The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-09-20
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

~ VIM iuost thtnS- schefhtig euck pretty
fast 10 one Loose habits. i
9New explanation OF "the golden mean
TO have gold. and be too mean to use it.
V-If you meet young lady who isn't at all
shy, you had better be little shy yourself
Rrwhica is the most difficult punctuation
Putting stop to a woman's tsngue.-[Ex
ESrThe q. s. Grand Lodge I. o. Of o. +. will
hold its annual session in Boston this week.
ETA butcher has been arrested and bound
over for trial in Hartford, Conn, for cruelty to
his horse ffHHU4
- Spinsters, take notice ! The improved
sewing machines have "feller" attached to
them.
The receipts for internal revenue during
the last week have been nearly million and q
quarter per day.
B0n being shown portrait of himself very
had perpetrated false Hood.
ErGeo. II. Williams, Union, native of Mass,
and formerly of the Supreme Bench of Iowa,
has been elected U. s. Senator from Oregon
II Fifty thousand Canadian acres have been
planted with fax this year against five thous-
and the last year, a result of the cotton famine.
81 There lisa hospital for the insane of the
Army and Navy at Washington, which contains
two hundred and fifty persons from the Army
and twenty from the Navy. HGH
R"rll commit you-you'r re a nuisance"
said justice to a noisy fellow in Court. ''No-
body has right to commit a nuisance was
the olreply. y
VMrs. Partington expresses her apprehen-
sion that people in the gold region viii bleed to
death, as papers are constantly announcing the
opening of another vein.
Sherman can as readily take hi as At
lanta,' said Gen. Hood to an Englshmau but a
short time since. Well, Sherman did take the
place, but Satan got OFF, Boston Traveller.
gMr. George Francis Train says in his last
pronuncialnento: 1.-The late letters of Sherman
and Grant rattle through the Democratic ranks
like lightning through agooseberry bush..'
gRev. Mark Trafton preached on faith at
New Bedford, recently, and among his impro We
ments was-"Don't, don't, my hearers, some
dark day, go and vote for Mcclellan,
FCopperheads tell us ''the war has proved
failure" 1t did prove failure while McClel-
Ian was at the helm, but since Grant took charge
everything has moved right along,
| OWhat three words did Aadm use when he
introduced himself to Eve, and which reads the
same backwards and forward, Madam, I'm
Adam.
ETA new Law firm has been formed in Au-
gusta, of which the partners are Hon. Lot NJ
morrill,, and A. B. Farwell. ESQ.,, recently in one
of the Departments at Washington.
81 The following Maine officers are confined
in Libby Prison: Capt. Joseph o. Lord, 10th;
Lieut.. W. II. Chapman, do. Lieut.. A. A. Fitch,
do; Adj. A. R. Small, do.
VThe Louisville Democrat, in defining the
principles of the Democrat party, says, the De-
mocracy prefer to add securities to the reserved
rights Of the States, and do not want States to
| Submit" M Boz
RThe new Collector Of New York has COM
menced the praiseworthy work of wedding out
the copperheads in his Office A similar work
might be proftably done in most places in which
Government employs men in civil pursuits
EGen. Hooker has promptly contradicted
the report that he would support Mcclellan.
Fighting joe never believed in Mcclellan,
and he probably has seen nothing Of late to
change his mind.
EMcClellan is making his peace with the
Peace men. Vallandigham has been roped in.
He is probably to be Secretary Of State, and Fitl
John Porter to be Lieut.. General, If Mac sue
ceeds.
81 Henry J. Gardner. the Know nothing
Governorof Mass, for several years, is now in
full communion with the Democrats The Pat.
riotic element Of the party must take good deal
Of satisfaction in this acquisition to its ranks
~ The Mayor of Bangor. ut o meeting on
Friday. reported the number of men necessar,
to ill the quota of that city. ninety An
effort is being made to fill the quota without
draft.
| BLast winter when the copperheads wsr,
talking Of nominating Grant, one Of the Illinoi,
leaders said,''If Grant whips Lee We shall nom.
mate Grant, but if Lee whips Grant we shall
nominate Lee -
- The New York News ULTRA peace) says i
Mcclellan would say publicly what they know
he has said privately, they should be satisies
with his position So the Little Joker il
playing double, it seems.
EVA monster fruit cana building is to b,
constructed at Cleveland, so by a feet, part
toned of into rooms with air-tight iron walls
for the keeping Of fruit beyond its ordinary
season. The air is to be pumped out and tn,
rooms sealed up, after the fruit is in.
gAn employee at the depot in New Haven
Ct, droveaway boy who was playing around
the cars. The boys father threatened to prose
cute him il he did it again, and the next day thu
boy was run over By freight train and lost
; leg.
The Ellsworth American says AIRED -belles
snake was found at the door of the Court room
in that town, in which q so-called Democrat,
Convention was held. Perhaps he was refused
Abundance because be was not Of the oopperheae
stripe.
RAn officer right from the front, tesor.
Petersburg, informs US that the army almost te
man is for Lincoln, that no one else is named
for President, and that Mcclellan Is seldom men.
toned. The rebel army is PROFESSIONALLY for
the Chicago nominee.
RAt the Mcclellan ratification meeting in
Boston Saturday evening, the platform was
largely monopolired by that class OF men hither-
to styled by the Post the .'Siirer Circus. "
Robt. c. Winthrop, Albert Fearing, Francis
1 Skinner, classed as Democrats Well, the race
of aristocrats must have died out.
EProfessor Agassiz is determined to make
his Natural History Museum in Cambridge the
most useful as well as magnificent collection in
the world. We learn, says an admiring English
writer, that, during the past year, no less than
10000 specimens of animals have been added to
it.
g0ne of the active copperheads in Ports
mouth has been arrested for purchasing old cop
per stolen from the Navy Yard. About six hun
bred pounds were found in his possession. He
was not ignorant of his guilt, for he was careful
to keep bis ''pile" concealed, and it was revealed
only by search warrant.
rrB-The Rangor Wbio eaxs tho pno.o.. n.