The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-09-23
OR IGINAL AND LECTED.

% Rev. w. 8. Sewell has removed from
Brownlield to Dover.
- A. Buntland of Co. X, 18th Maine, died
at the Gettysburg hospital on the 18th inst.
g- The Annual Meeting of the Maine
State Colonization Society will be held at the
Free street Baptist Church this evening.
gB- There is TO be general muster of the
Volunteer militia of New Hampshire, at Ports
mouth, early in October.
g- The United States barque Fernandina
sailed from Portsmouth harbor for Fortress
Monroe, on Saturday morning.
ls- OF 3,540 men drafted in the Sd District,
1872 paid Communication; 273 furnished substi-
tutes, and 15S are held for service.
rB- John Phillips, of Bangor, has been ar
rested for aiding soldiers to desert, and lodged
in the Jail in that city to await his trial.
9y- The following Maine soldiers have died
at Port Royal, S. c.: James Hamden, Charles
ton, Co. E. 18th Maine; James E. traitor, Co.
A, 9th Maine.
g~ The following sick and wounded Maine
soldiers are on hospital ship Cosmopolitan:
Isaac Perkins, Calais, Co. A, Maine 9th; Enos
Foster, Co. b, 9th Maine.
gr The New York Observer urges minis
tiers and Christians to pray for editors, that
they may be endowed with every requisite
gift, and have strength of mind and of body
adequate to their weighty responsibilities.
g- Capt. Benz. Smith of Gray, much re-
spected citizen, died in that town on the 18th
inst, aged 65 years. He filled many public
positions in his town and was esteemed for his
faithfulness and uprightness of character.
y We are requested to state that Col.
Burnham did not lose his flags at the desperate
fight at Fredericksburg, although they gave
such evidence of hard service as to prompt the
generous ladies of Calais to present his regi-
ment, the Maine 9th, with new ones.
sB- 1t is said that Mr.. II S. Hagar, of
Richmond, copperhead candidate for Repre-
sentative at the late election, discharged sew
eral men from his ship-yard because they vo-
ted the Union ticket. Degenerate son OF a
worthy sire. His father was the late Hon.
Marshal 5. Hagar, who was killed on the rail-
road track in this city-oue of the leading
Republicans of the state. The son was then
as he is now, a copperhead.
rE- Ii the Government is to be sustained.
1t should employ no doubtful men as agents to
90 its business. We are told that Monday, a
| person employed in purchasing horses for the
Government, gave as a reason for offering low
prices, that the Government was going do,cn,
that it is not in as good condition as it was one
| year ago, and even went so far as to say we
had no government. How long are disloyal
men to be employed to do government work Z
How long must loyal men be made sick al
heart by contact with such officials? 1t is
high time the Government respected itself il
it would be respected.
IE-rhe following is an extract from let
ter from member OF large importing house
in New York 1t tells its own story. The
good news has sent a thrill of joy throughout
the country
"The telegraph has flashed over the countr,
the news from Maine, which to the Govern
nent, hawked at as 1t has been by the bastard
ly Copperheads who invest the towns and vii.
lagos of your State, is more cheering than The
clarion notes which herald federal victory
All honor to the people of Maine who hav,
thus rebuled the Shiny traitors who have beer
laboring so hard to inoculate with their owl
venom the yeomanry Of the State. | trust tina
the news and the whole news is true, and tina
Copperheadsnl has received blow from whcl
it will never recover sufficiently to stand upo,
its legs again in the State of Maine Hurrah
for all the noble sons Of the 'Pine Tree State
who have done such noble service in crushin
! the horde of northern rebels"