The Portland daily press., 1862-07-15
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

QUARTERMAsTERs' SToREs.-The steamer
Chesapeake, at this port, from New York, bro't
SS7 packages of quartermasters stores, con-
signed to the Quartermaster General at Angus
ia.
aB-The wife of Gen. Beauregard died at
New Orleans few days ago.
ny-Gov. Sprague, of r. l., has been on a
brief visit to Corinth, Miss.
ng-A great war meeting is to be held in
Union Square, New York, to-day. The call is
signed by a large number of the solid men of
that city, irrespective of politics.
s1-Several men were killed few days
since by an explosion in lAlger's Foundry,
South Boston. They were making fuses, and
the powder ignited. The building was badly
damaged.
lBAn exchange don't think it looks well
to see weakly, delicate lady, bending over the
wash tub until her knuckles are as skinless as
a beef steak, while her robust and beef-eating
husband bends over yard stick, measuring off
tape and piping cord!
rD-Those politicians who think they can
successfully trot out presidential candidates
two years in advance, remind us of the Dutch
man who wanted to leap five rail fence. He
thought the height he could jump would de-
pend upon the distance run, and so he went
back from the fence, and ran five miles!
sE-It was an oversight, Brother Mutt, or
you would have been booked for the daily in
the start. All right, now.
fire, on the I'd inst.
nVRev. Augustus Woodbury., in his Fourth
of July Grafton at Providence, remarked that,
IF the South is willing to sacrifice the Union
for the sake of slavery, who can complain if
the loyal people are willing to sacrifice slavery
for the sake of the Union?"
SBA war meeting is to be held in Bangor,
on Thursday evening. The call is very large
ly signed. Vice-President Halnlin will be one
of the speakers.
~ General Butler has brought the New
Orleans churches back to first principles. He
will allow the ''largest liberty. in preaching
the Gospel of Christ, but he will not permit the
preaching of disunion and treason, nor any as
saults on the Government.
sH- We want the Boston Post in exchange
for the Press. We do not want it because we
expect to endorse or approve all it may con-
tain, and We will give a bond, if required, that
IL shall not approve all we may say; but we
want one Democratic paper from the Old Bay
State; we want its able business articles, we
want its genial squibs, we want its column OF
Incompatible paragraphs, and if it isnot soon
forth coming we shall cease to cherish it as
Greene spot in our memory. The Col, as a
military man, is expected to obey orders, and
send it along.
- Messrs. A. and W. Sprague, of Provi-
dence-the latter the Governor of the State
employ in their cotton factories and Print
Works an immense number of men; and they
have proposed to all who will enlist to contin-
lie half-pay 10 their families, and give them
their situations on their return.
SHAn Irishman in Manchester, n. H..
buried about $1,000 in gold i'm his cellar some
months ago. A few days since he thought he
would dig it up, and sell it for premium, but
it could not be found. &omebodyhad pros
pected and appropriated before him.
sg-The Springfield Republican says, the
elegant steamer being built by Oliver Moses
Esq, Of Bath, is to run between Boston and
Le,riston. If she is to run the Brunswick
Falls we would suggest that she be called the
"Flying Fish"
sY-The Boston Post says: Manufacture
ing shares command high prices, the large stock
of goods held by many of the cotton compa-
MES enabling them 10 pay good dividends for
the present six months, and for some time to
come
~ William A. Goodwin, Esq, Light House
Engineer of the LIST and I'd Light House Dis
tricts, has been ordered, by the Light House
Board, to New Orleans to take charge of re-
fitting and reiighting the lights in the Missis-
sippi and its approaches, and to act as tenn
porary superintendent of lights in that district.
He sails from New York tomorrow, in the U.
S. Mail Steamer Creole for New Orleans
20 Samuel Hamblcn OF waterville, has
been appointed I'd Lieutenant of Co. G, Sd
Maine regiment, vice George A. McIntire, pro-
NOTED to LIST Lieutenant of same company.
20 One would think to read the account
of the great meeting of Saturday evening, as
reported in one of the morning dalies yester-
day, that Col Sweat made the speech of the
evening. The report of it is spun out longer
than that of any other speaker, not excepting
Gen. Towards. We grant it was the speech
the unfortunate specch-and we say this in
the exercise of only kind spirit towards its
author, whom we respect as man, much as
we may differ with him on questions of policy
or of right.
sD- The editor Of the Advertiser had occa-
sion to write the phrase-"The Democratic
Party and the War;" and his printer made him
say Bar instead of War. We are glad Bro.
Case has made the correction, for we didn't
know but he intended to charge our Demo-
cratic friends with more practice at the bar
than COMFORTS with tetotaler's notions of So
briefly.
.H- The Bath Times learns that Mr.. Lar
rabee of that city, is succeeding well in recruit
ing for Col. Sewals regiment.
sE-Hon. +. o. J. Smith offers through the
columns of the Advertiser, to be zone of six
persons, If such number will promptly concur,
to deposit with Governor Washburn, within 5
DAYS S61J. 600 to be used by him in an amor