The Portland daily press., 1864-10-26
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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R- Counterfeit 2's on the Agawam Bank,
Springfield, are In circulation.
FThe bombardment OF Charleston continues
with unabated vigor.
ry Braine, the pirate, is on trial at Ber-
muda.
r5-The vintage is said to have totally failed /
this year in Hungary
pumpkin is on exhibition in Manches-
ter. N. H., that weighs eighty-seven pounds.
ey-We must take others as we find them not
as we would have them; our identity may be as
odd in their sight as theirs is to u.s. aF
~ Mr. Dennison, the new Postmaster Gem |
eral, is proving himself an energetic and capable
officer. eHk iTRgq
% Senator Conness gives the most encoura-
ging account of thepolitical feeling in Califcr-
mia.
~ Ex-Gov. Hill of Bennington, has been
elected President of the Vermont Historical go
ciety. AsiAQ s3l9 % +ass5t4 Y l-4sssio
B- woman in Franklin County, Missouri,
raised o half acre of tobacco, this year, doing
all the work herself, and cleared 5000 by it.
81 An attempt was made to burn the An
droscoggin County Fair buildings, on Sunday
evening, as we learn from the Journal.
81 Ensign Samuel Gloss of the U. s. Sloop
Virginia, formerly of Bath, died at the Naval
Hospital in New Orleans
% 1t is said that from thirty to fifty desertels
from the rebel army are coming within our lines
daily s9,r- sse.s !s.t,fa s-ta,oC
RG Gen. Banks is expected to address the citi
Gems of Boston some time during the present
week.. aIBH 88h IE1@ Ta1H2
RIt is said that the recent arrests in Balti-
more are M kiEg good many business men in
New York ssshake in their boots.'' &
BE. C. Bailey, ESQ.,, of the Boston Herald,
has taken the stump for Lincoln and john
81 While Gov Andrew was speaking in
Rochester. N. Y, on Thursday last, stone
passed through the window within foot of his
B-It costs the city of New York 81 ,oOo, 900 a
year for cleaning its streets-about 500 900 of
it is said to go into the pockets of the inspector
and his ssring.''
E-The Arab horseshoe is thin plate of iron
covering the whole hsof; it is far lighter and
gives more protection, though it requires to be
removed oftener than ours. 9a 5ssa 3r8
RThey do say that the only time Little Nc
Clellan has exposed himself during the war, was
when he went on board the gunboat Galenar-
the biIer might have bust
- The City Marshall of Lewiston, made a
descent on the liquor shops in that city, on
Monday, creating quite CONSERVATION among
the rumselling brother and sisterhood. e.
l. R-The Lewiston Journal says Mr.. VIM B.
Darrell of Minot fell from an apple tree week
or two since breaking his arm just above the
wrist. ~ ~ ~ t9ekA
e John Power, son of Rev. John II. Power,
D. D., of the Iowa Conference of the M. E.
Church, was captured before Atlanta and was
afterwards placed under fire at Charleston.
81 The total value of foreign goods impor-
ted into the port of Boston for the week ending
Oct. 81. was $4O2, 57l. against $3.50, 1888 for the
corresponding week in 1868. lIlIG lgos
E Hon. Robert J. Walker, in a letter from
London says the Confederate leaders in Europe
declare that upon the election of the Chicago
candidates Napoleon will at once recognize the
Confederate government. No dodbt of it.
The Lowell Courier states the loss by the
burning of the Merrimac Mill at Dracut at $780,
000to $500 1000, and the insurance to amount to
$2O5.OOO. The origin of the fire is not posi-
lively known. ises sifoea - 1898 -@
EThe yellow fever is increasing at the South,
At Newbern, N c., 119 had died in q day. AT
Wilmington the people are fleeing from the
scourge, and at Charleston, s. c., it is terribly
fatal among children.
hEA colored woman named Phebe Dipe, died
in Baltimore lately, aged l16 years. She recol-
lected occurrences of the Colonial period, and is
supposed to have been the oldest person in the
State ~
i ~ At the great procession of Union men in
Washington last week, the SONS of Indiana bore
transparency on which was engraved the
pithy motto, among others: Fear Godand hate
snakes n
E-A old lady seventy years of age walked
from New Gloucester to Lewiston to attend
church on Sunday last. and walked home again,
distance Of twenty four miles the round
trip. -
TThe following Maine soldiers have died in
| the hospitals in and around New York during
1 the week ending Oct. Doth: Thomas ]. Austin,
Co. !, 3lst; Charles Garez, F, 9Th; Samuel Lon
ger, d, LIST d. c. Cavalry; Aaron L. Wooster, III,
LIST Heavy Artillery, Columbia Falls
BA meeting of that portion of the Demo-
cratic party who are dissatisfied with the Chicago
platform, is to be held at the Cooper Institute,
New Y ork, on Tuesday, the LIST of November,
1864, to consider the proper course to be pur-
sued in the present exigencies of pnblic affairs.
! - Gen. Sheridan on arriving at the spot
where his heretofore victorious army were fee
| ing before the enemy, plunged into the thickest
of the fight. saying, "Boys, I want my old
quarters tonight" The tide was turned and
his wish gratifed. .tfn,t
60 There was grand Union rally in Dover,
N. H., on Friday evening. An extra train
brought delegations from Alton, Pennington
and Rochester. The principal speakers were
Hon. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts and Hon.
| J. w. Patterson, member of Congress from the
Third N. H. District. siF
! R Solomon Sturges. millionaire, died at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on Friday. At the outset of
the war, he organized company Of rilemen at
q cost of $4,000. When told few days ago
that he could not live, he said with something of
his old positive energy, "Can't die till Rich
mond is TAKEN
ETA party from Boston ON their way to the
summit of Mount Washington, on the 18th inst. /,
encountered snow drifts three miles from the
Glen House. They were favored with fine
view of the ocean, the morning being the clearest
Of the season. Upwards of thirty vessels were
counted off Portland Harbor
i B private letter from Maj. Nye of the
18th Me-, says he was wounded by mimic ball
which struck the side of his nose, penetrating
the upper portion of his mouth and knock
ing out two teeth and throwing him from his
horse. Major N. was in command of his regi-
ment, and was leading it to action when he was
hit. f5f e42efrS Urs TY9r
ETA company formed in Philadelphia for se-
curing cheap coal, by renting coal property
for q series of years and mining it for the mu-