The Portland daily press., 1863-09-15
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

III pSB vi tHe llISt pdSc- lie Ai"oo,
Louisiana as a Free State, &c.
lY-A plot to burn the city Of st. Louis was
discovered last week.
sg-The 5th N. II. Volunteers will cele-
brate the Anniversary Of the battle of Antic-
tam at Concord on the 18th inst.
sY-The Richmond Examiner justifies the
Lawrence massacre as "a gallant and perfectly
fair blow at the enemy"
GY- Gen. Benz. f. Butler has consented to
address the people of Pennsylvania in favor
OF the reelection of Governor Curtin
IB- On the fourth page-Poetry-"Fa
Abfaham's Proclamation; A Faithful Negro.
&c.
GB-Oxiord County makes gains in nearly
every town. We have the county ticket and
we think every representative.
GB- The latest intelligence from Charles
ton says the cambridge has not been heard
from.
sY- The Ironsdes was hit two hundred
times in bombarding Moultrie, but was not in
the least injured.
y .1- The potatoes are said to be bad
ly affected by rot in the western part Of York
county.
sB- The Richmond Examiner justiies the
Lawrence massacre as "a gallant and perfectly
fair blow at the enemy"
IgTA boy named Samuel Mckay, had his
arm taken off in a steam mill at East Newport,
on Thursday last.
p-Gen. Rosecrans has recruited two regi-
ments of negroes in Tennessee, and still they
come.
sv-Rev. Mr.. Blake, Chaplain of the 18th
Maine regiment, has returned to his home in
Pennington, on account of i'll health.
sv The Annual Show aud Fair of the
North Aroostook Agricultural and Horticul-
tural Society, will be held at Presque Isle, Oct.
It'll and Sth. &
% The Argus accused us of SANDER be-
cause We intimated that Judge Shepley would
not vote for Bradbury. What has our neigh
Dor to say about the SANDER now?
ry- The annual Show and Fair of the Ken
nebec Union Agricultural and Horticultural
Society will be held in Gardiner on the It'll
and Sth days OF October next.
ng We learn that chaplain John II. Lin
coin who was so badly injured at Port Hud-
son, has arrived at his home in Bangor very
very much improved.
lr The North Kennebec Agricultural So
cety will hold its annual Show and Fair
at Waterville, on Wednesday and Thursday,
the 9th and It'll of October.
sY- The Americon Telegraph Company
announce the opening Of an office at Chatta-
nooga and the reception of business for that
place.
v Very large and enthusiastic Union
meetings were held in Brunswick and Bath on
Saturday--at the latter place In the evening.
Messrs. Turner and Gilman were the speakers.
Mr. Turner never did better than at Bath.
sE The largest bank organized under the
National Act will be the Third National Bank
Of New York, which will begin with capital
of $5,O0OOO0, with the privilege Of increas-
ing it to s5O,OOO,O0O.
% The Newport House and outbuidings,
as we learn from the Bangor Wing, were des-
troyed by fire on Sunday morning last. The
house was occupied by Mr.. c. X. Pratt. Loss
about S5000-no insurance. The fire is sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
gY-The Union men of the State owe Frank
| Smith debt of gratitude. Wherever he has
bestowed his labors, the Union gains have
been rolled up. Had he stumped the State
more extensively, it is doubtful If there would
have been enough OF apprehension left to be
worth burying?
sg-We received after we had gone to press
yesterday very full and detailed account OF
the Union meeting at Yarmouth on Friday
evening, which WAS addressed by Messrs. Tur-
ner of Texas and Gilman OF this city, but at
this late hour do not deem its publication ne
cessary.
sg- 1t is to be hoped that Gen. Burnside,
after having accomplished one Of the most inn
portant objects of the war will remain in
East Tennessee to hold what has been gained
He has already proved himself unselfishy
loyal, ready to sink every minor consideration
in the great work of saving the country.
GA large number of communications
and other articles bearing upon the canvass
we found our self unable to use prior to the
election, and of course do not deem it worth
while to use them now that it is past. Cores
pondents have our thanks for their favors
none the less because we have not been able
to work them up. -f...
g- The following casualties in the 9th
Maine have occurred since the 2sth ult. =
Abraham Raines, Co. A, wounded in wrist;
Isaac Perham, do; Sumner c. Farmer, Co. +
killed; Luke Kenney, Co. X, wounded in left
arm; Corp. Thomas Kent, 20. l, wounded in
| throat; Enos Foster, Co. B, wounded in right
shoulder; Warren Stanhope, Co. A, died at
Hilton Head Aug. 2Sth.
rg- When the Argus says "the Press de.
clared Judge Rice would vote for Cony," il
| says what it knows to be false. We have not
said that either Judge Rice or Ex-Gov. Hub
bard would vote for Cony; we have said that
neither of them would vote for Bion Brad
bury, and in doing so we have said no more
than we had a right to say, if the word of those
gentlemen is to be believed.
sy-The American publishers circular, for
September 1st, has been published by G. w
Chids, of Philadelphia. 1t contains much in
teresting matter relating both to American