The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-09-04

stated yesterday.
| B-Ex-Gov. Luther Bradish, of New York,
died at the Ocean House, Newport, on Sum-
day last. He was native of Massachusetts,
| and was born in 1888.
sY-Charles NJ. Walker, of Indiana, has
been appointed Fifth Auditor of the treasury,
| vice John C. Underwood, appointed United
States district judge of West Virginia.
aE- The Franklin county Agricultural So
ciety will hold their Show and Fair at Farm
ington, on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept
Both and Oct. LIST.
sEr 1t is said that Mr.. SWEET, the copper
head standard bearer in York county, said in
his late speech at Oxford, "The ministers and
the ladies are doing us the most barm.'
sB Hon. Sidney Perham will speak at Ma
quasset Church on Monday evening next,
and at Bowdoin Town House on Tuesday at
l o'clock, and at Bowdoinham in the evening
.B- Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
Navy, is on tour east He was in Boston
on Wednesday, from whence he was intending
to go to Portsmouth.
T We learn that the Westbrook Seminary
has commenced its fall term under very favor
able auspices. About 100 pupils are already
there and more are coming.
Ca large barn on Green street, in Au-
gusta, occupied by V. ID. Pinkham, ESQ.,, with
its entire contents, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday night last. Loss 81 800. No insur-
ance.
sv two-story wooden building on Front
St, in Bath, occupied by Zenas Hatch ESQ.,,
and Mr.. John M. Clark, Carpenters. was de-
stroyed by fire on Wednesday morning last, as
we learn from the Times.
u The following Maine soldiers have
died in Gettysburg since the Path ult. w. T..
Barstow, Damariscotta, Co. E, 4th regt.; J..
Merriam, Morrell, Co. d, 10Th regt.; F. S.
Gait, Richmond, Co. c, 10th regt.
.y Republicans and all other uncondition-
al Union men of Westbrook will bear in mind
that the caucus to select candidate for Rep
resentative to the Legislature, will be at the
Town House this friday afternoon at o.
| clock.
evThe number Of American vessels lost
during the month Of August is twenty-one.
| OF these five were ships, three were banks
one was brig. eleven were schooners and
| two steamers. Two of these were captured
and burned, one captured and one burned
| g-Gen. Whidden of Calais, long known as
prominent demoerat-elected by that party 10
the State Senate a few years ago-is now speak
ing in Washington county against the disloyal
democracy of to-day, in favor Of the Union
candidate, Judge Cony.
su- We learn from a gentleman who has
been connected with the U. S. Christian Com
mission, that the Mrs. Moore who has been ar
rested on suspicion OF being a spy, had no
connection with that Commission, but was
| probably sent out by private individuals in
| Philadelphia whose confidence had been mis-
| placed.
| sEr There is no doubt of the death of John
| u. Floyd, which occurred at Arlington, Va,
| on Thursday last. He has always been a poll
| tican, and was once Governor OF Virginia, but
will be remembered as the man who stole the
| United States guns for the rebellion. In the
army he proved a coward in the estimation of
his associates. So the guilty couspirators
against the nation perish, one after another,
| Floyd, Yancey, Pemberton and Holmes having
all died quite recently.
~ The Chicago Tribune has an article on
Thos. Darcy McGee's great Canadian scare,
| that an invading army of Yankees, 100, 600
strong, was to fall upon that province by way
| pF MoDtrnaI nd Of, ~, n
conclusion that its author, the said Darcy, is
stupid ass. He is mere renegade Irishman,
who stands ready to stand sentinel over John
Bull to keep Yankee flies from troubling him.
ia man from Knox County evidently
| got into the wrong pew" when he went in
to the Loyal League rooms and inquired for
some of the leading Copperheads oil the city,
at tine same time stating that they tthe Demo-
Gratis wanted to get somebody to go down into
that county and lecture, and that if they did
not have more money and lecturers, he was
afraid the county would go for Coney. Trot
| out the big guns-where is DIR. Rouse?
Union meetings in that Congressional District
| during this week and next, says the Bangor
Wing, no less than TEN are gentlemen who
have voted and acted with the democratic
party within two ycars-not one of them vo-
ted with the Republican party last year. The
Union party will gain two voters from the
Jameson wing of last year, where the "peace"
| democrats gain one.
sB- The Advertiser says, Gov. Washburn,
in speech at Dixfeld, made the following
declaration:
Slavery must be put down if every New
! England wife has to be made widow, and
every child has to be made fatherless.''
We are authorized by gentleman who was
present and heard all that Mr.. Washburn did
say, that the statement of the Advertiser
is simply and entirely false. He might have
said that the patriotism of the state was ready
to give its last man and last dollar rather than
| this wicked rebellion should triumph" but the
term slavery" was not used by him in any
| such connection.
~ The opening of the horse railroad in
Worcester was inaugurated with imposing
ceremonies on Monday last. The directors,
stockholders, members of the city government
and invited guests, accompanied by the Cornet
Band, took passage in the cars and rode to
| New Worcester. On their arrival, 20 guns
i