The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

EE Thurlow Weed is cut with letter in
favor of the election of Lincoln and Johnson.
r%A Young lady of our acquaintance wishes
20 Lnow II the horse-anGrines she has so often
heard of are attached to the Captains gig.
E-An escaped prisoner at Port Royal re-
norts that twenty deaths were occurring daily in
Charleston, of yellow fever
EA fearful gale prevailed in Halifax, on
Friday, prostrating houses and doing great dam
age.
Ey-There are two houses in the north part OF
the town of York, that have been built over 200
years. ~
rzrThe mechanics and laborers employed In |
Kittery Navy Yard are receiving their pay for
September. The pay roll is $137 $4,000.
FyEleanor Wilkins. instigated by jealousy,
shot Mary O'Brien, in Boston, on Monday, in
Aicting dangerous wound in the throat.
sR- The Northern National Bank of Hal
lowell has received authority to begin business
with capital of 100000.
EA Belgrade farmer has raised between 60
and 10 bushels of cranberries on half an acre Of
land. AT twelve cents quart it is profitable
crop.
! EIt is but 81 years since the first telegraph
was put to a practical test. Now there are
more than 200 900 miles in operation in the
world.
RThe copperhead papers are quoting that
soft old lady in Buffalo, Mrs. Fillmore, that the
last hope of restoring the Union is the election
of Mcclellan ssOh Lordy 70
| EFrank Pixley says if there is no material
! hell for traitors and secessionists ''then there
must be some mistake in the Providence Of
Cod
EThere has not been traitor in this coun-
try from Aaron Burr to the present time, who
did not belong to the party that claimed special
respect for the Union, and was ready to denounce
their opponents for dsupion tendencies.
R If anything particularly brilliant APP
pears in the columns of the Press for two three
days. it may be attributed to the absence Of
the editor, who is to be off-the first time fortwo
months--on a lark
| "a The Saco Democrat commenced giving
the names of prominent Republicans who have
come out for Mcclellan, but it has concluded to
discontinue the practice. Cause, lack of mate
rial.
EThe copperheads favor the arming OF ne
groes by the confederacy. They are perfectly
willing black soldier should kill a loyal white
man, but not that black soldier should kill q
rebel.
EIn describing the difference between arts
tocracy and democracy, it is wittily said Of Gin
cinnati: The democracy are those who kill hogs
for d living; the aristocracy are those whose
fathers killed hogs.
| T. - hos pnro
scented Gen. Grant with q beautiful white OK,
weighing 1000 pounds. The OK recently APP
peared in grand torch-light procession in Bos-
ton, drawn on a wagon by six fine horses, and
labelled U. s. Grant M
HAn influential and prominent Copperhead
leader was recently overheard impressing upon
. fellow co-patriot of JEFF. Davis, s'that we must
Drag this Presidential election through. . "There
are times,'' said he, "when faint necessary, but
we must do it this time on Little Mac
Fort Nichols at the mouth of the Merri-
mack, is SO called in honor of the late Capt.
William Nichols of Newburyport, famous as
the commander of the privateer Decatur in the
war of 1912, and as brave and patriotic a man
as ever lived.
BThe rebels in Mobile recently got up
grand illumination in honor of the victories of
Early in the Shenandoah Valley. A waste of
tallow equalled only by the waste of gas in New
York in Illuminating in honor of the Democratic
victoriesin Pennsylvania and Ohio.
E-Two New York newsboys have just started
for Europe with two thousand dollars each and
propose to set up in business when they get
across the water. Their thrift is owing to the
l. H. NJ T ,I1.s
| House.
n Clement Webster. editor of the Providence
Post, died in that city of paralysis last Sunday.
He was born at Kennebunk, in 1917, served part
of his time as printer in Saco, and up ito the
period of his death had been connected with the
newspaper press as proprietor and editor.
EA correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
says that man named st. Clair was SO badly
scalded in vat of Denison & Co.'s paper mill
at Mechanics Falls, few days since, that after
lingering a few daysin intense suffering, death
relieved him of his torture. He was single man,
% years of age.
a Eleven officers of the I'd Maine Cavalry
recently rendered their resignation, but Gen.
Ashboth refused to accept them, and ordered
Court of Inquiry. 1t is understood that the
difficulty has grown out of the Recommendation
by Col Woodman of certain officers for promo
ton.
% According to the catalogue of Harvard
College for 1864, just published, there are now
44O graduates and 1856 undergraduates at thisin-
stitution, Of which II are Divinity students, 125
law, ~ scientific, astronomical, and PIG med-
cal OF the undergraduates 80 are seniors and
liz juniors, 1O2 sophomores and 81 freshmen.
~ A young man inAthe employ of Abner
Cook of Windsor, left home suddenly short
time since with $2O6 in greenbacks stolen from
Mr.. c. He was confronted on the cars be-
tween Hallowell and Augusta, last Saturday,
charged with the crime. confessed and forked
over.
- Said George Sennott, heretofore an active
democrat in Boston, at public meeting the
other day, 81 oppose the Democratic party-not
the voters, mind, but the managers : because
men have got hold Of the organization whom
know to beas grovelling as swine and as ignos
rant as dirt
BJudge Woodward, candidate for governor
of Pennsylvania in 1868, opposed granting SOL
diers in the field the right of voting, and is as
bitter a eopperhead asVallandigham. Gen. Nc
Clellan, in his letter of Oct. 18th, 1868, said:
81 Having had full conversation with Judge
Woodward, find that our views agree"
80 The intelligent voter finds something sug-
gestive in the fact that the electoral ticket for
Mr.. Lincoln is headed by Edward Everett in
Massachusetts,, Daniel S. Dickinson in New York,
Thomas Cunningham in Pennsylvania, and
David Tod in Ohio-all eminent names, and all
of them men who opposed Mr. Lincoln in
! 1860. AKA
DR.. Bellows, the president of the Sanitary
Commission, arrived from California on Sunday
morning. and preached to his congregation in
New York in the evening He has collected
$500, 900 for the relief of soldiers and sailors