The Portland daily press., 1863-11-09
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

village should have one.
aD-Thc annual meeting of the Maine State
Teachers Association will be held at Bath on
the 23d, oath and 18th inst. d..
aB- The Boston Post is facetious, and good
natnred as usual over the defeat of its party.
Massachusetts, it says, has proved herself
slightly one-sded. .t 2
V-New York, with five counties to hear
from, shows Union gain over last year of
40,SSl. The remaining counties gave 1900
Union majority last year.
SB-The st. Louis Democrat says that the
radical majority in that city and county, in
GLIDING the soldier vote, will not fall short of
5000, and may go nearer 1000.
% Rev. Wooster Parker, pastor of the
Congregational Church in Belfast, has, at the
unanimous request of both church and parish,
Withdrawn his resignation.
gBrTemperance meetings are held regular
| ly, each week. in Bethel, which are numerous
| ly attended. We hope other towns will follow
the example.
To- The Flying Top, a new article for the
amusement of young people on which pa
tent has been obtained, is for sale by b. b.
Russell, wholesale agent No. jl5 Washington
| Street, Boston. See advertisement.
sB- 1t will be seen by an official announce
ment in our advertising columns, that on and
after to-day there will be change in the eav-
ing and arrival of the South Paris train, on the
Grand Trunk road.
gB- Mr.. Paine's vote for Governor will be
about q 900. Seeing that he was nominated
by convention Of 100 delegates the largest
political convention OF delegates ever held in
this State, we may well term it, ''great cry
and little wool."-Newburypo Herald.
YEA dispatch in the Boston Journal says
Charles A. Shaw of Biddeford has telegraphed
to the Commissioners of the Northwestern
Fair, at Chicago, offering them $1,000 for the
original draft of the Presidents Emancipation
Proclamation.
gas the cattle train was leaving the La
COMA station, New Hampshire ID inst, one .
of the cars loaded with cattle broke down,
causing terrible slaughter, tearing and man
Cling them in horrible manner, destroying
tie.
sr A member of the Sth Maine regiment,
while at home on a furlough at Springvale, 4
short time since was found in a woodshed in
North Berwick about 10 o'clock at night in
nearly lifeless condition. The Biddeford
Journal says he had been patronizing one OF
those rum holes in North Berwick where good
democratic r. g. is kept.
sp-The Argus comforts itself under its
recent reverses with the reflection that $50
strong current in one direction only indi-
Gates the force OF the reaction that is sure to
come" The darkey composed his mind while
his shins were being beaten, with the reflec-
ton that they would feel better after they had
done aching.
sr The report of b. II. Cushman Esq, Su-
perintendent and Manager of the Kenncbec
and Portland Railroad, contains this important
fact, that while more than 100000 persons have
been conveyed over the road, no accident has
beiallen either passenger or employee during
the year, a fact which speaks well for the care
of its gentlemanly conductors, as well as tho
general good management of the road.
syrWe learn that Gov. Coburn has been
requested to convene an extra session of the
Legislature Immediately, to provide by law
for the giving by towns of a certain fixed and
uniform bounty to volunteers under the last
call of the President, and to prohibit the CIV
ing Of any larger sum. We are not advised
as to the decision of the Governor in this
matter.
sD-The Bangor Wing reports, on what it
says is good authority, that Judge Rice has
been offered and has decided to accept the
position of Superintendent of the Kennebec
& Portland and Somerset & Kennebec rail-
roads, which will leave vacancy upon the
supreme Bench. One reason given why the
Judge leaves the bench is the inadequacy of
the salary.
ygr The Argus becomes excited, holds up
its hands in pious horror and makes the usual
demonstrations of madness because we hui
morously inquired il the excessive thirst for
intoxicating drinks was the result of gradual
ing from that office, and yet in its next col
umn intimates that the $1,000 prostitutes in
Washington city are the natural fruit of q Re-
publican administration. Beautifully consis-
tent paper that Argus.
sE- The Oxford Democrat, in a very sensi-
BILE article on president making" gives its
opinion that public sentiment points to one of
two men as the Union candidate, Abraham
Lincoln and Salmon T. Chase. There is nothing
in the world more uncertain than who will be
the candidates for the Presidency in 1864. 1t
will depend upon circumstances yet to trans
pre- and it may be, probably will be, men who
have scarcely been thought Of in connection
with that position. We must await the deyel-
opments OF the next six months.
VVur al. II