The Portland daily press., 1864-09-06
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ty, England, arrived In Boston =
81 The exports of domestic proaA.ess' -
New York last week amounted to S7.O0SSoo |
EThe New Hampshire Legislature adjourn
ell without day on Thursday last.
II The old book publishing firm of Crosby
& Nichols, Boston, is dissolved. 1t is nov Cros-
by & Ainsworth.
r. A manager of one of the charitable in
stitutions of Philadelphia under arrest for em-
bez1ling $500 Of its funds.
e Mr. Tilden, of N. T., one of the most
prominent men in the Chicago Convention,
was an intense free soiler in is4s.
Y The Richmond Sentinel Of Tuesday says |
there are now in Richmond 6576 prisoners, Of |
whom $40 are on Belle Isle. 355 are in hospi-
tails, and ESQ in the Libby prison.
q Coal oil and sawdust having been recon-
mended to put around the roots of plum trees to
keep off the curculo, several persons tried it and
found il effectual-in killing the trees.
" The following deaths of Maine soldiers
are reported at Washington: Charles II. Kenni-
son, Doth Maine; Elisha II. Littlehale, 18th
Maine.
y Adjt A. X. Snail, OF W. wateryille, who
was in the late battle in which the 10th regiment
suffered so severely, is reported among the miss
ing-supposed prisoner.
= Ii is reported that Col. Beal, OF the Goth
Maine, will soon leave the regiment to accept a
Brigadier Generalship.
~ Sergt. Major Edwin c. Stevens, of Wa
teryille, in one of the battles in defence'of the
Weldon rairoid, was shot through the head
and died Immediately.
B The following deaths Of Maine soldiers
have occurred in Richmond prison up to August
22i: A. L Keene, Co. A. LIST Heavy Artillery;
Corp. r. r. Duln, Co. C, 10th.
-EF Newcastle and Damariscotta have filed
money having been raised by enrolled men, and
others. voluntarily.
~ The following Mime soldiers have died
recent, at City Point, Va: W. R. Allen. ID Me-.
H. s. Lermond, 9TH Me; J. II. Gerrish, LIST Me.
Heavy Artillery; E. W. Eldridge, 32i Ne.
y The time Of Co. A, Maine State Guards,
Of Bangor, on garrison duty at Fort McClary.
expired on the 5th inst, and Co. B. also Of BAN
gor, is to take their place.
y The Union men Of Windham have unani-
mously nominated VIM. Goold, ESQ.,, Of that
town, for Representative. Windham is classed
with Scarboro'.
II Gen. Hazen, in letter written few days
before the capture Of Atlanta, gives careful sta
tistics showing that the rebel army under John
ston and Hood had lost SO 900 men.
- The fall Of Atlanta is severe blow to the
copperheads. One of them remarked SAtur-
day. that their ticket had gone to -, manning
a place the temperature Of which is supposed to
be intense).
q number Of members OF the Turkish
Mission at Constantinople, and several Of the
/ Syrian churches, have subscribed over six hun
dred dollars to supply the Scriptures to the freed
blacks 10 the South.
= We are indebted TO Col Charles B. Mer-
rill, of the Maine 18th, for copy Of the W atch-
man and Harbinger. Of August Goth. religious
naper from Gouldsboro', N. c. II is dirty
looking sheet.
n IL. C. r." is informed that such errors
~ shs refers to are so common that editors SCI
dom noe them In their own articles. Typo
graphical errors are ana. oiaable in an ordinary
daily Office
EF Chaplain Leonard, Of the LIST Heavy A.
tillery, is 10 wateryille with his family. He is
looking and talking well. and the Mail advises
all weak-kneed men TO see him and talk with
him. twill do them good.
~ female infant. apparently only few
hours old, was found on the bridge between Ban
gor and Brewer a few days ago. The child was
adopted BY family in Bangor, but died on
Thursday last.
~ Rev. % Marcus R. Keep has been nom
mated BY the pro-slavery Democracy Of Aroos-
took county for Judge of Probate. This REV"
advocate of rum and slavery will fail to obtain
his Thirty pieces Of sfver'eby this nomina-
ton.
II John S. White, Esq, an able lecturer and
racY writer, who, with Mr.. F. @. Rich, entered
upon the publication of the Temperance Journal
with commendable real and energy few IN. n,hs
ago. has, from some cause not stated, withdrawn
therefrom. Mr.. Rich is now sole publisher.
~ The Portsmouth Chronicle says quite q
serious ARRAY occurred on board the steamer
Colorado at the Navy Yard on Friday, in which
the master-at-arms was stabbed in the head by a
sailor, tsubstitutc), INJECTING q frightful cash
across the face.
81 The Augusta correspondent Of the Ban
gor Wing says Mr.. Lyon. at srst reported killed
BY the falling Of one Of the hospital buildings at
Camp Frye, last Tuesday, is still alive, in crit
icai condition. The others injured are doing
we'll
~ despatch from General Hodsdon. now
in Washington, says that enlistments for the
Navy will be secured for the present quota for at
least three weeks longer, and that every arrange
ment viii b made by the Navy Department TO
facilitate such ealistments.
q The Argus explanation Of the eopperhead
conspiracy in the West, involving specially its
friend voorhees,, of Indiana, is about ut sensible
as Piilsbury's explanation Of his dead friend
Floyd's stealing Of the guns in all the Northern
forts to crowd the Southern arsenals.
~ The Pittsburg Chronicle Of Friday last
says that measures are now projected to bring to
the coal regions of Pennsylvania a large number
Of workpen from the East, and TO push on the
manufacture of efficient and labor-saying coal
machines. Every emigrant ship brings over
numbers of diggers VITO would be exceedingly
glad to work at present ra,es-
- The loyal citizens Of Boston viii hold
meeting at Faneuii Hall this evening, for con-
graduation on the recent successes Of our army
and navy, and to pronounce emphatcally their
contempt for the armis,ies platform recently
concoeted at Chicago. His Excellency the Gov
ernor will preside, and with other distinguish
ed and eloquent gentlemen will address the
meeting
" Franz Muller, the alleged murderer OF
Briggs in u railway car in England, was on
Saturday morning placed on board the steam