The Portland daily press., 1864-08-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

G.. T.. Woodman, Esq, will give a polit- |
ical address in Bath on Monday evening.
~ Surgeon Joseph Day, of the 29th Me-,
heretofore dismissed, has been restored
q The cattle disease has made its appear
ance in New Hampshire.
~ An old man named Moran committed sui
eide in Hallowell, on Friday last
~ The majority in favor of soldiers, belong
ing in Pennsylvania, voting. is nearly 100, 900.
II Gen. Burnside rendered his resignation
to Gen. Grant, who refused to accept it, and al
so declined to relieve him of his command
Y The crop of peaches in Delaware is so
large this season that Spectators cannot con-
troll it.
y Andrew T. Foss and William Wells
Brown are lecturing in this State On Emancipa-
ton.
y Reports from Colorado and Nebraska in
dictate that general war with the Indians is i'm
minent
y We learn that Mr.. Allan, of the Maine
Insane Hospital, did quite suddenly on Thurs
day night last.
y Hon. John Covode was seriously injured
N
in Pennsylvania, last week.
n The Transcript is as much amused at our
'sfying correspondent as we have been at its
brilliant, shining Rust
- The town of Winterport, in Waldo coun-
ty, has paid all its war debt, and has not dol
lar of indebtedness.
The Tallahassee is gaining proud victories
for the southern rebels and northern copper
heads.
y The Trustees of Dartmouth College have
chosen Elisha Thayer 'Quimby, of New Ipswich,
for Professor of Mathematics.
Manufacturing Company, has been received at
Saco.
r The editor of the Albany journal writes
from Washington that the draft on the 9Th of
September is fixed fact.
y The largest gambling house in the coun-
ty, outside of New York, is kept b, the prize
fighter, Morrissey, at Saratoga Springs.
ETA general meeting of the citizens of Lew
iston is called to see what measures the city will
take to fill its quota
n Leander Grover, of Bethel, who recently
returned from the army wounded in the foot,
has had it amputated.
- The sash and blind factory of William
/ Newcomb s Bros, Taunton, Mass, with several
I adjoining buildings, was destroyed by fire on
1 Thursday.
/ ~ The "Maj. Merritt" reported to have
! inherited a fortune from an uncle in this city,
! turns out to be a forger, swindler and jail
/ bird
/ ~ Mr.. Locke. of Rye, while at work on
| Mr.. Martins engine building in Portsmouth,
/ N. Ii. was caught in the machinery and narrow
i ly escaped death.
We commend to our copperhead friends
the Wh'gs:-that they were famous for achieving
victories before election.
- Gen. Sherman says the duty Of citizens
to fight for their country is too sacred one to
be peddled off by buying up the refuse of other
States
q Mr. ] II. Siddons, of Boston, is in ng-
land endeavoring to procure skilled mechanics
for tie works Of manufactures of New Eng
land.
81 Rev. Henry Z. Robbins, of Newport, r.
l., has married Miss Bird, which is a very APP
propriate arrangement, as every Bird should
have its mate, and the young Robbins nest.
y Gov Andrew, of Mass, has consented to
be candidate for reelection. He ought to be re
tanned in that position until the close of the
war, at least.
e All soldiers Of foreign birth, honorably
discharged, who have resided in the United
States one year, may be Immediately naturalx-
ed
EE The Providence Journal thinks that the
proposed Constitutional amendments in that
State are all defeated, except, perhaps, that al
lowing soldiers in the field to vote They re-
quired three ffths vote.
- Denmark, to make peace with her invad-
ers, has relinquished one third of her territory
and population, embracing the Duchies of
Schieswig, Hostien and Lanenburg, with the
islands belonging to them.
y The American Missionary Society will
hold its annual meeting at Worcester in October
next. From three to five thousand persons from
abroad usually attend the meeting. Its annual
receipts are about S40O, 900.
Eg-Copperhead papers are telling of the mum
Der of Republican papers that have dropped
Lncoln's name and run up that of Mcclellan,
but they very prudently refrain from naming or
locating the papers that have done so.
& Isham 6. Harris, formerly governor of
Tennessee, claims still to hold that Office As
he has been refugee from that State for al
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/ crous.
/ = Among the casualties to Maine soldiers
at the attack by Hancock's corps, on Sunday
last, we notice the following: Edward Marteu,
! 18th regiment; Austin Cunning ham, Geo Mars
! den, Samuel L. Robertson, ID. Bean, and L. l..
Lincoln, 18th.
~ Gov. Andrew has promoted Lieut. Col.
Frank +. Howe, Of New York, to the rank of
Colonel, in recognition of his long aud faithful
philabthropc services in behalf of Massachusetts
soldiers passing through New York or in hospit-
I al in that city.
/ - The coal tonnage of the present season,
according to the Pennsylvania company's re-
ports, exceeds that of last season by 706 500 TONS
( The supply of coal at New York continues large,
but would be much larger if transportation
were equal to production.
q Says Gen. Sherman, 1.-THE bidding and
bantering for recruits, white and black, has
delayed the reinforcement of our armies at
the times when such reinforcements would
have enabled us to make our successes perma
nent."
Il Hon. j. L. Pickard. son of Samuel Pick
ard. Esq, of Auburn, Superintendent of Schools
in Wisconsin, has resigned his position to ac-
cept that of Superintendent of Schools Of Chi
cago, to which he has recently been elected by
the School Board Of that city.
q The order dismissing Lieut.. Kingsley from
the service ON the alleged ground that he had