The Portland daily press., 1862-07-31
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ing on Boston Common, few days since, that
he died, enshrouded, by his own request by
the flag of his country. This sets aside the
report that he wavered in his support of the
Union, and gave his influence in favor of South
ern independence.
lD-A battalion of the 18th U. S. infantry,
consisting of about 200 men, left this city by
the Boston boat Tuesday evening. The Fort
! Preble Band escorted them to the place of EN-
barkation. OF their precise destination we are
uniformed, though they are evidently to be
put on active duty.
Ig-The omission to include among the re-
representatives. of the press of this city at the
Popham celebration meeting, the talented and
popular editor of the Mirror Rev. Mr.. Lord,
was entirely unintentional. The omission was
| properly filled in the weekly edition of our pa
| per.
T-We call attention to the sale of the An
droscoggin r. r. Bonds this day at IL o'clock,
A. NJ. Business is depressed. Now is the
time TO buy.
! GE-The article on our first page, in relation
| TO Contagious Pleuro Pneumonia" or the
| Seattle Disease" contributed to our columns
will be read with interest by all those interest
ed in stock raising or agricultural pursuits.
! COMMENCEMENT WEEK-BowDoIN COL
LEGE.-Next Monday the usual exercises of
| Commencement week commence at Bowdoin
| College by an Grafton and poem in the after
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in the evening. Tuesday is to be occupied by
the Psi Epsilon Fraternity and exercises be-
fore the Literary Society. Orations by Rev. J.
NJ Manning and Henry f. Durant, Esq, of
Boston, closing with a concert in the evening
by the Germania Band. Wednesday is Com
mencement day proper. Performance COM
mence at half past ten o'clock, A. NJ. The Phi
Beta Kappa Fraternity viii hold their annu-
al meeting Thursday. Grafton by Benjamin
F. Thomas, of Boston.
The TAX ACT is not to go into effect till
Oct. LIST, or at the pleasure of the Secretary of
the Treasury 1t is found to be impossible to
get the machinery of the Internal Revenue
Bureau in operation by the first of August,
when it was originally designed that the bill
should take effect.
eH- If the Boston Post had known the real
facts in the case, instead of depending upon
the groundess allegations of the Argus, it
would have withheld its paragraph about the
Mayor of this city and the recent liquor seiz-
ure. There is not a ,cord of truth in the sug-
| gestion that the Mayor was actuated by ieal-
ousy of the liquor dealers prosperity, nor is it
true that the Mayor had anything to do with
the seizure. The whole affair was independent
of his agency until riot was imminent: and
no officer could have done less Uid,out PROF
ing false TO his oath. If the Post had careful
ly read the article in the Argus, it would have
discovered spirit in il from which truth and
fairness are seldom evoked. 1t is well under
stood here as one of the mean attempts Of that
| paper to hold back enlistments, especially
among the Irish citizens, to save their votes
for the approaching election. Its expressions
of sympathy for that class of our fellow citi-
zens will not avail. They are generally loyal
beyond all 'ils' and conditions, and the co
! quoting of the Argus around them is quite as
heartless as its malignant attacks upon the
| Chief Magistrate Of the city.
.- Yesterday afternoon viii long be re-
membered for its fearful flashes of lightning
and its crashing thunder Never did we hear
much heavier peals. Those who have visited
the torrid zone, and seen the lightnings
there, and heard the terrible discharges of
celestial artillery, may have thought it impos
m hpia ii,
this latitude; but yesterday was a silencer of
all those who would bet on the tropics. The
bolt which struck in several places in this city,
was one of most fearful character. Aud then
the rain; didn't it pour as though all the win
dows of heaven were wide open!
Cor DUCKING.-The Boston Post says
that an Englishman name unknown, attempt
ed to make speech on the Common day be-
fore yesterday. So strong were his expressions
of sympathy with secession, that he was hooted
and Kissed by the excited crowd, and when he
had done speaking was taken in hand by them
and thrown bodily into the Frog pond.-ver-
dict, served him right.
s-Sch. Royal Oak, of fremont, lying at
Railroad Wharf, Bath was struck by lightning
Tuesday afternoon, shivering her mainmast to
atoms. So says the Times.
Academia boy about twelve years of
age, belonging TO Mr.. Almond Sanders of this
city, (now in the army,l was run over by the
cars of the Oldtown Railroad last evening, and
was so severely injured as to render it neces-
sary to remove the left arm by the excelsior of
the shoulder joint Bangor Wing, 30th.
LEA great war meeting was held in
Charlestown, Mass on Monday evening last
Speeches were made by Lieut.. Col. Quincy
and Others. Ten persons enlisted on the spot.
THE DRUM AND FIFE.-There is something
exciting in the good old-iashioned fife and
drum, and nothing viii raise the enthusiasm
of the boys like the music to which our patri-
otto fathers stepped, before the days of brass
bands. Would itnot have good effect if our
streets were paraded every day by companies
from the 18th, marching to the soul-stirring,
blood-quickening music of the fife and drum?
We simply make the suggestion.
IL In reference to the assertion of CO.
temporary that very large number of the sol
diers now at home who ought to be on duty
have procured their release by aid of Congress
men, Col ii. NJ. Plaisted of the l1th now at
home in this city, sick says the fault is with
the medical department. who have been Undue
ed To grant leave for sickness on account of
limited and imperfect hospital arrangements.
Soldiers much fatirued or slightly sick, are