The Portland daily press., 1863-10-05
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,
sJ-On the first page - Incidents of til

Battle of Chckamauga.
D1-On the fourth page-Little Lizzie Mis-
cellany.
@U-The Portsmouth Gazette has entered
upon its 10sth year.
% Burnside has raised eight new regi-
ments in Tennessee since his occupation of
Knoxville.
Sy-The Tribune's Washington correspon-
dent says upon the best authority that no draft
is contemplated by the Government
@y- Charles A. Dana, formerly Of the
Newburyport Tribune, has joined Gen. Rose
Grams army, fresh from Washington, in the
capacity OF Assistant Secretary of War;
eB- The newspapers are bound to keep up
a quarrel between Dahlgren and Gilmore,
while according to the best authority there is
no disagreement existing between them.
V- The people of the Northern States
have sent within the past year 1893 900 in
money and provisions, as charity, to the needy
operatives of France and England.
| ey-We call attention to the advertisement
of Messrs. J. II. Lunt & Co., who offer for
sale large lot suitable for ship yard or for
the manufacturing business.
GVThe Steamer Forest City sailed from
Long Island on Thursday with 900 conscripts.
Maj. Welsh commanded the detachment for
the 10th Maine, and Capt. Marston for the 10th
Maine.
~ 1t is now generally admitted that How
ards and Slocum's corps of the army of the
Potomac have gone to reinforce Rosecrans.
He has also been reinforced by Gen. Grant
with 10000 men.
sB-Mrs. Hannah Dole, widow of the late
Dea. Eben Dole of Haowell, died IN New
buryport on Thursday, aged "A years. The
| Herald says she was the first to die of seven
sisters, the youngest of whom is So years of
| age.
sy- The Copperleads have declared war
against Gen. Dix. His letter to the War Dem
ocrats Of Wisconsin sunders all relations with
them, and they recognize at last the hostility
of his patriotism. The N. Y. World opens its
batteries upon him in late issue.
| sBp The Pittsburg Commercial afiirms that
Gen. Mcclellan, speaking of Pennsylvania
politics, expressed himself anxious for the re-
election of Governor Curtin, and that if in
that State, he should both speak and vote for
him.
| g That Copperhead, who before the cleo
ton was so brave that before he would give
| up the contest against the administration he
would "die in the last ditch, was found dead
drunk short time since, in ditch SO near the
has fulfilled his contract.
| sy-An immense Union meeting was held
at Cooper Institute, New York, on Wednesday
evening last, that was addressed by Vice Pres
ident Hamlin, Geo. Cochrane and others. Ex-
Gov. Morgan presided. Admiral Farragut was
present and In short speech stated that he
should endeavor to do his duty on the sea
while others did theirs on the land.
sg-The Piscataquis Observer, in conse-
quence of taking decided Union ground has
shaken Off about one hundred of its copper
head subscribers. The Union men of that
county ought to consider themselves bound
to put two Union names on the list for every
rebel sympathiser who withdraws his patron
| age.
| sy-The Copperhead press had. "A jubilee
over the first reports from Chattanooga.
The rumored defeat of Rosecrans seems to
afford them even more pleasure than 1t did the
friends at Richmond. They hailed it as equiva-
lent to at least five thousand votes for it seems
| tn hav ,;tl,t l,o
country sinks Democracy RISES" while Union
victories in the field are always the forerun-
ner of Union triumphs at the ballot-box So
says the Albany Journal.
sg- A Boston paper says it has record Of
thirty cases of death by delirium tremens in
that city and immediate vicinity, within
month. Suppose it could be proved that the
same number Of deaths were caused by rattle
snakes that were allowed to crawl about the
common ad tbitum, what would the city
authorities do? The selling of the vile COM
pounds under the name of liquors are as di-
rectly the cause Of the death OF these men as
rattlesnakes could be.
~ The New York Post says that "some
ooutuefu ScHtieUeu were discussing the pro-
priety of giving votes to the freedmen of the
South; measure in the expediency Of which
Southern Unionists-more particularly those
from the far South-appear to be tolerably
unanimous. One of those present - loyal
Texan-announced himself iniexby opposed
TO such grant OF votes to the blacks, because
said he, in six months after you give the ne
groes the right to vote, half the democratic
politicians in the country will go about swear
ing that they have negro blood in their VEINS
vThe Bangor Wing says an ex-sheriff of
neighboring county who was at Northport
camp meeting circulating copperhead docu-
ments, by some means got nearly up to the
speakers stand where persons were assem-
bling for prayer. minister, seeing him with
the children of God, instead Of casting him
out invited the brethren "to pray for that
wicked man who was going round there cir
cuating rebel papers," 1t was presuming a
little too much on Divine grace to suppose
prayer could be of any avail in such a case.
I- As the day of election in Pennsylva-
mia approaches the battle grows more deter
mined. Some of the leading Democrats in
the State go with the Union party. The Har
risburg Telegraph announces that Thomas c.