The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-09-02

| 22d instant.
% The death of the guerrilla Mosby, at
Leesburg, OF wounds received in late en-
gagement, has been confirmed.
nV Ebenezer d. Albee of Whitneyville, a
member of the 2Sth regiment, died in Boston
| on the 22d inst, of chronic diarrhea.
sH-If"Heios" will wait patiently till after
election, the matter to which he refers shall be
satisfactorily attended to.
CO. Charles r. Thompson, a son OF Capt.
Wildes 7. Thompson, formerly of Bath, has
been appointed Colonel of a negro regiment in
| Tennessee.
CO The steamer Gen. Berry, built in this
city, which has been running between Boston
and Nahant, has been chartered by the Gov
ernment. TfkF
CO. The 10th Maine regiments now I'M
der the command of Capt. Starbird, who was
wounded at Gettysburg but has recently re-
turned.
% A schooner bound from Bangor to Sa-
lem, put into Portsmouth harbor on Saturday,
and while the captain was on shore on Sunday
the mate put to sea. She was loaded with
lumber.
sB- 1t is suggested that the copperhead
meetings to be conducted by "Father Taylor
might be very profitable If conducted on the
Quaker system of quietly listening to the mon
itor within. -at
GA tract of two pages made up Of ex-
tracts of Bon Bradbury's speech in the Legis-
lature of 1862, and coloquy in the late Cop
perhead State Convention, is stigmatised in
the Franklin Patriot as "a lying abolition cir
cularw
VOn Saturday next, the loyal men Of
Wiscasset and vicinity are to have grand
rally at Wiscasset. They will be addressed BY
Hon. HANNIBAL HAMLIN, Senator CLARK of
| New Hanshire, and Gen BUSTED of New
| York.
q The Boston Post says, "a triumph of
| the UNION Democracy in Maine would thrill
| the loyal heart of the nation" Why then
does the Pust lend its influence to secure the
| triumph of a democracy that is in favor OF
calling home our troops and allowing the way
Woiu SiSeSAS w oSP"hs Az PS"eC.
cY- A letter from Key West announces
the capture OF steamer Alice Vivian, with $50
| bales cotton on board, off Mobile. Also
steamer Crescent, from Havana for Mobile,
with valuable assorted cargo. An English
schooner, the Fornie, loaded with cotton, had
also been captured.
| sI-That scandalous sheet known to the
| people of Maine for the last third of a century
as the Lying Argus" complains of lack of
fairness in the Press for not publishing Brad
bury's letter of acceptance. Has that teacher
of political morality published SO much as
single paragraph of Judge Cony's letter of ac-
ceptance?
nJ- Rev. Mr.. Brooks called on us yester-
day on his way from Bath to Manchester. He
has been the pastor of the North st. T. w.
Baptist church in Bath some ten or twelve
years, and it will be difficult to find the man
that will fill his place. The people Of Man
chester may well congratulate themselves on
the accession of such a man to their city.
| % Frequent threats were made on the
the passage from Long Island, Boston harbor,
to Alexandria, Va, by the substitutes on
board, of which there were about 1000 to burn
the steamer Forest City, but no attempt was
made to execute them. One man attempted
| to escape after arriving on the Potomac, by
| jumping overheard, but he was shot by the
| guard.
LIZ Gen. Lysander Cutler, formerly of this
| State but now of Wisconsin, was recently
welcomed home at Milwaukee, whittier he had
gone on brief furlough, by the most enthusi-
astic demonstration, and an address from the
Mayor to which he briefly responded. Gen.
Cutler is brother of Otis Cutler ESQ.,, of
this city, and has proved himself one OF the
bravest and most gallant officers in the serv-
ice.
H-By mere accident decent article ap-
peared in the Advertiser Saturday morning,
and prompt apology was made as matter of
course. An article had been prepared and put
in type for the Christian Mrror,-which is
printed at that office,-an abstract Of an able
article in the Atlantic Monthly from the pen of
Judge Davis, an by an accident of the printer
it got into the Advertiser forms. Frequent
dcCluentS Oh tuat CHARACTER WOufu lilluSe an
element of decency into that paper, which
would unfit it for its special mission.
eV A member of Maine regiment writing
to his father at Topsham, under date of
Camp 9Th Me- Vols, New Baltimore, Va,
Aug. 23d, says: 81 have lately been reading
in one Of the Portland papers the proceedings
Of the Democratic State Convention as they
called it. l felt ashamed to own such men as
citizens of the State of Maine. / hope the
drafted men will soon be out here to strength
en- the old Army of the Potomac, so that when
we have another fight with Lees army we
may annihilate it."
r Gen. Howard in his speech at Farm
ington, in speaking of those who are crying
peace, asks, "Do their bloated countenances,
blasphemous language and murderous conduct
indicate utilization with the Prince of Peace or
the Prince of Darkness? How much weight
can we give to the peaceabe professions of
such men as in New York murdered and
robbed the loyal and law-abiding citizen?
Their professions are lie Their immediate
peace" means perpetual war! They cry
"peace" in order to produce conflict malig-
nant, exterminating, eternalw
sr The Union men of Maine can afford to
int hat