The Portland daily press., 1862-07-17
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

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accepting the bounty of the State would re-
ceive no aids utterly without foundation.
The aid provided for the families of volunteers,
is given without regard to the pay or the
bounty the soldier may receive, if the family
needs it.
eg- The New York Times says Gen. Shields
has not resigned, nor does he intend to do So
He is in New York, by order of the President.
organizing and disciplining the newly raised
troops.
co Biddeford we are told, claims the honor
OF being the first city or town in the State to
offer bounty for her quota of the new regi-
ments, although so largely infused with that
Kind of unpatriotic feeling which last year de-
nounced the war as an "unholy" one, and gave
the anti-war candidate for Governor six hun
bred votes
sB-The Boston Post says the proceedings
of the cities and towns in Massachusetts war
rant the assurance that the quota of fresh
troops called for from that State, if all do their
duty, will be promptly made up.
BIDDEFoRD.-Ac correspondent in Biddeford
writes us that the city has appropriated $l0,-
200 to pay 500 each to its quota of the soldiers
-102 men-called for by the government. The
appropriation passed the City Council Tuesday
afternoon, by unanimous vote.
sg- 1t is thought by some that the Dana
Convention is to be holden somewhere in Can
ada.
VoLUNTEERs.-Gov.W ashburn telegraphed
Gen. Virgin yesterday, that Volunteers to the
Sixteenth Regiment count the same as to other
new regiments, and SO do volunteers to the old
regiments.
sB- The New York correspondent of the
London Times points out the present difficult
ties surrounding the Union forces, and thinks
the capture of Richmond will have no other
| effect than to transfer the war farther South.
He thinks an armistice and then a separation
the only solution of the difficulty. This is an
English view, of course.
PETERsoN's MAGAZINE for August is on
our table. Among the magazines this is one
of our favorites. Always prompt, and with
its pages well filed with interesting matter, it is
always welcome. The beautiful engraving in
the number before us, "The Mothers darling"
is worth the price of the number
s9The Machias Union says beans, squashes.
&c, in that vicinity, were considerably dam
aged by frost on the night of the 10th inst
sE- The Bangor Wing calls the Oxford
county Stockholders "cowardly skunks." That
is rather an odoriferous comparison, yet we
think skunks have most reason to complain of
it.
1-We never believed Irvng's story of Rip
Van Wrinkle till recently. We believe it ALL
now. 1t is being re-enacted daily. Men start
up, rub their eyes, complain of slavery agita-
ton, and of abolitionism, and of disregarding
the compromises" the same as they did be-
fore the rebel Shareholders sought to over
brow the government. Surely, they have
cen asleep for a year and half
KESNEBEC SETTLEMENT. The Bath Times
commends celebration of the anniversary
the settlement of the colony at the mouth
the Kennebec river, by Popham, which
ent took place long before the settlement Of
ymouth.
nd that one of the Augusta lawyers has ex-
| ssed the opinion that the orders recently is
s. ID for holding elections in the militia, are
" bout foundation of law, and therefore there
c; be no penalty for disobedience. This
Of ZION, however, is totally different from that
he by several of the Judges of the Supreme
Ju cial Court, and by the Attorney General
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are 'egat, and all good citizens will obey The
pei ty for disobedience will be strictly en-
fore |.
z "A rebel chief named John Morgan, has
inva ID the soil of the loyal State of Keptuc-
ky. tn twelve hundred infantry and cavalry.
to b. L bridges. He has issued proclama-
ton. Hing on the Kentuckians to rise against
their overnment. We should like for some of
the ". lite Kids totel us wherein. on principle,
this duct differs from Union man melting
an ins rection among the slaves against their
rebel ,sters.
sB~ he New York World and the Evening
Post = at loggerheads on the Cabnet-Mc-
Clellan question. The Post is opposed to Nc
holds cClellan, and demands Stanton's re-
moval They had both better labor together
for the overnment, and leave the President
to look ter his subordinates. The princi-
pal difit' ilty between Stanton and Mcclellan,
we have 10 doubt, has been manufactured by
penny-a ners.
Wo o OF CAUTIoN.-We are told of men
mot M surely-who are trying to pump up
capital ,ause the city government have not
offered lore munincent sum in the shape Of
bounties. and who openly declare on street
corners d in crowds that men 'are fools to
enlist M r the circumstances" Perhaps it
would beiwell for such persons to remember
that theylare throwing obstacles in the way of
respon to the call of the country, and that
United ,tates law, with serere penalties. is
providedI or precisely such cases. 1t may get
hold OF EN-, and make them acquainted with
the bill fare at Fort Warren sooner than
they reel IN upon If the Council had offered
large su the same gentry would be the first
to raise he cry of extravaganza and waste.
~ rowned in Windsor on the 18th inst.
by the 4 cidental filling of boat near Pope's
Mills, n ioung man by the name of Jack Wolf.
an En- sh sailor Augusta Farmer.
- If it is deemed desirable to increase