The Portland daily press., 1864-09-01
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

~ f2SsGOn OI time.
q The quota Of Rhode Island under the las.
call is full.
q Illinois has filled her quota under the re.
cent call.
e There is to be big horse-trot in skowbe.
gan on Thursday, 9Th inst.
~ The "Clsrion" says there is a young wo-
man in Mercer. is years old, who weighs 2a5
pounds.
81 The extensive tannery Of John B. Chase,
in Manchester, N. H., was destroyed by FIRE on
Tuesday morning. Loss about $4,000.
q Douglas Jerrold calls women's arms The
serpents that wind about mans neck, killing
his best resolutions"
| - The report Of the anti-draft riot in New
Orleans. and the loss of 400 lives, is not con-
nrmed BY later intelligence from that city.
81 William Huntress, of Meredith, N. H.,
committed suicide BY hanging himself, ON We'd
nesday Of last week.
| - Inc rebels admit that they had four Gen.
erals killed and one wounded in the battles ON
the Weldon railroad
81 Twenty -nine students have been admitted
to the present Freshman Glass of Bowdo;n Col
lege.
9Dr. Geo. Pierce, the proprietor Of "pierce,s
bitters," died Suddenly on the 10th inst, at his
residence in Lowell
q We learn from the Skowhegan Clarion
that the dwelling house Of Mr.. Noble, on the riy-
er road to Fairfield. was destroyed by fire on
Monday night last
6The new machine shop of the Portland &
kennebec Railroad Co.. at Augusta, viii go into
operation next week, and give employment to
60 men.
q John Mcdonald, at one time a member of
the 18th Maine regiment, was shot dead at the
Cham plain Hotel in Burlington, Vt, by John
| Fenton.
~ Secretary Stanton has ordered that the
wages OF the sewing women in the employment
OF the Government be increased twenty per
cent.
q ten. Sherman now has command Of the
Macon railroad, and has cut off all communica-
ton by railroad between Atlanta and the rest of
creation. Its speedy fall is certain.
IThs planning mill Of Messrs Peak & Clark,
OF Chelsea, Mass, together with about $4,000
worth Of lumber, was destroyed by fire on Tues
day last
81 The new side-wheel steamer Iosco, built
at Bath, which has been in search Of the pirate
Tallahassee, put in at Kittery Navy Yard on
Tuesday for coal
q Ex-Secretary Chase formally denies the
absurd story that he has invested in foreign
funds, and claims that a government officer may
be honest.
BWilliam r. Watson, for nearly forty years
one Of the mos; active and prominent politi-
clans of Rhode Island died in Providence on
Monday.
q An exchange says-There is something
ineIpressibly sweet about little girls. The Lou
isville Journal adds, "And it grows on 'em as
they get bigger"
81 The gunpowder argument was resorted
to yesterday on the reception of McClellan's
nomination. It was severe joke-almost a
taunt-to burn gunpowder over military man
who was always so saving Of it.
e The deaths Of Otis Getchell, 10th Maine.
and o. Gilley. 10Th Me-, are reported at WASH
ingion, and j. II. Gerrish. LIST Ne. Heavy Artil-
lery; A. S. sermod, nth Maine; n B. Allen,
2ist Me-, at City Point.
81 Gen. Burnside, in short speech at Gen.
ter Harbor, n. H., said he had heard more
grumbling in the North in three days than he
had heard in the whole campaign from the Rap.
idan to Petersburg.
81 Every gun fred yesterday by the copper
heads, could it have been heard at Richmond,
would have caused the blood to go bounding
through JET Davis veins with increased vigor
and given renewed elasticity to his step.
81 Boston specuator. named P. Perley,
while purchasing gold coupons for 2.3o, in Ban
gor. was arrested on Tuesday for violation Of
the internal revenue act, in not having broker s
license.
81 Boston paper placed to the credit of a
merchant Of tina, city the liberal gin Of $50,
600 to Bowdoin College, BY Mr.. II. II. Body, a
merchant of New York. A classmate Of Mr.. B.
corrects the mistake.
r The Boston Post says Belmont's equip
age at Newport is valued at $780, 00 II con-
sists OF barouche and four ouiriders. The
horses cost $4,000. And yet this wealthy
naughty aristocrat is chairman of a very i'm
portant Democratic committee
y In the list of wounded at Ream's Station
we find the names OF Arson A. Libby, LIST Ne,
len arm, severe; Frank Cummings, do, right
leg, slight; Joseph Merriam, Co. d. head; Je-
rome Ridley, Co. c. (dead); Francis Ingraham
right leg amputated.
y st. John Globe reports a suspicious
steamer, supposed to be the Tallahassee, of Por,
Hood, on Thursday of last week. The Mirami-
chi Cleaner says that almost every port in the
Gulf is filled with American fishing schooners
seeking protection from the Tallahassee. She
waslately seen at Magdalen Islands.
u Mr.. II. W. Baldwin, OF Furness' Express
had very narrow escape near st. John, SAYS
the News, few days since. In attempting to
jump upon a moving train he missed his hold
was violently thrown upon the ground, and mar
rowly escaped the car wheels. Though bruised
no bones were broken
81 The Americans at Honolulu celebrated the
4th Of July in an appropriate manner. About
$1,000 were raised on the occasion for the benef
Of the Sanitary Commission. A ballot for Pres.
ident was taken as follows; Lincoln, PSI; Nc.
Clellan, IL; Fremont, As goes Honolulu Sc
goes the Union
y The New York World thinks Gilmore and
Jaques have done great injustice to Mr. Ben
jamin and JEFF. Davis. The World is exceeding
ly tender Of the reputation of these arch traitors
much more so than it is Of our President and
his advisers. That shows clearly in what quar-
ter the wind sets.
e August Belmont, the New York aristo-
crat, whose appearance on the streets of that
city excites the ridicule Of every true American
citizen in consequence Of the attempts to initiate
foreign extravaganza and display, had the ef-
frontery to declare. in the Chicago Convention,
that the misrule Of the government had brought
the country to the verge of ruin. Such nabobs
are expected to advocate slavery and to defend a