The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-10
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

80 The California steamers are hereafter to
be conveyed between New York and Aspinwall
by government gunboats.
81 General Cameron says of Pennsylvania:
sWeshall have large majority in October and
an overwhelming one in November
E-The Richmond Wing thinks that Mr.. Lin
coins reelection is rendered absolutely certain
by the recent rebel reverses.
B-A new monthly journal is to be issued un-
der the direction of the National Union, called
''The Telegrapher.''
~ Carpetings were sold in New York on We'd
nesday last at auction at decline of from thirty
to fifty cents yard.
81 An unoccupied house belonging to Joseph
Jewett, in Rockland, was destroyed by fire ON
Thursday morning.
% The annual meeting of the Grand Division
of the Sons of Temperance will be held at Ken
dall's Mills, on the 25th inst
- Mr.. Collins, formerly of South Carolina,
is lecturing on Temperance in Knox and Waldo
counties.
RThe West Oxford Cattle Show, and Ayr
cultural Fair, will be held at Fryeburg, on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday, Oct 18th, 18th,
and 18th.
B-The iron men of Troy made further re-
duction of $40 ton in the priceof iron on Mon
day. This makes total decrease of $50 from
the highest price of the article.
In the list of Maine officers in prison, at
Savannah, Georgia, are the names of Lieut.:
Written, Topsham, 9th; Lieut.. Whitney, Bruins
wick ID R. I. Cavalry. 80
80 Potatoes have seldom yielded in greater
quantity in this state than the present year, and
never were of better quality. The price must
greatly decline.
"Dixon,' of the Boston Advertiser, says
it is understood Secretary Fessenden will make
a brief trip North in the course of the next fort
night.
ELt Col. Alfred Buck, of Foxcroft, late of
the Dept. of the Gulf, has been appointed by
the President to the 5lst U. s. Cold Reg't In
fntry. and ordered to report to Gen. Hawkins,
at Vicksburg, Miss.
% Mr.. Gilbert of Welchville, recently found
a gold watch ON the line of the railroad between
that place and Mechanic Falls 1t was probably
one Of those stolen by the New York fighters,
and thrown out of the window of the cars.
- Mr.. Geo. H. Pearce, an able and eloquent
lecturer from Canada, will speak on the subject
of temperance at Yarmouth, (this) Monday eve
ton, Wednesday evening.
BThe Concord IN. H. Democrat says that
on Wednesday last fine load of potatoes was
sold in that city for fifty cents bushel. This
looks encouraging for the buyer of limited
means.
BA correspondent of the New York Tribune
says that Gen. Schenck, recently from tour
through Ohio and Indiana, reports that the
former will go Union by upward of fifty thous-
and, and that Indiana is sure.
B"I think the intimacy which is begotten
over the wine bottle, says Thackeray, ''has no
heart. never knew good feeling come from
it, or an honest friendship made by it; it is only
aphantom of friendship and feeling. called up
by the delirious blood and the wicked spells of
the wine.'' 81 - I'D
81 The young lady pupils of the Buffalo
schools are to receive prizes for the 'best oaves
of bread.' That's the proper thing for the
glrlst 0 get prizes for grave old examiner
once asked female class in chemistry what are
the component parts of loaf of bread They
gave it up.
A brutal assault was made on Wednesday
last, upon a train of cars at Marblehead, con-
tanning the Mcclellan delegation for Lynn. Such
outrages ought not to be countenanced by any
party, and we cannot believe any Union man
would be guilty of any such act.
- Col. Thomas W. Hyde of Bath, recently
appointed Colonel of the 1st Me- Veteran Infan-
try, formed by consolidating the 5th, 9th, and
7th Maine regiments into one, bearing the above
title, will leave for his command, the Times
says, to-day.
80 The Lewiston Journal says the Andres
coggin County Show and Fair held last week,
was one of the most successful ever held in the
county. All the arrangements worked admira-
bly,, and the exhibition and exercises gave the
best of satisfaction.
B The Brunswick Telegraph reports the
death of Sanford o. Frye, on the 21st ult,
on board the U. S. Monitor Montauk, off
Charleston. He was aged % years, and grad
uated from Bowdoin in the class of this
year.
BAnew campaign take-off represents the
Gun Boat candidate riding en- donkey, face
sternward. The animal insists on going no far
Their, and the rider, with the scabbard of his
sword, points to his record. A spade sticks in
the ground Immediately in the rear.
~ Gen. IIentzleman will probably have
word of testimony to bear tomorrow, in rela-
ton to Gen. Mcclellan upon the field of battle.
If we can find room we shall give another install
ment of the testimony in the conspiracy case in
Indiana.
H-The landlord of the Forest House in Bos-
ton, was found on the Providence Railroad near
West Roxbury, on Wednesday night, with one
of his legs badly crushed. He died soon after
he was found. The case is undergoing an exam
ination.
EFThe act of Captain Crayens, who went
down in the monitor Tecumseh, off Mobile, was
an instance of sublime courtesy. AS the pilot
and himself, the last in the vessel moyeds TO the
ladder, the Captain stepped aside. saying, ''You
first, sir The pilot was saved, and the hero
persisted in his magnanimity, leaving an exam
pic as noble as that of Sydney.
II Elections Tomorrow in Pennsylvania.
Ohio and Indiana. These states have an aggre-
gate congressional vote of 81, as follows Penn
sylvania %, Ohio 10 and Indiana IL. The pres.
ent delegations stand, Indiana, Democrats and
4 Union: Ohio, IA Democrats and Union; Penn
sylvana IL Democrats and IL Union.
The trot at the late Fair in Waldo County,
was the fastest on record in the Eastern States
The Robinson horse (Gen. McClellan) won the
second heat in 2:31, the third heat in 2:2S, the
fourth heat in 1926. The McKenney horse ,(Geo.
D. McClellan) Monroe, won the first heat in 229
The horses seem to possess winning ways never
accorded to their military namesake
81 The Oxford Democrat says there was
stored in the store of Hon. B. A. Chapman,
Bethel Hill, which was destroyed by fire, about
$4,000 worth of wool belonging either to Messrs
H. j. Libby s. Co., or the Robinson Manufac-
turing Co., on which was an insurance of $4,000
On the second floor was stored a partof thetyp
Of the Bethel Courier Office, and some grain,
etc.
BDr. Faris, notorious eirsipia traitor,
obo+ Without co4,,.-.I .s1S:or