The Portland daily press., 1863-07-30
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

sy-First page-Argument against Slavery,
by Mrs. KembIe.
sy- Last page - Poetry, "Freed by the
Proclamation"
gHe The cattle disease has made its APP
pearance again in some sections of Massachu-
| sets.
gge The Bath Times says Mr. Sewell Jones,
employed in the block factory of Messrs. Dun
can d Davenport had one of the fingers OF
his right hand sawed off on Saturday last.
GE- Fires are raging to an alarming ex-
tent in the pine forests near Lake Superior
A large extent of country is on fire, filling the
air with smoke for many miles around.
sT A loyal paper has been started at Port
Hudson called the sport Hudson Freeman"
Its motto is, "The Uuion it must and shall be
preserved"
w-It is suggested that Capt. Cults, who
has been discharged from service because he
he looked at lady through a window while
she was dressing, must be some relation to
the Peak family. .sr-
sr Mr.. Loring. of South Boston, has con-
tracted with the Government to build first
class side-wheel iron steamer of about 2000
tons, nodded for speed and to carry heavy ar
mament.
gB-F. o. J. S. charges us with being
political renegade. That is rich, coming as it
does from one who has courted, cursed and
betrayed in turn every party that ever existed
in the state.
y The new rebel CONSUMPTION Of all per-
sons between the ages of Is and As it is esti-
mated will yield force of 1924, something
less than the rebel loss in killed, wounded and
taken prisoners during the last four weeks.
V Three steamers had passed down thu
Mississippi on the 18th inst one Of which was
from st. Louis. Steamers and other vessels,
freighted with produce and merchandise, will
soon throng that river.
II The Free South, Beaufort, S. c., gives
the names Of the following members of Co. +,
sth Maine regiment, who have recently died
at that place: Alonzo Littlefeld, Sanford; ].
P. Dutch. Kennebunk.
gTThe Advertiser devotes q whole col
umn to the "obtusity" or ''insincerity" of
Samuel Cony. Mr.. Cony cannot receive
higher compliment than the abuse of that
venal sheet.
sg-The City Treasurer of Lewiston Is in
structed by the City Council to pay to the
families of drafted men who may enter the
service, the same amounts as paid to those of
volunteers.
rEeGen. Gilmore does not intend to give
up his operations against Charleston on ac-
count of the repeated repulse of his assaults
on Fort Wagner, but in popular parlance, he
keeps 'pegging away" and is bound to sue
ceed.-fBoston Post. hea sot
gH-We learn from the N. Y. Tribune that
Chaplain j. K. Lincoln OF the 22d Maine reg
iment, of Bangor, was seriously injured on
18th inst. at Port Hudson, by his horse back
ing so as to fall over precipice nearly forty
feet.
LIZ The school house on Elliot Neck was
struck by lightning, on Monday afternoon, and
Henry, son of Mr. George Nelson, instantly
killed. During the same shower, yoke of
oxen belonging to Mr. John Wilson, near Kit
terry Bridge, were killed.
lI-The 18th Maine regiment is now at
Camp Parapet above New Orleans and is in
excellent condition. Lieut.. Col. Murray was
left at Barracca sick and Col. Dyer has CON-
mand of the post, SO that the command ofthe
regiment devolves upon Ma. Drew of Presque
Isle.
su- At a Town Meeting in New Haven,
Conn.,, it was voted to pay the communication
of $500 for such drafted men as were them
selves unable to raise the money. The Town
Treasurer subsequently announced that he
was unable to borrow the money, on the cred
it of the town, for the purpose stated.
sYProbably the memory of man doth not
run back TO a time when young men were so
flial as at the present time. How many who
never allowed their widowed mothers to know
they were out, that now are most dutiful, and
feel that they are the only hope and stay of
their maternal parent.
Gr The Washington correspondent Of the
n. Y. Tribune says, all colored men enrolled
into the nearest colored regiments or compa-
MES being organized in the several States. In-
structions TO this effect have been sent TO the
Provost Marshals Of Rhode Island and Penn
sylvania.
sT Isaac Hill, long the head and master
spirit of New Hampshire Democracy" once
declared that "he who does not support the
Government in time of war is either traitor
or a coward Franklin Pierce leader of the
New Hampshire Democracy" OF to-day, de-
clared that the war of the nation for its exis-
tence is ''homicidal madness" and should be
stopped at once. Is he, according to Hills
test, a traitor or coward Pm. Y. Eve. Post.
sg- The town of Phipsburg was the first
one in the State to vote $500 Communication
money for each of its drafted soldiers. A
committee of wealthy men-one a Copper
head and a bank director-was chosen to act
with the selectmen in raising the money. As
yet, though they have made active efforts to
carry out the vote of the town, not a dollar
have they been able to raise.
o. The n. Y. Atlas says the Provost Mar
shars Office in Franklin County, Me-, was beset
by mob OF $50 men, and the CONSUMPTION Off
GERS were compelled TO flee for their lives. If
we supposed it possible for an editor TO be
mistaken, we should be inclined to doubt the
whole story for several reasons, one of which