The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-19
ORIGINAL AND sELECTED.

- Why can't Mr.. Sweat be again elected
to Congress! Because he is condemned TO he
Lynehed on the 18th of September.
X The Tallahassee. the new pirate upon onr
coast, is, like SO many of her predecessors.
present from our English friends.
y John Ramsdell fell eighty feet into the
lead mine at Lubec, on the 18th inst, and was
instantly killed.
Maj. Brown, of the 18th Me-, was wound.
ed in the new movement of Gen. Grant up James
river.
q A railroad and steamboat excursion from
Lewiston to Camden, via Portland, comes off on
Monday next.
E- A girl years old was killed by the cars
in Roxbury on Monday afternoon. She was run
ming across the track
. In the letter of our correspondent CuMBER-
LAND, yesterday, the name of s. H. Valley
should have read 5. H. Valley.
gWhite muslin dressesh ayily trimmed with
laces are all the rage at Saratoga now for break
fast dresses.
- Four of the Committee on Resolutions at
the late Bangor State Convention, were C. P.
Kimball, VirgH ID. Paris, Bion Bradbury
and .Marcelius Emery.
81 Why are the people of this Congressional
District like man who refuses to take vapor
bathI Because they are unwilling to endure a
Speat.
y DR.. Mann. of Skowhegan, one of the big
guns ofthe copperhead party of the State, said,
a few days since, that JEFF. Davis is the tguest
friend of freedom in the Union
n The New England Farmer, one of the
bestagricultural journals in Massachusetts,, we
are sorry to learn has been obliged to succumb
to pressure of the times
5g- The Newburyport Herald is becoming
very satisfactory to the copperheads, and yet we
suppose they will continue to quote it against
Mr.. Lincoln as a Republican Journal
70 Mr.. Stephen II. Hall, of the firm of Aker-
min Co., Providence, R. l., and we think for
merly of this city, died suddenly in Concord on
Monday.
q lions Advocate learns by private note
rom China that Ed Henry Kendall died quite
sud lenly last Monday evening. He had just en-
tered his ninety-first year.
- The Farmer says that Mr.. Myers will
at Meonian Hall, Augusta, with his talented
company.
p Ira p. Hill, 18th Me-; ]. H. Roberts, 18th
NJ; Henry A. Terrence, 3lst Me-; Charles H
Perkins, SD Me-, have recently died in the Wash
layton hospitals.
n G. G. Hanscom, Esq, of La Crosse, Wis
consin, formerly of China, in this State, was
killed by the Indians on the Upper Platte river,
on the 4th ult.
n Attention is invited to the advertisement
of Westbrook Seminary, which will be found in
another column. The next term will commence
Aug. 3lst.
% One of the State Committee chosen by the
late Copperhead State Convention at Bangor,
was arraigned before Judge Ware for treason, a
few days since, and required to recognize for his
appearance for trial.
ID The copperheads contend that they must be
restored to power in order to restore peace
They know that they alone caused it to be bro
ken, and hence their belief that they alone can
restore it.
% The Augusta Farmer says girl seven or
eight years old, named Shehan, living in the
old Fort building on the east side, was run over
and severely injured, in Water street, on Thurs
daylast.
II E. u. Bennett, a young man from New
Milford, Ct, shot himself in Powers Hotel,
New York, on Saturday, because he could not
get substitute with the nine hundred and fifty
dollars that he brought with him.
. The time for holding the Chicago Con-
vention appears to have been appropriately Sc
lected. Some one has discovered that the 29th
of August is memorable in history as the birth
day of Benedict Arnold
n Two of the New York Tribune cores
pondents are now in Libby prison. Cores
pondents of the New York World, captured
since the former, have been exchanged The
rebels know who are their friends
% Ex-President Buchanan has volunteered
to do military duty for one hundred days. Up
on the same principle, probably, that a great
sinner sometimes enters the monastic life, to
atone for his past deeds
y The Portsmouth Chronicle states that
Capt Webster, of the Mahoning, was formerly
captain of the cutter Caleb Cushing Not so
Capt. Webster first came here in command of
theJ. c. Dobbin, after the Cushing was destroy
ed
% The Pencbscot copperheads have referred
to the seventy years history of the Democratic
party in proof of their own patriotism. As well
might the modern jew point TO the long line of
patriarchs and prophets to prove his own yir-
tue.
3 The enemy understand the importance of
holding Atlanta, and will not abandon it so long
as they ein raise men enough to fortify it. But
its fall i only question of time and the num-
Der OF men 10 be sacrificed in its accomplish
ment
- The Augusta Journal rebukes very prop
erly those papers that are carping about the ex-
cursion OF the Congressional Copmittee. Gov.
Cony, says the Journal, has extended very
cordial and pressing invitation to the committee
to visit the capital their return
q The Democrats are always willing 10 let
lrishmen vote, even without naturalizing if they
can smuggle them in, because they SO generally
go the ''dmmercratic ticket" Blu. they steadi
" oppose the right of soldiers to vote, white
sofdieFsa as well as those of colored skin.
- A correspondent informs us that two barns
belonging to Samuel Jewett of Canaan, were
struck by lightning and burned on the night of
the 10th inst. The barns contained about forty
tons of hay, one horse and one OK, all of which
were burned. There was no insurance. Angus
Ia Farmer.
- letter from St. Petersburg gives an ac-
count of a terrible accident which has occurred
there. The cupola of the large new church of
the TRANSPORTATION, which was nearly finished,
suddenly fell with a tremendous crash and broke
through the vaults of the basement story
great many people were buried under the ru-
ms.
& The regard of the Democrats for the SOL
diers occasionally crops out in a most significant
manner. For example. in the city Of Hartford