The Portland daily press., 1864-10-01
ORIGINAL AND sELEcTED.

kH 1ne MUSE VI james ntldn IN OalalS, was
nearly destroyed by fire on Sunday. :
EY-A furious tornado swept over the city of
Calais on Wednesday night of last week.
The remnant of the 9th Maine was mus
tered out at Augusta, Wednesday.
R-0ld iron is being shipped from Bangor to
Boston in large quantities.
BA State salute of 100 guns was fred at
Augusta, in honor of Sheridan's victories.
Ruarden sauce from the Shenandoah valley
EARLY BEATS
g-Gen Sigel wss at Washington on Thurs
day.
RA An effort is being madeto obtain the quota
of Saco without draft.
R-The Vermont Legislature will convene on
Thursday, the 18th inst.
The statement that government agents
have been appointed to purchase cotton in the
rebellious states has been contradicted
! p The Boston Advertiser says Generals
Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Rosecrans and Gil
more are natives of Ohio.
R-The N. Y. Evening Post has commenced
the publication of a campaign paper, entitled
'.The Little Nottingham ,oiJ
| = The U. S. schooner, Roebuck, has arrived
|
at quarantine, Portsmouth harbor, with several
cases of yellow fever on board -
20 Since the recent victories in the Shenan-
doah valley, Confederate scrip is worth but three
| cents on the dollar
81 The property left by the late Horace Beals,
Esq, proprietor of the Togus house, is estima-
i ted at two millions in value.
RIn raising the heart above despair, an old
violin is worth four doctors and two apothecary
shops. au
RrThe widow of Gen. Lander, formerly Miss
]. M. Davenport, and a well known actress, will
resume her profession in November.
VUtica Free Academy votes Lincoln 20,
Mcclellan A. So ''all the yonng men are not
'for Little Mac 0I1 eaI0t5
R-Thereis not a Mcclellan paper in West
Virginia, while there are twelve which sustain
MIR. Lincoln.
EThe great Provincial Fair will be held at
Fredericton, N. B., next week, commencing on
Tuesday. 1t promises to be grand affair.
EThe second national horse fair at Provi-
dence occurs on Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week.
EThe legislature of reconstructed Louis
lana will meet on the first Monday of October
Letters generally agree that Gen. Banks and Gov.
Hahn will be elected United States senators.
EgThe steamers have commenced their fall
trips between Fredericton and Woodstock The
recent rains have left good supply of water in
i the river.
H Hon. Lot NJ Morrill, has our thanks for a
copy of the Reports of the Committee on the
| = ~ To-
low Mass lcre
E3F-S Samuel Seeds, Esq, one of the proprie-
tors and editors of the St. John Courier. died at
his residence in that city the 10th ult, in the
5sth year of his age. @
i HThe St. Stephen Branch Railway question
is now before the New Brunswick Govern
ment with prospect of being dealt with success
fully
RThe men who are drafted in Aroostook
County will be examined in Houlton to save
the trouble and expense of those who are not ac-
cepted, going to Bangor.
gThere was great panic on Change at
Chicago, on Monday last, in consequence of the
fall in gold. Heavy losses were sustained by
-four and grain operators.
- Elections for State officers in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota, take place
week from next Tuesday, being the I'd Tuesday
in October.
g-Dr Samuel Merritt of San Francisco, who
has been spending short time in Bath, gave his
friends sumptuous entertainment at the Saga
dahoc house, on Wednesday evening, being
about to return to California
RThere is difficulty about the Mcclellan
flag in Bangor. They can't find two copperheads
living opposite each other and hence can't get a
permit to run their rebel flag up.
B-The Charleston Mercury congrutulates its
readers upon information that the President of
the Confederacy has rendered to Beauregard the
command of the army of Georgia.
Ey- Major General Mccall, the organizer of
the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, steady dem
ocrat of many years standing, and democratic
candidate for Congress in 1862, comes out in OPP
position to Mcclellan.
B-"Give us a cessation of hostilities for only
three MONTHS said rebel prisoner the other
day, sand we can fight you for five years lon
ger'' The democrats accordingly demand ces-
sation of hostilites
RThe democrats of Michigan have nominal
ted for governor, Col. Fenton, formerly of the
9Th Michigan, who wanted to surrender his regi-
ment to the rebels, when Lincoln issued his
emancipation proclamation
EE-The statement that Stackpole alias John
Smith, who shot his sister in Biddeford, is an
Irishman, is contradicted. We cheerfully make
the correction as Irshmen have sins enough to
answer for.
GY-The following casualties occurred in Me.
regiments within ten days of the oath of Sep
TENDER in the 10th Army Corps: Asa A. Anther,
18th, Sergt, F. Barrett, do.,-killed; Edward
Butler, A. W. Bowler, 11th,-wounded.
- Monday we shall give the testimony of
Gen. Casey in relation to McClellan's wonderful
military qualities. The testimony of Sumner,
Hentzleman and others will follow. Our read
ers will yet come to the conclusion that McClel-
Ian as fighting hero is a mere myth.
GY- The Examiner states that the number of
prisoners received in Richmond from May to
September was l6 ,Os5, and that this does not
include those taken from Hunter in his valley
campaign, or from Grant at Petersburg before
he took the Weldon Railroad.
EThe Bangor Wing says that Cove, the muir
derer, died in Houlton Jail on Monday last, of
typhoid fever His trial was to commence i'm
mediately, Attorney General Peters having gone
there last week to conduct the prosecution for
| the State.
e The Rockland Free Press says A. P. Gould
| expresseda wish to meet c. c. Woodman, ESQ.,,
fIr discussion, Mr.. W. hearing of tn s, dropped
Mr.. Gould note, oh allspgng him to meet him
at Rockland, the next evening, but Gould pru-
IDENTIFY declined.
RThe first working parties connected with
| Capt Bvlkley's great expedition for the con-
struetion of the Russian and American Telegraph
| line, left New York last week, on the steamer
Golden Rule. for San Francisco, by way of
Nicaragua.