The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-08-16
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTED.

IMPORTANT. = By special dispatch from
Augusta last evening" we are informed that, by
order of the President, no officer now in the
| field will be allowed to accept a command in a
new regiment.
gB-It is no part Of our duty as a journalist,
to make nominations for the people to support,
and therefore we ask to be excused from all
interference with such matters until the legiti-
mate delegates of the people, selected in the
primary meetings, have taken council togeth-
er and made known the result of their COM
bined judgment; THEN it will be time for the
Press to speak, and it will do so cordially and
heartily, in behalf of all such as receive nomi-
nations according TO established usage.
sB- Mr.. J. S. Hay, of the st. Croix Herald
whose paper was recently destroyed by Sc
cession mob, announces that he will reissue
the first week in September.
sg-It will be seen by our Wateryille letter
on the first page, that Waterville College has
conferred the honorary degree of LII. ID. upon
Gen. Benjamin f. Butler. Gen. B. is a gradu-
ate of Waterville.
GA foolish attempt was made to turn the
excursion Of the Mechanics Association into a
niger meeting, as will be seen by our report
Of yesterday, but Emery squelched it, Ar
gus.
Perhaps Mr.. Emery did "squelch" somebody
or something, but "we don't see it." He spoke
after all the others had done, and then only
when called for by one Of the gentlemen whom
he is represented as "squelching." If he did
squelch anything we don't know how it was
done, unless it was by furnishing facilities for
the business" of the Argus reporter to mis-
represent other speakers, while the reporters
of other papers were obliged to write upon
their knees, seated upon the ground, or crowd
themselves upon the stand without invitation
Probably hereafter gentlemen will be very
ready to respond to calls for speeches, know
ing that facilities" for abusing them are grant
ed exclusively to the quiIl-drivers ofthe Argus.
sVThe people of Augusta have concluded
to "dry-up." The authorities have discontinue
ed the liquor agency. Probably owing to the
scarcity of good water.
ErIsaac Mason Grover, a native of Sid
ney, in this State, but for twenty years resi-
dent of Quincy, ILL.,, was drowned at the latter
place recently, while bathing.
@vMr. WIN. Morgridge, of Manchester, in
this State, aged 70 years, had his right foot SO
badly lacerated by the knives of a moving ma
chine, a few days since, that amputation was
necessary.
sE-Several of the mills in Lewiston are
about to commence running on Government
contracts.
rg-The Banks of Bath have furnished the
State, towards the payment of advance boun-
ties to volunteers, the sum of 100000.
Several original communications will
be found on the first page; on the last page
column of miscellany.
sv-We received a pleasant call yesterday
from Col Staples of the Sd Maine Regiment,
who has been at home recruiting his health for
two or three weeks, but who returns to his
post of duty next Monday. Col. S. is gen.
tlemanly, brave and popular officer.
sB A man in Portland recently wrote to
the authorities at Augusta, stating that he saw
that persons convicted of an infamous crime,
were exempted from draft, and nasmuch as he
had been in the State Prison for two years, he
claimed the benefit of that provision.
gB- The Memorial Stone," which is to be
placed in the walls of Fort Popham, by the
Maine Historical Society comes from the quarry
of j. Moore & Co., Biddeford.
sY- Several stores in Lincoln Village, have
been broken into oflate,and considerable prop
erty stolen. The thief has been arrested. He
gives his name as Ross, of Ellsworth.
sEr The Oxford Democrat says, white
squirrel was recently caught in Rumford
"LoYALTY"-Some of the members of the
Hunker Convention, last Wednesday, had
good deal to say about loyalty, but we noticed
it was loyalty to the Democratic party, they
prated about, and not fidelity to the Govern
ment.
NrWe would remind our witty contempo-
rary, of the Augusta Age, that sprinklng of
truth is never fatal to good joke. He seems
to have forgotten this of late, in his illusions
to the Press.
GoDEY's LADY's Book, for September, is
received, and as usual presents an attractive ia
BILE of contents. The large double fashion
plate, peculiar to the Lady's Book, contain
five figures, and will of course be interesting
to the ladies.
ry-The house Of Judge Ruggles, in Thorn
aston, was struck by lightning in the tempest
last Saturday evening; also Mrs. Growers
house at the North End, in this city. Damage
in both cases trifing.-l Rockland Free Press.
SINGULAR OMIssIoN.-The recent Demo-
cratic Convention failed to pass resolution
| clarifying Gen. Mcclellan, and vilifying Sec
rotary Stanton for not backing him with more
troops. How is this to be explained? Do
they fail to see in Little Mac the power to
! lift them into distinction which lately they
were so ready to ascribe to him? and are they
| the men to cut loose from his kite the moment
| it stops in its upward ascent? Is Mcclellan
! less worthy than he was month ago? or have
the sachems got their eye upon some other
| rising man? We regard it as good omen for
the Potomac General that a Convention of
mere SOLDIERS of fortune" have-even though
by accident-let him alone. He has been in
jured more by such unworthy friends than by
his open enemies.
CoLoRED SoLDIERs.-The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Post asserts that
the President declined to receive negro troops
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