The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-09-03
ORIGINAL IND SELECTED.

oebhoh, were captured ip Calais on TUESDAY,
q General Butler Is on his way back to his
\ command.
% Secretary Sew" d has left Washington. on
short visit to his ho me in Auburn. NY
! q The quota Of Massachusetts is full so the
Boston papers claim, by virtue of naval enlist.
| ments
| i The iron stea mer Rouen, seized byaU.s
| gunboat OF Rockland, was released, and went on
her way to st. John.
3 George E. Read, of the LIST Me. Cavalry.
of Liverinore Fails, was killed in the late opera
tons ON the Weldon r. r.
| y There was terrible tornado passed over
Idaho city on the 9th ult., sweeping everything
| before it.
az Josh Billings is at Cape May, sharpening
up his wits He is said to be perfect specimen
of New York Yankee.
! % Col. Thomas d. Robinson, of Bath, is
the Democratic candidate for Eiector, for the I'd
District.
| - The rates of admission to the New York
theatres have been raised. How can the poor of
that city stand such pressure
80 Capt. d. F. Sargent, of Brewer, of Ba-
ker's Cavalry, was killed in the battle at Rsams'
| Station on the Goth ult
| . Seven deaths from diptheria occurred in
sixteen days in one house occupied by two fam
lilies. in the town of SALISBURY, VT.
! y The Bangor Wing says Grant has cap
| tured more rebel prisoners than Mcclellan ever
commanded loyal soldiers at any one time
- The church bells in Bath were rung by
the copperheads in token of rejoicing over their
reasonable work at Chicago. No doubt the
Devil laughed outright when he heard the noise
q The New Bedford Mercury learns that
Admiral Porter is to take command of the North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, in place of Ad-
miral Lee.
| 81 There was fight among the crew OF the
ship Lady Emily, at Philadelphia, Thursday,
! during which the boatswain, Mr. McNlasters, of
Belfast. was killed
- A Coal-at-Cost Company in BROOKLYN,
n. Y, sent committee to Pennsylvania, which
reported that coal could be delivered to subscrib-
ers at Sii per ton.
y man named Stackpole, of Biddeford,
committed suicide on Tuesday, by hanging him
self. He was about fifty years of age, and leaves
q large family
81 Darius N Parks, of Bath, of the First
Maine Cavalry, reported killed, il appears has
been prisoner at Richmond, and is now at An
napolis Hospital.
81 The Argus speaks of the Newburyport
Herald as Republican paper. Its Republican,
ism is of the same stamp as that Of the Boston
Courier and the Portland Advertiser
9Mr. Freeman Herrin while at work on the
dam near the -four mill in Skowhegan. on Satur-
day last, fell distance of twelve or fifteen feet,
striking on the ledge. considerably bruisng and
Earring him.
- Papers in the Rockland telegraph Office
were fred by lightning few days since. The
Free Press says it apparently ran along the wire
like ball of fire, and burst about twenty or
thirty rods from the telegraph Office
II Prof s. R. Neal having resigned the pro-
fessorship of Mathematics, in Bates College.
Mr. S Morrill,. of Rhode Island, has been ap-
pointed Tutor in this Department, and has enter
ed upon his duties
2B Gen. Woodbury., who died recently at
Key West. Of yellow fever. was native of New
Hampshire, and graduate at West Point He
occupied the highest rank as an engineer and an
officer before the war broke out
e Wilkes Spirit Of the Times has abandon
ed the Fremont flag, and now swings It's hat for
Gen. Grant. That's what every loyal man is
now doing. Allare ready to hurrah for Grant,
Sherman and Farragut.
p We understand that Mr. Rogers, the
Supervising Architect of the Treasury Depart
ment, IS expected in the city within a few days.
He comes on business connected with the new
Custom House.
9 The democracy of Abraham Lincoln is
the democracy OF Jefferson and Jackson, based
on the recognition of human rights and the
preservation OF the Union; peaceably maintain
ed if possible. but at any expense maintained.
81 According to the new act of Congress,
passed July 4, 1854, the remarriage Of soldiers
widow terminates all claim to a pension from
the date of such remarriage, although she may
again become widow.
e The ladies in Boston having taken the no.
ton to hold their dresses so high as not to be
available for street-sweepng purposes, the city
is about TO introduce another kind Of sweeping
machine.
y JET Daeis has plenty of work on hand
He runs the Confederate Government at Rich
mond. and then, through his agents at Niagara
Falls, runs the Democratic party Of the North
for the benefit Of his special friend McClallan.
q Who can furnish us with bound file of
the Argus, covering the Presidential campaign
OF is5o' We want to copy several articles show
ing the sectional character Of party and its
reasonable designs. which takes both Of its can
didates from the free States
81 The Richmond Wing told the Chicago
Convention if they could not nominate Buel to
nominate Mcclellan, and it did So Never were
slaves on the plantation more obedient to their
masters, than are the copperheads Of the North
TO the wishes Of the South
= Zone Pint" asks the editor of the Wash
ington Republican: Since We have had refresh
ing rains lately, and the streams are pretty
well filed, why should the milk manufacturers
persist in demanding fifteen cents quart for
milk -
81 Gen. McClellan's success depends upon
the defeat of our army-the triumph Of Hood
over Sherman, and of Lee over Grant. and the
defeat and consequent slaughter of our brave
soldiers on every battlefield Is any Maine man
willing to urge it on such conditions
r A despatch received in Gloucester, Mass,
dated Charlottetown, Aug. 20, sa, 5 no vessel of
the description Of the Tallahassee had been In
the bay up to that date, so that the story about
the burning Of the twenty-five fishing vessels is
untrue
e The editor of the Bath Times very dis
tinctly intmates that there are some settled cler
gymen who are very far from being the right men
in the right places. He argues this from their
excessive dizziness. Would the editor of the
Times be willing to be tried by the same rule, to
test his fitness for the editorial profession,
~ George H. Pendleton, the Chicago NOM
inee for the Vice Presidency, was born in Gin
Al, in, Ir,l,. r.,