The Portland daily press., 1864-10-27
Original AND SELECTED.

q Co., for files Of late English papers.
GEThe U. s. Steamer Vanderbilt sailed from
Boston on Monday afternoon on cruise.
eEThe rebel prisoners pronounce Sheridan
the greatest general in the Union army.
GEHenry Ward Beecher's Sunday evening
sermons on the state of the Country, are draw
ing immense audiences.
R-The Petersburg Express says tits thought
that Grant is getting ready for another move,
(which may take place at any moment"
ET-The cotton in Texas is being sent over
into Mexico where it is bought up by American
and European spectators.
ETA Mr.. Griswold, lately from Newberne.
N. c., died of yellow fever in Lowell, last
week.
"CHIcAGo THE LAST DITcH,'' was the sub
ject of Miss Dickinson lecture before the Parker
Fraternity, Boston, on Tuesday evening.
EMsj. Andrew C. Hewey, Paymaster in the
U. s. Army, arrived at his home in Bath, on
Saturday evening, on short furlough.
GR-News from Sheridan place him at Front
Royal every deliberately taking account of
stock previous to again commencing business
-E Capt. Richard W. Meade has been or1ered
to the command of the San Jacinto at the Kittery
Navy Yard. ea
VOne hundred and sixty-six suits for dr.
vorce are now pending before the courts in Bos-
ton.
BMr. Charles b. Parker has purchased the
Wolfboro' IN. H. .Nsps and increased its
price.
- Orders have been issued furloughing all
n H. soldiers in hospital, able to travel, to come
home to vote. #G 4AL
RA bay mare and harness was stolen from
the stable of Mr.. Owen Cole. in Greene, on Sun
day night.
~ An apple has been left at the Clarion
Office, Skowhegan, that girts 13 inches and weighs
| 14ounces.
EThe Montreal Witness thinks it is the OBJ
ject of the rebels on the Canada border to involve
Great Britain in war with us.
81 The ''porringer'' of the editor Of the
Skowhegan Clarion is full at last. The rush of
big potatoes has not only filed it, but has crow
ded him into snug quarters in his Office
EThe examination of the Vermont raiders
is conducted at st. Johns, G. E., with closed
doors. Geo. E. Sanders is there managing the
cause for the culprits.
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.advertiser says Gen. Chamberlain. thoughq quite
feeble, has gone to Washington and hopes to
gain permission to return to his command.
gThe New York soldiers are sending in
their votes for the Presidency, and they are
strongly Republican. The army vote will settle
New York as it does Pennsylvania.
~ Gems. Custar and Merritt of Sheridan's
army have been promoted, the former to full
Major General, and the latter to Breyet Major
General, for gallantry.
The New York Tribune, in taking a care
full review of the political situation Of New York,
estimates that Lincoln's majority in the State
viii range from 80 900 to $4,000.
Ezra Wheeler, democratic member of Con-
gress from Wisconsin, following the example of
Mr.. John Griswold of New York has declared
hisintention to support Lincoln and johnson.
Pittsburg, Penn, has forty-six foundries,
consuming forty-six thousand tonssof metal
annually, and paying a million of dollars in
wages. s.re. ~
EAfter the recent raid on st. Adams, an old
gentleman got rifle shot at the party as they
containing $1lOO. ~
RThe Lowell Courier understands that
Hon. Linus Child, who has acted against the Re
publicans for three years, has declared it
his purpose to vote for Lincoln and john
son.
EA fireman on the Grand Trunk railroad,
named Stevens, belonging in Shelburne, N. H.,
while oiling the machinery of locomotive in
motion, on Saturday, slipped and had a foot
taken off,
The New York Times remarks that it is
curious that every officer, almost without excep-
ton, who is now opposing the administration,
is one who has been sent from the service, either
from incompetency or misconduct.
WO On and after November LIST, the morning
and evening trains on the K. & P. Railroad, will
be discontinued, excepting the Monday morning
and Saturday evening trains, which will run as
usual
81 To secure the insertion of original or Sc
lected poetry in our columns, it must possess
it must be exceedingly rsoy. We shall not pub
lish long contributions of that kind hereafter.
The Argus is decidedly sarcastic. 1t init
mates that if the Press and Courier should be
united, that the junior editor of the Courier
would be .sthe master spirit'' of the joint con-
Germ.
! NR At recent convention of Dentists at
Brattleboro, VT, a vote was taken on the Presi-
DENTAL question, and every one went for Lin
coin. Such men pull the teeth outxof copper
heads, but no wisdom-teeth are found.
R-The term of service of Co. B, Maine State
Guards, Capt. Roberls, at Fort McClary, Kit
terry, Me-, terminates on Tuesday next when
they will probably be relieved by the company
now at Fort Popham, Me-, which is enlisted for
one yeT.-lPortsmouth Chronicle.
- Referring to the wall Of the copperheads
that Swe must stop the war; because the debt
is becoming enormous, the Chicago Tribune
tells good story of "old Green, the Chicago
banker" who hung himself to save the expense
of law suit with which he was threatened
81 Mr.. W. W. Eaton, an inyeterate copper
head orator in Hartford, Conn, recently said of
Sheridan obstruction ofproperty in the Shenan-
doah, that, "such thing has not been heard of
sincethe creation, except in the case of Attila -
The copperheads do not remember Chambers
burg.
90 The Boston advertiser says Professor
Bowen, of Harvard College, while returning
from meeting of the Faculty on Monday even
ing, was assaulted by rufian, who sprang
from behind tree and struck him a severe blow
upon the head, rendering him nearly insensible.
After inaicting the blow, the assailant fed.
81 Capt 7. ]. G. Bailey, 18th u s. Regulars,
who was stationed in Augusta for several years
as mastering and disbursing officer, and by his
urgent request was ordered to active duty with
his regiment last August. has been taken pris-
oner by the enemy in one of the recent engage
ments near Petersburg, and is now an inmate of
Belle Isle prison, Richmond
B-The St. Johns Globe says seaman named
Tralks. belonging to the schooner C. W. Mer-