The Portland daily press., 1864-10-06
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cry than lard or sperm oil.
ExThere are $4,000 freedmen employed on
the plantations in Louisiana
~The following deaths have been reported at
Was sington: Thatcher Severance, lst Maine H.
Art,v. Martin L. Hayden, 18th Maine.
a5yTbe editor of the Springfield Republican
has seen g ITlemish Beauty" pear that weighed |
a pound and fly = ounces.
n~-A Musical Convention is to be held in
Lewiston on Tuesd4Ny, the 18th inst, under the |
direction of Prof L. =. Emerson.
g5r Hon. Charles p Curtis, distinguished
LAWYER in Boston, died at his residence in that
city, on Tuesday last.
GxAll accounts agree in the statement that
the negroes fought brayely in the recent attacks
ON the rebel works north of the James.
rEHon Thomas F. Marshall, the well-known
Kentucky orator, died on the 22d ult,, at his
residence at Versailles, Ky.
GY-Gen John Cochrane addressed the Phila-
delphia Union League on Saturday evening in
favor of the election of Lincoln and johnson.
- Ten thousand white troops and fifteen
thousand colored soldiers have been enlisted in
Louisiana.
ETA manufacturing firm in Fall River is
said to have lost $3.50 900 within fortnight
by the decline in the price of cotton goods.
B-The story that railroad train was Slapped
the other day by United States Collector, be-
cause it lacked a revenue stamp, is contradic-
ted. F
ESurgeon M'Dougall, Medical Director of
the Eastern Department, arrived in Manchester,
N. H., Friday evening, on tour of inspection
of hospitals
EThey tell of New Jersey railroad which
''kills its NAM daily. We suspect it is the
Camden and Amboy, for it killed member of
Congress for this state.
e The Emperor of the French Is at Vichy,
and daily takes bath. The King Of the Bel
CLANS is reported to have called this ''a very
Vichy -vashy sort of proceeding. ''-[Punch.
BGen. John A. Logan, an old wheel horse
of the Illinois Democracy, while at home from
Atlanta on furlough, is stumping in that state
for Lincoln and Johnshn.
q Jackson Haines, the American skater,
whose departure for Europe was announced not
long ago, has issued challenge to the skaters
of England.
% The British man-of- war; Georgianna,
which was in the port OF New York short time
ago, is commanded by H. W. Stewart, colored
man.
BThe Lewiston Journal learns that Hon.
Nahum Morrell, of Auburn, has received his
commission as Provost Marshal of the I'd Dis
trict I
R-In Exeter, n H., Sunday afternoon,
young man by the name of John Hall, clerk at
the Squamscott House, about % years of age,
committed suicide.
B-The New York Journal of Commerce says
that nine-tenths of the foreigners that are being
put through the process of naturalization in
that city are for Mcclellan.
- There is a thread in our thoughts as
there is pulse in our hearts; he who can hold
the one knows how to think, and he who can
move the other knows how to feel.
- Fenelon when he had charge of the edu-
cation of the Duke of Burgundy, said, ssWhat
am going to say to this child, will be the occa-
sion of happiness or misery to twenty millions of
people,
BCotton being scarce, a Yankee ''patriot''
has invented and is selling like hot dumplings
india-rubber breast works for ladies, as his ad-
vertisement says-"rivalling nature in grace,
shape and elasticity -
20 Michael Leavitt, substitute broker doing
business in Boston, was arrested by the first
station police, Saturday, for having stolen
gold watch in Portsmouth. The watch was
found in his possession.
B-A clergy man was garrotted in Chicago,
while returning from an evening meeting,
short time since, and robbed of various articles.
including valuable watch and chain presented
him by his congregation.
BTwenty seven thousand copies of s'Thay-
er's Life of Abraham Lincoln have been sold.
1t is an excellent work for the young, and may
be read with interest and profit by persons of
any age.
% General Sherman, at last accounts. was
near the junction of the Macon and Montgomery
Railroad, 20 miles south of Atlanta, and Hood
was intrenched on the Chattahoochie river, be
tween Fairburn and Palmetto.
- Lieut.. VIM. J. Ladd, son of Alexander
Ladd, Esq, of Portsmouth, serving on the staff
of Gen. Stannard, wasreported in the New York
Herald of Sunday, to have been MORALLY woun-
ded Sept. Goth, during Gen. Buffers brilliant
advance on Richmond.
- Money at the West is getting to be tight
More than ST 900 900 are locked up in whisky
speculation in Chicago. Wool, too, has another
great sum in its keeping. A fall in pork and
grain is expected to be among the results of this
state of things.
81 The Boston Post says ''John P. Hale,
Salmon P. Chase and VIM. H. Seward, voted Tor
dissolution of the Union as senator's in Con-
gress' The Post is strangely bent on roman
cling, and sometimes seems to forget the 'slake''
in which all liars have apart.
81 Mr.. Charles s. Perkins, graduate of the
last class of the Bangor Theological Seminary,
will be ordained to the work of the gospel min
istry on Thursday evening next, at the Main st.
Free Baptist churchin Lewiston. The sermon
will be preached by Rev. DIR. Graham of this
city.
VT There are now in successful operation in
Baltimore, five manufactures of substitutes for
coffee, and it has really become an extensive bus
| mess. From statistics obtained at the internal
revenue Office, it appears that an aggregate pro-
duction of these establishments for the quarter
ending 3lst June, 1865, was 375, $50 pounds.
Gen. Cameron, in speech at Pittsburg
On the goth ult., said that thorough canvass of
the State (PenHsylvania) shows that the Repub-
lcans would gain four members of Congress
at least. and probably seven; and he added
| ssThat we shall carry the State in October
there is nc doubt. The only question is the ma
jority.'' EEr
81 Capt. Henry Stinson of Augusta, who has
been on Gen. Howard's staff for the past TWO
! years, has returned home quite unwell. 1t will
/ be remembered that he was seriously wounded in
| Sherman's advance to Atlanta, ball passing
through his lungs. by q miracle, almost, he re.
covered. and was able again to take the field a
month or two since. Recently, however, be was
seised with hemorrhage of the partially healed
wound. and was compelled to leave the field
and return heme.-- Lewiston Journal.
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