The Portland daily press., 1864-08-01


R-want of water in the reservoirs at the
late fire in Springfield, caused loss of $780,
600. word to the wise is sufficient.
y The Advertiser is quite as much troubled
lest its liquor should be stopped as it is on ac-
count of the scarcity of water.
e One of the most economical modes of
cooking fish is to fry it ia soater it is just as
good as if boiled
= Rev. ]. W. Hanson. formerly of this
state, has been appointed Chaplain of the 9th
Massachusetts, regiment-the Bloody Sixth"
n Charles Z. Moore, son of ]. D. Moore,
Esq, of Augusta, has been promoted to Acting
Ensign in the Navy.
% The house and barn of Calvin Cooper, in
Brunswick, were destroyed by fire on wednes-
day night last.
p-A base ball match between Harvard and
Williams colleges resulted in the victory of the
latter.
E-0ne hundred Maine soldiers have died in
the various hospitals in Washington, during
the last 20 days.
81 Moses Taylor has declined the position of
U. 5. Assistant Treasurer at New York, on &C.
count of the pressure of his private business.
B-It is reported that General Howard has
been appointed to the command of the Army
and Department of the Tennessee
81 The Kennebec Union County Convention
will be held in Augusta on the eleventh day of
August.
% The County Jail at Amherst, N. H., isnow
tenantless. The Cabinet says it has been the
abode of more guilt than any other Jail in the
State.
The animal sessions of the Grand Encamp-
ment and Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of New
Hampshire are to be held in Lebanon, ON the l5th
and 10th of August.
= There is nothing lower priced now than
railroad fares when compared with almost every
thing else. The fare from this city to Boston,
paid in gold, would be but SlO4
gFour thousand acres of wood land, on
Long Island, were destroyed last week by a con-
fagration caused by spark from tobacco
pipe.
. The white paper on which the New York
Tribune is printed costs more than is received
for the printed sheets. Its club rates are dis
continued
80 Pat was a volunteer, and he got sick The
hrst question the surgeon asked him was, pat.
are your bowels regular p mo, sir, be jabers,
Pm a rolunteer''
% The Democratic district Convention, for
this Congressional District, has been changed
from Aug. 10th to Aug. 18th, on account of the
State Convention in Bangor on the 18th
The Grand Scribe of the Grand Division
of the Sons Of Temperance of this State, reports
the membership 49is-lady visitors, s64s-num-
Der of Divisions, loi
R-Mr. Reyele, who has a peculiar faculty
for interesting the young, is visiting the large
places in this state for the purpose of awakening
an interest in the cause of Temperance.
F-In New Bedford the cows yield polywogs;
at any rate, they are found in milk, and Of
course, the honest milkmen would not be guilty
of watering it.
ETA man adyertises in the New York Clip
per that he wishes to drive "a donkey and wag-
on tight rope over Niagara or any other place
dangerous places preferred
- Mr.. Edwin Sawyer Of Temple, was vio-
lently thrown from his carriage on Tuesday
evening. cutting cash in his forehead and in
jurng him internally
BThe Washington Star says G. p. Folsom
was arrested in that city last Monday, by order
of the SECRETARY of War, as a defaulter to the
amount of about Sill ,0Oo Mr. Folsom was
formerly from Dover N .
Irlt has been authoritatively settled, by the
decision Of the War Department, approved by the
Secretary of War, that the one hundred days
men will be exempt from any draft which is
made while they are in the service.
Rwilkes' Spirit of the Times, which went in
for Fremont and the cleveland platform, has
caved 1t now says that the Fremont move
ment is a practical alliance with the copperhead
tscticians.
y The copperheads are severely exercised on
account of arbitrary arrests. The only arrest
they seem to favor at the present time is the ar
rest of the war, and the arrest of the Govern
ment in its efforts to put down rebellion
70 This will be busy week. with the ami
yersary exercises at Bowdoin College, the Ma
tional Fast, any number of picnic excursions,
and other events sure to demand newspaper
notice.
R-A visitor at Washington writes that pa-
cards of 'boarders wanted and ''rooms to let''
blister every advertising slab, reminding the
visitor that host of people are after his money
and legion Of bedbugs after his blood
20 The mountains in Alton, Gimanton, and
Clifford, N. H., and ON the opposite side of the
lake, have been on a fire for week or more The
wood and timber upon thousands of acres must
have been very seriously damaged
FCapt- John Mitchell. son of John Mitch
ell, the famous Irish rebel, was killed on Tuesday
of last week, while on the parapet of Fort Sum-
ter, which he was assisting to defend. This is
the second son Mitchell has lost in the rebel SER
vice.
y The barn of Wentworth CHM, in Or
land, together with his horse and wagon, six
teen tons of hay, and all of his farming uten-
sils, was burned on the night of the 25th
Probably incendiarism. Loss about $1,000. No
insurance.
The drouth in Somerset County is the
severest since 1925 The Clarion says fires are
raging in every direction, and great damage
has been done. The grass in pastures is dead
end it is feared the crops will be entirely cut
off.
F-A wealthy citizen of Boston, not liable to
a draft, proposes to furnish for the United
States service, substitute for himself and one
for each member of his family, and also one for
Capt. A. d. Hatch, Provost Marshal of that
District, in recognition of friendship of some
twenty years standing
% Joseph joy, of Ellsworth, the American
says, one of the returned veterans of the Maine
Sixth, was in the service more than three years,
was never sick day during his service, nor did