The Portland daily press., 1864-09-21
ORIGINAL And SELECTED,

B-Neariy $4,000 retail liquor dealers pay q
tax Of $40 each to the government
u The U. S. steamer Saco was seen Sept. IS,
of Cape Sable, cruising.
EMaryland farmers in the vicinity of Ha-
garstown are moving West.
HThe reported arrest Of Quantrell is not
confirmed.
e The 3lst Maine regiment has been for
three weeks past near the Weldon railroad
New Hampshire newspapers have dwindled
in number from forty to twenty-nine.
II Fifty-two students have been admitted to
Amherst College this term.
gy-The health of Gen. Marston of New Hamp-
shire, is improving.
~ Reverdy johnson is out in letter for Nc
Clellan.
" 1t is said the best Havana cigars are made
from tobacco dipped in a solution of opium.
y Gov. Perpont, of West Virginia, has
taken the stump in Pennsylvania for Lincoln
and johnson.
TThe tow boat Saunders that blew up in
New York harbor on Friday, with loss of FIVE
lives, was racing at the time with another tug
The Empress of Russia has spent the sum-
mer on Lake Geneva, having engaged chateau
there for one thousand francs q month.
81 James L. Alverson, graduate of Wes-
leyan University, and President of Genessee
College. died on Monday Of last week
81 There are now one hundred and two oil
companies in Pennsylvania, with nominal cap
ital Of more than $50 ,00O, 600.
RJames Kelley, President of the Stuyve-
SAINT Insurance Company, has been appointed
Postmaster of New York.
EDea Philemon Garfield, for many years
the publisher of the Christian Secretary, died at
Hartford on Friday, aged 70 years.
RTLe Union men of New Jersey are quite
confident they shall carry that State in the COM
ing election.
HGen. Thomas Thumb has purchased a site
in Bridgeport, on which he intends erecting q
lilliputian "Iranistan."
81 The Empress Of Austria has ceased to
wear crinoline and forbidden all persons to VICAR
ii in her presence.
gGen. Grant says he expects more from
Gen. Sherman than any other man in the coun-
try.
RAmong the deaths at Hampton Hospital
are the following of Maine soldiers: J. d. Dill
lington, 9th; A. Ii. Stinson, do; A. H. Berbier,
18th.
q The Sentinel says fifteen deserters from
the garrison in St. John arrived in PASSPORT last
week and proceeded to Boston to enlist in the
Federal army.
The factory of Mr. Morey S. Lapham, at
Leicester. Mass, was entirely destroyed by fire
on Saturday last, with its contents. Loss $50,
600.
e Gen. Hamilton, of Texas, addressed the
great Lincoln and Johnson ratification meeting
at Buffalo. on the l4th inst. The crowd was es-
timsted by acres and not numerically.
g Alderman James Mcmahon, New York,
was thrown from his carriage while returning
from the races on Friday, and received such
severe injuries that he died the next morning.
~ Hon Schuyler Colfax is to deliver the first
OF Course Of Lectures in Boston, under the
auspices Of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton.
RPunch says Yankee baby will crawl out
of his cradle, takea survey of it, invent an i'm
provement. and apply for a patent before he is
six months old.
TGold gambling in New York is doing more
to initiate the price of all the necessaries of life
than the war, and if persisted in, will demand
the special attention of Congress.
81 Many of the cotton mills in Massachusetts,
will partially or wholly suspend operations in a
few weeks, in consequence OF the difficulty OF
procuring cotton.
RThe report is again started that there is o
pirate among the fishing vessels on the Banks,
and that four or FIVE vessels we're seen on FIRE,
recently.
ETA moral debating society out West is dig
cussing this question: ''If husband deserts his
| wife, which is the most abandoned, the man or
the woman 20
RThe Boston Post and Portland Argus sug-
! gest that Parscn Brownlow's neck should be
| fitted a rope. JET. Davis would agree with
them precisely.
| R-The Advertiser speaks of ''the unjust de-
mand of Gen. Grant for more men," Unjust to
to whom, unless it be to JEFF. Davis, and his
rebel eoafreres,
ETGen. Grant has issued an order that no
spirituous, malt. or vinous liquors be allowed to
come into the army, except through the medical
and commissary departments.
| Eva boy about eleven years of age has been
detected in robbing the boxes at the Biddeford
Postofice. A letter had been taken containing
$1,000.
ETA house in Biddeford occupied by Mr.. G..
! G. Twombly, was set on fire on Friday last,
but the flames were extinguished with a trifing
| loss.
HrGen. E. W. CAN'T of Arkansas, who did
such good service in Maine during the State
canvas, proposes to take the stump in Indiana,
and help the good cause there.
81 DR.. 0restes Brownson has recently lost
three sons by death. One Of them met his death
by fallingoff house while asleep. A second
was thrown from stage coach, and third was
killed in the war
~ The Calais Advertiser says Wellington
Cameron, Esq, of St. George. n B., while de-
scending the stairs of Captain Helms vessel,
lying at St. Andrews, on Tuesday evening, fell
and was instantly killed.
! RThe English are giving up their idolatry
for personal isolation in railways since the late
| murder. The Southwestern Directors have or.
/ dered glazed circular aperturet to be placed in
each of their carriages.
VCan Mcclellan and Pendleton vote for
each other without the meanest DISQUALIFICATION
The union of oil and water is no more difficult
than the attempt to harmonic the doctrines
these two men openly advocate.
| VCharles Stratton. better known as General
/ Tom Thumb, has sold his splendid house in
| Bridgeport. CT, and purchased farm in Mid
/ dleboro, Mass, the former home of his wife. The
report about little Thumb is untrue
/ BSheridan is cruel man to win Union
victory. and thus damage the Democratic cause
in the North. As sure as fate, il the Union
commanders meet with many more successes,
the McClellanites will be obliged to give up in
| despair.
The following Maine soldiers were in Pop
] l.