The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-09-09
OR IGINAL AND SELECTED.
sB- On the first page-Boston Correpon-

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sB@ On the first page-Boston Correpon-
dence.
20 On the fourth page-Markets.
sy- The Post Office at Brunswick was
robbed on Saturday evening.
% Lewis Barker Esq. will speak at Ken
nebunk this "wednesday evening.
10 Prof. Whittlescy will speak at New
Sharon on Friday at 2 O'Clock p. NJ, and at
Chesteryille the same evening.
r- Orders have been received at the Kit
terry Navy Yard to build two tug boats. The
keels will be laid Immediately.
rg- The nth, 10th and 18th Maine Regi-
ments have been increased by an addition Of
two hundred drafted men to each.
.B- Hon. w. Vimton of this city, and Rev.
w. A. P. Dillingham; of Sidney, will speak at
Bowdoin Center, ON Friday at 2 O'Clock P. NJ.
and at Richmond the same evening
sr A stock-brokerage firm in New York
made deposit at one of the city banks on
Saturday, amounting to 100000, beside two
other deposits, amount not stated.
sB- A week without any sensation news
from the army is exceedingly dull to those
who have acquired morbid taste for some
thing startling and tragical.
ag- The Bath Times says the meeting at
Wiscasset on Saturday last was glorious and
patriotic gathering and sounds the knell of
copperheadism in Lincoln county.
lSB- The U. S. gunboat De Soto, during
the last four months has captured steamers
and sehooners, having on board nearly 5000
bales of cotton.
70 Mrs. John Deane, daughter of Hooper
Chase Esq, of Bangor, arrived at her fathers
house on Saturday, having escaped from Tex
as by way Of Matamoras.
ag- Mr.. John C. Flint, assistant Provost
Marshal of Bangor, broke one of the bones in
the lower leg last Wednesday, in dismounting
from carriage.
cB- There seems to be reasonable ground
for the belief that combined attack is to be
Immediately made upon Texas, in which
Grants troops will act in concert with the
fleet.
% Rev. Charles B. Rice of Conway,
Mass, formerly pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Ceurch in Saco, was installed as pastor
of the First Church in Danvers on Wednes-
day, the I'd inst.
sE- The attempt to break into the Bath
Post Office last week, resulted in somebody's
getting hit. The man or boy who tries that
game would do well to balance his accounts
with this world, as he will get season ticket
for the next
s- We are indebted to Hon. D. D. Stew
art of Somerset, for neatly printed pamphlet
edition of his great speech in the Senate in
reply to Mr.. Wiggin of York, and Mr.. F. O.
J. Smith of the House. 1t is perfect extin-
guisher of their false logic and mis-stated
facts, and turns the tables upon them with ir-
resistible force.
I- f. o. J. Smith declares in the Adver-
tiser of yesterday that the abolition of slavery
in the West Indies, brought about by Clark
son and Wilberiorce, has proved detrimental
both to the white and black man. Would it
degrade such an infamous defamer of human
ftp to elevate him to an equality with decent
black mani
% The Bangor Jeffersonan contains a
thrilling letter written by Mrs. Soule, niece
of the publisher of that paper, giving full ac-
count of the massacre at Lawrence, of which
she was an eyewitness. She with her mother
and sister have arrived in Boston on their way
to Maine, and is detained there by sickness.
The brother, Vim. NJ. G. Soule, who so provi-
dentially escaped the vengeance of the murder
Gus band is the City Marshal of Lawrence
The one half of the horrors of that massacre
has not been told.
80 SPugh-rious speeches of the most
coppcrish east are being circulated in sections
Of this State, where, if ignorance is bliss, they
must be the happiest people in the world
Such documents are only admitted into the
domces where intelligence, patriotism and
virtue have sought admittance i'm vain The
men who understand their countrys history,
and the inestimable value of the blessings it
confers upon all who seek refuge under the
folds of its flag, will not, for few paltry dol
lars, throw their votes for the enemies of their
country. A vote for Cony on Monday next
is direct support OF the government. A vote
for Bradbury is vote to sustain the rebellion.