The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-03
oRIGINAL AND SELECTED.

GO on will always nno maturity WF i"o-
Clelan in q guard-house-never in hospital.
gy-The location of the Massachusetts, Agri--
cultural College is to be at Amherst.
ex-senator Wilson has gone to Pennsylvania
to address Union meetings. ft1& 80
gyArrangements have been made for an ex-
change of naval prisoners. --@..-.------..s.
g-A new opera house was opened last week
in Augusta.
R Maggie Mitchell, a distinguished actress, is
playing in Washington. ri 9fYge 81
We learn that three companies ofInfantry
will leave Augusta to-day for the front.
20 son of Hon. Sidney Perham has re-en-
listed as private in the army, who, with six of
his fellow students win join the 7th Battery.
- new hotel is to be erected at Eastport.
Two thousand dollars have already been sub
scribed
20 Near Cincinnati. on Saturday, drunken
stage driver upset his stage coach, and Senator
McNeigh was killed by the fall
20 Not less than $40, 900 will be expended
in Northampton this year on three school
houses. ssa
THE worlds great men have not always
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i 90 The quota of Baltimore has been filled
without draft. A large number of slaves are
being drafted in other sections of Maryland.
- At the book trade sale in Philadelphia
this week prices ranged from thirty three to fifty
per cent lower than the catalogue rates.
VBy an Irishnan-Why is storm, when it S
clearing up, like castigation Sure, and ism
it a-bating?
% Col. Emerson of the 2sth Me-, is sick at
Annapolis, Nd, but hopes soon to be able to
rejoin his regiment in the field.
9Two men, named Jacob Burgess and Gil
Peterson, were drowned in Duxbury harbor on
Monday last. , 49,. = + 49, xr -rfvs
% The internal revenue receipts for Septem-
Der are 81 100000, being about the same as for
August, but not quite up to estimates.
The brave Gen. Logan, whom the Demo-
Gratis tried to get to stand upon their platform
for the Vice Presidency, lately made aspeech
in which he warmly supported Lincoln.
- Hon. Mr.. Cole, M. @. from California, de-
fines "Copperhead'' to be ga broken-down pol
itician, who is willing to confess himself the in
ferior and servant of the saveholders'
- Col. Thomas H. Hubbard, of the 3Oth
regiment, left home on Tuesday to rejoin his regi-
ment. Col. H. is son of Ex-Gov Hubbard OF
| Hallowell = @a'
sEE The following deaths have occurredin Co.
| A, I'd Me. cavalry, from August u.s.. to the 9Th
of September: JOS. B. Day, Washington; Nathan
H. Cousins, Monroe; Solomon j.. Gray, Els
worth, y q A&spSA w -
RA certain nobleman was addicted to the
bottle On the occasion of fancy dress ball,
or masquerade, he asked friend what new
character he should 60 in go sober was
the reply. 'fes q .s7saioisea 9sol
80 Dobbs, on being questioned by the court
as to whether he had been extensively engaged
in the hotel business, answered that he rather
thought he had, as he once "boarded frigate
and two sloops-of-war."
RA German writer says that in the next
world all unworthy and prosy clergymen will be
condemned to pass the whole of their time in
reading the bad sermons they have composed in
this. most horrible punishment.
IS 10 Alvah Black, Esq, for the Oxford County
Bar, presented to the court on Monday series
of resolves expressive of the sentiments of the
Bar upon the decease of Maj. O'Neil w. Robin
son. 1861
BA large number of refugees from Atlanta,
4 who preferred coming North to going South
arrived at Cincinnati on the 26th. Most oil
them were in comfortable circumstances, but Q
few required relief. p -
% Capt Sanford, who has been acting Pro.
vost Marshal of the Second District, was, OF
Wednesday evening, presented by the employees
of the Office, with beautiful ebony cane with q
head of gold, as testimonial of their respect
and good will. 5at tvaa5as
R The store of A. w. Kendrick, ESQ.,, Of
Compton, L. c., in which the Postofice was
kept, was destroyed by fire on Friday night
last. Aclerk who slept in the store, had q very
narrow escape, having barely time to leave his
room when the roof fell in. He lost his watch
and nearly all his clothes.
. terrible tornado that past over Maredtoon
Ill.,, lifted loaded freight train from the track
and turned it over, smashing the cars to splin-
tiers. One car was carried half mile. Bales
of cotton, hogsheads of tobacco, barrels Of
-four and fragments OF the cars were strewn
over large extent on either side Of the track.
~ The Belfast Age says that a very large per
centage of the drafted men in Waldo and Knox
counties pass muster. Of those from Camden,
only Is out of 80 were rejected. Substitutes
range from $500 to $10O0-some higher. The
Board will soon remove to Ellsworth, to draft
for Hancock county.
R The Hallowell Gazette learns from cor
respondent at San Francisco, that Mr. Rufus
Atherton, formerly Of that city, and first pilot
on the steamer Washoe, fell from the upper to
the main deck ON the 23d ult, and was SO
much injured that he expired in a few mo-
! ments. gataa1
BThe trial of steam fireengines at the fair
in Manchester, resulted as follows: Pacific, No.
1, through 400 feet double hose, l Ia inch pipe,
1872 feet6 inches horizontal, 178feet vertical At
lantc, No. 3, 400 feet single hose, 1892 pipe, 2O4
feet horizontal, $50 feet vertical. Tiger, No. 8,
400 feet single hose, 3l-32 incl, pipe. 100 feet
horizontal, 14S vertical Essex, No. 4, 400 feet
single hose, 1882 inch pipe, 2o4 feet horizontal
153 vertical. tnafq aa4 saf ifs vl7aaH
EFT is said Major Milford, assistant agent
Of exchanges will start within few days for
Savannah, with ten thousand sick and wounded
rebel soldiers, tc be exchanged for like number
of the worst cases of sick and wounded of our
men. The steamer Baltic and other vessels of
like capacity are now preparing to sail on this
expedition. A great number Of the prisoners at
Savannah and Augusta are from New England
regiments. ~ s.sl
VThe Baltimore Clipper talks hopefully of
the prospects of that city and state under the
new constitution; the regime OF Freedom. With
its adoption and the opening of spring trade,
says that paper, old fogyism viii rubits eyes in
amazement as it has either to be run over, or
get ont of the HaV Already in Baltimore not