The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-11-14
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lath m1ll, IN WnitueyVuie, ON tuesday last.
EThe handsome sum of $32, 900 has been
raised for the widow and orphan children of the
late Major General Birney.
EyThe Oxford Democrat says Mr.. Durham,
Who was injured on the railroad, died on Tues
day.
| EEIn 1860 the states which have not seeded
gave 2l4 electoral votes. The same states now,
with the new states. give 234 electoral votes.
Since the defeatof ''Sunset'' Cox in Ohio,
he is called shutdown Cox. His sun has set
never more to rise. v0H gF4aFNy
! EMchael Hanley, an Irishman employeda at
the stable at the Kittery Navy Yard, cut of
| three Of the fingers of his left hand, in hay
cutter, on Friday morning. g,tT IA
| fGY The number of names on the pay roll at
the Charleston Navy Yard on the LIST inst was
1902, and the amount of money necessary to
pay off $274, 732.43. Z. rc1 rsr
EIn the list Of soldiers who died in the
Portsmouth, Va, Hospital, during the month of
| October, is the name of Archibald Taggard, Co.
G, 18th Maine.
gThree men were arrested at Wesley, on
Monday last, and taken to Calais, charged with
the murder recently committed in that town.
I They had come home to vote.
EHon. Schuyler Colfax is to deliver the
| first of series of lectures before the Boston
Young Mems Christian Association, on Wednes-
day evening next. rfs4 fFr.r -.4s
RThe U. 8. Gunboat Galena has repudiated
the gunboat General. The entire vote of her
officers was thrown for Lincoln and the
Union.A ~ o a4iv asasigEal e taegaass5es8ss ],
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ticut river, above Hartford, SO feet long, that
runs seventeen miles in an hour, and consumes
| for fuel enc fence rail.
B-The Tribune says. eve hold that the
People have just decided in the election of Lin
coin and johnson, that the NATION SHALL LIVE
AND THAT SLAVERY SHALL DESC much, and no
more ~ ls..sas
B While returning from dinner to the Office
on Friday, we heard one little fellow, perhaps
six or eight years old, say to'his playmate, II
won't wear that badge any longer; MI Clelian's
played out 20 's'- @4 ''t t'--sl' s'sssl3
EThe Cape Ann Advertiser states thata man
named Reed, in the employ of Gorham Babson,
was found hung in barn at Pigeon Cove, on
! Wednesday morning. He was a native of Me-,
and was married on Saturday last in Rockport
No cause is assigned for the rash act
EThe Boston Transcript says there were
two Mcclellan men in Marsh6eld, until two
orators came there to explain the beauties of the
Chicago platform, after which the voters of the
town were unanimous for Lincoln, as was shown
on the day of election.
trAEIn 1860 Maryland contained IS, 1882 slaves
and gave Lincoln and Hamlin 1924 votes, and
90, 2O8 for the opposition. Now Maryland has
no slaves, ard has just given her vote for Lin
coin and johnson by q large popular majority.
Who will say the world does not move? : $50
9Large, fve-dollar umbrellas have become
quite common of late. One metallic firm on
Middle street, we are told, sold q large number.
perhaps several dozens, at $40 each, to be paid
for if New York should cast her electoral vote
for Mcclellan. The bills have not yet been pre-
sented sdstA A9z@ae5 h2s h9sae
4 ~ Lncoln's ''To whom it may concern"
missive was hailed by the copperheads as god
send which they prophesied would drive the last
nail in his political coffin. The results of the
late election show how well they gagged the
public feeling in this regard. History has in
nearly every case yindicated Mr.. Lincoln's
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4 public sentiment.
e. It is reported that in the recent railroad
accident near Lafayette, Ind, the baggage car
was about IA inches narrower than the passenger
car behind it, and the force of the collision was
such as to drive the baggage carentirely through
the passenger car, tearing off the top but leav-
ing the sides intact Every person in the car
was instantly killed. va Fi'alq aais
RA copperhead convention held in Mont
pelier. VT, few days before election, gave
three cheers for Mcclellan, and brave soldier
present ventured to add cheer for sold Abe, ;"
whereupon he was kicked down stairs and badly
injured. Afterwards about thirty soldiers en-
tered the convention and eheered Justify for
sold Abe.' The convention was not big enough
or bold enough to kick out the thirty. !.
% The Oxford Democrat says the house of
Mr.. J. H. jackson, Paris, was burned to the
ground, Monday evening at about II o'clock.
It caught from stove pipe that passed through
q partition. When discovered the roof was
wrapt in fame, and in few moments the cham
Der ioor fell, so that little bedding was all that
was saved, the family not even saving their
wearing apparel. .ea .ssis.
ETA Union man in allusion to jeff Davis
manner of estimating the strength and prowess
of his Confederates, says it reminds him of the
Snowman who prated of the great capacity Of
the animal he was exhibiting. 'sLadies and
Gentlemen said he. "this is the celebrated
Bengal tiger, measuring fourteen feet from the
tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, and four
teen more from from the tip Of his tail back to
the tip Of his nose, making in all twenty-eight
feet'' 9H .ssRifI
RTwo years ago, before the issue of the
emancipation proclamation, the elections in
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, all went for the Democrats, and were
crowed by that party as evidence that the
administration was repudiated. On the first of
January following the proclamation was issued,
since which time all those reverses have been
corrected, and the most glorious results have
been witnessed both in the field and at the ballot
j box.
EThe Boston Herald adyertises for sale the
stock and fixtures Of bankrupt concern, here
tofore doing business under the firm Of No
Clellan, Vallandgham, Wood, Davis & Co. The
firm was organized in Chicago, in August last,
did business on a discredited capital for a
few months, and has now gone into hopeless
bankruptcy. The stock is badly damaged and
+ viii be sold without reserve. It consists largely
of pictures of Little Mac, mostly fancy sketches
such as Mac on the battlefield, aMac'' in
the midst Of flying shot and shell, sc. g3
I 81 The Pennington Patriot defends A. p
Gould. athan whom more gentlemanly, hon.
orable, high-minded, christian man never
lived We thank the author Of such compli-
ment to such man, for writing us down as ga
| whiskey bottle" The Pennington copperhead
elbows how much he knows Of what he talks
about in saying that "Mr. Gould made a most
effective and telling speech in Portland before