The Portland daily press., 1864-08-12
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

81 Gen. S. F. Carey is candidate for Con.
gress in the ID Ohio District.
. Willard Fillmore is among the aspirants
for the Chicago nomination. A good man 10 RIM
against.
r The Prince of Wales has made the formal
application which is preliminary to becoming
member of the Masonic body
Eg-The sum of SIS, 900 has been appropriated
by the City Council of Gardiner, fer the purpose
of paying $500 to each volunteer, or to each man
who furnishes a recruit
- The demand for turnip seed in Massachu-
sets this year is unprecedented One firm in
Springfield has sold one hundred dollars worth
in day.
~ The New York Evening Post thinks that
General Ashboth, who commands at Pensacola,
will assist in the assault on Mobile by the land
forces.
q John Grigg, Esq, of Philadelphia, one
of the best known American booksellers, died
last week in the city where he has lived half q
century or more.
9 George Starrett, of Providence, who was
arrested at Augusta, Maine, the other day on the
charge that he was rebel emssary, was soon
after released
y The Boston Post says, the Empress of
Mexico pouts. She has already displayed all
her new dresses, and has no money to buy any
more.
"I'm afraid of lightning" murmured
pretty young woman, during the recent storm.
''Well you may be- sighed her despairing low
err, ''when your heart is STEEL
% The bedstead factory of L. D. Moulton.
at Moultonville, n. H., was entirely destroyed
by fire on the ID. Loss from $4,000 to S20,-
OOO Supposed to be the work of an incendi-
airy.
y As Mr.. VIM. Q. Delano was coming out
of the manufacturing jewellers shop of Gould
& Delano, . Winter street, Boston, on the 7th,
he fell headlong down stairs and was instantly
killed
q Prof Smell, of Amherst College, who
has kept meteorological register for twenty
eight years, says that Monday, the first of
August, was the hottest day during that pc
riod.
Washington correspondence says that Col.
Henry o. Kent, of Lancaster, n. H.. Postmaster
of the U. S. Senate, has been removed by the
Sergeant-at-Arms, and German Assistant POST
master appointed to fill the vacancy.
B-"Boy!" called out Brown to the waiter at
Sans. Don't call me boy, sir; I'm no boy,
SIR" said the latter ''Then do as You'd be
done by,'' put in Brown, land don't call this
mutton lamb any more''
y When you see a man on moonlight
night trying TO convince his shadow that it is
improper to follow a gentleman, you may be
sure that it is high time for him to join TEN;
perance society.
e Deser;ers from Georgia report that every
male inhabitant of Georgia between the ages of
seventeen and fifty, is in the Confederate service,
and those between sixteen and seventeen, and
between fifty and ifty-fye in the State militia.
/ 81 The people of Connecticut will determine
through the ballot boxes, next Monday, wheth-
er the soldiers shall vote or not. Nearly every
loyal State having extended that privilege to
the soldiers, no doubt Connecticut will do the
same, as in duty bound.
q A boy about seven years old fell overheard
at Rockland last Monday, and his body was not
recovered until it had been under the water sew
ersl minutes. Three hours labor at his resusci-
tation were rewarded by signs of life, and he re-
covered.
y The flour and feed store of Mr.. P. NJ
Dorsey, in Washington, with several surround
ing buildings was destroyed by fire on Monday
evening. Mr.. Josiah Eggestou. in attempting
to save property, was crushed by the falling in
of building, and died soon after.
II The Hartford Press says burglars entered
the residence of John G. Osborn, New Haven,
Thursday night the 4lh, and made big haul of
valuables. They took $500 worth of plate, $50
in money, and a valuable gold watch, the value
4 of the whole amounting to over $500.
y The house in which William Penn and
his family lived in Philadelphia was recently
purchased by citizen and will soon be demol-
4 ished. The house was occupied by Penn in
( 100, and in this house his son John Penn was
1 born II is now about one hundred and seventy
/ FIVE years old, and is the last relic of the Penn
I family.
A young man about II years old, son Of
Mr.. Amos worthen, of Norridgewock. was
D
erset Farmer says he, with some other boys, had
waded out to Standings Island tor the purpose
of obtaining some choke-cherries. In returning,
| young Worthen attempted to swim off the Island,
and when about half way across sunk and was
drowned. It was supposed that he was attacked
by cramp.
- The Augusta Farmer says that on Sunday
afternoon, a child of Mr., John Carn about Eve
years of age, while upon raft of logs on the
east bank of the river near the bridge, in that
city, fell into the water. The father and mother,
inrepeated efforts to save their child. got beyond
their depth and narrowly escaped drowning
Finally brave lad about fifteen years of age,
named Michael Green, plunged in and rescued the
child from a watery grave.
% The Pennington Chronicle learns that on
the 4th Of August Charles Morton, aged four
teen, sou of Mr.. Reuben Morton, was drowned
in Hancock Pond in Lexington. He was in a
leaky boat with two young men and younger
brother. The boat filled and turned over in
about seven feet of water. The younger broth
er was nearly drowned. but he was rescued from
the bottom of the pond by one of the young
men though but an ordinary swimmer
y Rev. DIR. Wilson says the Irish cannot be
charged with want of kindness and forget
fulness of friends at home. During period Of
seven years, the Irish who had gone to America
had sent to the old country for the support of
friends at home, or taking them abroad, sum
of upward of Ct 800 900, being upward Of
million year. This, he says, had been
transmitted in sums of three, four aud FIVE
pounds.
e Treason is crime under the laws Of the
United States punishable with death. Every
traitor, therefore, has forfeited his ife and the
fact that he is spared from death, when once
subducd, is standing proof of the clemency of
the Government. In the face of such a fact as
this, copperheads insist the Government has no