The Portland daily press., 1864-08-30
ORIGINAL AM, SELECTED.

lDmeutiteig sent INTO the held.
y The wool clip the present season in Ohio
will be worth sl5,o0O,O 900.
e Hon. Charles Sumner is spending a short
time at Newport. R. !.
q The revenue of the government from the
tariff and internal tax bill is $500, Oo0, 900 a
year.
81 The loss of 10000 men in battle would
not have caused the rebels as much anxiety rs
the loss of the Weldon railroad
- There is to be Grand Mass Union Meet
ing in Lewiston on Thursday, the 9th of Sep
TENDER
81 Mr.. E. Z. Workman has become one of
the publishers of the Rockland Gazette. Mr.
Greenleaf retires from the business.
u New York City uses thirty million Of gal
Ions of Croton water per day, in addition to the
immense quantity Of liquor consumed
e The Odd Fellows Of London have re-
Gently had grand festival at the Sydcnlam
Crystal Palace.
II A company has been formed, with cap
ital of $500 900, to work the coal and iron mines
of Cumberland. r. I.
r. Hon. J. W. Patterson, of New Hampshire,
is to speak in Penobscot county during portion
of this and next week.
y Col. F. McGlvery, LIST Maine Artillery,
has been appointed Chief of Artillery and Ord
nance of the Tenth Army Corps.
r Alphonso Wilson, 10th Maine, and D. G.
Ruinry, 3ist Me-, are in the list of deaths thar
occurred ON Thursday Mt Ream's Station
q The cranberry crop this season will be
almost entire failure. The business of rails
ing cranberries does not prove as profitable as
was anticipated.
e Three thousand two hundred and thirty
five tubs of butter have been sent from the depot
at st. Adams, Vermont, during the past ten
weeks.
B-"The Voice of Canadian = touching our
national affairs, written for the Press by cler-
gyman of Toronto, c. w., will appear tomorrow
if we can possibly make room for it.
e On the morning of August 18th there
was a riot in Belfast, Ireland, in which nunne-
ry was destroyed and la great number Of persons
were seriously injured.
81 During the revolution, with population
of 5000, 900, there were $685. 900 men called into
service If the same proportion we're called out
now we should have an army of 1000. 900.
the secessionists of Monroe and Shelby counties,
to pay for the injury committed upon the St. Jo-
seph and Hannibal Railroad.
n A man by the name Of Hudson, Of West
field, Mass, has been arrested and taken to Bos-
ton, charged with making spurious postal cur
reney.
- The sooner our people fully realize that
the war is life and death struggle, the quicker
will this rebellion be ended. But wo to the coun-
try if We heed the syren cry of an armistce and
peace.
~ The receipts of the Boston and Maine
railroad for the year ending May 81, were ST.
lio,93o, and the net earnings S4sl 800, or 1884,
3'7 more than last year. Nine fatal accidents
have occurred on the line during the year.
- The Newburyport Herald has at last de-
fined its position, and is now very snugly tuck |
ed up in the same trunde-bed with the New
York World, the Boston Courier, and others Of
that ilk
% "A Halifax dispatch of Saturday, says there
is no confirmation of the reported destruction of
twenty-five fishing vessels by the Tallahassee
The report cannot be traced beyond Shediac,
and is supposed to be hoax.
B-It is estimated that one-sixth of the whole
white population of Virginia are dependent up
on public charity for support, and the remain
der are not in a condition to render them much |
assistance.
~ The rebels report that Gen. Frank Gard
ner, who was in command of Port Hudson when |
that place surrendered to General Banks, is lead
ing Federal troops from Pensacola to attack Mo- |
bile. Gardner was born in Mass
y new cradle is advertised in Philade- /
pha, that "rocks itself, fans the baby and drives
away the Aies'' Baby-rsising is thus made I
easy, and the crop will perhaps be largely in I
creased.
r man of limited means viii make saw |
ing By buying up quantity of matches before /
the first day of September, while men of large |
income will not object TO paying the tax to sus-
tain the government.
- The Bath Times says that during thur |
der shower on Saturday, McLelan's Iron Store I
and dwelling-house on Corliss street in that |
city were struck by lightning. The damage in
each case was but slight.
- Capt. Sanford. of ist D. G. Cavalry,
(wounded and at home on furlough,) has been l
detailed by Maj. Gardiner as Acting Provost 4
Marshal of the ID District until the vacancy /
shall be filed
n Fernando Wood, in a recent speech at
Dayton, Ohio said the Almighty God had sent
two curses on mankind-the fall of Adam, and
the landing of the MayAower at Plymouth
Rock.
Y The following are among the wounded at
the fight at Ream's Station on the 18th inst:
james Donnelly and Albert Gardiner, LIST Maine;
Capt Charles Nash, +. b. Robbins, D. S Rich /
ards, Joseph Farmer, Geo. Fuller, Benjamin
Knowles. 10Th Me.
n II is said a tribe of Indians that once re-
sided on the banks of the "Chon-g ogg-a-gogg-
mau-chog-a gogg" river has become extinct,
the younger members having all choked to death
in their first efforts to pronounce the name of |
the river
sF despatch from Atlanta says that not n
few of the shells which our troops throw into
the city have Scriptural quotations in Hebrew
pasted upon them. If the shells are well charg-
ed, the Scriptures are likely to be very widely
disseminated among the rebel citizens.
r The Argus calls our attention to Henry
Winter Davis, and asks what about him. We I
think if he and Wade, and few more imprac-
ticables would hold their tongues, such papers
as the Argus would soon find themselves desti-
tute of all stock in trade
Y Eli Thayer, it is said, has found new
kind of fuel, with which a room can be warmed
during the winter for SIS. If he will introduce
it into Portland the blessings of those who don't
understand how they are to keep warm during
the coming winter will be showered profusely up
on his head
r. The steam Revenue Cutter Mahonng ar
rived at Bangor, says the Wing, Sunday fore
noon, with Judge Sargent, Commissioner Of
Customs, of Washington. Collector Goodrich,
of Boston, and Collector washburn, Of Port