The Portland daily press., 1863-10-28
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

gg NJ lie Camilia Ufso is giving concerts
in Providence this week.
~ Mr. Gottschalk, the pianist. will visit
Boston for concert purposes the first week in
November.
aYe Butter is selling in Eastport at 80 cts
apound. BY using one-thrd less it makes it
all right.
% Pierre Soule of Louisiana has been
madea Confederate Brigadier General, and has
taken the field at once.
I=The friends of General Cass will be
pleased TO learn that his health is improving,
/ and that he is now considered out ofdanger
sE-Joseph p. Blunt has been appointed
! Post master at Kendal's Mills, Vice Oliver
Bragdon, deceased.
I-Holbrook and Libby, OF West Water
vile, took l07 head Of cattle to Brighton mar
/ ket on Monday last.
v-Gen. Richard T. Dunlap of Brunswick
died at his residence in that town Monday
night, after an illness of some weeks His age
was about p years.
s- Gov. Curtin has recovered from his re-
cent Illness, which was not serious, and is en-
gagged in the performance of his executive
duties.
av-Goy. Parker of New jersey has issued
proclamation calling upon the people to use
! every effort to raise troops required OF New
Jersey by the last call of the President.
Shelby, who has invaded Missouri with
twelve hundred men, has lost all his artillery
and nearly all his ammunition, and five hun
dred men, as the net result OF his expedition
( sH-The decision OF the court martial in case
of Gen. Buell. has been in his favor. Rumor
at Cincinnati has it that he has been made
Chief of Gen. Grants staff.
lB-The light house at Eagle Island was
entered by robbers on the night of the 10th
inst. and the light extinguished and the pock-
cts OF the light keeper rified.
H-Fivc dollar bills on Waterylle Bank,
made by FASTING on the figures from other bills,
are in circulation. They are rather clumsily
/ done and can easily be detected.
sB-The Arson Advocate says that at the
there were entered six hundred animals for
premium.
Ep- About $4,000 worth Of fish oil has
been shipped from PASSPORT and vicinity since
the LIST of July 1t has risen in price, from
Sc TO $l3 barrel.
gan error occurred in our biographical
notice of Gen. Dix that makes him ten years
older than he really is. He was born in July,
l79s, instead of 1889 as stated. gts}
If The Portsmouth Chronicle states that
man named John Knight, belonging at Kit
terry Point, fell from the ship Alabama at the
Portsmouth Navy Yard on Monday afternoon,
aud severely fractured one OF his legs.
- Major General John A. Dix has been
unanimously nominated as a candidate for
Mayor Of New York city by the general COM
mittee OF the regular representative democra-
cy."
" Ed. S. Howe, vino has been elect
ed LIST Lieut.. of Capt. Cioudman's company of
cavalry, has been presented with an elegant
sword by his friends in the vicinity Of New
port, where he has been preaching.
Y-The Brunswick Telegraph advises peo-
Pile visiting that place to look out for rogues.
We were not aware, and are not now inclined
to believe, that rognes are more numerous or
active there than in other towns of its size.
sgTbe Pennington Chronicle learns that
John, a son of Judge Sherburne, formerly OF
Franklin County, was killed at the battle at
Chatamangs. He was member OF Gen.
Rosecrans' Roll of Honor.
nVThe little steamer Wawenock, running
between Bath and Wiscassett, i, bound to
beat anything Of her size. She made the trip
on Monday in honr and II minutes, and the
Bath Times thinks she will Ego it" in one
hour. The distance is 10 miles.
srThe Bath Times chronicles the death
of Caleb II. Sheppard of that city, member
of the 21st Maine Regiment, aged % years.
He was young man OF patriotic feelings and
generous impulses, and universally respected
and beloved.
EVWe are gratifed 10 learn that Lieut..
William II. Smyth of the regular army, son
of Professor Smyth of Brunswick, who was
reported as killed in recent battle, turns up
SAFE although prisoner in the Libby prison,
slightly wounded.
st Flora Temple is reported to have died
at Belfast recently, and TO have been worth
$1,000 One paper said it was the original
Flora. This is not so. An exchange says the
little "Queen of the Turf is in Baltimore,
and is valued at more than twice sixteen
thousand dollars.
LIZ Fourteen of the Ohio Congressional
districts elected Democrats to Congress last fall
In the recent election twelve of these districts,
asjs shown by the returnspublshed in the Gin
cinnati Gazette, have given majority against
the Democratic party, most of them heavy ma
jorties.
sE- 1t is very remarkable fact that nearly
all of the special" dispatches to our evening
contempoi airy, are also received, verbatim, by
the Merchants Exchange Reading Room, and
published on the bulletin board of that insti
tuition hours before they are published in any
other way. Isn't lightning very erratic in its
special tricks?
To- A copperhead editor in Portsmouth,
because he is opposed to the war, claims 10 be