The Portland daily press., 1864-09-14
ORIGINAL IND SELECTED.

Monday-nothing. What could 1t say
VAbout $500, 900 worth of property was de-
stroyed by FIRE in Cairo, on the 18th inst
81 The shipment of specie from New York
last week was 100000.
9Agricultural fair and horse show in Hart
ford, CT, this week.
EIt is estimated that 81 500 900 gallons of
wine will be made the present season.
e. The National Intelligencer comes out in
favor of Mcclellan.
gWiser's distillery and cattle sheds in Pres
colt, C. W., were burnt on the morning of the
7th; loss 900.
= The income of the four Rothschilds of
Europe is estimated at SIS, 900 900 q year, or
thousand dollars an hour.
ERIt tbs reported that Gen. Fremonts letter of
withdrawal in the hands of his friends and will
be made public before long
gCol. T. W Hgginson is at Worcester, still
much out Of health and not likely to return to
his regiment.
% The bears appear to rule in the gold mar
ket, and it is lower than at any time since the
rise in July.
B soldier in Lewiston named Michael
Sweeney attempted to commit suicide on Mon
day while under the influence of liquor.
HRev. w. A. p. Dillingham; has been elected
President of the "North Pond White Perch Asso-
ciation.''
gBThe Secretary of the Treasury has deter
mined to pay off the soldiers before paying con-
tractors.
= Measures are being taken in Boston to
supply the poor with coal at less than the prices
demanded
81 The gentleman from ward seven who sup
plies himself with the Press from the house OF
one of our subscribers, No. 81 Pleasant street,
is requested to stay proceedings of that sort.
HThe immigration at New York during the
month of August reached the extraordinary
figure of 22.4l7 persons, 5000 of whom were
Germans.
% There are indications of stirring events in
the army near Petersburg; officers and soldiers
in Washington are ordered to report immediate
ly to their respective regiments.
81 Seventeen shares of Hill Manufacturing
Company's stock, Lewiston, sold, in Boston
Saturday, at 1s4 3; 9do Bates l73 1-2; l5An.
droscoggin mills 1862.
y The fall book trade sale commences in New
York next Thursday. There are six thousand
lots to be offered, which embrace 700 900 vol
umes
81 Deserters state that considerable despon-
dency exists among the rebel soldiers. especially
Georgia troops, they believing that their State is
hopelessly conquered.
y Those who have recently visited the army
of the Potomac say it was never in better con-
dition. Reinforcements are constantly arriv-
| ing.
% Henry, you ought to be ashamed to
throw away bread like that; you may want il
some day." "well, mother, would stand any
better chance Of Fetting IL then, should eat il
up now1'
-Blt is stated that in all the Indian troubles in
the Northwest the telegraph lines have not suffer-
ed any damage. The Indians know its wonderful
power and think it has something to do with the
Great Spirit and dare not touchit
- The London Times estimates that the total
importation of cotton into Great Britain for this
year 1854 will bear a fair proportion of the ten
million hundred weight received in the height OF
its trade with America.
% ten. Winder, well known in connection
with Libby Prison, has been removed from COM
mand at the post of Andersonville, Georgia,
for incapacity and inhumanity to prise.
ners.''
81 The following Maine officers were in
prison at Charleston at last accounts: Capt. A.
Berry, Sd cavalry; Lient c. o. Hurd, 5th bat
terry; Capt. j. b. Litchield, 4th; Major C. p.
I.l
NJ. G. Whitney, 10Th.
VMr. Atkinson, late Third Auditor Of the
Treasury, and Mr.. Hobbs, of the same depart
ment, compose commission to investigate and
report facts in reference TO the destruction of
steamboats,, both in the Western waters and upon
the Atlantic seaboard.
y The Albany Evening Journal says that for
fear the democratic party will not see fit to give
their platform wide circulation among the SOL
diers, 1t will be issued at once BY the republicans
in connection with the Union platform, and the
electoral and state tickets of both parties
ETA soldier thus soliloquized over a conner
head vote that was pressed upon him: ''what
fool | should be to go down and fight the rebels
three years with my musket, and come here to
stab myself in the back with piece of paper
like that"
81 Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, in o Mcclellan
meeting in New York, said little Mae would be
the only general known in the history Of this
war. He win be known in the history of the
war as he (Smith) will be in the history of some
halfa-dozen denominations with which he has
been connected.
g One way of escaping the draft. The
city of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has filed up her
quota of fifty men by enlisting Confederate
prisoners in Camp Douglas who took the oath
OF allegiance and the bounty. This was done
with the consent of the administration. as il
could not be done without that authority.
R-In Bath the vote on changing the Consti-
tuition SO as to allow the soldiers to vote, stood.
yeas l047, nays 81. Let it never be forgotten
that Joseph Howard, Democratic Candidate for
Governor, voted against allowing the men now
fighting for their flag to vote in the selection of
their rulers. Mr.. Sweat did not vote at all upon
this question.
Gen Wool, in addressing large number
of soldiers passing through New York to the
front, said he was glad to see such good class
of soldiers, and to learn that their destination
was south. They were needed there, he re-
marked, to put down rebels in arms. as well as
to Illustrate the schemes of the traitors who had
assembled at Chicago.
R-The Newburyport Herald says that on Sat-
urday afternoon last. on Star Island, Isle of |
Shoals, while two young girls of the ages of IL /
and ~ were witnessing the waves dash into what
is known as the School Marm's Gulch, one wave
higher than the others swept them both off into
the sea. The body of the younger had been re-
covered her name was Caswel and she lived upon
the Island. The other was Miss Lydia Varrell. of
Rye,N II.
H-Mr. Sweat, in one of his recent speeches,
ingenously evaded the odium of having voted
with Fernando Wood, Voorhees,, ct id genus
omns, by saying they poted rith him The case