The Portland daily press., 1862-06-25
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

| g8 OTSlflal communications Will be found
upon the first page. The letters from the back
woods of Maine, which will be continued at
longer or shorter intervals during the season,
win be found exceedingly interesting and per-
fectly reliable.
ngr The examination of James Lyon, alias
Smith, Sailing Master ofthe pirate vessel Sum-
ter, came off in Boston before U. s. Com
missioner, ON Monday last. The prisoner was
| ably defended by b. F. Russell, Esq. After
the testimony was in, Commissioner Merwin
briefly reviewed it, and felt constrained to hold
the prisoner for trial. The offense being cap
ital one, the defendant was fully committed to
await the action of the Grand Jury, the wit
nesses being bound over in $1,000 each.
ng- On the afternoon of Monday last, the
dwelling house, furniture, &c, of Mr.. George
w. French, in West Gardiner, were entirely
destroyed by fire. Partially insured
nyc The Pennington Chronicle says Mr..
William Adams, one of the oldest, most exem-
plary and worthy citizens of that place. was
found drowned, on Thursday afternoon last, in
the well which supplies the aqueduct leading
to his buildings. He appears to have fallen in
while seeking some obstruction in the water.
nV The Androscoggin Agricultural and
Horticultural Society hold their next Annual
Cattle Show and Fair in Auburn, Sept 3Oth
and Oct. 1st and I'd.
MILITARY. The Augusta journal of the
23d says John Hemingway of Sanford, Cap
tain of Company 4, has to-day been commits
stoned Lieutenant Colonel of the Eighth Regi-
ment- Charles w. Tilden of Castine, Captain
Of Company b, Second Regiment, has accepted
the appointment and has to-day been commits
stoned as Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixteenth
Regiment. Col Isaac N. Tucker of Gardiner,
has been appointed Quartermaster of the same
regiment.
sc The Calais Advertiser says that a lad
by the name of Haskell Gippard, aged about
Is, in attempting to get on the cars while in
motion, near the station at Milltown, on the
10th, missed his step, fell under the wheels and
had his right arm so severely smashed that it
had to be amputated close up to the shoulder.
sr General Fremont was in the thickest
of his recent fight with jackson, and fought
ANCIENT WoRK.--We had the pleasure, a
day or two since, to look over a work entitled,
"a Practical Catechisme," by Thomas Cotes,
printed at London, A. D., 1886. "Many the
changes &c.
MAJOR CILLEY.-Col. Allen, of the Maine
Cavalry, under date of June 9th, writes that
he has just returned from Middleton, where he
had been to visit Major Cilley. He found the
Major very comfortable. His right arm was
severed near the shoulder by shell exploding
and striking him while in his saddle, in the
village of NJ. He has the best of care, and
Surgeon Haley says he will be able to start for
home in about two weeks. The wounded
privates were doing well, and were well cared
for
lV 1t is a singular fact that in Augusta,
where the Age is published, and where the
Chairman of the Committee who signed the
Peoples Convention call, resides, no delegates
to that Convention have been chosen. The
Journal says only eight persons responded to
the caucus call. Is that the way you pursue
the ghost of democracy, Bro. Pike?
Gov. Washburn has received letter from
Col. Daniel Elliot, now on amission TO the sew
eral camps of the Maine Regiments, in which
he gives an interesting account of the condi-
ton of the troops, the sick and wounded. &c
rvThe construction of horse railroad has
been commenced at Washington.
lyThe Chamber Of Commerce of st. Louis
is urging upon Congress the importance of es-
tablishing Branch Mint in that city.
sE-Bro. Tenney of the Brunswick Tele-
graph, learns that a deer was recently seen in
the outskirts of that town. Tenney is accus-
toned to look for dedrs in other kinds of skirts,
but as yet he has been unable to catch one.
sB-The Lawrence journal says a new Uni
versalist paper is soon to be commenced in
Boston, and that an association, embracing
some of the most influential clergymen of
the State, has been organized for that purpose.
cH-The Catholics of Charestown, Mass,
have just consecrated a church, costing S45,-
600, which will seat 1850 persons.
- The Augusta Journal says the tall editor
Of the Hallowell Gazette states a case of logic
in such form as to lead inevitably to the con-
clusion that the highest happiness known to
him is experienced in the act of sucking sweet
cider through straw. There is no account
ing for taste.
- The American Print Works at Fall River,
are to resume operations in few days.
= An Irishman named Patrick Murphy was
caught In the belt of a revolving shaft, at the
Atlantic Works, East Boston, on Monday last,
which was making thirty revolutions per min
ute, breaking his arm and otherwise injuring
him.
- The Lewiston Journal is gratified to no.
tice that the Franklin Company in that town
are constructing new dam, to be built of
stone. a short distance below the old one. 1t
is expected that the dam will be one of the
finest structures of the kind in the country.
"A house occupied by Mr.. Foster of Win
terport was burned on Friday night last, and a
daughter of Mr. F., about seven years old, per-
ished in the flames.
We understand that +. T. Luce. ESQ.,,
member of the Jameson Democratic State
Committee, has resigned his position ON that
committee, in order that he may be left at lib
erty to act politically in such manner as his
sense of duty may dictate.-Lewiston Journal.
= In the Congregational Church in Phips-
burg, under the care of Rev. I. Norwood,
twenty-five were admitted to the church at the
last communion.