The Portland daily press., 1865-10-13

E- The officers Of the bark Edwin and
Lizzie, which vessel arrised at Halifax on Sat
urday, report that on fhe 10th Of September,
latitude 81 degrees, lengitude 81 degrees, As
minutes, they saw red buoy, marked "Tele-
graph 81 (or 81, red hag,op mast, nearly gone;
ball all right; thought it Was detached from the
cable.
"a Mr.. James A. Dix, for many years editor
of the Boston Joayeaa, died at his residence in
that city, of consumption, on Wednesday last
sD-The Ohio Statesman, the leading Demo-
cratic paper in Ohio, gave as reason why Gen.
Cox, the Unioncandidate should not be sup.
ported, that. "a vote for, him would bea vote in
favor of taking the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence for our guide. The Declaration of In
dependence recognises the natural equality of
all men.
% The rebels are modest, deeidedly1 The
South Carolina Convention, everysoul of whom
needed pardon, unanimously recommended
JEFF. Davis to executive clemency, and now.
when they have been put through the mill
themselves and al ground out at a single tarnl
of the wheel, committee has called upon the
President to urge the claims Of the arch
traitor woz
g$f-- An, extensive fire has been sweeping
over the Dismal Swamp for several DAYS, and
it is probable that thousands of acres win be
burned over.
| BB- A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post urges tliatthe present IS a fayora-
BILE time for the adoption of a, new national
name, less cumbrous and more euphonious
than "The United States of America"
| ERThe defaication of Isaac G. Fowler for
merly postmaster n ew York has been passed
to the credit Of bad debts. The amount is
about $17100O Fowler was a Democratic on
cial. ana u azA
90 The Knoxville Wig says that within
the past two weeks more than forty appllca-
lions for pardon have been Endorsed by Gov
ernor Browuiow and forwarded teFthe Presi-
| dent.
Mr.. VIM. Lloyd Garrison is to make
lecturing tour through the Western States dur
ing this month and next, speaking in Chicago
for the first time in his life,, !,
| .B%T The sorghum crop in Wisconsin this sea-
son has been success beyond all expectations.
| With their improved machinery and greater
experience in boiling, farmers are turning their
attentions more and more to this kind, Of cult
walton. 'eht t'-ns
BB correspondent Of the Albany Argus
says that bet is offered of $4,000 in gold, that
the New York democratie ticket viii Be cleo
ted : $1,000 on each of the ten candidates.
Bluff. so--
Vs. Thanksgiving in iMldass4eh psettsI Nov
ember 30th.
U.s. A Richmond correspondent of the New
York Herald writes that there is man in Viz
ginia who INDUCES I'M the wild SPECULATION Of
buying negroes emancipated by the, caving in OF
the rebel Government, at ten dollars per head,
in the hope that the United States Govern
nent will ultimately pay the full price for
them. He offers ten dollars in gold for right
Of property in each negro, and has, 1t is
stated, made some purchases. and paid the
money! 3cQUn . ChbUUhnudl
"a The steamers from. Europe are now
crowded every trip with Americans returning
from their summer rambles in the old world.
Never were so many Americans in Europe as
there have been, this. season. The tpAnber is
stated as high as fifty Thousand! Aletter from
Paris says there were full thirty thousand there
in September, 50 many as to visibly affect prices
for quarters apd fo9 9l retail pYrclpndise.
B Barnum's dwarf elephant, just purchas-
ed. by his agent in England, now on its passage
to. NeF fork, cost, at present rates Of exi
change in our currency, 81 200.
B9 Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains" has been
sold for $4,000 and Huntington's Republican
Court" has been purchased by ATT Stewart
for $4,000. .aiidag 81 8iisgsh . sa-I-9bi