The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-09-24
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AS w { tTU lTOul 4NONl ctOtia ehae INV ~
tato rot is making rapid progress there. In
some cases half the potatoes are diseased.
lE~The magnificent steamship, Niagara of
5000 tons burthen is now ready for sea at Bos-
| ton.
ggs Gold opened in New York on Tuesday
at 140 Is and closed at 1877 1-2 Little Rosa
wasn't annihilated.
sg-Prompt and extreme punishment has
been inflicted on deserters in the army of the
| Potomac, as the only means of preventing
large number of substitutes from escaping.
| sB-It is now generally conceded that Hon.
Schuyler Colfax from Indiana, has the inside
track for the speakershp OF the next Con-
| gress.
g-According to Port Royal correspon-
dent, the thunder of the bombardment of
Charleston was distinctly heard at Beaufort,
distance of fifty miles.
ly-Samuel V. b. Bennett is on trial at
Nashua, N. H., charged with the murder of
Mary Ann Gebney of Manchester, by giving
her strychnine.
Gg- 1t is reported that the rebels, while
they did not dare hang Captains Sawyer and
Flynn, are treating them with such brutality
as to destroy their lives by inches.
p Gov Andrew has received ample as
surance from the President that the govern
ment does not intend to retract one jot from
its position relative to the exchange Of colored
soldiers.
Gr We are pleased to learn that the fish
ing business this season will be better than for
some years. In most cases the catch has been
more than an average, and the price of all
kinds of fish is higher than for several years.
Sy- Ohio, that claims to have been the
birthplace of some OF our most successful
generals, viz: Grant, Sherman, Rosecrens, Nc
Pherson and Gilmore, ought to roll up aheart-
cheering Union vote, on the 18th of October
next and She'll do it.
1Y- The Buffalo Courier, copperhead, ex-
ults over the fact that the soldiers from India
ma are not to be allowed to vote. The Cou-
rier understands perfectly that the fewer the
soldiers who vote, the better its party's chan
ces for success.
LEA democratic paper makes the frank
confession that the splendid victories of Gems.
Grant, Gilmore and Rosecrans have done the
Republicans good turn in the Maine elections
which have gone for their party, with large
gains over the vote of last year.
SE- GEN. A. J. HAMILTON, well known to
rifizans a str D., L.
and as speaker of great simplicity. vigor and
earnestness, has been appointed Military Gov
ernor of Texas. He will be found to be the
right man in the right place
g Mr. Washington French, of Albany in
this State, having been annoyed during the
summer by bears, which had killed number
of his sheep, few days since set a trap, and
succeeded in catching "varmint" which
weighed about 300 pounds.
sB- The so-caled democratic party of
Maine went into the contest on the straight
out opposition to the government platform,
and they have been most inglorously defeat
ed. Will honest, loyal men be longer deceiv-
ed by such party?
sg The New York Tribune very Justly
says, "the suspension Of the habeas corpus
will harm no one who obeys the laws and 10y
ally upholds the National authority. The 9TH
er sort must assume virtue, if they have
it not and play the part of good citizens till
the rebellion is put down. That's ALL"
sE-There can now be but little doubt that
the U. S. brig Bainbridge founded at sea as re-
ported by the colored man found in the boat.
The Morris Island correspondent of the New
York Herald, who reported the arrival of the
cambridge there, now writes that the John
Adams was mistaken for the cambridge.
ggWe have received from Bailey & Noyes
of this city, who have more left, a very neatly
printed copy of the speech of Hon. Charles
Sumner, on sour FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Every man who has desire to keep posted
in regard to our relations with other nations
at this time, should have copy.
gVThe Surgeon on the Board of Enroll
ment in the Fourth Connecticut District, has
been ordered before Court Martial for viola
ton of the 18th Section of the Act, in regard
to receiving brides and making false reports.
The Surgeon in the First District in Pennsyl-
vania is up for the same offence
ry- The New York World says-and the
Argus copies the SANDER, knowing it to be
such,-"Mr. Cony, the successful candidate, is
an old Democrat bribed to desert his party by
hope of Office" 1t would be infinitely more
just and truthful to say, "Bion Bradbury, the
defeated candidate, is an old democrat bribed
to desert his principles by hope of Office
GA Beaufort correspondent of the Bos-
ton Traveller says, that the negroes at that
point have great faith in the triumph of our
arms before Charleston, and, as a proof there
Of says some of them are even delaying to
take unto themselves new wives, in the hope
that their old ones may be captured with the
city.
syT Beauregard informed Dahlgren that
If the firing upon Sumter was continued. he
would expose the rebel prisoners upon the
ramparts of the Fort. Dahlgren replied that
he would then expose the rebel prisoners up
on the turrets of the Monitors. We have
heard no note of condemnation of Beauregard
from the copperhead press, but we are in dali
ly expectation of meeting with elaborate hon.
lilies upon Dahlgren's brutality.
gT Much of the talk about the interven-
ton of foreign powers originates among the