The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-11-18
ORIGINAL Ind SELECTED.

VThe receipts of the Sailors Fair in Bos-
ton, from all sources, amount to $1l5OoO
8 JEFF. Davis has become an advocate of
emancipation and negro soldering
% Gen. Butler has returned to his most At
City Point, Va.
% Five Union Congressman were gained in
Illinois at the late election.
UThe msjorities for Lincoln prove to be
much larger than has heretofore been stated. in
Oregon, Nevada, and Maryland.
R There is report that Admiral Farra-
gut is coming north for the benefit Of his
health. os
B-Hon. C. W. Goddard having resigned the
position of Consul General to Turkey, has re-
sumed the practice Of law in Lewiston.
% Hon Henry H. Crafo, the newly elected
Republican Governor of Michigan, was former
ly resident of New Bedford.
% If the electoral votes of the entire South
had been counted for M cClellan he would still
have lacked some fifty votes of a majority. p
- Coal in Boston is being delivered in bags,
AAAHA0souaOAAe On ti1o CuSbOm Oh QumDlu x
it into the mud of the street.
RA barber named Cook, in Old Windsor,
Canada, recently murdered his five daughters
and cut his own throat. EfslG 1
Government stocks have advanced three
or four per cent. since the emphatic declaration
of the people that it should be sustained.
HProfessor Goodwin Smith was introduced
to the President, Secretary of State and other
officials, on Wednesday. G .aus =
ID The London Times Richmond orrespon-
dent gives gloomy account of things in that
city, and Of the prospects Of the Southern Con-
iederaey.
- Mr. John Reed, printer, who was injured
by the cars in Boston on Sunday week, had his
arm amputated at the shoulder on Wednes.
day, but did not survive the operation.
81 Muller, convicted in London of the muir
der of Mr.. Briggs in railway carriage, was
sentenced to be hung last Monday, 14tt
inst.
81 The Gardiner Journal says that ever
"Dud Clay" who was confident that he wa,
going to carry Pennsylvania for Little Mac, ad
mits that Lincoln is elected
RA vigorous effort will be made by the gov
eminent to bring down the price of gold, or
more properly, to improve the currency of the
country. se9 q
q The Louisville Journal says, the election
was perfectly free in that city; the soldiers be
hased admirably, and no citizen was prevented
from. voting by bayonets.
80 The .drgus insisted that recent rise il
gold was the result of Lincoln's election. I,
what does it attribute the more recent de
cline?
RWe understand there is talk Of putting
the Argus on wheels and removing it to ssOulC
Ireland" Locomotive newspapers are all tn
rage in rebeldom.
R"To whom it may concern A sun
shade, left last summer on board the revenu
cutter Dobbin, has been left at our Office 70
the benefit of the owner.
EThe Calitornian says, very ungallantly
miss Hardinge lectured on The Coming Man,
2 at Platt's Hall. to large audience. Miss Har
dinge speaks with the fervor that usually dis
tinguishes ladies ON that subject.'' F-
90 Mr.. Kean Buchanan and his daughter
Miss Virginia Buchanan, are playing at Walnu
Street Theatre. Philadelphia, where they are re
ceived with marked favor. Miss Lucille Westo
is playing at the same Theatre.
90 John Bent. who was convicted of the mul
der of John Silversmith, was sentenced in tn
United States Circuit Court in Boston, on Tues
on the 18th February. sc.1ssi9 sa
HA man who had been employed in til
Pennsy1vania coal mines and was on his wa
home to Scotland, was found dead drunk in tn
streets Of Boston, with $3.50 in gold in hi
, pockets, on Tuesday night
EThe Manchester, N. H., Mirror says Re-
J. Hail, pastor of the Elm street Methods
: Church in that city, has left for parts unknown
Financial troubles are supposed to be the caus
of his disappearance. .
- Says Gen. Grant, in letter to Secretar
Stanton: The election having passed off s
quietly-no bloodshed or riot throughout ii
land-is victory worth more to the countr
than o. battle won. Rebellion and Europe wi
so construe it,
The State Teachers Association will CON
mence at Skowhegan on Monday next. In IL
evening there will be an opening address by ii
president and lecture by Mr. L. Dunto
Of Bath, upon sc The Philosophy of Disc
pline.''
Gov. Cony sprained his ankle on Wednes
day last, in alighting from his carriage, causiD
severe pain SO that he came near fainting. III
Kennebec Journal says he was taken to h
home and will probably be confined to the hous
for several days.
% The Hon. Nathaniel p Tallmadge died {
Battle Creek. Michigan, ON the I'd inst He wa
for many years prominently connected wit
party politics in New York State, was Unite
States Senator, and recently Lieutenant Cover
or of Wisconsin.
u La his speech at the Union celebration til
other day, Gov. Washburn brought down Ii
house by suggesting the fitness of an epitaph o
ten days old infants grave stone, for McCle
lan's monument:
s.Since was so soon dons for a
! wonder what was begun for"
Hon. Lewis Baker, being called upon 70
q speech at the Union celebration in Bangor O
Wednesday. prefaced his remarks by repeatin
some lines dedicated to s'Three Dead Snakes.
called Mcclellan, Pendleton and SEYMOUR,
be sung to the tune of ''Three Blind Mice.
which was greeted with tremendous applause.
- The voters of Lyons, N. Y, ON election
day, were astonished by the appearance of
young lady at the polls. She came with he
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