The Portland daily press., 1865-09-23
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

" On the frstpage- Message of Governor
Perry to the South Carolina Convention. Last
page miscellany. q IEsE8M - e
We "A Canada smuggler named Tom Car
penter was nearly arrested near Swanton, W.,
while about to carry eleven eases of gin in his
wagon across the line. On being told to stop,
he applied the whip to his horse and began
dropping out the cases one by one, in the hope
that as in the old fable his pursuer might be
tempted to stop. The officer overlook him,
however, but revolver insured the escape of
the rogue
The Wilmington IN, co. Hsrald says:
Fanny Moore having stated to Capt Beach of
the Freedmen's Bureau that herself and six.
children, after raising q small crop, had been
ordered by her former master to leave his place
on his refusing to give her any share of the
crop, notification was sent to him that the
woman was entitled to half the crop, and that
it must be delivered to her l
B8 lot of unclaimed military property is
advertised for sale by auction in Washington,
unless called for before the 10th of November.
1t consists of trunks and valises left in charge
of the Quartermaster's Department by army
officers, and includes articles marked for Gems.
Sedgwick, killed in the Wilderness battle:
Bayard, killed at the first Fredericksburg;
1 Blenker, dead; Stahl, now out of service; Mar
.cy, McClellans chief of staff; A. P. Howe,
Barlow, Joseph Hays, Wright, Casey, Couch
and numerous other officers of lesser note. -5f.i
EY The New Orleans Picaylne saws one ex-
rebel enlargement is in the employ of a con-
tractor in thateity; two brigadiers are in the
express business, and another is a drayman,
while other generals are engineers on railroads
Almost every store has colonel or a major
Three distinguished colonies are in the auo-
ton business One of StonewalI Jackson's
/ favorite rrgimental commanders is pressing
cotton vigorously. 392 p Aae- fa yh
EB The Hartford Press tells the following !:
A son of the Green slestepped into the tele-
graph Office in this city, and sent dispatch to
neighboring town in regard to a missing
trunk. The operator sat down to the instru-
ment, and click, click, click went the message
over the wire. The man waited and watched,
evidently expecting something ssYour mes
sage has been sent all right, > blandly remarked
the operator. YES, yes" exclaimed Patrick
eagerly, "but has the thrunk COON ?s q i.
BB President Juarez, in aletter announ-
cling his determination not to leave Mexico. re-
marks II shall fuliH the duty Of anreser-
wing the existence of the only popular ,ower
established by the will of my fellow citizens,
and do not despair of the success of our cause,
when see the Mexicans everywhere resisting
the yoke of the invader, and Maintaining the
struggle in all our States" $3.50
The trial of the rebel steamboat burn.
ers before military commission began at ST.
Louis, Tuesday, and the case Of William Muir
ply was taken up. Colonel Mills, attorney for
the prisoner, has given notice that he shall
summon as witnesses JEFF Davis and Secreta-
ries Mallory and Seldom of the late rebel gov
ernment and Admiral Farragut and Porter.
DB First, we heard of a cattle plague. them
came the hog-cholera, and now we learn that q
fatal disease has prevailed for some short time
past among poultry in the environs Of Paris to
such an extent that some persons have lest all
their fowls in the course Of a day or two. A
strict supervision has, IN Consequence, been ex-
ercised in the markets, to prevent poultry SO )
dying from being offered for sale, siH7sf