The Portland daily press., 1864-10-07
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

EThe draft for Penobscot and Piscataquis
Counties has been completed.
e@Capt. Brooks company of unassigned in
fantry has been mustered into service and will
leave for the frontin few days.
EGreat and small cetton speculatorsin Eng
land and France ars coming to grief by the fall
of the article.
g-Dr. Prescott isnow lying dangerously ill
at the residence of his son-in-law, S. H. Lowell,
in Pennington.
~ Cheese in Herkimer County, N. l., has de-
clined 10 or 10 cents a pound and is not as
ssliyely', as when it was kept for rise.
Ey-The Norwich (Ct.) Bulletin predicts TO-
900 majority in that state for Lincoln and john
son.
EyRev. W. W. Hayward of Kendsll's Mills,
chaplain of the 18th Me- regiment, left for the
front on the both ult.
R-The Pennington Chronicle says that but
ter in that town is now selling at 40 cents
pound and potatoes at so cents bushel.
gg-Philadelphia has just voted one million Of
dollars for new schoolhouses. The money is
to be raised by loan.
aY-One hundred and ninety Yankee Officer
left Charleston on the 25th to be exchanged.
They went to Lovejoy, Ga.
Y-Gov. Cony has officially announced the
adoption of the constitutional amendment ex-
tending the right of suffrage to soldiers in the
field.
BThe stock of cotton in Liverpool is now
933, $3.50 bales, or more than double what it was
in September, 1868, and more than four times
what it was in September, 1862.
E-A national flag was unfurled to the breeze
by the Union citizens of Wiscassett, on Tuesday
morning, on which occasion salute of thirty
five guns was fired.
BThe Evening Post of Baltimore was sup
pressed by General Wallace on Friday. to pre-
vent riot, in consequence of incendiary publ
cations by that journal.
RA bogus order of the Governor General Of
Canada directing the enrolment of American
refugees, sends our draft runaways backward
with hot haste.
THE Hartford Courant says that at the
town elections in Connecticut on Monday, the
Union gains in several of the twenty-seven towns
heard from were considerable.
e. The Boston papers say the large retail dry
goods houses in that city are doing brisk bust
ness, having made liberal reduction from for
mer prices.
81 Joseph NJ. Meserye, ESQ.,. of Augusta, a
lawyer of rare ability, and former partner of
Messrs. J. W. Bradbury and Lot NJ. Morrill,,
died on Thursday of last week.
R-Gen. Burnham who fell in recent battle
near Richmond, has left wife to whom he was
recently married, and several children, the Off
spring of a former wife.
RLieut Fuller, son of DR.. Fuller of Corinth,
of Co. M, Bakers Cavalry, was captured by
the rebels near Sycamore Church, Va, on the
10th ult.
Capt. John Amazeen of New Castle, N
H., fell down the hatchways of the schooner
Patrick on Wednesday morning, in Gosport
harbor, breaking and disjointing his shoul-
der.
BA little son of Mrs. Bolton, Bangor, had
an eye put out on Wednesday by a boy playfully
throwing stone at him. Such sport is often
attended with the most serious consequences
and ought not to be INDUCED in. M
RThe Council Bluffs Qowa) Bugle, demo-
cratic paper, cannot stand Kangaroo ticket,
and SO drops Mcclellan, aud puts up James W.
Wall of New Jersey for president and Pendle-
ton for vice president.
Warren Johnson, Esq, is to give the ad-
dress before the Sagadahoc Agricultural and
Horticultural Society, on Thursday next. On
Tuesday will be the usual show of stock; We'd
nesday trial of speed of horses.
81 The Skowhegan Clarion says pumpkin
VIZ o;scdf IN
measuring four feet and six inches in circumfer-
ence Too much pumpkin for the Clarion por-
ringer.
RIn 1884, only eighty years ago, the mail
was carried between Portsmouth and Portland
on horseback. In l7s6 the first mail was
carried in coaches from Portsmouth to Savan-
nah.
The Boston Traveller, that has clear eye
to the financial bearing of every event, advises
those who wish to purchase dry goods, cotton,
or woolens for the coming winter. to purchase
now, anticipating an advance in prices.
RA young man formerly of humble circum-
stances has an income of $1,000 per day paid him
as his share of certain oil lands in Pennsylvania.
This amounts to So, 54s, 900 per annum. He may
be able to live on it.
- The story SO generally circulated that
President Lincoln recently offered an important
command to Gen. Mcclellan, if be would with
draw from the Presidential canvass, is denied
upon authority.
% Among the prisoners captured on the north
bank of the James, was considerable number
of the merchants and other citizens of Rich
mond, who had been suddenly called out, when
our troops appeared.
BDr William Elder of the Treasury De-
partment, has been investigating the rate of in
crease of the public debt, and finds that since
July, 1861, the average Increase has been a mil
lion and half per day
- The Hartford fremen held their annual
muster on Saturday. The capacity of the
steamers to take water from each other was
thoroughly tested and found to work success
fully.
20 There are said to be 2235 applications on
file at the Governor room, for commissions in
Massachusetts, regiments belonging to the differ
ent Union armies. Enough to more than fill up
two good regiments of privates.
- Daniel 8. Dickinson says the Colossus of
Rhodes. though made of brass nearly equal to
that of Chicago, fell in attempting to stand as
tride much narrower gulf than separates the
Chicago platform from Gen. McCLELLAx's let
ter.
~ Samuel Wells, Esq, of North Hampton,
Mass, who was clerk of the Courts Of Hamp-
shire County for twenty-seven years, acciden-
tally shot himself with pistol on Tuesday last
He was a graduate of Dartmouth college and
was ~ years of age.
WW. W. Blodget. Esq, one of the editors of
the Providence Press, and one of the members of
the State Union Central Committee, met with a
severe accident on Tuesday while riding to Paw
tucket. One leg was broken, and he was other