The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-10-13
ORIGIN AL AND VEL e C FED,
sg-On the first page-Bey,ond the Settle

out in favor of the Union ticket in that State.
sV Fifteen thousand East Tennesseeans
have organized for their own defence since
Burnside entered Knoxville
GA fruit-grower in New York, has sold,
the past season, Strawberries to the amount of
s52oo, the product of 16 acres of ground.
@gp Hon. S. c. Fessenden of this State.
and Hon. James Buflenton of Mass, are prom
inent candidates for Clerk of the House of
Representatives.
sgThe beef factory of Messrs VIM. Tn
derwood & Co., Bluehl, when in full opera
ton will put up, in sealed cans, the meat of
fifteen fat oxen a day.
ny@ It's stated that one of the fifteen shells
dropped by Gen. Gilmore into Charleston.
shivered to pieces statue of John C. Calhoun,
erected in front of the Court House.
ga substitute deserter VINO was shot in the
Third Division Of the Potomac army recently,
confessed to having been one of the party
who hung Col. O'Brine during the riot in New
York.
kS6 "A runaway DOtsC Ills way INTO
the store of II. W. Field in Bath, on Saturday
last, breaking glass, iniuring show case and
doing other damage besides, irightning sever
al ladies, as we learn from the Times.
sBrrhe Lewiston Journal says that the
Androscoggin, and Bates Mills have on hand
large contract for tent duck, which will pro-
badly occupy the work of these mills for three
months.
Cyan OK has been raised In Illinois, now
five years old, that is twenty-one hands high
10 IL feet in length, and weighs $500 lbs., with
a prospect of weighing 6oOO lbs. when well
fattened. Ii is said to be the largest OK in the
world.
sTThe Baltimore correspondent Of the
New York Evening Post expresses great con-
fldence that Maryland will be carried for the
immediate emancipation ticket, two to one,
Notwithstanding the gradual emancipationists
mean to run ticket against it.
sD- Since gold has become mere myth,
talked of by spectators and quoted among
fancy stocks having no tangible existence, we
would suggest that pork he made the stand
ard of value, for this staple fiuctuates less and
Is more uniform in price than almost any arti-
Gle known to the provision dealer or house
keeper.
- We hear Of many hair-breadth escapes
from death where bullets are flying like hail
stones; in some cases the statements are
true and In Others fiction; but the following
Incident can be relied upon, as an officer, now
in this city, was an eyewitness. A captain at
the battle of Malvern Hill, having been hit by
ball, fell to the ground On examination it
was found the ball had passed through his BIZ
bic and striking his watch glanced off; thus
his life was saved by his Bible and his watch.
sB- Gen. Banks has issued an order in
which he says the inhabitable globe does not
offer nober theatre for intelligent enterprise
than the Valley Of the Mississippi. He con-
siders IL the highest duty of the people to
maintain and defend the freedom Of the Mis-,
sissippi, and orders draft in the First Con-
gressional District of Louisiana, and the or
ganization Of one or more volunteer regiments.
Able-bodied men of color between the ages of
20 and 80 are to be detailed for military SER
vice.
-" The American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions met at Rochester, n.
Y, on Tuesday last, Bishop Hopkins in the
chair. Twenty-three persons have entered
upon the missionary work for the first time,
during the year; and eleven have embarked
for posts which they had previously occupied.
The entire income for the year has been
S39I,0I0 II, against an expenditure for the
same period of S392, 16l o. The year began
with a DEBT of Sl1 ,103 62, aud closed with a
debt of s6,ls4 95.
sE- The Forest Vale House in Jackson
Falls, n. H., with its group of buildings and
nearly all their contents were destroyed by
fire on Wednesday last. The loss is about
$4,000 on which there was no insurance. This
house was kept by Mr.. Goodrich and was well
known to White Mountain travellers as the
half way house between the Crawford and
Glen House. The fire is supposed to have
been set by persons who were exhibiting a
mobocratic spirit on account of the draft A
battalion of men who have been frequently
unueT nfe, WcH armed. Win orders 10 quell
the mob, would find no trouble in doing it.
~ The Argus says, TO attack Mr.. Blair is
only an indirect way of attacking the Presi-
dent, and asks if such attacks are the way to
give Unconditional support to the govern
ment.' Mr.. Blair has taken aposition against
the men who were mainly instrumental in
putting him in the placeNhe occupes-against
the large majority Of the men who secured
the nomination and election of Mr. Lincoln
against the leading and most successful gen.
erals in our army aud against prominent mem
bers of the Cabinet. The Press believing
this, can only to be true to the govern
ment BY defending its friends and supporters
against the attacks Of such men whether in or
out G the Cabinet.
To- The style" of the California papers is
decidedly rich in invective and personalities
The Sonora Flag, for example, says, Brown
the white-ivered traitor of the Sacramento
Republican-rejoices that some of the enlisted
soldiers are dead and can't vote. How richly
the old villain deserves lashng to the bone"
The same paper speaks Of a crazy man in
Stockton who thinks to restore the Union in
peaceful way. The doctors decided his case
TO be simply that Of apprehension. After the
election, the Flag exclaimed, "Copperhead
Democracy is dead, and the mourners go about