The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-01
ORIGINA AND SELECTED

-8 ihse P"Sc-Dfiiiiatnt EApiolJ vi DoWn-
east boys; The Conscription-Not money but
men; The FERRIS Gun at West Point.
sg-Last page-John Billings takes risk
Humorous miscellany.
sB- 1t is said the veteran volunteers who
may enlist, will be passed to the credit of the
town or city where they reside.
sg- Abner Davis, Esq, has been appointed
Postmaster at Bethel Hill, vice d. A. Twitch-
ell, deceased.
SE- Col. Emery, of the 9th Maine, who
was severely wounded at Morris Island, was
formerly teacher at Bloomfield Academy.
e- Capt VIM. Macarthur, of the Sth Me-,
has been appointed Provost Marshal of Port
Royal, S. C.
% Capt Herman Flagg, of the schooner
Constitution, of Harrington, was drowned in
Boston harbor on Wednesday last. His body
has been recovered.
sg- The Third Congregational Society of
Bddeford are about to erect new and ele-
CANT church edifce, the tower of which is to
be $50 feet high.
sB- The new steamer N. p. Banks" built
by Messrs. Mckay & Aljus, East Boston, has
been sold to parties in that city and New
York, and will be sent to New Orleans.
sB- A son of Joseph viles, of Industry,
about eleven years of age, was fatally injured
on the 10Th inst, by being caught in the ma
chinery OF a grist mill.
s- The Skowhegan Clarion says the grass
crop in that vicinity was never better than it
is the present year, and the weather for get
ting it seldom worse.
% A son of Mr. Samuel Hartwell of st.
Adams, about fourteen years of age, was
scalded to death on the 2}d inst, by falling in
to boiling tan liquor, as we learn by the Clar-
ion.
~ The Copperheads recently claimed
triumph in Washington Territory. 1t turns
out that the man elected to Congress is 10y
al war Democrat, and has no aympathy Gor or
utilization with the peace-on-any-terms men.
sr Eighteen hundred bottles of whiskey
were discovered among the hay on board the
schooner b. +. Butler at Fortress Monroe
from Boston, few days since, and confscat-
ed.
u A Union County Convention will be
holden at Houton on Wednesday, the 10Th of
August, composed of all who Internationally
support the National Government in all its
measures for the suppression of the rebellion.
There is apparently too much truth in
the statement of Judge from Ohio, to the
President, that the army of the West was
fighting for the country, while the army Of the
Potomac was fighting for the next Presiden-
cy."
sg- 1t is well for people to repose large
trust in the righteousness of their cause and in
the blessing of Providence. But then Prov
idence usually helps those only who help
themselves, while the sluggard is left to starve
on the meager fruits Of idleness.
sg- We understand that the wife of Col
Cyrus Hamlin, of Ullman's Brigade of col
La. a short time since, where she was stop
ping with her husband. Col. II. is on the way
home with her remains.
Y-Mr. VIM. Warren, of the Boston Muse
um-who has not seen, heard, and been con-
vulsed by Warren-has been playing at Chica-
CO. and is soon to appear in Worcester. The
manager who will secure Warren for a week
in Portland may make good thing out of it,
sg- Rev. W. P. Merrill, of Portland, who
was arrested in St. John, n. b., for attempting
TO secure substitutes for drafted persons in the
Statas, was bound over on his personal secu-
rity, for $500, and two st. Johns gentlemen
for $500 each. When the case came up for
trial Mr.. Merrill forgot to appear. Perhaps he
hasn't appeared yet-IBangor Wing.
20 whole lot of notorious rebel-sympa-
thizers have been indicted by the Grand Jury
of the U. S. Court in Iowa, and promptly ar
rested, and are to be tried for treason. They
viii find there is such a thing as depriving a
traitor of his liberty ''by due process of law"
The same remedy for disloyalty should be APP
piled to several individuals in this State.
ga morning paper speaks deprecatingly
OF turning the poor blacks of the South loose
upon the world, and depriving them of that
protection they have heretofore hadl" What
blessed and benign institution is that thing
called negro slavery, to protect the poor blacks
and preserve and defend them against all the
sad evils of liberty!
sB- The only plank to which modern DEM
octats cling is the ebony plank. Their plat
form begins, continues and ends ia negro
slavery. To save that is the end of their am
bition. Their only fear seems to be that the
Union will be saved without slavery. Slav-
cry lost, all their hopes are dashed to the
ground. A Uuion without slave would be
be to them an edifce without cornerstone.
They can see the image of God in colored
man only through his bonds.
give are informed that the different Pro-
vost Marshals in the state feel confident all re-
istence TO the draft has ceased, and that
large yield of Union soldiers is to be the re-
suit Of the drawing. As was to be expected,
those most likely to be excused for physical
disability ar other cause, were first to present
themselves to the examiners. Those who are
able-bodied and have no excuses TO offer, will
naturally hold back from examination as long
as they can conveniently and honorably, so
the per centage Of accepted conscripts is
increasing with each days examinations.
~ The editor of the Arson Advocate is
endeavoring to arouse the sympathy of his
friends by getting up the story that large
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