The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-09-05
ORIGINAL and SELECTED.

potatoes in this State will be unusually large.
e Lieut. Col. Merry arrived at his home in
Pembroke recently, on short furiongh. III
a The force Of the hostile Indians in the
West is estimated at 10 900.
~ Samuel Freeman. of the Goth Maine, died
in one Of the hospitals in Washington on Fri
day.
- The distribution of mail matter now done
at leading offices is to DO done hereafter in the
cars by clerks detailed for the purpose.
Ey- The estimated value of the farms, stock, |
and farming implements Of New England Is |
1851, 900, 900.
% The Concord and Portsmouth railroad |
train was thrown from the track on Friday. near |
Portsmouth No one was materially injured.
2 The Memphis Bulletin says the raid of
Forrest into that city was nota very profitable
job for the rebel chief, as be lost about 80 men
and accomplished nothing.
Ey-The rumor that the Secretary of the Treas
ury was about to accept proposition for q loan
from abroad of 100000 900, proves to be un-
founded.
n Capt. Edgar A. Burpee, of Rockland, for
whose safety there has been much anxiety, has
been heard from at Macon, Ga, ''well and all
right"
~ Gen. Hiram Burnham arrived at his home
in Cherryfeld last week. on a short furlough, to
recover bis health which has suffered by severe
campaigning.
r. The Navy Department has ordered an in
vestigation into the charge that the Pontoosuc
remained forty eight hours in the harbor of East
port
! - Since Gen. Grant has taken possession of
the Weldon railroad, pork has advanced to elk
dollars pound and beef to eight dollars, in
Richmond.
- McClelan's nomination is quite rs salts
factory to the Union men as to the copperheads.
| They consider him one Of the easiest TO be beaten
! in the whole list presented.
! y Acting Master William II. Baldwin, Of
| Nantucket, has been promoted to be volunteer
| Lieutenant, and ordered to Portsmouth to take
command of U. S. schooner Besuregard.
e Hon. Hannibal Hamlin and Hon. John A.
| Peters will address Union Mass Meeting, in
the grove near South Paris depot, this after
noon.
| = The Hamilton Times (Canada) says a
large fire has swept off many valuable buildings
in Brantford, c. W., and among them are blocks
I of stores and two hotels. 1t is supposed to be
the work of an incendiary. Loss some $40 900.
% Mr.. John Swindells, proprietor of brew
cry in Portsmouth, was run over by the Con-
cord and Portsmouth train of cars on Friday af-
ternoon and instantly killed, says the Chroni-
Gle.
p A man BY the name of Martin. who was
supposed to have died Of disease OF the heart
in New Orleans, a short time since, was restored
to consciousness and to society by the preparato-
ny process Of embalming.
- The news Of the nomination of Lincoln
and Johnson was received in Honolulu in ten
days after it left Baltimore. That is quick work,
and if it does not annihilate space il greatly
diminishes it
y The Boston Post says the man who slept
on the Common last night said the mosquitoes
lived upon his blood for eight hours. and then
presented their bills for service in the morn
ing.
now on furlough. will notice the General Or
der" published in another column, extending
their furloughto the 18th of September. at which
time they viii report at headquarters at Au-
gusta.
q Messrs. Shaw & Tilson are erecting al
Vim, two miles below Mattawsmkeag Point,
the largest tannery in the United States. The
main building is TO be coo feet long with wings
some hundrad feet in length About 200 men
--dpioyed In various departments of labor
90 frot Lowe made very successful bal
loon ascension from Calais on rr,a-, o.l
His car was decorated with the Union Jack and
the Star-Spanglei Banner. He attained the
height of nearly two miles, and descended safe
ly several miles from Calais ON British soil
n The Toronto Globe christens Gen. Lee As
MeClellan's greatest electioneering agent. Thi.
is a hard hit on the copperheai candidate. new.
ertheless there is much truth in it, for we al
know that the more this rebel general succeeds
the higher the copperheads lift their heads and
the louder they hiss.
81 The Montreal Witness says Because Ne.
Clelian did not hurt the rebels nor slavery. the
whole South, the Democratic party of the North
and large portion Of the British press consider
him the very man to command the Northern ar.
mics. 1t is for the same reason he is nominated
By the pro-slayery peace Democrats.
y The State election is one weak from to-
day. Polls open at A. NJ. and close at 6 p. VI.
Samuel Cony will be reelected by from II 900 to
2D,oos ma.orty. The whole Union Congression-
al ticket viii be elected, the LIST District will re-
fuse TO take another two years Glregt and the
copperheads will be gloriously Lyaehed
9-Gen. Sherman has aanked the enemy from
seven strong positions, whipped him in 0 score
I IF hal los nal l..
Of territory, and fought over and skirmished for
every inch " tho ground. The esprit Of his ar
my was never better, and his brave boys are
prepared Tor any emergency.
y Alta Mcclellan ratification meeting. re-
Gently held in New York, James Brooks deaounc-
ed his native New England in severe terms, and
VOORHEES,, of Indiana, concluded his speech BY
cursing Mr.. Lincoln from the crown of his head
to the soies Of his feet. Such &Te thu arguments
to be used by those who srs in sympathy With
rebels in arms.
y The frigate Vandalia has been ordered 10
the kittery Navy Yard to operate the same as
the Sabine is operating here, in recruiting for
the Navy. The rush for tie Sabine is greater
/ than can be promptly accommodated, and per
sons desiring TO enter the naval service can be
examined and received at kittery as well as al
| this port.
e The New York Tribune of Wednesday
says; There were at least one thousand more
Lincoln votes in this city yesterday, after the
Chicago be@oerstic platform had been read.
than there were the day before. ! friend drop
ped into store where sat five partners. all Dsm-
ocrats, of whom not one would vote for McClsl-
Ian, or any one else on that platform"
RTfhe Canada moqey market is very tight
uncomfortably SO. The Montreal papers give
the reasons-sreat rise in the value of dry goods,
requiring twice the banking capital 10 do the
acknowledgement of our currency and the