The Portland daily press., 1862-06-24
SOME BEEs.-The Houlton Times saws that

Mr.. Noah Chandler, of that town, recently
sold twenty hives of bees to a gentleman of
Nova Scotia for one hundred and fifty dollars
VICTORIA GUARDIAN.-Mr. William P.
Donnell has just started new paper at Grand
Falls, N. b., bearing the above title. 1t re-
quires large amount of courage and energy
to project and successfully conduct a paper in
such sparsely settled region. However. sue
cess will entitle the publisher to all the more
credit.
sB- The Pennington Patriot says that
over 1900 barrels Of -four were received at the
railroad depot in that town, last week.
IL The Hartford, Conn, Post, says that
Rev. John +. Mines, chaplain of the I'd Maine
regiment, has come home for a brief season.
sy We learn from the Augusta Journal
that Major Gilman, a native OF Thomaston. in
TINS State, who was second in command under
Lieut.. Slemmer at Fort Pickens, has been Sc
lected by Gov. johnson to command the 1st
Tennessee regiment.
sB- Prof Hitchcock and Mr.. Goodale. of
the Scientific Survey, report strong indications
Of tin ore near Mt. Mica, in Oxford county.-
Also that the iron mine in Buckfield has q
large quantity of good ore. So says the Ok
ford Democrat.
sg- The Machias Republican learns that
Gen. Caldwell has been assigned to the Brig
ade late under the command of the gallant
Gen. Howard.
SB Isn't it queer that the largest editorial
field in New England, is the Little-feld of the
Skowhegan Clarion?
nV The people of the new county of Knox
are very law-abiding, it is to be presumed
The Rockland Democrat says there were no
complaints before the grand jury at the recent
term of court holden in that city, and hence
no indictments found.
sE- Hon. George T. Curtis has accepted
an invitation from the city authorities of Bos-
ton, to deliver an Grafton on the 4th of July.
IL The Bath ship yards are nearly as live
ly as in the palmy days of 1S54-5. At least
nine ships, averaging 1000 tons each, and one
steamer are in process of construction. The
steamer is being built by OLIVER MOSES, ESQ.
the most enterprising man of that city, and is
intended to run between Bath and Boston in
connection with the railroads.
% DISTRICT oNvENrIoN.-The Repub-
lican Committee of the Third Congressional
District have issued a call for Convention to
be holden in Waterville, on Tuesday, the sth
day OF July next, at IL o'clock, A. NJ, for the
purpose OF nominating candidate to repre-
sent the District during the next Congressional
term.
q Maj. Gen. Grant has recently made a
visit to Cincinnati. He is the man who grants
no conditional surrenders to the rebels.
sg- The Jackson Mississippian-formerly
JEFF. Davis home organ recently said:
Hereafter let the motto of the South be,
Perish cities! Perish armies! Perish prop
erty! Perish everything! But surrender,
NEvERr-
The credit Of Mississippi will never perish,
that is very certain, for it is an article un-
known in that State since the days of her
shameful reputation Of her honest debts. 1t
is thought that jeff himself will soon perish
as does human limb when tightly corded,
and from very similar cause.
sg- The Waterville Mail counsels farmers
to keep their old hay, in view of possible
short crop. Recent rains have done much to
render such advice unnecessary.
sy p. 7. Barnum, man who with all his
humbugs has east his influence on the side of
sobriety, is reported as having once said in a
temperance meeting that, as great Snowman,
he would give more for drunkard who had
been prosperous in business, than for any other
curiosity.
sB- Col. Daniel Elliot of Brunswick, has
been appointed by Gov. Washburn, aid-de-
camp to the Commander-in-Chief Col. Elliot,
who is a man of heart as well as of nerve and
muscle, is now on an official visit to the field
Of strife, to look after the wants Of the sick
and wounded soldiers from this State.
sy- Gen. Cass, the man whose sense of
honor and patriotism revolted at association
with the thieves in Mr.. Buchanan's Cabinet, is
reported to have replied, when recently asked
what we might do to save the nation, "Any-
thing" and when further asked If we might,
to save the nation, abolish slavery, he answered,
"Abolish anything on the surface of the earth
to save the nationr
% Gilman Turner, Esq, Superintendent
of Public Buildings, Is understanding the
grounds in front of the State House, by means
of acqueduct tiles.-Augusta Age.
ny- An editor out West received the fol-
lowing stanza from correspondent, who says
he composed it awl himself:
"A squirrel is perte bird
It's got quire tail;
He stole away my dadiz corn,
And ct II on q rael.''
IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO PARoLED
PRIsoSERs.-The Augusta correspondent Of
the Bangor Whig says that all paroled prison
ers should Immediately report themselves to
Maj. j. w. T. Gardiner at Augusta, who is
authorized to take charge of their interests,
and win furnish them with passes, if sick, to
the Portland and Augusta hospital, also with
clothing, and see that they get their pay. Ar
rangements have been made for an early ex-
change of all prisoners of war.
sn- The Peoples Convention, called by
party Committee, will come off in Bangor on
Thursday, 26th inst. We hope our old Jane
son friends of last year will act with discretion,
and, as Artemas Ward would say, see that
their under garments are in good condition.
ng- Bro. Pike of the Augusta Age suggests
that the recent Republican Convention was
remarkable for its reliance. Don't Bro. p.
know that the present is the time for work
rather than words?
sB- The bill passed by Congress for the col
lection Of direct taxes in insurrectionarv dis