The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-11-07
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% sheridan smotto-tight often and EaTty.
- Counterfeit tens on the Bank of North
America, Boston, are in circulation.
HB firm in Springfield, Mass, manufac-
lures sixty thousand collars in day.
- We esteem denunciation from a traitor
next in value to compliment from patriot
q The resources Of the National Banking
Association on the Let Monday Of October, we're
$297, OOO, 900
- The vote of the Loyal League of this
country is from SOC, 900 to 100000 every one
Of which viii be for Lincoln and johnson.
~ Ex-Gov Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury,
VT, is dangerously ill. His physi ,ians have
given up all hopes of his recovery.
81 The total number of voters registered in
the city or New York is. 1875 900, or some 3d.
600 more than ever was polled in that metropo-
lis
H The baggage master at North Yarmouth
was so severely in jured by the cars on Thurs
day that it is feared he will lose one of bis
feet.
- A. P. Gould's social character received
the highest endorsement from F. o. J. Smith
Of course this will give the colored gentleman a
free pass to the best society.
- The Union-loving people of Pennington
are to have grand rally this evening, at the
Court House, and to be addressed by 1T. Gil
man of this city. Q lac = Ns09s
" The death Of Capt John s. Gorden, COM
mander of the gunboat Reno, Of Searsport, in q
late skirmish a few miles above Newburn, N. G.,
has been announced. fsgva az M
~ Col. Mark F. Wentworth, of the3 2d Me.
regiment, who was severely wounded at the
time of the explosion at Petersburg, when his
regiment was SO terribly shattered, has resigned
his commission.
= 'Semtnes,' y and nothing more, was the
motto on one Of the transparencies at Demo-
cratic meeting in Cincinnati, and that was in
fanny enough. The fitting finale should have
been cheers for JEFF Davis. HN.
B Eleven hundred deserters from the rebel
army came into our lines, near Richmond, in
twelve days Hast month. Letter. writer's say if
Lincoln is elected the Confederate soldiers viii
desert by thousands. hvc ngn4gYf55
~ Gov. Morton, ofsfndiana, has received .
I letter purporting to come from stSon of Liber-
ty,'' assuring his Excellency of assassination
unless he releases within two weeks certain trail
tors therein named.
g 81 No one will be surprised to learn that
Isaac Toucey, Buchanan's Secretary of the Ma
Wy, is out for Mcclellan. If his residence had
been few degrees farther south he would have
been in JEFF. Davis cabinet.
BCoL John w. Forney has recently been
stamping large portion of Northern Penn
sylyania, and predicts that the gains in the
counties of that section will, with probably q
single exception, be Union gains s,as s.. -..t
The only question of doubt involved in
the coming Presidential election is whether or
not Mcclellan viii get the vote of single state.
There is possibility of his carrying Missouri
and no probability of his carrying any other
State.
- The Bath Times says the bark ST. Cloud,
now at Damariscotta, will sail about the 9Th Of
December for Pensacola via Philadelphia. A
proposition is made by the owners to carry all
parcels and packages free of expense, to the
Second Maine Cavalry, now at Barrancas.
80 Four Pennsylvania regiments are order
dered to report at Philadelphia. The govern
ment is taking every precaution 10 prevent any
interference with the free expression of the
wishes of every loyal voter, at the ballot-box,
on Tuesday. ssf % ssA ansas
The Bangor Wing says the sick and wound
ed soldiers who have arrived in that city, speak
In the highest terms of their treatment in Port
land and other stations, where they were fur
nished with refreshments and were the recipi-
ents of many other kind attentions.
- The New Orleans Era says the I'd New
York Cavalry, serving in Louisiana, has cast its
entire vote, upward of eight hundred, for Lin
coin, Mcclellan not receiving single ballot
The corps served for many months in the Army
of the Potomac under Mcclellan.
81 The military companies of Boston, in
oluding tho Lancers and Dragoons, are ordered
to hold themselves in readiness to answer any
call that may be made upon them at a moments
notice. The troops in the harbor are under thu
same orders. saraf,rseeess aroveesF
% Hon. George Thompson spoke in Con-
cord on Wednesday evening, the Monitor states
to the largest audience ever gathered in any
building in that city. Twenty nine years age
that gentleman was mobbed while speaking in
that city. The world moves. 4, s,.sE.s ~.
70 ~ 1t is stated on good authority that Gov.
eminent has knowledge that not only great num-
bers of refugees in the British Provinces are
plotting to come into the States and vote on
Tuesday next, but that large quantities Of arms
are already in Canada, designed for distribution
throughout the North.
81 The presence of Gen. Butler in New York
on the day of the Presidential election with a
corps veteran soldiers will be terror toevild oers
he is for the present in command of the Eastern
Department and any attempt to interfere with
the ballot box or to destroy property, will be
met with the same determination as he has met
rebels in the front. = = - AS@ skA&
Fat the last election in this state a young
man In Andover connected with several of the
leading families in this city, walked AZ miles 70
cast his first vote for the Union candidates. He
has one brother serving in the. Federal army and
another has fallen with his face to the enemy.
With such young men to vote and fight, our
country is safe. n q affs q III
81 We have received catalogue of the Off
GERS and students of Bates College, Lewiston
for the year ending Nov. %, 1854. 1t represents
this College in very prosperous condition
The number in attendance during the year is
1926; in the College Department g. The ex-
penses for board, tuition, rent, &C., are about
I fifty dollars term. -s-t@4s 2S4sAQS
~ correspondent of the Oxford Democrat
says six members of the family of the late Jo-
seph E. Colby, Rumford, have died within three
months. On the fourth of July, Lieut.. Colby
was buried. and few days after his mother was
laid in the grave. Sept 9th, Sarah. his only
HI. na4. navs
and Oct. - VIM Pitt, another of the sons, all
died from diptheria. sae .s8ais .saoss
~ Lieut.. Esterbrook, of the 26th Massachu-
sets regiment, says in relation to the proposi-
ton of the rebels to arm their slaves, that he
conyersed freely with them while on his way
from Richmond prison to our lines, and they
were highly pleased with the idea of being arm
al. "A L.