The Portland daily press., 1862-06-24
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

| ACKNOwLEDGEMENT.-O thanks are due
to Bro. Case of the Advertiser, for so kindly
informing his readers, in his Mondays issue,
that "the members of the Republican State,
County, and City Committees" cordially ap-
prove" our new enterprise, and commend the
new paper to the hearty support of the people
of Maine" The members of the Committees
referred to, we dare say, will join their thanks
with ours for this fraternal act of the Adver-
tiser towards new, and, as men Of jealous
spirit might imagine, rival enterprise in this
city.
| sH-Two columns of editorial and selected
paragraphs on the first page.
sy-Still crowded. so that the racy commu-
nication, "The Constitution as it is: The Union
as it was" is necessarily laid over for another
day.
LEA very large edition of the first num-
Der of the PRESS was exhausted before noon
yesterday.
lEThe original poetry published yesterday
morning upon the last page, in consequence of
uncorrected typographical errors, is re-pub-
lished to-day in corrected form.
svRead the first and last pages for inter-
esting miscellany. By one of those mistakes
which will sometimes occur, even in a well
regulated family, an editorial, headed "a Dis
tinction Without Difference" is mixed with
outside matter, which should have appeared
in the editorial columns.
nJ Mumford, who was recently hung at
New Orleans for cutting down the U. S. flag,
was gambler by profession.
gr Gen. Mcdowell was recently severely
injured by being thrown from his horse.
ly- Gen. Mcclellan has issued humane
order forbidding all fast driving Of horses and
mules, except in cases of necessity.
NEW APoTHEcARY YEsTABLIsHMENr.-Ou
friend, Messrs. Crossman & Poor, have just
opened new Apothecary Store, at No. Is
Middle St, in Fox Block. They have arranged
it in exquisite taste, and will be pleased to re-
ceive call for their friends and the "rest of
mankind" generally. See advertisement
lg We are indebted to the Purser of the
steamship North American for files of English
and Irish papers, for which he has our thanks.
A MAINE MAN MIssING.-We learn from
the Boston journal of the 21st inst, that Capt.
Thomas S. Kimball of Eastport, is missing,
under circumstances which excite the fears of
his friends for his safety. He had shipped as
mate of the schooner Triumph, of Gloucester,
for foreign voyage, and, on Thursday MORN
ing last went on shore at T. wharf, saying that
he would return i'm few minutes. He is re-
ported to be highly respectable man. and no
reason can be assigned for his unaccountable
disappearance. His effects are at the office of
William Cook g. Co., IA Commercial Street,
Boston.
NE- We are not insensible to kindness nor
impervious to the effects of kind word We
appreciate a recent notice of an editor in this
city, who, in referring to the Press, and the
merging of the Aroostook Herald and Bath
Times in it, said:
The editor of the Times, we are informed,
Is to be the editor of the consolidated Journal:
so that its character will be, we suppose, about
what that of the Times was: and that was, as
our readers are well aware, unfriendly to the
Advertiser.
Not untriendy; that word savors ofunkind-
composition. 1t was our labor, in the col
umns of the Bath Times, during the somewhat
heated campaign of 1860, to fight for the man
whose ashes now repose near the peaceful shore
of Lake Michigan, and this brought us in dis
agreeable conflict with the Breckenridge lead
ers and organs, whom we considered and nou
consider, the authors of all our mischief 1t
was natural, then, when we found a newly i'm
ported editor in Maine, saying that he voted
for Breckenridge, "becduse the platform on
,chich he had been placed rds less oljectiona-
bic than any other Candidates." that we
should pitch in" We couldn't help it. though
we protest there was no unkindness in the act
ry- Our friends from the different sections
Of the State. are cordially invited to call and
see us at our new and spacious rooms in Fox
Block, when they visit our city. We shall al
ways be glad to see them. or course we ex-
pect our city friends to drop in upon us as
often as convenient, without special invita-
ton
sy- Notices of deaths and marriages will be
inserted in our columns without charge; SO al
SO will brief religious notices.
sg- Our country contemporaries are luxu-
rating on strawberries and cream. For the
next few weeks they would think it degrading
to notice a resident of the Garden of Eden
sB- The merging Of the Aroostook Herald
and Bath Eastern Times in the Portland Press.
will explain to few distant advertisers why
their favors appear in the columns of this pa
per. Not only the same readers who have been
accustomed to see them in those papers win be
reached, but a very large class ofnew subscrib-
ers.
gg- Hon. j. w. Hathaway, recently de-
ceased at Bangor, was appointed to the Su-
preme Bench of Maine by Gov. Hubbard. He
was GA years of age at the time of his death.
sr We notice that Mr.. Cushman, the pop
ular and efficient Superintendent Of the Ken
nebec and Portland r. r., has commenced the
work of changing the location Of that road
just below Steamboat wharf in Hallowell, so
that solid embankment viii take the place of
the high bridge at that place, which has long
been a source of dread to timd travellers.
Gy- Summer tourists and others who de-
light in beautiful natural scenery will do well
to make trip to Grand Falls, via the river St.