The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-26
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B-It is reported that Maj. Gen. Dana is to
su coed Gen. Banks at New Orleans.
l3T-The first National Bank Of Augusta, w.t.
acapitl of 100000, has been established.
E-9he BARRIERS of Gardiner have decided NOT
to open their shops OH Sundays
q The Shipment of specie to Europe from
New York last week, was but 600 against
$500 900 the preceding week.
r The death of David Snow and John ".
Kinney, nth Maine, at Fortress Monroe, are
reported.
gg-The Overland Nail Stages to California
have been discontinued in consequence of Indi-
an troubles.
% The Atlanta papers say that many of the
shells thrown into the city have texts Of scripture
fastened to them.
. There has been but one death in the
hospitals at Augusta, during the month of
August.
~ The Advertiser has raised the names Of
Mcclellan and Guthrie for President and Vice
President.
EY~Gov. Gilmore of n. H., has>vetoed the
bill allowing the soldiers to vote. He seems to
be at loggerheads with the legislature.
rYrThc name of Gen. Buell. has been mention
ed in connection with the nomination for the
Presidency at Chicago on the Doth inst
| EF~Provost Marshal Fry has decided that men
who paid Communication under the draft - June,
1858, are liable to the draft of September next.
/ % new mill, three hundred and fifty feet
( long, by one hundred and eighty-four feet wide,
I and three stories high, is going up at Lawrence,
( Mass
1 n when the loyal Dutchmen at Mobile
| heard the guns of our feet at the mouth of the
hay. they SMILED and said: dat ish FarrGgoofi'
/ IN o. Times.
Ey-It is said if the 26 900 men enlisted in the
| Navy since the commencement of the war, from
I New York are allowed on the quota, there will
/ be no draft in that city.
Y-The q. S. steamer Colorado, which has
been at the Kittery Navy Yard for the past two
months, is to go into service Immediately, under
the command of Commodore Thatcher.
rT-An old building in Rockland, and occu-
pied by Mr. James Hewett, containing seven
tons of hay, was destroyed By fire with its con-
tents on Monday night last.
- jeff Davis is afraid OF majorities, and so
are the Copperheads; hence their opposition to
all securing to the soldiers the right to
( vote.
Y The largest tax payer in Lynn, Mass, is
Samuel NJ Bubier, who pays S2,lss.sO. The
rate of taxation is 3i.56 per 500. The aggre-
gate of assessments upon polls and estates, is
Sl47, 659o7.
q The Irish are not the only ones who make
bulls Sir Robert Peel, in recent speech, said
''They all saw with satisfaction that the heroic
Danish forces had successfully resisted the orer-
,rheiming power OF the Prusslan arms
~ REYNOLDS, the dramatst, observing TO
Morton the thinness of the house at one Of the
plays, added he supposed it was owing to the
war. "No,'' replied Morton, II should judge
it was owing to the piece"
Business is suspended at Omaha, Nebras-
ka, and the citizens are arming for defence
against the Indians, who are threatening Elk
horn, and driving off stock within twenty miles
of Omaha.
Y-Rev Mr.. Lyman, of Canton Center, CT,
announced to his congregation last Sabbath,
that they must engage another pastor, as he
had made up his mind to enlist as private in
the army
B-0ld newspapers worth eight cents a
pound which is nearly the old price of white
paper. Housekeepers and others should care
fully save them in these hard times. Its very
wasteful to use them for kindling fires.
Fg-The Providence Journal says, by very
singular accident the New Haven train Of cars
arrived in that city on time. No blame is at
4 ,av,.,-a - the conductor or cngrnes., ~-a nc
fears need be entertained Of its being repeated.
ET-Hersert, the member of Congress who
shot waiter at Wizards Hotel, for not passing
the toast quickly enough, has died in the rebe
service from wound received in the battle o.
Mansfield
- Frederick Howard and Stephen Downes o
Portsmouth, were quite severely injured OF
Wednesday morning, while at work on 7. 5
Steamer Colorado at che Navy yard, as we learn
from the Chronicle.
EWith Mcclellan, Seymour, Pierce, Guthrie
Buell., Nelson, Fremont and host of other can
dida;es urged upon the Chicago Convention, i
will be difficult for the most ardent peace men tt
secure peace and harmony in taat body.
- The Bangor Wing states that the agen
sent By that city to Fort Monroe to obtain re-
cruits, has returned without being able to secure
any recruits, all the negroes being absorbed b,
Grants army.
q The kennebec Journal contains an abb,
and patriotic letter from Hon. JAS G. Blaine, ac-
cepting the nomination for Congress unani
mously rendered him by the Union Convention
of the Third District
Eg-Col Cunning, who has just returned from
Fortress Monroe, informs the Bangor Wing that
1t. Col Hill, Maj. Baldwin and Capt. Sabine
who wounded and in hospital, are doing
we'll Col. Hill has submitted TO amputation o.
the fore arm.
% The Transcript hints at yerdancy because
we were ignorant of the meaning of Dairy
Windows" Our friend was in the milking busi'
ness at much later day than we were, so it il
not strange that he should be better posted in
such matters.
give understand that large Mass Meetings
will be held at Mechanic Falls Sept. LIST, and
South Paris Sept 9Th. Vice President Hamlin
and Hon. J. A. Peters, will certainly be present
at both meetings aud very probably some sddi-
tional speakers from other States.
E1-fhe ftllowing named Maine soldiers died
in the New York Hospitals between Aug. 18th
and 10Th instant; Joseph Hanneford, Co. b, 7th
Wesley Murphy, Co. c, 3oth Maine; Albert W.
Roberts, Co. d, 10th; Addison j. Stone, Co. G,
lst Maine Heavy Artillery.
sY-The Maine Farmer advocates the use OF
,cooiea calico, or what is called mousselin de
laine, made from the long dry kind of wool
which is shorn from the long wool breed of sheep,
as matter of economy, during the extraordi-
nary high price of cotton.
q Hon. C. W. Goddard, Consul General at
Constantinople, just returned home to this
State on a yisit, says that the ruling classes in