The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-10-16
ORIGINAL AND ELECT Nd.

child; Railroads and Telegraphing; Economy
in consuming coal
EE- On the fourth page-Miscellany
~ A Mr.. Skofield, of Cutler, was &C q.
dentally shot by his son on the I'd inst.
~ They are having Russian" timea in
New York. Splendid dinners, richly dec orat-
ed ladies, dancing parties, ct cetera.
sgThe York e. Cumberland Assoc: ration
tUniversaist) will meet at Scarbo,ro on
Wednesday and Thursday the 2lst and 22d
inst. at ten o'clock, A. NJ.
sJ- Augustus Thompson, Of Jon esboro',
was instantly killed on the It'll inst. by the
schooner on which he was at work suddenly
keeling over.
1- The doctors of Berlin say the ,BavarIan
beer, drank there to excess, is being the cause
of numberless cases of apOr,lexy. The beer
drank in this vicinity has much the same ef-
feet.
I-The Oxford Co Sunday school Con-
ference, tUniversalist) which met at Liver
more Sept Gath, elected Hon. Sidney Per-
ham Its President and Rev. J. C. Show, Secre-
tary.
sI- Jenny Lind Godschmidt is now re-
siding in England, where she contributes to
the enjoyment Of the amusements of her par
ish. To enjoy life and make others happy Is
the high est object of human existence
s1~ The steamer Wawenock made the trip
from Bath to Wiscassett, on Wednesday after
noon, in one hour and thirty-fyc minutes, as
we learn from the Times. Her machinery was
bnilt by Messrs. Geo. NJ. Patten & Co., OF
Bath.
~ Annals Of the Army Of the Cunber-
land" by an officer; Slower, Fruit and Thorn
Pieces" by Jean Paul, and Excursions, by
II. d. Thoreau," have been received by Bailey
Noyes, Exchange street. Notices hereaf-
ter.
ErThe arrival of Ex-President Buchanan
was announced in London, before the never
sleeping reporters of the press Of the United
States had found out he had left his quiet Sc
clusion at Wheatland. What may be his OBJ
ject in going thus quietly, or in going at all
he has not seen fit to explain.
MrThe Great Eastern, ever since the grea!
waste of pop-beer and dough nuts caused in
this city on account Of her iaiiure to arrive as
agreed upon, has been a source Of perpetual
trouble aud expense to her owners. She is
now seized under an admiralty warrant by the
owners Of the ship Jane, which vessel she ran
down off the Irish coast.
nT' Mr.. Thomas Odion of Portsmouth, N
H., has invented a building protector, to be
used in cases of conhagration. 1t is made o.
iron and so constructed that by turning crank.
it unfolds sheets of iron that are connected
together, until they spread the surface of q
feet long by 20 feet deep. 1t is designed fol
cities, to be used to stop the progress Of flames
in district of wooden buildings. 1t is said
to be valuable invention.
nV The Newburyport Herald says Capt
Pendeton of Rockland schooner got into &
dispute with colored barber named Curtis
on Monday evening last. Blows followed
words and then the barber seized a razor, pur
sued Pendleton, who was running down the
street, and struck him in the left arm ttirg
frightful cash some six inches lonDY The
negro was arrested and on Tuesday WAS fined
$50 and costs.
sI- Some of our transatlantic friends are
deriving some comfort from the report thai
was carried across the water of the defeat o.
Rosecrans. Confederate stock went up, or
the receipt of the rumor, 5 per cent. The
London Times says the victory was secured
by the superior skill OF the confederate gen.
erals. We are inclined to the opinion that a
few more such confederate victories would
cause JEFF. Davis to tremble for his personal
safety.
sTOn Tuesday detective of descrters In
Baltimore caused the arrest of man named
School for disloyalty, and it subsequently
appeared that School was one of the most
loyal men of that city, and that the act of
Booker the detective, was prompted by malice.
He was, therefore, marched through the
streets bearing on his person placard with
the following inscription: 81 am detective.
am a liar. caused the arrest of an unof-
Tending Union man."
aVSays that bold, able Radical paper, the
Nahville Union-the organ of Governor
Johnson: "The Copperhead in the North
and the Confederates in the South are both
working for the same end. The aim of each
is to perpetuate slavery. The loss of slave
property fills Copperheads and Confederates
with the same regret Neither care one iot
about the law or Constitution. Federal
or State Government, Union or dsunion, fur
Their than they contribute to maintain the
aristocracy OF slavery. They fawn and crouch
at the feet Of slavery, and beg its crumbs OF
patronage, assspaniels fawn upon their masters,
and look wistfully for a friendly morsel."
sg- Bishop Hopkins of Vermont, who has
been great deal nettled by the manner in
which his pro-slavery letter has been handled
bymembers of his church, declares he will write
book in which he will prove by unques-
tionable authorities that slaves and slavehold-
ers were in the church from the beginning
that slavery was held to be consistent with
Christian principle by the Fathers and Coun-
ellis, and by all Protestant divines and CON-
mcntators, up to the very close of the last CEN