The Portland daily press., 1863-11-12
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

1-On the fourth page-poem, To Rebels,
Traitors and Old Fogies.
sr The returns of the New York cleo
ton, indicate Union majority of $4,000.
SB- The 18th Maine Regiment were doing
provost duty at New Orleans, on the Goth ult
III The Union majority in Wisconsin will
reach 1900.
SB- There is strike among the workmen
in the Navy Yard at Charleston.
LEA smart girl in Pennington recently
pared % bushels of apples in single day
on machine.
CO James Dngley Esq. of Lewiston is
purchasing Cavalry horses for the new regi-
ment.
sB-The companies of Captains Nye and
knowlton of Lewiston, of the Goth veteran
regiment are now full.
sB-Parsons' Cough Candy is a genuine and
reliable remedy. See special notice column.
DIM.
~ "A dispatch to the New York Herald
states that the Maine Cavalry is coming home
to recruit.
ny- The Richmond Sentinel says, -four in
that city is now selling from 800 to 500 a
barrel, and corn meal Sl4 or $15 bushel
sg- Bangor Times says 260 dogs have been
licensed in that city. Quite as many as the
public good requires.
~ The dwelling house of the late Wash
ington Perkins, of Cape Neddick. was con-
sumed by fire on the goth inst.
sEr There is strike among the machin-
lists Of New York, for higher wages They
demand an increase of % per cent
sg-The Washington Republican says that
most of the wounded at Rappahannock Sta
ton will soon be able to return to duty.
Sv-Capt. S. L. Allen has been appointed a
recruiting officer in Bath. An excellent ap-
pointment.
sB-A Memphis dispatch of the 10Th ult
reports that I'd Lieut.. Orr was killed while re-
lieving pickets the night previous, three miles
from the city.
NJ The fleet in Gen. Banks expedition
to Texas, comprises 20 vessels, accompanied
by gunboats Owasca, Virginia and Mononga-
hela.
20 Augusta has voted $500 additional to
the government bounty, which makes 500 for
veteran volunteer, and $500 for new re-
cruits.
aB~ Col. John ID. Rust, Of the Sth Maine
Regiment, has been restored to his command,
after a review at the war Office of the charges
against him.
Bishop Hopkins of Vermont defends
slavery on Bible grounds. Cannot Brigham
Young defend polygamy in the same way-by
examples from the Levitical dispensation
H-J. T. Southland, Richmond, has laid the
keel for ship of 1000 tons. There is also on
the stocks at that place, a ship, a schooner.
and tug boat.
sT- We learn that Mr.. j. p Randall. of
this city, acting ensign Of the steamer Taho-
ma, was wounded in the late engagement with
two blockade runners at Tampa Bay.
svThe Portsmouth Chronicle learns that
lady in neighboring town has recently
given birth to two girls and three boys, and
that two each of both sexes are alive.
sVA large ice-house has been erected in
Richmond, to hold 10000 tons of ice, by Mr..
Tiffany OF New York. From present indica-
tons the ice crop of the Kennebec, will be as
profitable as any in its valley.
ga soldier by the name of James Cole,
at fla MN Of fbo Inval;1 Co->s A,-.,sx.
was dishonorably discharged from service for
stealing clothing and on Wednesday OF last
week, was drummed ont of camp.
sg-An old-iashioncd Temperance Society,
as we learn from the Machias Union, has been
organized in Cutler for the purpose of educa-
ting the people to escnew strong drink alto
gether.
1-Eyery loyal man will rejoice that Gen.
Butler has again been put in active command.
He is one OF the live Generals and thoroughly
understands the aai,aus Of the present re-
beIlion and how to deal with it.
~ The Bangor Times says DIR. A. b.
Crabtree, captured in Washington County an
eagle whose wings, when spread, extend six
feet four inches from tip to tip! He is to for
ward the bird to President Lincoln.
~ 1t is reported that the 9th Maine lost
in the recent engagement at Rappahannock
Station, II ofits % officers, killed or wounded,
and a large number Of non-commissioned Off
GERS and priyates.
% 1t is a TACT that wood sawyers in this
city are actually earning from $3.50 to 1915
day. We know one who will earn the latter
sum, and don't think he has to work very
hard either.
sVActing Ensign f. S. ShurtlefI, son of
Col J. B. Shurtlefi, of Winslow, has been adj
vanced to the post of Executive Officer of the
U. S. steamer Commodore Reed, flag ship of
the Potomac flotilla.
sT~The Price Current states that a great
business is doing at st. John, Y. b. Over
100000 tons of shipping have been built this
season. Forty large ships have loaded with
deal for Europe within a month past.
mH-Governor Bramlette has issued a proc
lamation secondng the Presidents call for
troops His appeal to Kentuckians TO come
forward and fill up the ranks of their thin
regiments in the field is at once earnest and
eloquent.
IL The schooner Martha Jane, blockade
.rtnner hound in Havana with a earoo of Son