The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-12
ORIGINAL AND sELECTFD.


get married is, they are afraid to come to the
scratch.
B-A celebrated cook, who died recently. has
had his epitaph written by some cockney: dPeace
to his hashes.'
90 The State of Illinois has furnished nearly
300 900 soldiers for our armies without the pay
ment Of bounty.
p The population of Vermont is 3l4 JOS
2s2, 1855 native and 80, 743 foreign. There are 10
persons in the State over 100 years of age.
GY-The yellow fever has broken out afresh at
Bermuda. The panic was so great that some
parishes left their dead unburied.
gY-John L. Ham, son of Nelson Ham, ESQ.,,
of Lewiston, was taken prisoner in the late
movements south of Petersburg.
E8- Never fiirt with a young widow who calls
YOU by your christian name the second time you
meet her unless you have quite made your mind
up for the worst.
~ The courts of California haven't been
able to find an ith that will make Cinnamon
tell the truth. Invoking the Great Spiritual
Intelligence - and Imperial Heaven is no
svrt of use.
EgA French author says: 'When lost my
wife every family in town offered me another;
but when lost my horse, no ore offered to make
him good.'
GyThe Louisville journal says Mcclellan has
fallen underline political ban of the Abotionists.
He may fall under ban, but he certainly never
will under banner.
EGen. Sheridan has become terror to evil
doers in the Shenandoah valley, and his contin-
ued victories source of sorrow to the copper
heads of the North.
RA staff officer in General Sherman's army,
writingto friend at the North, says Mcclellan
votes in that army will be ''as scarce as hens
teeth
! R-The next meeting of the Cumberland
! County Temperance Association will be held at
Freeport village on Tuesday, the 18th inst, at
O'Clock, continuing afternoon and evening.
ECapt. A. Thompson is raising company
to do service in this state, headquarters to be at
Fort Popham. About one-half of the company
is filed.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has been engaged
to lecture in Lewiston the coming. season. She
will give one of the Independent Course of Lee
lures in this city.
qEThe Michigan University has three hun
dred students in the regular course, three hun
dred and fifty in the medical school, and two
hundred and twenty-one in the law department
"a large increase In ALL
80 The copperhead papers have very sudden.
ly dropped the expression "Lincoln hlrellngs
It is said to be out of regard tor the feelings OF
Gen. Mcclellan, who still continues to draw his
pay as a Major General, though out of service
for nearly two years past. ~
E-"Have jury agreed 20 asked the baillt
of alocked-up set of twelve Wnom ne had lei
under the care of his man, Denny Garry, ano
whom he met on the stairs with can In his hand
"0h, yes,'' replied Denny, ''they have agrad'
to sind out for anotherhs gallon"
RSir Robert Peel speaking of Lord Eldon
said that even his failngs leaned to virtues side
on which gentemsn in company observed thal
they must have been like the leaning tower o.
Pisa, which in spite of its inclination mad never
yet gone over.
BThere is no fear for the safety of Gen
Sherman at Atlanta. He has force enough t.
keep his communication with Chattanooga clear
lie has whipped the rebel army in Georgia 81
many times that they start to run as soon as tn
first gun is fired. A4sttN t4t JOB
II Hon. John Sherman says if he was goin:
to select man to make bow to the ladies h
should select Mcclellan in preference to col
Abe," but for purposes of craftsmanship to swal
the latter for the former would be devilisl
losing business.
Will the Argus inform its readers what singl
act Mcclellan ever performed which contributes
to secure his nomination ? Was he not nomina
tel for what he failed to do, or what he never at
tempted to do, rather than for anything he ha
really accomplished 2
R-A few days since the Democratic paper
claimed that all the federal prisoners in rebs
prisons were Mcclellan men. Does this explain
why several hundreds o. them are now reporte
as having taken the oath of allegiance to JEFF
Davis.
"a correspondent of the Argus seem
troubled lest he as a white man in the progress
of events should have judgment passed upon hin
by s'negro Judge" He probably would con
siderit an honor to have sentence passed upol
him by a white Judge
- The Waterville Mail says the exhibition o
trained steers, at their late Cattle Show, show
how much more easily cattle are managed b.
kind treatment than by the use of the brad ant
loud yells and oaths. Mr.. Rice sold yoke o
these steers for $3.50. o
% The prospect of raising the $3.50, 900 funt
for Waterville college is very encouraging
Large subscriptions have been obtained torit il
Boston; but there remains $4,000 more to b
obtained to secure what has already beer
pledged.
81 The Cleveland Herald says that ''seeins
the velocity with which the Chicago Copperheat
train is rushing to sure destruction, Mcclellan
the cautious railroad man, keeps his eye OF
the warning = g Don't stand on the plat
FORM - AZ
50 The Saco Democrat "only wonders tina
all of so 900 prisoners in the South not g
and take the oath of allegiance to JEFF. Davis, 81
as to get out of the rebel prisons. If they wer,
all like the editor of the Democrat no doubt the,
would; he would if he didn't fear rebel conscrip
ton. 3a
| % JEFF. Davis, in asIeech in Georgia, in which
he endeavored to satisfy the peopleof that Stat,
that he was not unmindful of their condition
gave as reason why he did not send more mer
to their aid, that he had none to send-that they
had not many between eighteen and forty-ive
left. OIL - 5
BThe most overpowering article in yester-
days Argus was Communication from ga
Democrats Daughter % in favor of :" Little
Mcclellan She thinks he is enshrined in the
! great heart of the army. Probably if he was
catechised about it-whether he is in thesolders
hearts-he would say 81 do not remember"
80 General Dix has written a letter to a Union
Committee in Philadelphia on political affairs.
Heregards the vigorous prosecution of the war
as the only real question, says that General Nc
Clellan does not meet it frankly, and charges the
Chicago convention with making the democratic
party peace party.
% Among the conspicuous lobbyists at the
Chicago Convention was McKinstry, Fremonts'
Quartermaster General who was spontaneously
expelled the service in consequence of his enor-
nous stealing. There is not q swindler or de-
faulter that has been detected in the government
service for the last three years. but what is found
in the Democratic ranks, mustered for another
onslaught upon the public treasury.
% The New York Herald advises August Bel