The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-28
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

EFifteen of the St. Adams raiders have been
arrested.
R-The ruling price paid in Gardiner for no.
tatoes for shipping is fifty cents
| Captain Ericsson has invented new gun
which is said to surpass anything now in use
throws ball eight miles.
EIn Herkimer county, cheese now sells at
thirteen cents per pound, which two months ago
sold for twenty-five cents.
EThe dummy engines are giving entire
satisfaction on the street railroads where they
are used.
l-~EEThe Surgeon and the Commissioners of
the Board of Enrolment in Washington, have
been arrested.
RHon. John P. Robinson, formerly prom
inent politician in Massachusetts, died at Somer-
vile, last week, aged So.
EIt is stated that all babies born after the
4th of March next, must be stamped to be le-
gitimate
B Mr.. Jarrett's dramatic company play
ssThe Iron Mask" at Worcester on Saturday
evening. Qf
RArtemus Wards tickets of admission to
his lecture on "Mormonism'' are inscribed
sAdmit the Bearer and One Wife,
% Mr.. Levi D. Sheldon, provision dealer of
North Beverly, Mass, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat on Sunday night.
| The Baltimore merchants on trial for con-
traband trading, have been discovered attemp-
ting to bride witnesses.
9The Union majority in Ohio will be about
10000 The Unionists elect II Congressman to
the Democrats 2.
81 Gov. Morton of Indiana is e-elected by
81 900 majority. The Unionists elect eight of
the eleven Congressman, being gain of four.
The Military Hospitals in Augusta are to
be increased, proposals having been received for
the erection of additional buildings. as4s4
y Gen. Sheridan has captured over eighty
pieces of artillery from the rebels during the
last month.
20 Nathaniel Robinson of Chesterville, attemp-
ted to commit suicide few days since, by cut
ting his throat and then by drowning.
cd General Sully, in his report of the recent
Northwestern Indian campaign, discourages en-
igration ever the route in the vicinity of the
Little Missouri river
+ a. Eleven of the Sophomores at Bowdoin
have been suspended, and the remainder given
leave Of absence for an outrage upon fellow
student.
E-The Burlington Free Press reports the
formations of military organizations in towns
along the Canada border for protection against
invasion. a
EA recent canvass in New Hampshire shows
majority for Lincoln of between 900 and 4, 900
besides the soldiers vote, which will be ten to
one for the Union candidates.
EHon. Lot NJ Morrill, has gone to New
York to labor for the Union cause. Vice Presi-
dent Hamlin is there, engaged in the same work;
SO is Lewis Barker, Esq.
RMr. w. H. Fogg, Acting Masters Mate
r of the gunboat Satellite, who has been in six
rebel prisons, arrived at his home in Bath on
Wednesday.
RProf Agassiz, in the Atlantic Monthly,
has come to the conclusion that the continent OF
North America was ut one time covered with ice
q mile in thickness.
ETA letter from E. B. Turner, Esq, Of Texas,
q few days since, appraised us that he was labor
ing for the cause Of patriotism in central New
: York.
R-Hon. Henry G.. Stebbins having been cleo
r ted to Congress from the First New York Dis
trict by Democratic votes, has sent to the Gov
{. ernor his resignation, not being willing to do
t Democratic bidding. -
E e. Gen. Banks will deliver lecture before
, the Young Mems Christian Association in Bos-
ton, on THE Negro Population of the South as
connected with the Restoration OF government
in the Rebel States'
R-A Western New York paper says that Gov.
Andrew, of Massachusetts,, who was announced
to speak at Buffalo, was attacked with alarming
bleeding at the nose, at Lockport, on Saturday
evening. a
RD Daniel s. Dickinson says that SIT looksnow
as though the contingent remainder of the
Chicago Convention, after the eighth of Nov,
would be taxed, under the Internal Revenue law
as "beaten copper"
|, H"The business on the Boston and Maine
railroad has increased SO az to render it neces-
sary to order 100 new freight cars, which are
now in process of completion at the shops Of
2 the corporation at Lawrence 4
i TGen. Mcclellan in addition to being OF
t that class hof'can't remember" may also be
, fairly regarded as one Of those who "don't see
it, from the fact of his always being found al
!, SO great distance from the scene of action.
The Swedish journals have for some time
been nearly exclusively filed with dissertations
on the necessity of the abolition Of capital pun
ishment, originating in an execution that took
, place in the neighborhood of Stockholm.
, BA despatch to the Philadelphia Bulletin
says; ''Gov. Bradford is determined to issue bis
proclamation pronounoing Maryland Free
State on and after the first of November next.
He SO expressed himself to committee that
waited on him on Monday.
RPostmaster Palfrey of Boston announces
that On and after November 1, money orders for
sums not exceeding $40 will be issued at that
post-ofice, payable at any post-ofice selected
from list of lao offices in various parts of the
gniQR 7ag
F James t)akes while on the road from
Madrid to Rangely, fell opt 9f his wagon, and
the frightened horse dragged him about Il rods,
before he became disentangled. He was picked
PIP horribly mangled and lived about "a
hours.
Ex-Governor Yates Of Illinois, in speech
recently made at Jacksonville, Ill.,, said that
from cammpnications he had been permitted to
read officially, he gould safely say that Richmond
would be in our possession before the 9Th of
4 November. 1865 fssa2 e.
- We have received campaign document
printed in Bath, giving the war record of Geo.
B. Mcclellan. 1t is made up almost exclusively
of articles prepared by us for the Press, and
though no Credits giyea w ere glad to see them
thought enough of to be reproduced in that
form. foaf
| B-ft is delightfully."- Cheeky in an editor
who has hanging over him IN indictment for
subornation of perjury, another for adultery, a
civil suit to recover payment for taking care of
bis illegitimate mothers, and two others for Sc
duetion, to twit a contemporary of always being
engaged sin doing something Nasty