The Portland daily press., 1864-08-18
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Ohk0lNdL AND IEHTEn

ORIGINAL AND - ,rnnrD
( y Mrs. President Ldt
eft Washington on " ., ,son anu ner TWO suns
q Richmond .apers advertise fifty-two men
as dessrters fr0D single regiment
- Inc e,0 ps at the West, it is now said on
gooa au'hor .ty, are on an average fully equal
to those OF former years.
80 ~ enty-seyen ladies of New Bedford.
Mass lave agreed to fornish each representa-
tive re cruit.
- Whoever is honorable and candid, honest
ane courteous, is true gentleman, whether
lea fned or unlearned, rich or poor
- Discussing politics in a porter house is
dangerous. man was killed by doing so in
New York Sunday night.
81 The Iowa papers are talking of sheen
that yielded to its shearers fleece weighing
twenty -four and half pounds.
~ The paper makers have given another
turn to the screw, advancing their prices about
three cents pound.
~ The Free Press, the Fremont paper ut
Indianapolis, supports the Copperhead State
ticket
- The ST. Louis Union says there are two
officers in that city recruiting for Juarez, the
Mexican republican general
II Savannah papers chronicle the arrival of
Gen. Stoneman and five hundred of his men as
prisoners of war at Macon
n 1t is estimated that at least one third of
the newspapers published in the United States
four years ago have suspended publication.
81 Admiral Farragut thinks wooden ships
are good enough for him. He believes in fight
ing on deck, not in the bottom of tea-kettle.
r Colorado Jewett says the Southerners
have no intention of burning Lockport and Buff
falo. That is kind in the Southerners.
= The young lady pupils of the Buffalo
schools are to receive prizes for the "best loaves
of bread, and diploma for doughnuts.
- The Piscataquis Observer says there is a
wooden factory being built in Sangerville village
this season, by company formed in the place.
81 "Spurwink" was mistaken in saying that
the only daily paper in this State represented in
the Congressional party was the Press The
Lewiston Journal was ably represented.
II Brunswick has voted $500 to accepted
drafted men, and from $500 to $500 to volun-
teers previous TO the draft according to their
term of enlistment-from one to three years.
y Wafer, of the New York Express, wants
to know if there is any perceptible improve
ment in a caterpillar when he turns over new
leafl
81 The Philadelphia Gazette, speaking of
new prima donna, says: "Her voice is as soft
as roll of velvet, and as tender as pair of
slop-shop pantaloons.
- The Secesh in New Orleans, feeling con-
scous that the fate of Mobile is about being
sealed, profess to believe that it is of but little
Consequence to the rebels
81 Capitalists should remember that the new
Seyen-thirty per cents are exempt from taxation,
except where they enter into bank capital sub
ject to taxation.
- Meyerbeer's 'Etoile du Nord'' has lust
been revived in London, where it was first pro-
dueed in 1855, with Bosio, Gardoni, Lablache
and Formes in the principal parts
81 More than one hundr ed steam fire-engines.
including two for London and one for Russia.
have been built by the Amoskeag Company. of
Manchester, N. II.
81 A statue of the Virgin and Child, of carv-
ed oak, two feet six inches in height and in good
preservation, has been discovered eight feet be-
low the surface Of bog in Ireland.
y 1t is given out that the Connecticut dele
CATION at Chicago las they feel now) will go SOL
id for Willard Fillmore as the democratic candi-
date for the Presidency.
q The New York Tribune explains for the
benefit of the British public, that the rebel Ad-
miral Buchanan, captured at Mobile, is not the
ex-president Of that name
y The New Orleans correspondent of the
New York Herald says that considerable body
of troops had moved from Pensacola, to in
vest Fort Morgan and prevent the escape of the
garrison,
= The Chattanooga Rebel, of recent date,
says; "We admire Mcclellan and VIC admire
Buell. also: We admire Vallandigham more than
all, because he was against the war at the start,
and has kept his faith eyer since"
~ The suns surface shows far less num-
Der of spots this season than usual, and these of
much smaller size, which may account for the
unusual heat and absence of moisture in the at
mosphere.
q Several women, arrested, tried and SEN
fenced to confinement in various northern pris-
ons during the last three months, are to be sent
to General Butler for transportation beyond our
lines,
E1-The Springfield Republican has been oblig-
ed to give way to the pressure of high prices,
and advance its subscription price. The Daily
Republican is 50 per year, and the weekly
S2.50.
r Hon. c. W. Goddard, of Auburn, Consul
General to Constantinople, arrived in Readfeld
on Monday direct from Constantinople. Mr..
Goddard is accompanied by his family and is in
excellent health.-lLewiston Journal.
y In Bath they have formed sort of in
eurance company against the draft; the lowest
su riptiol SIS, and the money so raised to be
used to procure substitutes fer the subscribers,
if drafted.
% The Argus says, 1--WE occasionally find
something in the Press that meets onr cordial
APPRECIATION Sorry we cannot return the
compliment, but constitutional scruples'' for
bid
- The Mail says the entering class at Water
Vile College, this year, will be as large as could
reasonably be expected in the present disturbed
condition of the country. Nineteen appeared
for examination, and four or FIVE more will prob
ably come in at the commencement Of the term
q The Richmond papers bitterly lament over
the surrender of Fort Gaines to the intrepid
Farragut. They say the surrender was strictly |
contrary to orders, and that Farragat has quail
tiles that make him a far more dangerous char
aeter than Dahlgren.
y The Rutland (vt) Herald says that the |
Congregational Church at Bennington, with |