The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-08-23
O1'1 "A" - and SELECTED.

ORIGINAL AND sELnoTED.
- hnoas Island has extended the right Of
suffrage to- Ter soldiers in the field.
3 q icago claims population Of abou,
l6O, 900. u "''U'
% The Sagadahoc County Union Conven-
ton meets in Bath to-day
81 When God breaks our idols in n;ecss !,
is lot for us to put them together again.
Eg Hon. S. P. Chase is stopping for short
tine in Beverly, Mass.
~ The following deaths of Maine soldiers
occurred at Washington Casper johnson and
Edwin A. MARRIED., 7th; W. L. Alley, 32d.
81 The Albany Argus reports Gov. Seymour
as utterly opposed to the use of his name as
candidate before the Chicago Convention.
II The Wade-Davis manifesto is used by the
Peace Democrats as an electioneering document.
"To such base uses have they come at last
r. Music is the only earthly bliss which the
ina sinations of men have transferred to heav-
en-.
% Mrs Darlington, who has been rustcating
among the Kanucks, is spending a short time
in Portsmouth
~ The yellow fever is making fearful rava-
ges in Bermuda; sixty or seventy are dying in
day.
Y Col. Jonas A. Hall, of Damariscotta. ar
rived at his home on a short furlough, on satur-
day last.
30 In some places the grass has been SO
short it had to be lathered before it could be
moved.
- The ''coat of arms on steam fire-en-
CINE just brought to Lynn, is lady's gaiter
boot.
y The hot weather has pushed the corn
ahead out West prodigiously, and a tremendous
crop is expected.
e Southern paper speaks OF Mr.. Lincoln
as "a dying gorilla, against whom the smallest
cur can lift up its leg"
81 Cotton continues to rise, carrying with it
dry goods of all descriptions. Many cotton
mills will suspend operations.
p Elisha Parks, an old and successful mer-
chant in Boston, died at his residence in that
city on Friday.
n Secretary Fessenden arrived in Washing
ton on Saturday, and entered at once upon the
duties of his office.
B-The question is often asked, what becomes
of the cents, Ten thousand dollars in copper
coin were shipped from New York last week
- 1t is said large number of Western troops
are on their way to New York preparatory to
draft.
EB~ Daniel Z. Hinkley, Esq, senior member
of the firm of Hinkley & Egery. Bangor, died at
his residence in that city on Sunday.
- man in London was recently sentenced
to six weeks Imprisonment for kissing a married
woman against her will. Rather a dear bought
luxury.
81 Persons addressing soldiers in hospitals,
should not put on the regiment and company to
which they belong when writing to them, but
the hospital and ward.
/ n Saratoga letter, speaking of dress men,
/ tons very low Dairy Windows, with short
sleeves and long skirts, for the evening" What
are Dairy Windows,
30 Republican convention at Ravenna,
Ohio, passed resolution "censuring Senator
Wade, and requesting him TO vacate his seat in
4 the U. s. Senate
| y The Provost Marshal of New York is pre-
| pairing for the draft on the 9Th of September,
and being forewarned of resistance is determin-
| ed to be forearmed.
% Since the beginning of the month, ST.
000, 900 have been put into the hands of the pay
masters to settle with the soldiers to the LIST OF
July.
/ - There are over quarter of million OF
people in England bearing the name of Smith.
There can be nothing good or bad carried on to
any extent without Smith in it.
81 Chicago, with a population of i60, 900,
has but four daily papers printed in English
the same number that Portland has, with but
one-ffth of the population.
y A Sanitary Fair of the State of Illinois
has now been fully organized. 1t will be held
on the grounds of the State Agricultural Society
and during the week of the annual exhibition,
beginning Sept. ~.
- Scion Chase, ESQ.,, of Turner, returned
from Washington on Friday, with his son, 1t
james j Chase, of Co. d, sd Maine. who wa.
wounded in the late assault on the rebel works
at Petersburg.
u The work of building the branch road
from the Roix Station to ST. Stephen will soon bt
commenced, surveys having been completed, and
the contract for building the road having been
made.
% monument to John Smith has beer
rected on the Isle of Shoals, for which the five
eand-twenty John Smiths of this city, more OIL
less, respectfully and respectively tender theil
/ thanks.
EB- The Lowell Courier offers new "peact
proposition" 1t is that one million of mer
shall volunteer for six months, and place theil
services at the disposal of the President, to put
an end to the war in one campaign.
- Arrangements have been made for the
celebration of the two hundredth anniversary o.
the settlement of New Bedford, Mass, on Wed.
nesday, the l4th of September next. The ora.
ton will be pronounced by W. W. Grape, Esq.,,
and the poem by James b. Congdon, Esq.
sB-A maiden lady, whose age is not proper
subject for discussion, warns young men that
the stamp act on matches is to be enforced on
and after the LIST Of September, and that it would
be asaying of money to finish up engagements
before that date.
/ ~ Mr.. fessenden, whose visit to New York
was very brief, has gone back to Washington,
after leaving the orders for the disbursement OF
the gold in the Sub-Treasury to such parties as
may apply for the payment of coupons due the
first ofnext September and the first of November.
! i Boston Advertiser.
! q The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
are making quite heavy shipments of their man
ufaetures to England. The goods thus sent out,
| are mainly kerosene lamps of various patterns;