raeties, the insnuations, and the suspicious,
which are uttered against him."
lV- Protestant doctrines are now publicly
preached in Naples, with freedom which,
few years ago would have subjected the min
listers and their congregations to severe penal
ties.
sgThe Saco Democrat says there was but
little business done at the term Of the S. j.
NNN'N ~ N'ep, Ju1e eioscu; anu thetI wv HC"
entries were less than at any time for many
years past.
rrWe have received the resolutions of the
Maine Goth, in relation to the recent election:
perfect clap Of thunder against copperhead-
ism. Had the Maine soldiers been allowed to
vote Conys majority would not have been
less than 10000.
rv- The custom OF smoking by women
has lately been introduced in England, and
the Court Journal says it is likely TO become
very prevalent. The result will be that those
men who are not completely enslaved by the
filthy weed will abandon its use.
sV- Bailey & Noyes have received new
work published by Titcknor & Field, entitled
Freedom and War;" Discourses on Topics
suggested by the times, by Henry Ward
Beecher. Also Gala Days, by Gail Hamilton.
Notices hereafter.
Ey- A student of Hazard College, named
Chamberlain, attempted to commit suicide
on Monday last, by jumping from the third
story of one of the buildings on the College
grounds. He was badly injured, several bones
having been broken.
NES Raw Mr. Kean in AroostooL Conn