The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-09-13
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
EyThe quota of Bath is full.


prices of pork and grain. Let it come.
EEThe next elections will be in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. on the II tn of October.
e The Pope of Rome is getting out of
funds and wants to borrow little matter Of ten |
millions.
Flour is selling in Richmond at 1915 per |
Dbl. potatoes at S2.5 Dor $3.50 per quart; water
melons $40 to S25
eE-The Boston Post remarked of a young |
lady who attempted to become soldier, that
she painted for military glory.
- The town of Winterport, it is stated,
has paid all its war debts and has not dollar of
Indebtedness
80 Gen. Mcclellan is probably the feeblest |
man who haseyer received presidential nomi-
nation in this country.
% Sergt. Enslavus A. Watson, son of DIR. L.
Watson of Bangor, died in Amory Square Hos
pital, Washington, on the Sth inst. "a
y Counterfeit bills, of the denomination of
3's, Lynn Mechanics Bank, have been put in
circulation within few days.
- The Richmond Examiner says the Atlanta
disaster happened in the nick of time to save the
Lincoln administration.
50 Rebel soldiers are daily coming into the
Federal lines in Georgia, and in large mum
bers.
B-The leading booksellers of New York an
nounce that they can publish no more books at
present prices of paper and other materials.
/ B-It is said Muller the murderer, formerly
resided in Canada, where he has three or more
wives living.
rha ~, and oh .
thought, would be cut of by the drought,
proves to be full average one.
n The Democratic platform means peace
with rebels. war with patriots. It recommends
! revolution against Lincoln and an armistice
with Davis.
The following deaths of Maine soldiers
are reported at Washington: Sergt G. A. Wat
son. LIST Artillery; John Gefheld, do; H. c.
Davis. 10th Me.
E-It looks now as if Mcclellan would find as
much use for spades as he did while commanding
the Army of the Potomac. He will require them
oil to bury his own dead
~An exchange says it may not be too much
TO say that Maine will furnish to the market
this year from half million to million bushels
of potatoes more than usual.
An attempt has been made to introduce
British revolvers into Indiana to be used in re-
sisting the draft. The boxes passed the Custom
House as stationery.
- The masses of the people in Europe are
our friends in this struggle for national exis-
tence. Their corrupt and tyranical rulers are
our enemies.
R-0sgood NJ. Rowland, son of s. NJ. How
land, of Maysvie, died at the United States
General Hospital, Aug. 18th He was a member
Of the ID Me- Cavalry.
q The New England Agricultural Fair,
which was held at Springfield last week, was an
entire success 1t is estimated that there were
10000 persons present on the third day.
. The letter relating to the copperhead meet
ing in Cape Elizabeth came to hand too late TO
be published before election. 1t would now be
out of season.
EB"uentlemen, this is the little joker; now
you see it, and now you don't see it," This is
the style in which we must view the Chicago
platform. We may call il peace or call it war,
but il is nothing but fraud.
q There is an encampment of Indians at
Bethel, from the ST. Francis tribe in Canada.
descendants OF the Pequakets and Assagunti-
cooks who once inhabited the south banks of the
Saco and Androscoggin rivers
SEGeorge William Curtis, at the Brown Uni
versity celebration, on Tuesday, assured the
'.honored brethren and regular graduates
that they were 1.-THE children of prolonged
Brown study
: ~ Hackmen in Boston are accustomed to
exact 81 each for taking strangers across their
city. The legal fare is but fifty cents, and eve.
hickman is liable to penalty for charging more
than that
% The question was recently proposed to q
Down East editor, Are hoop skirts dangerous .
He Immediately answered that they are always
J very dangerous when they have something liz
them.
fy-Cart Ebenc4er Ames was drowned on
Saturday last in attempting to enter Newbury-
port harbor in whale boat, while there was q
heavy sea running. lie was a native of this
State.
q The annual meetings of the Biddeford and
Saco Manufacturing Companies were held on
Thursday, sth. The reports show the companies
to be in good condition The Pepperell has been
very successfully managed.
81 The Boston Advertiser special Washing
ton despatch says: There il hearty cause for
York ofhce-holder has been removed by Secrc-
tary Fessenden for making peace speech at q
Mcclellan ward meeting.'
70 Hon. Josiah Quincy, in his speech in the
City Hall on Saturday evening, told his audience
how Mcclellan was to ride with one foot on
war horse and the other ON peace platform
The platform is a rotary one. and the horse to
travel around on the cider mill system.
ES-on the proposition to allow the soldiers to
vote, the first two negative votes in ward six
were cast BY Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, and a gentleman who has Keen a Demo
cratic candidate for, Governor three successive
years. How the Democrats illustrate their love
for the soldier
n The Boston Post, in column of glorifica-
ton over the nomination of Mcclellan and PEN
dleton, says: ''Let not our friends stand upon
hedefensiye" 1t would be curious if any po-
litical party, under the leadership of General
Mcclellan, should ever maintain any other att-
Philadelphia Press.
RUpwards of four hundred Union priso-
ners lately arrived at Annapolis from Richmond
Whilst in prison at Richmond DIR. McCabe, for
merly of Rochester, n. y, preached "peace"
sermon to them, advising them to vote for q
''peace candidate for the Presidency Mr.
ould, the rebel Commissioner, also gave them
the same advice
GIVE intend to make the columns Of the
Press more interesting hereafter than they have
been the last few weeks, to the general reader.
I hatt I. IL 81
give up nearly our whole space to the cause Of
the country. Correspondents shall now be at.
tended to also miscellaneous subjects which
have necessarily been sadly neglected.
1--WE frequently see 'McClellan and PEN