The Portland daily press., 1862-06-28
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

% We assure the Bangor Times that the
Press is--or should be-regularly mailed to its
address, every day.
nV A firm in st. Louis advertised for
number Of statesmen, and admonishes those
who are afflicted with secessionism, or any
other stupidity" not to apply.
APPoINTMENTs.-The Governor, with the
advice and consent of the Council, has appoint
ed Hon. John L. Cutter, of Augusta, and Rev.
Richard Woodruff, of Bangor, Trustees of the
Insane Hospital. William Wilson, of Rock
land, is appointed Inspector of the State
Prison.
TRIAL JUsTIcEs.-The following persons
have been appointed Trial Justices at the pres
ent session of the Council, viz:
Freeman w. Smith, Fort Fairfield, Aroos-
took Co.
Solomon B. Foster, Gray, Cumberland Co.
Sumner Burnham, Norway, Oxford Co.
FISH WARDENs.-Winslow Blake, of Rich
mond, and N. B. Chadbourne, of Madison,
have been appointed Fish Wardens.
ALLOTMENT AGENTS. = The Executive
Council, on the 26th inst, passed an order
"that the allotment agents employed in the SER
vice Of the State, in obtaining the allotments of
pay for the soldiers of the Maine Regiments,
be notified by the Secretary of State that their
services are discontinued from this date and
that no pay for personal services or expenses
in that respect will be hereafter allowed, until
otherwise ordered"
TAIx t. - ~.
Deering of Saco member of the class of 1884
in Bowdon College, but now connected with
the 18th regiment accidentally fell through a
scuttle i'm the Custom House at New Orleans
and was seriously if not fatally injured.
Biddeford Union.
20 A new mineral spring has recently
been discovered on Pixies Hill in Norway.
sH- The Dutch have decided to abolish
slavery in all their American possession. The
emancipation is to be gradual and compensat-
ed The act goes into effect July, 1868.
sy- Com. Foote has reached his home in
New Haven.
nT Letters from New Orleans, state that
Capt. l. Huckings, formerly of Portland, has
been sent to Fort jackson, "for his health.
sV The Charleston Mercury states that
"Beauregard hat" is all the rage in that city.
General will furnish model for neck tie that
will yet be extensively used at the South.
Biddeford Union.
ay The Bath Times says that at the close
of the Universalst State Convention in that
city, a collection amounting to $50 was taken
up and presented to the venerable Seth Stetson
of Brunswick, the oldest clergyman in the de-
nomination in this State.
sv- The Bridgton Reporter says A. ID.
Brock, Esq, formerly of the Courier, in this
city, has recently been installed editor of the
Bangor Times. The Reporter further says
that Brock takes to politics as naturally as a
duck does to water.
e The Augusta Journal learns that the
Lewiston Falls Manufacturing Company paid
dividend of 6 per cent. on Wednesday.
nEEdwin Morse, aged Z years, son of Aa-
ron Morse of Milo, took a gun and powder
horn, unknown 10 his father, This mother being
absent at the time1 and went out back of the
house a few rods, and there overloaded the
gun so that when he discharged the piece the
barrel burst, and piece entered his stomach,
causing death in about one hour Bangor
Wing.
sB-The people of Pennington are to cele-
brate the 4th of July, by procession, Grafton,
raising liberty pole, &c.
sDThe Hallowell Gazette says, Lieutenant
Charles b. Haskell of Kent's Hill, LIST Lieut..
Co. X, Maine Sd Regiment, wounded at the
battle of Fair Oaks, died at Newport News on
the 18th inst.
TRIAL JUSTICE REsIGNED.-Hiram Bass,
Esq, of Camden, has resigned the office Of
Trial Justice.
gB- Deserters from the rebel camp repre-
sent that there is a vast amount of sickness in
Richmond.
MORNING IN OUR City Twas early
dawn. The eastern sky was fast changing its
dusky grey for mellow crimson tinge - the
full influence to the lungs of the kitchen girl
as she swept the steps-the Internal orgies of
male grimalkins had ceased-when the still
slumbering Melissa, still sleeping upon her
back, still sleeping with her mouth wide open,
felt only in her dream as in company with her
adored Alonzo of the previous evening, who
seemed TO her as saying -" Say, say wilt thou
be mine?' when suddenly her dream of bliss
was interrupted by the unmusical voice of that
old darlzey fishmonger, "Here's your fresh
alewives smelts - fresh smeltsr'
The Christian Banner, a religious paper
published in fredericksburg, Va, thus dis
courses: Let the war result as it may, Afri-
can slavery in Virginia has already been swept
from her tcrritory.* If the war should
continue twelye-month longer there will be
scarcely slave in Virginia"
p. I. Barnum has very properly been
styled the Prince of Showmen. There seems
no end either to his ingenuity or his resources
in catering for the public curiosity. A veryfew
years since he went by the board, financially,
as the result Of too freely signing his name for
the accommodation of other men, buthe seems
to have regained his former position and to be
fast rising in affiuence. He has recently pur-
chased the Aquarial Gardens, in Boston, and
has added to all its former attractions some of
| the principal features of his great Museum at
| New York If Barnum can't make evena poor
show attractive nobody can, and where there
| is real merit in the exhibition he makes it
doubly interesting