The Portland daily press., 1863-10-10
ORIGINAL AND Sc E CTED.

School, by Clara Augusta.
% 1t is rumOred that Kansas is to be a
separate departments Of the army and that Gen.
John Mcneil is to be the commander.
nBr The sales of the Manchester, N. H.,
Delaine Mills and Print Works during the last
year exceed that of any previous year.
VDr. Geo. Hayward, an old and dstin-
guished physician in Boston, died at his resi-
dence of apoplexy on Wednesday forenoon.
ngeThe receipts at the Custom House in
New York during the last month amount to
100000.
nr The services of Rev. Mr.. Robbie have
been engaged as pastor of the Congregational
Society in Oxford.
sY- Rev. Mr.. Dodge has been forced, on
account of i'll health, to resign the pastorate
of the Congregational church at Gardiner, as
we learn from the Journal.
gy- An intelligent Tennesseean says the
way to settle all question in his State, between
them and the rebels, is to enlist every able-bod-
iedslave in Tennessee.
sB The fellow who has deserted from five
wives and four regiments, thinks that, instead
Of being tried as deserter, he should be for
given for those first few offences.
gT Over a thousand dollars have already
been contributed towards erecting monu-
ment to the memory of Col. Shaw, entirely
by colored people.
sFA dry goods clerk of medical turn OF
mind, wants 10 know If yound layes with
mania for shopping" and no particular predi-
lection for buying, may not properly be called
counter-erritants.
sErFrom present appearances we are to
have vigorous campaign in the Southwest.
1t is rumored that Gen. Banks is in the field,
if SO we may confidently rely upon the sue
cess of the Army of the Gulf.
svThe n. Y. Tribune says fleet of fast
wooden steamers is to be constructed at once.
Three are TO be built at the Kittery Navy
yard, of 1000 tons each, and to be as fast as
Yankee ingenuity can make them.
LEA military police has been established
in Augusta, and rumsellers have been notified
that they must not sell liquors to any soldiers,
or the penalties of the law will be visited upon
them without fail.
aVThe Portsmouth, n. H. Chronicle says
Mr.. Charles A. Hammond committed suicide,
at his boarding house in:that city, on Thurs
day last. He was about thirty years old,
caulker by trade and is supposed to have be-
longed in Fairhaven, Mass.
nEMr. Cough is to deliver five consecu-
tive lectures on the subject of Temperance in
Springfield, Mass, the object of which is,
says the Republican, to awaken the people to
more earnest efforts to prevent and suppress
intemperance in Springfield and vicinity.
p 1t is said there have already been fifty
applicants for the residence of the Haytien
Minister, in Washington, which he is about to
vacate. Offers as high as $1,000 a year have
been made. How much would an IN. c."
make out of the operation?
g Rev. Dr. Smith, the new President of
Dartmouth College, does not walk in the
footsteps Of his "illustrious" predecessor. He
holds slavery to have been the cause OF the
l.
emancipation proclamation.
~ Letters of President Lincoln on ques-
tons of National Policy, comprising one to
Gen. Mcclellan, to Horace Greedy, to Fernan-
do Wood, to the Albany Committee, to Gov.
Seymour and to the Springfield Meeting.
Published in Boston by B. B. Russell, and for
sale in this city by A. Robinson.
svMrs. Ann Kelley, the keeper of a rum
shop in Biddeford, was found dead on the floor
of her shop on Saturday last. Verdict Of the
Coroner's jury, "Death from excessive intem-
perance." The Biddeford Journal says she
claimed to have husband in the 9Th Maine
regiment
sE- We learn that T. b. Peterson & Bros.
have almost ready for publication novel by
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, entitled "Truc as Steel"
the story, incidents and characters being all
American. 1t will no doubt be received with
great pleasure by her many admirers, and
meet merited success.
20 The Oxford Democrat says Henry Z.
Prentiss, Esq, of Bangor, has presented the
school district No. 16 at North Paris, valua-
BILE library of about four hundred volumes,
standard works, together with catalogue and
a suitable case in which to keep them; and in
addition pays librarian for taking charge of
them.
gV-We learn that Lewis Barker, Es1, has
accepted an invitation of the Union State
Committee of New York, to address the
citizens at various places in that State on the
questions of the hour and the duty of voters
in relation thereto. Mr.. Barker is an attrac-
tive and forcible speaker and is always listen
ed to with interest.
sYWe learn from the Bath Times, that
the body Of a man was found near Hatch's
Rock, in Kennebec river, on Wednesday last,
supposed to be that of Geo. Wheeler, of
Windsor who was lost from gondalo short
time since. A Jury was summoned by Coro-
ner Potter Of Bath, whose verdict was IN ac-
cordance with the above statement.
sVThe following have been chosen Off
GERS of the Freshmen class of Waterville Col
lege: President, Henry X. Halves; Vice Pres
ident, c. Albert Cover; Secretary, Henry w.
Hale; Orator, E. b. Loring; Poet, Chas. r.
Coffin; Historian, J. Howard Milctt; Prophet,
George L. Starbird; Toast Master, L. Howard
Cobb; Odst, Chas. g. Kingman; Committee
of Arrangements, A. b. Lunt, j. II. Carroll