The Portland daily press., 1864-08-17
ORIGINAL and SELECTED.

ton is evidently charging upon England's ma
tional skull
- The August term Of the S. ]. Court for
Sagadahoc county, commenced its session in
Bath on Tuesday.
y Among the wounded officers reported at
Washington on Monday, is Lieut.. b. F. Carr.
I'd Me. Battery.
n The Yellow fever is prevailing at Key
West to an alarming extent. Quite number of
soldiers have fallen victims to it.
gg-The State of New York has eighteen agents
at Nashville, Tenn, recruiting for the army, to
count on the quota of that State.
n The Amoskeag Company of Manchester
have built two steam fire engines for London
and one for Russia.
ET-It is estimated that over six thousand per-
sons were present at the Yarmouth, Mass, camp
meeting on Sunday.
y Among the deaths reported at the Hos
pitfalls in Washington, we find reported August
1Ith. C. c. Trafton, Surgeon of the 32d Me-
n The Democrats of the 4th Congressional
District have nominated Hon. James c. Madi-
gan, of Houlton, as their candidate for Con-
gress.
- The Bangor Wing says that townships 40,
Ill, "a, and 49, at the head of Nicatou Lake,
have been badly burned. The fire is supposed to
have come through from border of Machias river.
y The body of an Irishman was taken out
of the water at lower steamboat wharf, at Ban
Ia G, 10 bov
dentally drowned.
e Dickens is said to be very poor. He has
used up the money for his new novel in advance.
Poor fellow! if such be the fact, he is not enti-
tied to much sympathy
y An exchange says, the country has be-
come very healthy indeed since news paper pub
fishers began to exact small fees for obituary no.
tees.
= Agents for recruiting negroes are not al
lowed to go through the Army of the Potomac,
but must confne their operations near the base
of supplies.
~ George Adams, of Exeter, N H., an old
day night, by cutting his throat, and it is feared
the wound Will prove fatal.
- Special Washington dispatches say that
important military movements are in progress
in Virginia, which are improper for publica-
ton.
y Rev. Hubbard winslow, successorto Rev.
Lyman Beecher, at Bowdoin Street Church.
Boston, died at Williston, Vermont, on Satur-
day last.
81 A son of Michael Lcary, seven years of
age, was drowned in the Piscataquia river on
Sunday evening, having fallen overheard while
playing around Walkers wharf.
y Capt. Thomas T. Craven, who lost his
life when his vessel, the monitor Tecumseh, was
sunk by torpedo at Mobile. we are told, was
born at the Kittery Navy Yard, where his father
was stationed.
y A "Coal at Cost Company" has been or
gained in Brooklyn. One thousand tons will
be purchased by subscriptions, and a purchaser
despatched to the Pennsylvania mines. saving
Of "a per ton is expected
y Vessels were chartered in Philadelphia on
Friday to carry coal to Boston at from 50 to
$3.50 per ton, which shows an important de-
cline over rates a week ago-the quotations then
being SO to 1925.
u The Newburyport Herald says that by the
will of the late Hon. Josiah Little of that city,
Bowdoin College has received from $4,000 to
$4,000 for the establishment of Professor
ship of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
II William j. Brownson, son of 0restes A.
Brownson, was killed in Nebraska last month by
leaping from stage in fit of somnambulism
An elder brother lost his life five years ago by a
similar cause.
- Charles F. Tillinghast, one of the oldest
and most eminent lawyers in Rhode Island. died
at Providence on Wednesday, aged 81. His
whole life was spent in the practice of his pro-
fession in that city.
q The Spiritualists of Vermont will soon
meet in convention. Vermont was once very
celebrated for its anti-masonc fever. and now ii
sends out man, speaking mediums, but after all,
its star never sets There is not q more truly
democratic and loyal State in the Union.
n The government hospital at Manchester
is to comprise thirteen buildings in all, ten OF
them to be one story in height, and the Others
two stories, and all to be built of wood, and to
cost about $4,000. They will be completed in
two months.
r Madame Bishop gives concert in Toron-
her daughter Louisa A. Sedgwick, basso, and
Charles Lascelles from London. We hope the
Grand Trunk win bring them to the Forest City
where they would receive warm welcome.
RThe saco Democrat says, a gentleman from
Portland left pocket book containing about
$500 in a store in Slco last week, and was very
much surprised when it was returned to him a
short time afterwards. He had not missed
il.
q A wag, the other day, asked his friend,
"How many knaves do you suppose live in this
street besides yourselfl'' Besides myselfl'' re-
piled the other; do you mean to insult me g''-
"Well, then," said the first, show many do you
reckon, including yourseli,''
~ Thanksgiving morning, widowed lady
was summoned to her door TO receive a splendid
turkey. "who sent iti'' asked the lady. ~
was told not to lisp" replied the Hibernian-
Ah! can guess, responded the lady. BE
dad, that's just what tould Deacon Grant
II A letter from New Orleans says that the
crop of cotton will be so remuneratiye in the
department of the South that one lessee of a Gov
eminent plantation, formerly newspaper cor
respondent, will realize profit of 500 600 this
season.
- In the vicinity of Paducah and May field,
Kentucky, there are over one hundred widows
and families of Union men murdered by guer-
rillas. Gen. Paine intends appropriating from
the funds assessed on rebel cotton and tobacco
for that purpose, five thousand dollars each for
these people.
81 A nobleman once asked a clergyman, who
was dining at the bottom of the table, why the
goose was always placed next to the Parson p
Really said he, II can give no reason for il;
but your question is so odd, that | shall never
see a goose again without thinking of your