The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-10-19
OR IGINAL AND SELECT. Nd

eg- On the fourth page Angel Annie;
Miscellany.
sB- There is to be a grand Union Conven-
ton at Utica, N. Y, on Tuesday.
s1-Four brothers named Fish have been
drafted in New York. A draft of fishes.
sV- Rev. Geo. Field has accepted the call
extended to him by the Central Congregation
al Society in Bangor to become its pastor.
sH Mr. Moore, of South Paris, died last
week at the residence of his son-in-law, James
Deering Esq, at the age of 95 years.
u The mare Flora Temple, belonging to
Mr.. Ames of Rockland, died at the American
House stable in Belfast, Friday night of last
week. She was valued at $500.
CO The October term If the S. j. Court
for Franklin County, will commence its ses-
sion at Pennington on Tuesday next Hon.
G. W. Walton, it is understood, will preside.
sB- Mr.. Elbridge Fobes, of Paris, says the
Democrat, fractured both bones Of his arm re-
Gently, in stopping the machine that carries
circular saw.
sT- The Piscataquis Observer says the
Cattle Show and Fair, in that county, this
season, was most splendid failure in every
thing except the cro,,d.
sI-AN New York member of the Produce
Exchange has been awarded $3.50 dollars dam
ages, for being slapped in the face by another
member.
To- Rev. c. NJ. Herring, Pastor of the Bap-
fist church in Dover, left, last week, for the
army, as an agent for the Christian Commits
sion.
~ We are pleased to learn that Br. Edes
has been remembered by some generous soul
who has kindly dropped sum Of money into
his porringer. May it be but drop before
more plentiful shower.
eB-Our agent, Mr.. F. Tracy, will visit SUBJ
scribers in Oxford county this week for the
purpose of making collections and receiving
subscribers. We trust our friends will be
ready to receive him.
syThe Bath Times says the fair of the
Sagadahoc County Agricultural Society was a
success-the attendance excellent and every
thing passed off to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned.
sT-Commander Greenlief Cilley of this
State, son of the late Hon. Jonathan Cilley,
has recently been placed in command Of the
Iron-clad monitor Catskill one of the squad
ron off Morris Island.
sgReynolds, who was recently hung in
Nashville, Tenn. for murder, uttered the fol-
lowing awful warning, for all men to heed:
Liquor has been the cause af all my trouble,
and has brought me to this dreadful end.
LIZ Twenty-three sheep have been killed,
In three Aocks, in Oxford, by dogs, within
short time. Why don't the owners kill the
dogs, as the only means of rendering secure
the balance Of their focks.
sB- A man from Chatham, n. a., whose
name is not given, was thrown from his gig at
Fryeburg, on Tuesday last, with such force as
TO break his neck, as we learn from the Oxford
Democrat.
LEA man In Machias who was released
from jai, on payment, by his sister, Of fine
for drunkenness, went home, took his fathers
horse and wagon and sold them: he then re-
turned to the Jail, and paid the fine Of wo-
man confined there for drunkenness and lewd-
ness, and the pair started for parts unknown.
LEA correspondent says "Ohio should
have q national monument erected to her
honor, whose summit will reach into the
clouds. She has covered herself all over with
glory and has achieved the greatest victory
ar xro nv f,a ,hor of A
citizens. Even traitors and rebels cannot fail
to honor her moral courage, and true devotion
to the country. Valandigham is dead and
buried SO deep that trust in heaven, and in
the moral honesty of the people, that he will
never have political resurrection"
sY-The States of Illinois aud Missouri af-
ford unmlstakable evidence of the superiority
of free, over slave labor. So clearly has it
been demonstrated that free labor is more
profitable, as well as more In Concordance with
the genius of our institutions, that the MAORI
ty of the people of the State of Missouri and
vastly the weight of intellectual and moral
power, is in favor Of now and forever freeing
the state from the only thing that stands in
the way of its rapid increase In wealth and
population, slavery. There will be no perma-
nent peace in Missouri so long as the slave
whip is held over the head of single human
being.
B@The entire vote Of the City of Phila.
delphia in the election on Tuesday was 81 ,467,
Curtin's majority 1851, five hundred and
eighty-one more than the committees canvass
as announced previous to the election. The
Union men have gained majority of one in
In the Select Council and, Of six in the Com
mon Council. The North American says:
"With this majority we recover possession of
the city municipal departments of water, gas,
trusts, property, highways, &C.. and SO passes
out Of the hands of the Copperheads great
instrumentality Of mischief, which they have
used so unscrupulously to build up in the
State party opposed to the Government and
the war, and in favor of rebellion"