The Portland daily press., 1864-10-15
AND SELECrED.

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Horace McKenney, Esq, of Monroe, has
sold his horse to parties in Bangor for $4,000.
E Sturgeon = the London Beeober - has
been discharged from the Evangelical Alliance.
TA large force is now employed on the Air
Line Railroad between Boston and New York
eY-The horse mackerel fishery has been brisk
in the vicinity of Belfast this season.
- EwA counterfeit fifty dollar greenback was
offered at the Belfast Bank, on Tuesday.
q-E- London has more than 3 900 miles of
streets. Il would take person more than year
to walk through the wholeof them. 49,. ~
~A lady who sings in choir, says she will
marry small man, because short meter hims
are the easiest to get along with.
eFAll the cotton mills in Fall River but one,
have suspended operations on account Of the
unsettled condition of business. s. ea7sa
gEMr. Robbins, an old Chicago merchant.
died the other day, leaving $3,ooO.ooo to his
heirs. 49,, .s.srl.,. .-r.. = saqti iiiisai =
rEA man in Weston, found hive Of wild
bees in the woods, a few days since, from which
he made the sweet haul of 100 lbs. of honey.
gECox will now have leisure to write sup
plement to his volume, "The Buckeye Abroad"
namely .'The Buckeye at Home. 80 q IS &
HJosh Billings says, 81 was once axed if /
believed in the final salvation Of men, and said
did. but let me pick the men.'' aaa Sea EEL
EA freight house of the Chicago, Burling-
tom and Quincy railroad, 600 feet by IS, is filed
with whiskey. in barrels lying four tiers deep.
gGov. Pierpont. of Western Virginia. is to
take the stump in New York for Lincoln and
johnson. ~ gAras rNf :. ssr
EYIt is said the liquor now offered for sale in
many places viii kill at forty yards and round
corner. ~ y
ggThe doctors Of Hanover county, Va, have
agreed to charge $50 for day visit, $50 for q
night visit, and 800 for assisting in the increase
of population. ,Fsss
EThe Portsmouth Chronicle says Daniel
Berkeley, man about 60 years of age, was
drowned in Dover, N. H., on Thursday evening,
9Th inst. .,,a y
TA resolution passed in the Conference Of
the Canadian parlamentat Quebec, on the 18th
inst, affirming the confederation Of the PROV
ipces.5 aisds So -5..s,i.eii ssa. = s.s,,.5, n.
EGov. Sprague of Rhode Island, is on q
visit to the Mississippi valley for the purpose of
seeing what can be done to open the cotton
trade.
cyan immense Union mass meeting was held
in Woodstock, Conn, Wednesday. the largest
ever held in Eastern Connecticut. From fifteen
to twenty thousand people were present as
EJudge Davis is holding courtin Belfast
Owing to q misunderstanding among the Judges
there was no Judge present on Tuesday, the reg
ular day of commencement. $3.50
~ convention of wooden manufacturers
was held at Springfield, Mass, 9Th inst. with a
| view of forming a National Association for the
encouragement and protection of that branch Of
| manufactures 3594S tkG ies9635
EThe Sons of Liberty in Indiana last week,
turned their Lodges into Mcclellan Clubs Are
the Copperheads bereft of humanity as well as
sense2 Won't they leave their unhappy candi-
date single spark of life 2-[Tribune.
.-RRsy. Daniel Foster, for several years Uni
tartan missionary in Kansas, was killed in the
late attack On Chapin's Bluff. He was at the
| time of his death captain of the u s. 37th col
ored regiment. ss srssr+ss.s4
T. The body of an unknown sailor was found
near the Kittery Navy Yard on Tuesday He is
supposed to have been one Of the bounty jumpers
who escaped from the Colorado previous to her
sailing. a
Gen. Sheridan, during his recent move
ments in the Shenandoah valley, is said to have
captured everything on wheels; we hope every
thing on runners will soon share the same
fate.
RThe Trenton Monitor says that the whole
influence of the Camden and Amboy monopoly
ho.p %o4 Ia = -
spite Of it-not by its aid that New Jersey will
GO for the Union in November
gY-Sir Walter Scott saysin one of his letters
eff q man of honor is unhappy enough to en-.
terrain opinions inconsistent with the service ir
which he finds himself, it is his duty to at oncs
resign his commission; in acting otherwise b,
disgraces himself forever,,' sfesk
@A special committee of the City Council
Of Boston has been appointed to consider tn
expediency of SO amending the city charter a
to extend the service of the Mayor and Council
men to two years and that of the Aldermen tt
three years. wrs
81 General Banks publishes a fve-columl
letter in reply to what is known as the Wade an
Davis manifesto He defends the President O.
thequestion of reconstruction, and cites the cas-
Of Louisiana to sustain his argument. He de
nounees the position of Wade and Davis. =
EThe N. Y. World claims Indiana sure 70
Mcclellan ! A large reaction isreckoned upon
as large reserve vote is in this state. Itseem
the copperheads of Indiana, like those of Maine
are outstanding their strength, not daring t
bring it all out at the elections which have take
place lest the effort should prove exhausting.
RA Young Mems Union Club has been or
Eganized in Belfast, which the .dge says is now il
fourshing condition, rapidly increasing il
numbers and extending its influences, surely
unobtrusively, in.favor Of the great cause who's
watchword has been adopted as its distinguish
ing title-The Union. s894 n
81 Every loyal man will rejoice over the re
election of Hon. Schuyler Colfax as member O
Congress from Indiana. He was elected tw
years ago by only 300 majority, and the copper
heads were determined to defeat him this year
His majority will exceed that of two years ag
by seven or eight hundred. sa5gs
H Macaulsy must have had a prophetic ey
upon the carpers and faalt-6nders Of the presen
emit Peace party when he said. ssThe world i
of the opinion, in spite of critics like these. tbs
the end of fencing is to hit, that the end Of medi
cine is to cure, that thee end of war isto conquer
and that those means are the mpst correct which
best accomplish these ends"
RAn error Of q type or two in putting IL
type the declarations of man, if not noticed By
the proof reader, often places him in very
awkward position. 4 contemporary in copying
President Lincoln ietter, makes hin say tha
he desires thsertsnston Of slayery." By making
slight change ia the word extension 30 that Il