The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-09-28

81 Aaron Healey, Esq.,, of New York, in his
youth resident of Waterville, has subscribed
$1,000 towards the $50, 900 fund for Waterville
College.
81 There is to be a grand ratification meeting
in Faneuil Hall, Boston, this evening. Gen
Hooker is expected to be present and address the
meeting.
- Brig Sultan left Cleveland on Saturday
last, struck on a bar in the evening, and sunk
The crew took to the rigging Seven lives were
lost. Vessel and cargo total loss.
50 Two large warehouses were struck BY
lightning in Detroit on the night of the 23d
inst. and entirely destroyed Loss from $25, OOC
to 900. Insured.
% The new Hospital rooms for winter use
in Augusta are nearly completed They are
commodious and will be comfortable when fin
ished.
80 Asking Mcclellan to make speech on the
evening the news came of the success of Sheri.
dan, cotemporary calls the refinement Of
cruelty.''
- Sheridan's victory, in copperhead ran ks,
is regarded as military interference with cleo
tons that ought not to be tolerated under free
government.
80 Letters from Rome say the Pope has had
another attack of his old complaint. Hehas re-
covered from so many dangerous attacks that his
friends do not feel alarmed by such reports
ETA squad of rebel prisoners passing up
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, the other
night, Kissed the Lincoln flag and cheered the
flag of Mcclellan. They seem to understand the
difference. ~
RGreen Clay Smith of Kentucky, says he
will make his half million bet good on Lincoln's
reelection, and will deposit $4,000 of it at
once, to be forfeitedif the half million is not put
up before the election.
81 Zebina Briggs, living near Vickery's
Mills in Auburn, died Saturday night very sud-
denly, and under circumstances iustifyine
the sitting of coroner's inquest over his re-
mains.
~ Gen. Heintzleman rebuked man who said
Mcclellan was coward. He said no man should
be called coward till he had hinched under FIRE
Mcclellan had never been tested, for he had
never been uuder fire
I'D The New York World has undertaken two
herculean tasks: first, to convince the American
people that Abraham Lincoln is not an honest
man, and, second, to convince them that 'sLittlt
Mcclellan" is great man and a brave soldier
The people can't see either in that light.
% The Sixth corps-the boys who are winning
the victories in the Shenandoah valley-recent.
ly voted for president, and the footing was
Lincoln $4,000, Mcclellan 1900. What cam.
paign documents they are sending us from the
field. ~
20 The president is reported as jnstifying the
removal of Surveyor Andrews of New York by
the fact that "there were too many holes in his
skinner The ex-surveyor takes his removal
very kindly, and is going to stump New York
for Lincoln and johnson.
- Gen. Hooker appeared at Lincoln ratifi-
cation meeting in Brooklyn, N. T., Thursday
evening, and was received with great enthusiasm
He made brief speech, showing beyond all
further doubt where he stands politically. He
said there were no copperheads in the army, but
the soldiers will vote as they fight.
- Referring to the effect eff signal rebel
Sept Sth says: s'The influence of the South,
more powerful in the shock of battle than when
throwing her minority vote in an electoral COL
ege, will be cast in favor of Mcclellan by this in
direct yet eficacious means.'
- The publisher of the Temperance Journal
offers tempting inducements for Divisions to
make an extra effort to circulate that paper.
With such inducements added to the satisfaction
of aiding in disseminating valuable temperance
reading, no doubt a large accession will be made
to the list of that paper.
80 The Advertiser insists that the telegraphic
dispatches from the Shenandoah Valley, about
Sheridan's victories, are made up for political
effect, and bear on their face both exaggeration
and misrepresentation. Thisis precious con-
fessioR, that Union victories are fatal to conner
head success.
% Hon. Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.
whose detection from the republican party has
SO delighted the copperheads, having been re-
stored to consciousness of the improperly of
his course by the commendatory notices in the
copperhead press, has taken the stump for Lin
coin and johnson. oaB
10 The Richmond Examiner of the 9Th inst
says, every defeat of Lincoln's forces. aven
holding them steadily at bay, inures to the nd
vantage of Mcclellan, or rather to that of the
dexterous manipulators in whose hands he 10 a
puppet, and accumulates for them the much de-
sired "political capital''
81 There have been twenty deaths from a
mysterious disease contracted at MARYLAND In
stitute The sickness is of malignant tynbo;d
type, similar to ship fever, and has proved as in
sidious and fatalas the National Hotel disease
There can be little doubt, from Administrations
made, that the disease was the result of ma
laria caused by the exposure of putrid animal
and vegetable matter upon the removal of an old
barn, and by the soil becoming saturated with
matter from long used sinks and drains, impreg-
mating the water as wellas the air with delete
rious matter.