The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-09-27
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

R-A first class locomotive now costs $685.
ooO, against 5000 before the war.
% Charles Mason, of New Haven, sold a
merino buck at the Vermont Fair for $4,000.
. single battery threw 900 shells into At
lanta in one day
B The quota eff Bangor has been filed with
out draft. ,...,
B-At what time of life may man be said to
belong to the vegetable kingdom When long
experience had made him sage.
81 1t is estimated that at least one-third of
the newspapers published in the United States,
four years ago, have suspended publication.
B-A fifteen pound percussion shell and two
iron bands were found in a bale of cotton at
Lowell, on Monday.
i HIn riot at St. Louis between soldiers and
civilians, the former smashed up a Mcclellan
meeting Our soldiers are death on the rebels.
20 Col. W. H. Seward, jr., SON of the Secre-
tary, has for gallant conduct in the field, been
made Brigadier. 49, .,-..fs.s (.
I'D A vote of the publishers attending the
New York trade sale resulted as follows: Lincoln
Al Mcclellan z Fremont /.
BOne hundred guns were fred in Boston on
Saturday, and general display of all the ma
tional flags, in honor of Sheridan's victory.
% The Government has one Peace Commits
sioner who is now on his way to Richmond. His
name is P. H. Sheridan. a.lab ga
BThe New York Herald advises Pendle-
ton to withdraw and give Mcclellan fair
chance.
| 20 Theodore S. Fay, late American minister
to Switzerland, has been preparing new school
geography.
q Mr. Arnold, of Illinois, who has been
speaking in Western Pennsylvania. says the
republicans will carry the state by $4,000.
81 Fifteen hundred Minnesota soldiers at
Fort Smelling have sent in their presidential
| votes - 1900 for Lincoln and 400 for Nc
! Clellan. 1sisd6ssrs Il Ae s98eA
EEThe Injunction ON the New Nation news
paper in New York has been removed, and Gen.
Cluseret will edit and publish it as an admins
tration paper. 81
E-The Argus seems troubled lest the Cabinet
should be made unit. Perhaps Mr.. Lincoln
should consult with the copperheads before ven-
I turing to reconstruct his executive family.
B The Richmond papers complain that the
people in the Shenandoah Valley will not take
southern currency, and demand Fessenden's
Greenbacks.
HThe Treasurer of the Sanitary Commission
/ of Bangor, acknowledges the receipt of $50. rs
from the Charleston Division Of the Sons of
Temperance.
RCotton went down ON Saturday to $3.50
per pound--a decline OF. 60 cents during the
week. Cotton cloths declined is per cent, caus-
ing great panic. tas i
EThe Cattle Show and Fair of the Far
mers and Mechanics Club of Minot and He
bron will be held at West Minot, Oct. 10th and
10th. ss 's re-
~ The railroad bridge across the Kennebec
at Augusta, took fire from sparks few nights
since. The fire was discovered and extinguished
before much damage was done.
RThe Illinois Historical Society has just re-
eeived gifts of several gatherings, and has cleo
ber
ECol. Jacob McClare, Of Rockland, late
Capt. of ID Sharpshooters, has been authorized
by the War Department to raise battalion
of Sharpshooters in this State ~
sb eT The system of 'smoney ORDERS in the
Postofices is to go into operation on the LIST OF
October; but it will require several months to
get the machin cry in complete working order.
~ Earl Russell says that the Georgia
case must go before the American Prize Courts,
and the owners must defend their interests
there.
tits rumored that since the last 'sfailure
Of the war; under Gen. Sheridan, Mcclellan
is about writing another letter, as his 'srecord'
in no instance applies to that class of events.
BThe Chicago platform is found very slip
perry since the late Federal successes Even Pen
deton does not dare write a letter of acceptance
squarely endorsing it,.
Rev. DR.. Bellows, who has been doing
good service in California and Oregon, in behalf
of the Sanitary Commission, is now on his way
to New York.
80 The steamer Elizabeth, Capt. Fowler, re
Gently sailed from Philadelphia for City Point
Va, with luxuries and necessaries for the sol
diers from the Sanitary Commission. The cargo
was valued at $4,000. hsh
80 A soldier in New Orleans says one eyi.
dence that Gen. Candy is a man of business il
that he has been there more than three months
and has not yet found time to have his photo.
graph taken.
- There is an excess of females over males il
five States in the Union. Connecticut has 1000
Massachusetts 81 900, New Hampshire 1000
York IL 600, Rhode Island, 5000; in Pennsyl
vania the numbers are nearly equal.
20 The editor of the Gardiner Journal says
professional boot blacks have appeared in thu
streets of that city. In some seasons of tn,
year they will find it necessary to hoe before
applying the brush. das aaa- +
90 Warrants to complete payments to the arm,
and navy to date have been signed by Secretary
Fessenden. The entire armies of the United
Statesw will therefore receive payment in full as
soon as paymasters can arrange details. ear
81 George c. Clark, q graduate of Amherst
college in 1858 and Latin teacher of the Chica
go high school since his graduation, has beer
elected professor of Latin in the university Of
Chicago. = stfs
THE Bangor Democrat calls the so-called
Democratic party of Maine ''rhe Spartan Band. -
Would it not be more appropriate to call it the
fSmarting Band, in view of the severe slick
ing'' it got last Monday week. gs1i
B The clerks in the different departments in
Washington number upwards of ten thousand
and all dress in uniform and do military drill
two hours each day in the week, armed and
equipped.
B-The Montreal Herald denounces the con-
duct of those pirates who have taken advantage
of the asvlum afforded them in Canada IN r.eLo