The Portland daily press., 1863-09-21
OR IGI N AL AND ECT f ID.

| rpm ooutH IaIpllldi "A VOICE from Ine
Army
sg5@ On the fourth page-Poetry, "The
Flag of the Union;' Miscellany
sB- There will be no exhibition by the
State Agricultural Society this year.
sg- The Cumberland County Agricultural
Society will hold its show aud Fair in this city,
on the l4th of October.
rB- The Indians of Dacotal Territory are
committing frequent outrages on the persons
and property of the settlers.
sy- The Ellsworth American says the po-
tato rot will destroy more than half the crop
in that section of the State.
Sg- 1t matters not what mans income
may be, without economy he will be constant
ly perplexed for want of ready money.
aB- The Oxford Democrat says Mr. Otis
b. Rawson walked all the way from Kent's
Hill to Paris to vote the Union ticket
sr detachment of 26 men recruited for
the LIST Maine Heavy Artillery have gone to
Fort Knox.
SB- The mill boarding house of Messrs.
IL. NJ. and B. Hall of Ellsworth, was DESTROYED
by fire last week.
"A conscript in Lewiston, Me-, claimed
to have piazza on the heart" The Doctor
passed him, and his next disease will be "bu-
reau on the back"
Y- Frank B. Perry of Rockland, died at
Newburyport, on Thursday last, from Injuries
received by falling from the mast of the
schooer Fanny Heating.
lp The Oxford Democrat says another
powder mill in Buckfeld belonging to Mr.
Marble, it being the eighth within about
year, was blown up few days since.
IB- The first National Bank Of Bangor has
been organized with capital of Sl25,000.
Geo. Stetson was chosen President and John
Wyman, Cashier.
sB- 1t is a noticeable fact, says the Toledo
Blade, that no army officer from Ohio has
been known to support Vallandigham, who
did not leave the service in disgrace
sg- Capt o. H. Lowell of the 10Th Maine,
was wounded at Gettysburg and fell into the
hands of the enemy, and has in all probability
since died. He was graduate of Tufts col
lege and a promising young man.
yMr Sylvester of Newburyport, gra-
uate of Bowdoin College in the class of 1861,
has accepted an invitation to become Pro-
fessor of Mathematics in Western University.
at Pitsburg, Penn.
.rMr. Nahum II. Hall, of Rockland. died
in that city last week, of hydrophobia, result
ing from the bite of a cat while in Pensacola,
La, he then being a member of Co, G. 25th
Maine
@rThe Detroit Free Press says that Gen.
Cass is seriously indisposed. His case is
considered very critical. and it is hardly
possible for him to survive many days unless
he obtains speedy relief.
sB-The st Louis Republican learns that a
large amount of cotton, estimated at three
thousand bales, has been destroyed by fire at
the mouth of White river. The cotton had
been brough, in forshipment North The loss
is estimated at oxer half million dollars
sYThe Bath Times says shipbuider in
one of the towns on the Kennebec, discharged
several hands because they voted the Union
ticket. Such man must have copper enough
in his composition TO sheathe one ship of
large proportions
sg-The Lewiston Journal gives an instance
of honorable dealing in that city of so marked
and unusual a character as to be worthy OF
notice. 1t was the prompt payment of note
bV citizen nf .pwistpn that had haan Lost
several years aud was outlawed.
10 A leading and lifelong democrat of
Westbrook-one of the simon pure hardshells
says he shall no longer hail from that town
since +. o. J. Smith has again been made its
representative. When abroad he will ignore
Westbrook, as disgraced locality, and regis
ter himself simply from Maine.
.g-It is reported that Secretary Chase will
speak in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleavland and
Toledo during the present political canvass
in Ohio. Thomas Francis Meagher is to
speak against Valandigham at Cincinnati Day
ton aud other points, where there is a large
Irish vote
GE- The Copperhead speakers at the AL
the abolitionists and the Government, but
when they came to the rebels they were dealt
with as tenderly as mother would handle a
sick baby. They couldn't abuse the rebels
they hadn't the heart for such work-t was
too near home.
~" The portland Price Current has
reached the close of its second year, and has
become one of the institutions of our city. I'M
der the management of its industrious and able
editor, Mr.. NJ. n. Rich, it is made OF inestima-
BILE value to the merchant and manufacturer
Its Typography can't be beat. We predict for
the neat little sheet brilliant future.
.g- Our spacious counting room is already
adorned with several valuable and convenient
maps, but we are enabled, by the courtesy of
Mr.. j. CHACE, Jr., the publisher, to add two
more valuable county maps -Androscoggin
and Kennebec-so that we can make quite an
extensive tour about the State without leaving
the precincts of our own office.
IY- Mr.. Sweat has not been heard from
since the late election, though thousands of
his constituents are anxious to know whether
he will regard the late verdictas request from
the people to resign his seat in the next con-
gress We shall take great deal of pleasure
in laying his letter Of resignation before our
readers.