The Portland daily press., 1862-07-29
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

original. The Reporter suggests that better
article for soldiers feet can be obtained at this
mill than at any other in the country. The
stockings manufactured are better than the
best hand-knitted ones.
cE-The Price Current suggests an impor-
tant reform in the system of selling hard coal,
in this city, and thinks weighers of coal ought
to be appointed, by whom all coal sold should
be weighed. This suggestion is good one.
LEA young lady advises us to ''rush to
arms" ourselves, if we are very shot for war;"
We might, perhaps, be induced to do SO pro-
vided she was pretty.
DB-A correspondent of the Ellsworth AM
erican, writing from Sedgwick, says man be-
longing in Brewer visits that section frequent
ly, and annoys the Union loving citizens by
declaring his REASONABLE sentiments Givehis
name, and suggest to the miserable traitor
that Uncle Sam has boarding house called
For Warren for just such fellows.
sB-We have before expressed desire to
have correspondent in every town in the
State, not only as an advantage to us, but to
the towns themselves. Our Skowhegan cor
respondent gave in one letter description of
that fourshing town, and condensed ac-
count of its business. That letter has been
copied by other papers, and gives Skowhegan
prominence it could not have obtained 9TH
erwise. Let other towns do likewise.
LEA firm in South America has obtained
permission from the Peruvian and Bolivian
governments for the expectation of fifteen
hundred pure alpacas. Negotiations have
been concluded for the introduction into Aus
tralia of the whole herd, and clipper ship is
on its way to Lima, pledged to land the first
five hundred by next October.
PRISONERS AT RIcHMoND.-A letter re-
ceived by his father from Mr.. Edwin r. Ram
sey of Co. A. Sd Me. regiment, states that he
is prisoner in Richmond that he was taken
with another member ofhis regiment, and that
| they are confined in a tobacco warehouse
with, he should think, some twelve hundred
other soldiers. He writes that there are in
the same building Messrs. Colby and Cook of
| Co. A, Sd Me-; Low and Hathaway of Co. G..
| Sd NJ; Butler. Raymond, Burgess and Friend
| of Co. X, Sd Me. There are also others from
Maine companies, whose names he had not
learned Bath Times.
THE BEST RECRUITING OFFIcERs.-The
Hartford Post pertinently remarks that the
very best recruiting officers in the country are
the ladies. With their assistance, the new le-
Wy of troops could be enlisted in two weeks
They could exert an influence upon the young
men which the young men would never dare
resist. Ladies :! this is the day for such unusual
duty at your hands. We need not urge the
arguments in the case, for they urge them
selves.
LLIEs.-One of the sweetest flowers in
Gods flower garden is the white pond lily-a
large bunch of which we found in our sanctum
yesterday, with the compliments of our gener-
Gus neighbors, Messrs. Crosman & Poor. They
look little out of place amid the dusty streets
of the city, but they bring with them memories
of our boyhood, when we used to gather them
by the armful in the little lakes nesting among
the hills of old Oxford. Wasn't it sport, with
trousers rolled up, to wade in the clear water
and gather the freshly opened buds,-fit en-
blems of purity and heaven.
q The series of great public meetings on
Boston Common last week, were completely
successful in all desired respects. Immense
crowds have gathered to listen to the speeches,
recruiting has been stimulated, and the public
aroused to the necessity of greater exertion.
% 1t is rumored in certain quarters that
Hon. Henry j. Raymond is about to retire
from the editorial chair of the New York Daily
Times.
g Gen. Mcclellan has ordered that the
names OF all non-commissioned officers who
distinguished themselves during the battle
week at Richmond, be Immediately forwarded
to headquarters for promotion. About two
thousand have already been handed in. That's
the way to do it.
sg-When you pick berries, gentle reader,
do you eat all the nice, fat, plump, ripe ones,
excepting always the small dish you pick Tor
the invalids at home. Never neglect this du-
! ty, and none the less pleasure because du-
/ ty.l The smaller, harder, not quite ripe fruit
will do very well for the lazy ones who decline
to form one of a berryng party. A steady
practice of this kind will soon bring matters
to rights Brunswick Telegraph.
Reckon Bro. Tenney staid at home one day
and was vexed because he didn't get the best
when the party returned. Eli?
| GUERRILLA bands are the terror of Louisi-
ana. They do not hesitate to shoot down any
man, even a secessonst, who accepts pass
| from the authorities at New Orleans. The
other day three merchants Of secession procliv-
tiles were taken prisoners by guerrilla band,
because they bought their goods in New Or
leans. The goods were confscated, and the
merchants were shot in cold blood.
-B-One of our correspondents, writing
from New Orleans, speaks in the highest terms
of Rev. J. l. Brown, Chaplain of the 18th reg
iment. He says he is one of the best men in
the regiment.
ALL He Is WoRTH.-Gen. Pope has offered
a reward of five cents for the arrest of Capt.
Samuel l.. Harrison, of the 95th New York
volunteers who deserted on the 2lst inst He
has probably offered all he is worth
! sY-The town of Buckfeld, containing 400
voters, has sent ilfty-five men to the war.
| GENEROUS AND PATRIoTIc.-The "Ameri-
can Mills Co.." Rockville, Conn, offer to con-
tinue the whole pay of all men in their employ
who volunteer, and to give them their places
when they return Providence Journal.
THE LATEST ExPEDIENT.--A grocer in
! Springfield, Mass, does up suger in ten cent
| packages, and uses it for change.
An insane mother in the upper part of Can