The Portland daily press., 1863-10-01
IGINAL AND LECTED.

~on the hrSt page-Detter ron late
Battlefield Smelling and how the missiles are
lodged; An Answer on the SPOT, &c.
-g-On the fourth page--A Soldiers Death
Miscellany.
NB-By advertisement it will be seen that
! the Harvest Moon discontinues her trips to
the kennebec tomorrow.
.B- The Charlotte IN. c. Bulletin calls
on the people of North Carolina to send help
to the starving population of Charleston.
gH- Prot. King will make an excursion in
his monster balloon, in Bangor, on the 14th
inst.
1g-Assistant Paymaster Edwin Putnam of
Bath. and Jesse B. Woodbury., who have been
connected with the Charleston feet have been
ordered North.
GB-The Bath Times says Capt. John E.
Brown has been recognized by the President
as Vice Consul of Denmark for Maine, to re-
side in that city.
GY- We learn from unquestioned authority
that there is no truth in the report that Maj.
Gen. Howard is about to resign his position in
the army.
ga stranger walked off the wharf in
Bangor, instead of into Norombega Hall, on
Monday evening He was rescued with diff
Guilty wetter and wiser man.
g- The celebration of the 2lst anniversa-
ry of the Order of the Sons of Temperance at
Waterville, on Tuesday, was very pleasant
affair, as we learn from the Bangor Wing.
y-The Boston Post speaks of the seces-
sion letter of Frank Pierce to Jefferson Davis
as "a private, personal and hasty letter to an
old friend and official associate"
l- Mr.. James B. Leslie of Patten, as we
learn from the Wing, was arrested last week
and lodged in Bangor Jail, charged with in
ducing drafted men to desert. If the reports
in circulation in regard to him are true, he is
WELL a copperhead
sY@Mr.P b. Fisk of Waitsfield, VT, grad
uate of Bangor Theological Seminary, is TO be
ordained and installed over the West Church
in Dracut, on Thursday, Oct. 1st, Sermon by
Rev. j. E. Rankin, of the Appleton St.
Church in Lowell
% Peter Rozelle, Of Oswego, n. Y, died
on the 18th inst, in the 11lth year of his age,
being undoubtedly the oldest man ia the coun-
try. He has had in all twenty-five children
He read his bible daily, and patiently awaited
the coming of the angel of death.
GA gross libel was uttered against the
fsNatfbar, oh
in the Press, by putting him in the place of
the "so-caled Northern democrat" The pen
was not the lbeler, but the types. The item
appears in its proper form this morning
ga son of Senator Harris of New York.
who accompanied Burnside to East Tennes-
see, writes, The old flag has been hidden in
mattresses and under carpets 1t now floats
to the breeze at every stall. Ladies wear it.
carry it-wave it. Little children clap their
hands and kiss it,
-rhe facts concerning the reinforcement
of Rosecrans, communicated by friend, are
obviously improper for publication. 1t is the
hasty publication OF just such movements,
thus giving early information to the rebels
where our lines had been weakened. that has
hlready done much damage to our cause.
-c By reference to our Municipal Court
proceedings it will be seen that another Illegal
voter in the town of Yarmouth has been
hauled up. He pleaded guilty to the com
plant. Itappears that he voted both in West
brook and Yarmouth for the copperhead tick
Mt This Il Il "a L.,
at the recent election. We understand there
are other cases yet, to go to the grand jury.
sy-Island Falls Plantation, Aroostook, is
probably the banner town of the State. 1t
contains but about 200 populations large
number of them young men who have taken
up claims and keep bachelors hall-yet it has
thirty soldiers in the army, and threw for Cony
40 votes, for Bradbury 90. 1t was perhaps
cruel in the Island Falls people to skunk Bion,
but their Unionism has taken such deep root
that they couldn't help it.
SE- On Monday afternoon two brothers,
named Alfred and Albert Leach, with Nicho-
las Weeks and another man, started from Kit
terry Foreside for Spruce Greek in a wherry.-
On the way dispute arose which ended in
fight, in which the boat was capszed, and the
two brothers and Weeks were drowned. They
belonged at Kittery Point, and were employed
on the Navy Yard. The Messrs. Leach were
twins, aged nineteen years. Mr.. Weeks was
an only son, twenty years of age.
sz- Several papers, taking their cue from
irresponsible kilograms, were disposed to
charge Gen. Burnside with gross negligence
in falling TO reinforce Rosecrans. 1t now APP
pears evident that Burnside knew nothing of
the engagement until the principal fight
was Overland If he had wished to reinforce Rose
Grams his circumstances would not have per-
which he was watching the movements OF
an army ready to occupy Knoxville if lie
should leave it.
SH- A correspondent of the Argus resents
with savage ierocity the late suggestion of the
Press, that President Lord of Dartmouth had
"oulived his usefuness"-t) the colege-and
"become dead weight upon the institution"
but before he gets through his own testiI. ony
shows that 'some local association of minister's
took the same view OF the case, and the Trus-
tees the college endorsed their Opinions"
We think we may leave the matter here, for
with the Trustees on our side it would be
waste of words TO argue the question.