The Portland daily press., 1864-09-30
ORIGINAL AND sELECTFD.


that Semmes is to have new vessel.
1.-TWO schoeners and bark are being built
at Columbia Falls, all to be launched this fall
go Gen. Hooker has been ordered to Wash
ington.
~ Hon. Montgomery Blair has taken the
stump for Lincoln and johnson.
81 Lieut.. NJ. C. Wadsworth, of the 10th Me-.
is prisoner at Savannah, Ca
EE-A dangerous counterfeit $40 bill on the
City bank, New Haven, was detected last week
at Detroit, Mich.
ETA Cattle Show and Fair will be held in
Pembroke on the the 18th and 18th of Dc
tober.
R"You have very striking countenance.''
as the donkey said to the elephant when he hit
him over the back with his trunk
81 The Bostonians are claiming Gen. Sheri-
dan as native of that city. The people of Ohio
will dispute the claim.
80 There is no truth in the report that Min
lister Adams is about to retire from his diplomat
ic position. .aq
- Heavy bets are being made that Grant
will be in possession of Richmond within three
months Betting won't be so likely to accom-
plish that object as enlisting. -nav8s
- The London Post thinks that as Mcclellan
has been distinguished by moderation. if he is
installed president unfettered by pledges, he will
assent to any arrangement for peace.
YEA Methodist meeting house in Brook6eld,
Mass, having been raised to put vestry under
it, was blown over by high wind, on Sunday
last, and entirely ruined.
20 James Dunn, an English prize-fghter, has
come to this country and wants to fight for
$1,000. He can find an opportunity by apply
ing at a recruiting Office in this city.
Two sons of Robert Robinson of Robbins
ton, the Machias Union says, were drowned on
the 14th inst, within few rods of the shore,
in sight of their father and mother and others.
B-A colt belonging to Capt. G. L. Cox, of
Pittston, was shot in the pasture of Mr.. Hunt,
by some cowardly miscreant, about nine O'Clock
ON Saturday night. @
E. S. Hatch, son of Isaac Hatch, Esq.,, of
Bath, has been appointed Assistant Surgeon of
the I'D U. S. Colored Regiment, at Louisville,
KY.
90 The New York Commercial says the natu-
radiation offices of that city are doing quite
large business, as is usually the case previous
to the elections.
80 The whole Connecticut river valley teens
with richly laden fields of tobacco. Many far
mer in the valley will make enough from his to-
bacco this year to purchase a good-sized farm.
BIt is stated that the ship Guerland arrived
at Boston last week from Antwerp with 25l pas
sengers, of whom 300 enlisted before they Ian
ded. AtE ,f4keA s
| The largest cotton mill in this country is
in Baltic. Conn. Its entire length. including
wings, is 954 feet by IS wide, and it contains $50
looms. The mill is owned by the Rhode Island
Spragues.
- The Portsmouth Chronicle says that on
Monday night six or eight sailors attempted to
escape from the~Vandalia. Muskets were dis
charged at them, by which one was killed and
several others wounded:
| - mule team belonging to the Spragues,
drew load from Providence to Cranston, on the
25th inst, weighing fourteen tons two hundred
pounds, exclusive of the wagon, which weighed
forty-three hundred weight.
HA man was found drunk in street in
Boston on Thursday morning, about O'Clock,
with $2440 in his pockets That he did not find
his pockets empty when he got sober may be set
down to his extraordinary good luck.
BA gentleman writing us on business from
Pittsburg, Pa, adds ''P. 81 to his letter, in
which he says, ''We have heard from Maine
Don't be alarmed about Western Pennsylvania
Every county will II oil up increased majorities
from 1902
y Persons wishing to purchase the best arti-
cles at the lowest rates, will be aided very much
| by running their eyes over our advertising col
umns The live men who make large profits by
doing large business, always advertises liber-
ally.
BA boat containing Mr.. and Mrs. Dow and
Isaac w. Nash, was upset between st. Andrews
and Robbinston in the night of the 18th inst
The individuals chung ITO the boat several hours,
and were rescued by a boat from the shore; the
lady was nearly exhausted. q
- Thirteen hundred dollars was the sum
charged for the dinners of eight men who were
employed in counting the votes at the last char
ter election in New York. They met for ten days
and each man was charged $l6.21 for each sim
gle dinner. The champagne and cigars were
probably included.
Prominent fnanciers in Washington pre-
dicted week ortwo ago that gold would be below
two hundred and that because the excess of our
exports over our imports is rapidly increasing,
and the confidence of moneyed men, both in the
military and Presidential success of the Admin
istration is daily growing stronger.
Woodruff s. Beach, of Hartford, t'run''
the heaviest casting ever made in Connecticut,
at their foundry, on Wednesday. 1t was chan
mel plate for one of the large frigate engines now
building for the government-took 26 tons of
melted iron, ID workmen 5 days to prepare the
mould, and will require 10 days or two weeks to
coolotf.
- A colored woman, with child in her arms,
was required to stand on the platform of one of
the railway cars in the city of Philadelphia, on
Saturday last, the conductor not being willing
to grant her the use of seat offered her by one
of the passengers. Such inhumanity cannot be
much longer tolerated in any enlightened commu-
nifty.
Deputy Provost Marshal Blossom was
quite seriously injured by blow from an axe in
the hands of a Mrs Knight, in Poland, whose
husband he attempted to arrest on Saturday
night. The husband escaped, half naked, to the
woods. Mrs. Knight has been arrested, as we
learn from the Lewiston Journal, and is now in
Auburn jail ,e
EYrAt trader in Bridgeport, Conn, Haunted
white flag from pole in front of his premises,
on Wednesday, on which was inscribed enc
CLELLAN AND PEACE and set fellow to guard
it with musket Two returned soldiers saw
the insulting rag, whereupon one of them stood
by the pole with six-shooter in his hand while
the other climbed up and tore down the ban
ner. The guard with his musket did not
deem it prudent to interfere under the circum
stances.
1.-THE communication in this paper in rela
ton to the Ovarian Hoffman Concert,'' was
written bya gentleman eminently qualified to
judge in such matters gentleman who has not
only had experience as a vocalist and performer
but also as composer, and who, because of his
fitness for sY1ch a nositiOn has been nu,,ln1od -.