The Portland daily press., 1863-08-21
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


~ First Page,-Wes,ern Correspondence;
Stops and Marks, Nos 3, A and ).
% Fourth Page,-Poetry, by Rev. c. II.
Leonard; Miscellany.
There are two ships and large schoo-
ner now on the stocks in Brewer.
SB- On Thursday last Sl67 were stolen
from the safe of N. X. Chadwick, dry goods
dealer of Gardiner.
.g- Mason Village is yet ahead in the pro-
duction of large blueberries. One was pick
ed this week which measured two and one
eighth inches in circumference.
gH- The Morning Star says there is good
degree of interest among the F. w. Baptisis
in Corrinna. Thirty have already been added
to the church.
sB- The Union meeting in Bath on We'd
nesday, ddressed by Lewis Barker, Esq,
as we learn from the Times. was a decided
success.
sg- Danforth NJ. Maxcy, of Gardiner, of
Co. G, Sd Maine, died on Friday last of
wounds received at Gettysburg. lie was
faithful soldier and genial companion.
lg- The Bangor Wing denies the report
ed, and says they are all promptly redeemed at
the bank.
lg- The Cumberland Baptist Association
will hold its Anniversary with the Free street
Baptist Church in this city, commencing on
Tuesday the 18th instant.
rg- The Board of Trustees of the Maine
Baptist Missionary Society will hold their
Quarterly session in the vestry OF the Free
street Baptist Church in this city on Monday
evening next.
ay- A. G. Lebroke, Esq, of Foxcroft, will
address the citizens of Bowdoinham upon the
affairs OF the country, on Monday evening
next. Mr.. Lebroke ranks among our most
eloquent and interesting speakers.
20 The TT. Wayne Indiaua) Gazette says
that copperhead in that place declares that
he is opposed to the draft because every De-
mocrat who goes out to the army and lives to
return is sure to come back an abolitionist."
gg- The lateness of the haying season and
the abundance Of the crop, is driving up our
farmers to improve every moment OF fair
weather. The Pennington Chronicle says in
that county they have been obliged to sus-
pend haying operations to attend to the grain
harvest.
gD- We learn from the Gardiner Journal
that the brig H. G. Berry Of Boston was seiz-
ed in that city on Tuesday by Sheriff Potter
of Bath. and libcled for 5000, at the suit of
A md Pat, far
damages received to vessel of theirs from
collision with said brig.
% We do not positively assert that the
copperhead leaders are not doomed to sever
lasting misery" but we protest that in blief
article yesterday we did not intend to invade
the domain of theology by pursuing the polit-
ical mscreants to that extent. We simply
wrote, ''the leaders know they are doomed TO
everlasting iafamy." ~
sy- Rev. Ebenezer Knowton of Rock
land, has accepted an appointment from the
Free win Baptist Home Mission Society to
go to Newbern, n. c., under the direction of
the National Freedmen's Relief Association"
to labor for the general good Of the liberated
slaves. A better man for the work could not
have been selected.
% +. o. j. Smith has taken the stump for
the copperheads, aud is announced 10 speak
before several of their county conventions and
meetings. This is good news. Everything
he has touched of late has turned to ashes in
his hands. From the time he purchased the
Advertiser-which is SO far run out that no
t,ta l,ex..,,t
as gilt-his touch has been the sure precur-
sor of decay. He will do more to destroy
copperheadism than any man in Maine.
% The AID, ertiser does no more than jus
tice in saying that "Mr. II. w. Lincoln is
probably the most experienced reporter in the
State" but it carefully omts to state that Mr..
Lincoln is connected with the Press as a reg
ular reporter and local editor. The particular
report, however, to which the Advertiser re-
fers, was made by DR.. Benjamin Colby, well
and iavorably known in this city and State,
and who now is regularly engaged OH the edi-
torial staff of the Press.
lg- The Argus allows its correspondents
to assal Gen. Shepey with a malignity equall-
ed only by their own depravity and treason.
Gen. Shepley is above their reach, as far as the
bright moon is above the dirty ours that amuse
themselves by barking at it. The last sapient
writer of the Argns-a paper Of which Gen.
Shepley is unfortunately proprietor-takes
him to task for referring in the opening of his
late speech to "these fair ladies and loyal and
brave men of the Forest City," He should
have said "these brave ladies and fair men,"
sV- The Advertiser assails Winter Davis,
and denies his statement that "the Constitu-
ton of the United States knows no difference
tof race or COLOR except in provision made
for Indians" but while denying it prudently
refrains from questioning any clause of that
Instrument that would prove Mr. Davis error.
Then 1t asks, does the negro get into the ju-
ry box, occupy the bench, serve legal precepts
as an officer of any court, get chosen to any
Office" VIII the Advertiser say that the ne