The Portland daily press., 1864-08-24
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

% Somebody says the rebel army in Geor-
gia has hidden its diminished head-in Hood
" Gov. Andrew. it is understood, will be
candidate for reelection.
CT The ID Battalion of the Invalid Corps is
to be disbanded.
IF Gen. Garfield has been re-nominated for
Congress in the 10th Ohio District
= Counterfeit fves on the Alfred Bank are
in circulation.
Only ten days now remain in which to OBJ
tain volunteers and avoid draft
Y 1t has been decided that man who pays
money for which he receives receipt, should
also pay for the Government stamp.
- party of pleasure, while descending
Mount katahdin recently, fonnd large bear in
trap, and dispatched him.
70 The women of Utah have recently altered
the photography of their creed They now spell
it .Horeman.
y At the late Commencement of Madison
University the degree of LII. D. was conferred
on Geo. VIM. Curtis, the popular author
y The corner stone of the new Hall of the
Massachusetts, Agricultural Society, Boston, was
laid on Thursday, with appropriate ceremonies
n William S. Tarbox, Co. F, SD Maine,
died at Portsmouth uroye Hospital on the 18th
inst.
&c. c. Woodman, Esq, one of our best Of
hand speakers, will address the citizens of Wis
casset tonight wednesday,, and of Damaris-
Gotta Thursday night.
8 About2loO men are employed at the Kit
terry Navy Yard at the present time Skillful
artisans get from 1925 to $3.50, and are ex-
emptt from draft.
. The carpenters of the New York Navy
Yard recently attempted strike for a half dol
lar increase of daily wages, but failed, and were
I glad to go to work at former prices
/ 9 The first salmon caught in the Connecticut
river for forty years was taken at Chicopee the
other day, and served at the Massasoit House, in
/ Springfield.
n Col ]. P. Gould, of the 59th Mass. regi-
ment, who died at Philadelphia on Sunday, Of
wounds received at Petersburg, was graduate
of Norwich Military Academy.
Dixon" of the Boston Advertiser, say s
Secretary Fesscnden is hard at work, and will
not be accessible TO ordinary calls for three or
( four days.
| 81 The copperheads have nominated one NJ.
4 d. for the Senate-Dr. Ludwig, of this city
He may be good physician, but no human
ski4is sufficient to make dry bones live in the
absence of miraculous power.
~ The company raised in Bath, Augusta
and Gardiner, for garrisoning Fort Popham at
the mouth of the Kennebec, will not be credited
on the quota of the State. SO the Secretary oil
War has decided.
- Mr.. Smith, the proprietor Of the Sea Side
House, has made arrangements to run coaches
TO convey passengers from Brunswick to Harps-
well, on the arrival of the afternoon Western
train.
y PRAY, Miss Sophy, what are you max
ingf" said gentleman to a young lady who
was at work upon garment of straight up and.
down description in white cotton. "Sophy GOV.
err, sir, was the demure reply
81 The Boston Post filings dirt at the Con
gressional Committee, and talks of their junket.
I ihSf anu sct Sciiuo FtpUFttf W tTtNei viii
them and be entertained at their expense, wha,
kind of '.junketing' is thiss
- The copperheads evidently believe in mass.
ing their forces; at least we 50 judge from their
county nominations made yesterday, all of then
being within fifteen miles of this city. Perhap,
the "rural districts are not abundant in cop.
per ore.
- On Thursday night the steamer DE Soto
of yellow fever notoriety, drifted from her moor.
ings at Quarantine, in Portsmouth Harbor, and
when morning dawned. the vigilant watchmer
on board found themselves and their craft of
Wood Island
RIt is estimated that Holland and Germany
have taken $50, 900 900 of our debt. The Lon.
don Times warns and scolds, but the bankers and
capitalists of these nations, who are among the
shrewdest in the world. understand what the.
are about
= The Richmond Despatch calls the plating
of the sides of the kearsarge with chains, tax
ing foul advantage" which would not hay,
been allowed in the days of "chiyalry." Mod
eTn chivalry uses its chains for the necks anC
limbs of human beings.
VWhen the captain of the Pontoosuck cam,
aboard the Mahoning at Eastport, where he hac
been idly lying for eight-and-forty hours, h,
was soundly rated by the members of Congress,
for his palpable neglect of duty, and paper
signed by them was Immediately dispatched I,
the Department recommending his removal
/ y The New York Tribune has come Out
ahead of theprinters' strike, has got new fore,
not connected with the typographical Union
and now saucily snaps its fingers in the face o.
the monopolists, and defantly notifies them that
1t will manage its business and make its bargain.
in its own way.
z A correspondent of the Herald write,
from Mobile ON the It'll inst: 81 have Just
learned that the rebels made raid on the Pen
sacola Navy Yard this morning, and that an at.
tempt was made to recapture the rebel Admira
Buchanan and his officers. They were repulsed
however. with considerableloss, by the gunboat.
and Second Ne. cavalry.
! 81 correspondent of Boston paper, with
the Congressional excursion party, says. "wher
OFF the Crimples a meeting of those on board
was held abqf Of the cutter They must hay,
found it rather a moist place for a meeting, and
if windy somewhat rough withal This is the
same correspondent who spoke of Cape Eliza.
beth as ian arm Of the sea-
p The Missouri Zeitung. an influential Ger.
man paper published in St. Louis, says: So
soon as we are convinced that the Fremont par.
ty cannot be victorious, we consider it our duty
TO dispense with the dead weight, and help that
party which next nearest represents our princi-
pies, having chance to defeat the copperheads
although it may notin all things suit us II we
have to makea choice between Chicago Nth sla.
very and Baltimore tcithom slavery, we shall
take the latter
| % Several times the Argus has made Aings
about the Junketing of Congressman along the
coast, while the Tallahassee is burning our YES
sells. The ''junketng" Congressman are look