The Portland daily press., 1864-09-09


y A barn belonging to Mr.. Charles W. SAT-
ford, Augusta, was destroyed by FIRE on Wednes-
day The house was saved by the active efforts
of fremen and citizens generally.
Fl The re-enlisted men of the 5th and 9th
Maine regiments constitute separate battalion
employed for special service, as among the most
reliable troops in the army.
e A FIRE broke out in the building occupied
by the Boston Recorder, on Wednesday morn
ing last, by which thai establishment with 9TH
ers was considerably damaged.
q JEFF Davis has three armies in the field
fighting against the Union; southern army
under Hood, a central army under Lee, and
northern army led by Mcclellan.
~ The Advertiser quotes the st. Louis Re
publican as Republican paper opposed to Lin
coin. The Republican is theleading copperhead
paper in the Mississippi Valley, and the Adyer-
tiser must know it.
- The Boston papers say petty larcenies
were never so frequent as now in that city. The
same, we think. is true, judging from our city
and the accounts we get from others, of all the
large towns and cities Of New England
B- 1t is reported that Secretary Seward said
in his speech at Auburn, N. T., last Saturday.
that we shall have no draft because the army is
being reinforced at the rate of FIVE or ten thou
sand men per day by volunteers.
- The little Kings are ont promptly with
their ''Lady's Book" for September. bright as a
"Morning Glory" and neat as stellar button
on tbs drapery of night. Everlasting success
to it.
R Not shot or shell was thrown into At
lanta. to clear away the obstacles in the way of
Sherman's victorious troops, that did not go
wan, doing infinite damage to the candidate and
knocking the platform into kindlisg wood.
~ Stanton, the oopperhead orator of We'd
nesday evening, made one of the most moring
speeches ever made in the City Hall. The audi
enee moved towards the door so fast that people
upon the street thought the meeting had adjourn
ed an hour before he fdried up
g The schools in Boston, this season, are
represented to be unusually thinly attended by
boys on account of the demand for, and high
prieeof labor. The desire for the future success
of these boys yields to present necessity or the
demands OF ayaIise,
e The riots in Belfast, ireland, are of the
old sort, between the Protestantsor 0raneemen
and the Roman Catholics The former burned
o'Conneil in effigy, and the latter burned Will
liam the Third in efngy. Fights followed, and
for days the city was in terrible tpmult.
~ The n. Y. Herald's Washington CORES
pondent, not the best authority, by the way,
says it is reported in Republican circles there
that Gen. Fremont is shortly to withdraw his
2ame from the Presidential canvass, and that
Hon. D. F. Wade, of Ohio, is about TO take the
stump for Lincoln aud johnson.
R- The Portsmouth Journal says great i'm
provements have been made in the ordnance de-
partment at Kittery Navy Yard. 4 handsome
two-story building has been erected for the por-
ter's residence, and handsome chapel is design
ed to be built in the green inclosure where the
flagstaff now stands.
~ The steamer Washoe, running on the Sac
rameoto river, exploded her boiler on Monday
night. One hundred and fifty passengers we're
killed and wounded. Fifty persons are dead or
will soon die. The boat was running at high
rate of speed. The engineer said before he died
that the cause of the explosion Yves rotten iron
in the boiler
HA New York correspondent OF the Boston
Post says Mrs. Tom Thumb has baby three
months old-"a little, cunning, crying doll OF
thing, and in no respect peculiar or remarka-
Bile, except in the promise it gives of being
full-sized child, and, if Ii lives. of becoming as
big again as either of its immediate snees-
tors
~ company in London have bought one
hundred and forty acres few miles from the
city, and propose 10 ipclose il with glass, max
ing climate like that of Madeira. with the
fruits and foliage to be found in that isle A
hotel and residences are 10 be built, and great
prices will be charged for chance to live under
glass.
y At large meeting Of citizens. held in
Philadelphia last " ednesday evening, delegate
who had been sent TO the mines to investigate
prices, made his report, from which It was shown
that the coal-dealers in Philadelphia had charg-
ed from S4.25 to SIS per ton for handling COAL
An organization of society for the procurement
OF coal at cost was effected.
81 We have before us photographs of sew
eral beautiful slave children from the freedmen's
school in New Orleans; white, blue-eyed, aaxen- |
haired beauties, in whose veins, very likely, flows
some of the best blood of the South They will |
be at the City Hall meeting in behalf Of the |
freedmen, on Sunday evening. They are in |
charge of Rev. d. S. King, of Boston. We
shall refer again to the meeting tomorrow
B- W. II. Simpson, the editor of the Belfast
Journal was on trial on Wednesday before the
U. s. District Court, in session at Bath, charged
with feloniously, traitorously and wickedly as
sisting and giving aid and comfort to REBEL
United States. W. A. McCrillis is counsel for
simpson. U. S. District Attorney Talbot con-
iucts the suit
81 friend informs US that in his wcather-ob-
'ervations during pretty long life he does not
recollect period of six successive days in the
irst half of September so cold as that from the
ID to the sth instant inclusive; but he encoura-
res his fellow citizens by adding, that he does
rot expect, for whole month to come, to see A
ike period of colder weather, if as cold, as the
more noticeable because Immediately
blowing SO hot a summer.
% Geo. n. Sanders, in despatch TO his CO.
aborer on the attempt to break up our govern
nent, in the British Provinces, says the Chicago
latform is satisfactory-the candidate for Pres
lent satisfactory-the Vice President and speech
very satisfactory, and closes by saying, .'Tell
hilomons not to oppose. The Southern ennis
aries having obtained in this nomination aud
latform so nearly what they want, this agent
I theirs tells "Philomons' (?) not to oppose.