The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-25
=, oRIGINAL AND SELECTED.

Insfitute. New Iork, on Weunecuay evening.
! ~ The cotton mills in Providenceand vicinity
are very generally suspending operations.
s~Fernsndo Wood runs again from the 9th
New York district.
~Hon. T. A. R. Nelson of Tennessee, has
come ont in favor of Lincoln and johnson. r
e eg-Rey. DR.. Stone Of the Park st. Church,
Roston. has decided to remain with his people.
ESSAYS Jefferson Davis, ''We seeded to rid
ourselves Of the rule Of the majority"
EOne of the St. Adams raiders has called on
Geo. N. Sanders for assistance. -
rrThe Indians call the telegraph the whis-
peripg spirit. 98aiidd 10 vtna5sa
EOn one of the fortifcations in New York
there is twenty inch gun, weighing forty-eight
tons.
rrThere is talk that Gen. Sheridan will super
cede Gen. Meade. We know not on what au-
thority it rests 's'o5 sRA3.s9a g sE9isai saiisa
ETThe story that the soldiers vote on the
new constitution in Maryland is to be thrown
out is not true
KTThe fnrloughs of disabled soldiers given
from hospitals in the Department of the East,
have been extended to the 18th Of November.
eTRev Lemuel Porter, Secretary of the
American Tract Society, resident at Chicago, died
suddenly on Monday. 81 = 20 ia<as ssgA
~ Rev. Mr.. Hunnicutt, well and favorably
known in this state, is addressing large audien-
ces in Rhode Island
EY-The latest returns from Pennsylvania are
said to render certain the election of serentsen
Union members of Congress, gain Of five.
ETA Major General in the English army
Lord Stanhope- lis ON visit to the Army of the
Potomac 4A,zANN 81
gWm. L. Raymond of New York, is appoin-
ted U. s. consul at Leeds, England, vice Mr..
Marshall, resigned. aNA4 kht8 AdE
EGov. Andrew is addressing immense meet
ings in the State of New York, which State after
passing Albany is strongly Republican. E {
ECol. Charles Russell Lowell Of the I'd
Mass. Cavalry was killed in the battle at Cedar
Creek. a.sa+a go 9lo le.a 2 - 50 t4k
RWm. II. RamsdelI was caught robbing the
store of Edwin B. Patten, Bangor, on Friday
night He was committed rtrial. gdsaslas,ss
R-The jury, in the case of J.. N. Sawyer,
charged with the murder of ]. W. Boylein Sher
brooke, brought in verdict of not guilty.
RThe Union men of New Jersey are carrying
onthe campaign with great determination, and
are quite confident that the State will give ma
jority for Lincoln and johnson. sr ,..r.s
HMr. William Hutchings of Penobscot. eel
ebrated his hundredth birth day few d yssince.
His descendants number between two and three
hundred. NN M
| V Buffalo is the largest wool market in west
ern New York. About 25o, 900 skins Of an aver
age of two pounds of wool each were pulled
there during the past year.
| RThe Boston Custom House receipts were
six and half millions, the first nine months Of
this year, against Eve millions last year, in the
same months. sa Anasn4 GOA 81 sTsllao
1.-THE daily consumption Of mcifsr matches
in England is $50 900 ,oOO, --more than eight to
every inhabitant. One firm produce yearly q
16O, 900 punches. saw%i--eagA
| The Mobile Register-a leading Gonfed-
crate organ says of the Chicago Convention,
''The platform is quite as good as could have
been expected
Y-Oly Cannon, a Spectator in petroleum
stock, says that the accounts of the wonderful
yield of some of the oil wells are puer-ile state-
ments. $50 7.lile slae se
RWith reference to the fire at the Riverside
trotting park, little girl grsvey asks if it was
:" trotting match which set the stable ON
fire. 'f'ianH5 III $500
RMr.J. O., A. Johnston of Newburyport,
employed in the caulker's department at the Kit
terry Navy Yard, was severely injured on Satur-
day while erecting q stage on the new steamer
Contoocock gss-i.Y l,fs stsf "a sees
- Shipments from France to the United
States have not been 30 small Tor TEN years at
present, and it is hoped they will be growing
beautifully less until our government securities
are as good as gold there. "a 9,.se 4sr,-u
81 Mrs. Gen. Logan has won span of mules
from q friend who wsgered them against her as
sertion that her husband was not a Copperhead.
The sserofers $500 in greenbacks for the priv
lege of keeping the animals.
90 The National Thanksgiving. appointed by
President Lincoln, comesat the same time of the
Thanksgiving appointed in this state by Gov.
Cony, Thursday, Nov. oath, being the last
Thursday in the month. Pi2-sifaQ
RThe Lewiston Journal says DIR. Hayes
failed to find poison in the stomach of Zebina
Briggs, whose sudden death at Auburn, q few
weeks since. awakened suspicious which, it seems,
were not well-founded. ,4 aaa 7s1a1
The car-house and stable in Roxbury be-
longing to the Metropolitan Railroad Company,
were entirely destroyed by FIRE, together with
i've cars and twenty-sleigh coaches, on Saturday
night. Several houses near by were also burned
down. ------
81 Major General Casey, democrat before
the war, is now supporting President Lincoln
He testified that after the battle of Fair Oaks,
''if General Mcclellan had possessed the ener-
getic qualities Of great General, we should
have taken Richmond
Ell The copperheads of Bath had their car
tridges all made for salute, to be fred by way
of jubilation over the supposed Democratic VIC
tory in Pennsylvania. The Union men will per-
haps relievethem of such dead property on the
| 9th of November. 800
RWe understand that the High School en-
cute in Bath has been suddenly brought to
conclusion by the Committee having rescinded
the rule which occasioned it. This is wise. 1t
is no use for a School Committee to fight against
persistent popular sentiment in such matters.
BSeveral persons residing in the eastern
township Of Canada, wishing to 60 to Chicago,
sent to this city and purchased through tickets
on the Grand Trunk road, paying in U. s.
money. The conductor objected to the arrange
ment and referred the matter to Mr. Bridges,
who was obliged to admit that as they had evil
dence of having purchased tickets to Chicago,
they must be allowed to 60 on in spite OF any
rules the Company had adopted. JUG
q The number of children in Boston between
fveand fifteen years of age in May last was 3d.
l47. The average number of names ON the school
rolls was 81 ,05l; or s4.1 per cent. of the number
enumerated. leaving about l6 per cent to be ac-
counted for as attending private schools, or as
attending no school, The average daily atten-
dance, of all the schools. as compared with the
average number of names on the rolls, was 9O.6
per cent. t0tAoALb
We have heard many intimations that
after the Presidential election the adpertiser and