The Portland daily press., 1864-10-08
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

~ Hon. james Brooks has been renominated
for Congress.
gHon. Henry Wilson is speaking in Penn
sylvania.
Ey-A fair lately took place at London in aid |
of the Garibaldi Yacht Fund.
Tseveral drafted men in Appleton and Lin
colnyille have skedaddled.
HE-A catamount or panther has been seen re-
Gently in the vicinity of Weston, in this state.
Wv-Capt. Sumner S. Richards, of Saco, of
the nth Maine, left for the front on Monday.
GEGen. Banks and wife arrived in Washing
ton on Thursday evening
S~Gen. Tom Thumb and family leave New
York for Liverpool on the 10Th inst, on pri-
yate tour of pleasure.
ETThe body of Gen. Burnham arrived at
Bangor on Wednesday, en- route for the residence
of his family in Cherryfed.
eyThe Granite Railway Company's large
stable in Quincy, Mass, was with its contents
burned on Wednesday night
@-Rev. ]. c. Fletcher. the popular lecturer
ON Brazil and Switzerland, will soon return from
his fourth visit to the region of the Amazon.
~ Lieut.. R. B. Marcy of the 18th Me-, is
among the WOuuucQ OluCoTo WHO nave dTTitON 0e
Washington.
GTThe Connecticut town elections thus far
reported in the Hartford Press stand: Union, 50;
Democratic, As; comprising three Democratic
gains and nine Union gains.
TParties ordering transient copies of the
Press should enclose stamps for postage. Tran
sient papers sent from the office require prepay
L. 90 mo n q ~ cont hv .,thor ,1opt;ac
E%The decapitated and dismembered body of
a man tied up in bundle and freighted with
iron, was pulled ashore at Brooklyn Navy Yard
on Monday.
B-A modest clergyman requested accommo-
dations for himself, wife. and six children only,
during the sessions of the American Board in
Worcester.
RThe City Hall of Lynn, containing the
municipal offices, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday morning. man named Bond, who
was in the lookup, persisted in the flames.
REx-Gov Jared W. Williams died at his
residence in Lancaster, N. H.. on the 10Th ult.
He had served in Congress as well as in the Ex-
ecutive chair.
! RThe Manchester IN H. } Print Works, on
capital of 81 800. 900. have the last year divi-
ded 40 per cent and carried 8 per cent to the re-
serve fund.
RThe Boston Advertiser says Gen. j. d.
Fessenden, eldest son Of the Secretary of the
Treasury, has been ordered to active service in
Gen. Sheridan's army.
RThe miniature brig which left New York
on the 10th June, was spoken July 20 when
about midway across the Atlantic, but since
| that time nothing has been heard of her.
81 Mr.. VIM. Condor, Postmaster at Saco
during the administration of Van Buren,, and,
for number of years previous to that, Editor
of the Maine Democrat. died at that place Tues
day last.
Hon. Edward Everett accepts the invita-
/ ton of Gov Andrews and others to give public
expression to his views on the issues involved in
the pending canvass, at Faneuil Hall on the
10th instant.
Adam Link, one of therevolutionary PEN
sioners, died in Ohio, few days ago, in the lO3d
year of his age. This is probably one of the
last links connecting the revolutionary period
with the present.
g The Argus advises all those who have oe-
casion to write the soldiers in the field to enclose
democratic [copperhead] ballot Isn't it bad
enough to expose the soldiers to rebel bullets
without annoying them with rebel ballots :?
Professor Agassiz proposes to give course
of lectures ON Fridays, beginning October ID, at
the Museum in Cambridge, on the "Natural His
tory Of Domesticated Animals" All farmers
and dairymen will be admitted free.
e Brignoli has returned to Europe and made
an engagement to sing at the Italian Opera
House in Paris. He will sing seven months in
the year. The first year he will receive $1,000 Q
month, the second, $500 month, and the
third, $4,000 month s
E-The eopperheads are quoting the Spring
field Republican, Union paper, to prove that
their candidate is not traitor Phunny, isn't
it? Theyquote the opposition, probably, be-
cause their own testimony would not go down
with the people.
An anonymous correspondent sends US a
smutty piece of doggerel, aimed at certain insti-
tutions better, probably, than he has ever appre.
ciated, and asks us to ''pitch into them" CAM
do so, at any rate not till we have exchanged the
pen for manure fork.
/ 81 Isn't it rather steep for grocsrs and pro-
vision dealers to put net profit of so per cent
| upon articles bought in their own shops or in
the street, mourning no expense, and articles,
too, not perishable, of quick sale, and with no
waste?
R- Hon. H. E. Prentiss, of Bangor, one of
the proprietors of Tops6eld, has recently dona-
ted to that town valuable library. Nearly
every town and plantation in which Mr.. P. is
pecuniarily interested in Maine, has thus been
generously remembered by him.
= The Bath Times says that on Thursday
afternoon, the house Of Emmons Fisher in that
city, was pretty nearly destroyed by fire. It
| was story and half house. There was $500
insurance on the house, and 500 on the furni-
| ture in the Lincoln Mutual.
BThe Augusta Journal says that the Fly
Train Of single car with an engine in one end
of it, which has run this season between that
city and Gardiner, carried in the month of Sep
TENDER very nearly seven thousand four hun
dred passengers, and has been great convenience
to business people.
% Let no one fail to read the whitening reply
of Judge Kelley to Mr.. Naglee, ON the first page.
1t affords an example of Brigadier literally
'chawed up,'' and converted into mince meat.
If Naglee was not more successful with his
sword than with his pen, he did not leave the
service any too soon. tll .
q The Board of Enrolment for the Fifth
District has changed its purpose to draft for
Hancock and Washington counties, at points
within those counties, and the draft for Wa sh-
ington county is now preceding at Belfast The
draft for Hancock county viii take place early
next week.
gOn account of the frequent attempts Of
bounty Jumpers to escape after getting their
bounties, Capt. Bean, Provost Marshal of the
Fifth District, before he will accept such charac-
tiers, requires them to deposit their bounty
money with him, till they are sent to headquar-