The Portland daily press., 1864-10-13
ORIGIN4L AND SELECTED,

EB wafer ISM fashionable beverage for |
drinking your friends health, but it il Z capital
one for drinking your own.
eEThe Union triumph in Cincinnati; e;yes
two Union representatives in Congress in place
of Pendleton and Long.
Waterville is to have Soldiers Monument
and the people are getting up benefit entertain
ments. says the Mail k8 .EEN a +.
rTThe last English steamer bringsintellisence
of the death of W.. s. Lander, ESQ.,, a distin-
ou;sbed author, at the age of 80.
ra-The rebel loss in the Shenandoah valley
during the last engagements, is estimated at IF
teen thousand. & 9 GF9+E
EHon. Lot NJ. Morrill, addressed the Union
,,eon,e of Bath, in Columbian Hall, last even
! ing.
.ETMrs. Breckenridge, mother of the rebel
General of that name, died at Baltimore onSatur-
day night aa-issa 1ois ~
H~Rey. james W. Hannicutt was one of the
sneakers at Union meeting in Huntington
| Hall. Lowell, on Monday evening last. M
FEMr. jeremiah Ellsworth, a respectable
farmer of Avon, committed suicide by hanging
ON Friday afternoon of last week.
R-Mr. Alba Abbot of Skowhegan had the
kpuckle of the finger planned off in new ma
chine which he was using few days since.
EMr. John F. Gerald, the reformed sailor,
is lecturing on the subject Of Temperance in
Somerset county. VI os6.,e.r {,
WOrders have been issued to suspend all
reouisitions upon the Treasury until the soldiers
are paid to October LIST. ~
TAbout two months ago lad named Ken
nedy was drowned in Troy; three weeks later his
father died of grief and last week the broken
hearted mother Joined them ''over the river"
EThe Buffalo Courier frankly states its creed
as follows: "We vote for the Union and the pay
ment of the war debt of both the South and the
North
RThe people of Ohio, Indiana and Penn
sylvania have been dealing the cards for the
Presidential game. They have settled one point,
that spades are not to be trumps 81
RA friend is anxious to know when "Little
Mcclellan proposes to start for Europe. Proba-
bly, he will take passage by the first gunboat that
sails for that continent teA e
RThe Union procession in Philadelphia on
Saturday night was fourteen miles long. The
display of banners and transparencies was on
the most magnificent SCALE
ETA Musical Convention is to be held in
& Skowhegan, under the direction of Scion Wilder
ESQ.,, commencing on the 25th instant and con-
tinuing four days. ate IN& tna
EEG ounod, the composer of Faust, receives
fifty dollars every time his opera is performed n
France, England or Germany. He has an equa
daily income from the sale of copies and ar
rangements of the music. 3
eE A man at Rondout, named Allen, hat
improper intimacy with his wifes sister, ant
because his wife was uncomfortably jealous II
consequence, threw kerosene upon her during
!. drunken row and burned her to death.
EEIt is said the Met lellanites propose to star
: for Salt River, on the eighth of November, in
Gunboat They will go up SO far that the near
est way to get back will be to keep straight ahead
The world is round. -
ERThe following deaths of Maine soldier
: took place in the hospitals in and around Ne,
York during the week ending Oct. 7th:-Samue
Goodwin, 7th Me. Battery, Christopher Martin
Co. D, 7th Regiment.
EThe editors of the Boston Post must hay
been out of town yesterday, for they didn'
hear word from the Pennsylvania, Ohio an
Indiana elections-except by telegraph The
made mary comment.
R-It is said that Mcclellan never received
scratch in battle till the battle of the Shenan
+: doah, under Sheridan. But before that woun
had healed bomb shell from Indiana strue
= him inficting injuries from which recovery
impossible.
3 The bankers of France and England wi
! begin to find out that the Germans were not sue
. short-sighted men as they supposed them to
!. in taking U. s. government securities. Thes
: German bankers will eventually get dollar 70
dollar for all they invest.
- The day has gone by when q rsgnlari
prosperous business can be maintained by persis
! tent lying and deception. The people are too in
telligent to be long led blindfold by the nos
The coppeahead papers do not seem to ha,
!. learned this lesson. nCA@
! IA 80 The Portsmouth Chronicle says, Mr.. Amt
Clark, young mon of about 80, formerly
resident of that city, son of Mr.. Thos. Clark
Eliot, Maine, fell and broke his neck few da,
, since at the Norfolk Navy Yard, where he h,
:, been employed for few months past. He leav,
wife and two children. a3t1 Qt
4 - W The Argus says Gen. McClernand of Iii
e nois, has come out for Mcclellan There is n,
WIN VI eAueA IA W. AAcAO 10 AOt u ud1 III VI
West who has expressed more disgust for NJ
Clellan than McClernand. He regards him as
J, mere military mountebank.
: B-A subscription was opened at the Ne
is York Herald Office awhile ago to purchase Ge
81 Mcclellan q sword, for which object $500 ha
g been raised. A few days since several gentlems
/ on South street who had subscribed $I4i, Gale
il at the Herald Office and withdrew their none
: They considered it a poor Investment.
/ EY-It was evidently the intention of the reb
>, leaders to have large force in the vicinity
,. Pennsylvania at the time of the state election
for the purpose OF acting in conjunction wit
: the copperheads of the North in carrying tn,
'e State over to the "Peace-at-any-price part
but the general entrusted with the work WASH
q quite Early enough to carry out their well-la
70 plans. eersu Eai
: 81 The business men of New England see
disposed to meet the fall in goods with GOO
grace and mark down as promptly when gold
e falling as they marked up when it was risin
That cotton or wooden goods will reach the 10
:, prices at which they were sold three years ag
no one can expect. The scarcity of raw mi
terial, the small quantity of goods manufactures
andthe heavy taxes to pay the bills Of the wal
all tend to keep goods twenty-five or fifty pc
z, cent higher than in 1860