The Portland daily press., 1864-08-25
ORIGINAL IND SEEECg'ED.


50 Capt. Bartlett, of the 2lst Maine, whose
death has been reported, is prisoner at Rich
mond.
y The cattle killed on the Maine Central
Railroad, belonged to Samuel Cole, ESQ, of
Readield.
- Rt. Rev Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont,
has been selected to open the Chicago Conven-
ton with prayer.
- u S. Steamer Merrirnac has sailed from
Bath, probably in pursuit of the Tallahassee
She laid idly in port there sererGl days.
-T-The Congregational Society in Augusta
will occupy Meonian Hall until their new church
is completed.
y The Fort Popham celebration occurs in
Bath ON Monday next. Judge Bourne. of Ken
nebunk, will give the address.
e The foundation stone of the national
. monument to Daniel o 0'Connell was laid in Dub
lin on the sth instant, with much enthusiasm
q 1t is said other Tallahassees are being fit
ted out at Wilmington, n c., and may soon be
expected out.
y Gen. CAN'T will address the citizens of
Bangor, in Norombega Hall, on Friday even
ing.
~ Horace Gray, Jr.. Esq, of Boston, has
been nominated ms Associate Justice of the Su-
preme judicial Court Of Massachusetts, in place
of Hon. Pliny Merrick, resie ned.
= At the Democratic District Convention,
held at Auburn Hall Tuesday, S. c. Andrews,
of Buckield, was nominated as the democratic
;.lot G.. otat; 4,,
y Cyrus W. Field, Esq, the protector of
the Atlantic Telegraph, passed up on the Grand
Trunk road on Tuesday, on his way to Mt Wash
ngton.
- The North Kennebec Agricultural Society
will hold their Annual Show and Fair at Water
willie on Tuesday and Wednesday, 9th and 2sth
of September, instead of Augusta as stated.
81 Rev. W. A. P. Dillingham; and Hiram
Knowlton, Esq, viii address Union Mass Meet
ingsin several towns in Somerset county during
the present and succeeding week.
! 70 Mrs. Caroline NJ. Thompson, of Castle
! Hill, Aroostook county, recently lost her barn,
ten tons of hay and hog, by fire occasioned by
/ a little boy playing with matches
- There is to be a Grand Mass Union Con-
vention at Skowhegan, on Thursday, August
I 25th, which will be addressed by Gen. y. W
CAN'T. of Arkansas, Hon. J. S. Tenney, Hon.
d. d. Stewart and Hon. J. G. Blaine.
n The Lewiston Journal has increased its
price to 50 for three months to mail subscribers,
and 81 25 to those furnished by carriers; rs cts.
per month. and 4 cents single copy: and 81 iper
hundred to news dealers.
e 1t is impossible for us to publish all the
good things sent us by contributors; so if any
one fails TO And his favors in these columns it is
not necessary TO suppose they were declined sim
ply for lack of merit.
= There are few railroads in New England
in better order or better managed than the Me-
Central-from Danville TO Rangor-under its
) present management. The new Superintendent,
Hon. A. p Morrill,, is no laggard and will allow
no drones in his hive.
~ rhe city Of Bath offers to volunteers or
substitutes of enlisted men, who have been or
may be mustered into the T. S. service under the
call for 100000 men, $500 for cne years, $500
for two years, and 5000 for three years. men,
in addition to Government bouuties.
q The Boston Advertiser prefers grave
charges against some of our Name railroads,
and says they must look cut for their laurels.-
We hope the accusations are overstated, but at
any rate would suggest that roads SO well pat
ronized have small excuse for negligence
- We learn by letter resolved in this city
that in the engagement at Deep Bottom. Capt.
Luther Lawrence, 81 Co. II, l1th Maine,, was
wounded in the rightlung, and that his brother
James Lawrence, vas W wounded in the face. The
company lost ten men In the engagement
~ On Tuesday afternoon last, says the Ban
gor Times, Charles, son of Andrew Wiggin,
Esq. was almost instantly killed by the discharge
OF gun. He bad been out cunning with 9th
ers in skifl, and on reaching the shore, drew
his gun by the muzzle towards him,
~ Eugene Davenport, who was arrested in
Saco on Saturday and taken to Boston, was up
before the Police Court of that city on Monday
afternoon on complaint of having burglarious
tools in his possession and ordered 70 give sure
ty for his appearance on Friday. In default OF
bail he was committed
!. B-The Maine Farmer learns by private let
ter that the loss in the 10Th Maine on the 14th
inst, was twenty-five in killed, wounded and
missing of the regiment. The only names that
have come TO hand are the following wounded:
Austin Cunningham, Geo. Marsden, Samuel L.
Robertson, d. Bean, L. L. Lincoln.
~ These are war times, and newspaper is a
fertilization, battery, or at least picket guard
for the protection of our dearest rights against
the attacks of ayigilant and dangerous enemy.
We shall therefore, for few weeks, till the great
fight is over, give our chief attention TO the com
mon cause of the country.
n What is needed to close up the war in the
shortest possible time, is a firm, unyielding de-
termination on the part of the loyal people TO
furnish the President with the men and money
called for, and never express a doubt but tha,
the rebellion is TO be put down. slavery annihi-
lated, and the government restored to unity and
increased prosperity.
- The person most seriously injured by the
raih Dad accident at Vassalboroa short time since,
was Ralph G. johnson, Esq, Of Milwaukee, Wis. +.
/ who with his wife and child had been ON a visit
to his relatives in Augusta, and were on their
way to Bangor. He had his right arm broken
near the elbow, and received a severe confusion
! on one leg. He was taken to Augusta and we
learn is doing well.
/ - The Argus, reprinting some imbecilites
I uttered BY one Casplr Butz, of Chicago, speaks
I of Butz as "a wealthy and prominent citizen of
I Chicago" Said Butz is proprietor of lager
/ beer saloon on Wells street in Chicago. The on.
/ ly public Office he ever held is that OF third clerk
/ of the Superior Court of Chicago, which he only
obtained after his chief competitor had been dis
! posed of and no longer cared to contest it. and
from which he was unanimously dropped after
/ two wars trial of his beer-fogged ability. He
is neither rich nor gentleman.