The Portland daily press., 1863-09-28
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gt An adjourned meeting of the Execu-
tive Council will be held at Augusta to-day.
B-It is reported that Gen. Seigel is to take
command of corps under Gen. Rosecrans.
sye Secretary Seward is on visit to his
son, Col. w. Ii. Seward, jr., who is dangerous
ly i'll.
sB- The grandfather of Gen. Haleck died
at Western New York, on Tuesday evening
last, at the age Of l03 years.
sHr The enlistment of slaves in Maryland
is working out for that state entire emancipa-
ton.
sg~ DR.. jenkins is to succeed Fred Sam.
Olmstead, as General Secretary of the SANTA
ry Commission.
sE-Rev. C. p. Weston was ordained pastor
OF the Baptist church In Lincoln, on the 18th
inst.
% The American Illustrated newspapers
and periodical depot of A. Robinson, No. 81
Exchange street.
sr Rebel papers put their loss in the Sat
urday and Sunday fight in Northern Georgia
at 5000 or 1000 They suffered the loss of an
unusually large number of officers.
sE Rev. VIM. d. Scandlin, who was taken
prisoner at Gettysburg while attending to his
philanthropic duties, has arrived at Washing
ton safe and well from Richmond.
y-Mane has 80 benehciaries in the deaf
and dumb Asylum at Hartford, who were WISH
ted by the Governor and Council ON Wednes-
day.
TThe Dye-house of the Middlesex Cor
poration at Lowell, took fire on Friday after
noon, and was nearly destroyed. Loss from
$4,000 to $4,000
gyJudge Holt favors the policy of paying
the owners of slaves in Maryland certain
amount on their entering the army so that
when the war is over they may be free.
syr Attention is invited to the notice of a
meeting of the subscribers to the capital stock
Of the Union Pacific Railroad company, in an
other column. a
ia special effort is making among the
freedmen at Port Royal to raise money for the
erection of a monument to the memory of the
late Col. Shaw of the Fifty-fourth Massachu-
sets regiment.
av-Capt. Thomas Simms bennett of Dor.
chester, Assistant Quatcrmaster in the Depart
ment of the Gulf, died at New Orleans on the
18th inst. He was a native of Portsmouth,
n H.
avThe Bath Times learns that the dwell
ling house of Col. John Glidden in Newcastle,
was entirely destroyed by fire on Wednesday
last, together with an adjoining building occu-
pied by Mrs. Gazette.
III John b. Cough gave his new lecture
on Tuesday evening, at Boylston, Mass, the
proceeds of which was devoted TO the Sabbath
School in that town. Subject peculiar Peo-
pie"
lB-There Is rumor that the Departments
OF the Mississippi and the Gulf are to be uni
ted and placed under the command Of Gen.
| Grant, and that Gen. Banks will be assigned
TO another Department
Jeremiah Illsley has been appointed
Superintendent OF the work ON Fort MeClary
vice Thomas Woodfall. The Portsmouth
Chronicle intimates that this change will lie
very satisfactory TO loyal men.
~ Messrs. Bailey and Noyes have receiv-
ed an interesting work published by Sheldon
& Co, New York, entitled PETER CARApINE
or the Martindale Pastoral, by Caroline Cheese
bro. Notice hereafter.
~ The girl lectures, from the mountains
Of Wales, Miss Evans, gave a lecture recently
At Cooper Institute, New York, on the subject
Of Temperance. Her address is spoken Of BY
the press in the highest terms Of commsnda-
zion. IL was received with hearty applause.
The process Of wedding out Of the ar
my of the Potomac officers that are not only
incompetent, but are seeking only their own
advantage, is going on gloriously. Fourteen,
of all grades, were dismissed during the week
ending Thursday. .. 49,.
-E-Gen. Thomas who fought with such de-
termined bravery at Crawford Springs, was a
Major in the United Service under General
Lee. He had under his command in the late
engagement some of the best general, in the
army, viz: Rousseau, Reynolds, Brannan and
Negley. -.t
.g-The Amesbury, Mass, villager, COM
plains that a "portion Of the public continue
to insist that the post Office is place for the
'fellers and gals to congregate in and laugh
and chat and smoke and spit tobacco juice
These certainly are bad practices for the
gals"
sH- The Argus charges the Press with in
dulging in misrepresentation, falsehoods,
personal abuse, low slangs, &C." As these
grave accusations come from one who never
perpetrated a fasehood, aud whose hands are
clean of calumnious assaults upon his neigh
bors, they are deserving of the most profound
! consideration. I,t fl1ET
.Y- The Ellsworth American says the
store of Curtis Stevens of Gouldsboro', and
contents, including quite a large stock of
1 goods, the mail matter in the Post Office, and
the papers belonging to the Custom House,
were entirely destroyed by fire on Monday
morning last Supposed to be the work of an
incendiary.
/ E- The Democratic convention in Penn
sylvania expressed its gratitude to New York
for its timely aid in expelling the invaders from
the soil of their State, but has not a warm or
generous word for the general Government
which called for those troops, through whose
agency they were secured, and from whose