The Portland daily press., 1863-06-26
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

light; A Maine Man in Louisiana; Storage OF
Petroleum; an Exodus of Contrabands.
Sg-On the fourth page--An Epitaph, by T.
w. Parsons; "A Liar well "Stuck to )" A Gentle
manly Housebreaker; &c.
sB-Quiet having been restored in Mont
gomery county, Ohio, Gen. Burnside has re-
lieved the county ofmartial law.
rThe celebrated gun "Whistling Dick
has been silenced by Porter's fleet, together
with five of his big brothers.
ggeFrom notice in the Argus we Judge
there is to be no 4th of July in Augusta this
year.
SB- levee and festival is to be held in
Gardiner, in large tent upon the Common,
July sth and 9th, to raise money for the SAM
tary Commission.
sy- Company d, State Guards, First Divi-
The company is one of the best in the State
numbering 102 members.
"A hail storm passed over the south part
of Robbinston, June 18th. The glass was
Oil oiOhCu III tuC HOusc vi IlOctd
Dorr.
Syr The Bangor Wing says Gen. B. F.
Butler and Gen. John C. Fremont are ex-
pected to be in that city at the meeting OF the
State Convention. 8@
aB-The funeral of Col. Douty will take
place at Dover, on.Saturday afternoon lat 2
O'Clock. 1t will be attended by the Masonic
fraternity.
sH-A Mr.. Hodsdon of Saccarappa slipped
in stepping from his carriage at Bridgton
few days since, and broke his arm. So says
the Reporter.
give regret the delay that has attended
several valuable communications. Our col
umns are limited and the pressure upon them
his heavy, but we will do all that is reasonable
to accommodate correspondents.
sE-The N. Y. Post says that a rebel spy
and dispatch bearer was recently detected
while making speech at Union mass meet
ing in Ohio, by New Yorker who failed to
expose him.
ng-Pierre Soule, it is said, is again within
the lines of the Southern Confederacy. He
reached Nassau about a week ago, and left on
the steamer Cuba for Charleston, which is re-
ported to have arrived in safety.
% Thh report of the death of Gen.
Nckerson at Port Hudson is contradicted.
He commanded Division, behaved with
great galantry, and Fortunately escaped with
out personal injury.
sy-Officer Mckinney, who was shot by
the desperate in Troy, has been carried home
to Belfast, and is in fair way of recovery
Knowles, one of the desperadoes, who was re-
ported to have shot himself, it is thought may
recover from his wound. ei
sv-It win be seen by notice in this paper that
delegates to the State Convention may leave
this city-Kennebec depot-at 3o'clock A. NJ.
and arriv at Bangor at $50 A. M. on the day
of the Convention, and returning, leave Ban
gor at p. NJ, arriving back in this city about
11.30 p. M. One fare for the round trip.
10 There is probably no Railroad in the
State doing better business than the Ken. 6
Port 1t runs large and well-flled trains. 1t
passes through populous region OF the State.
Mr.. Cushman, the Superintendent, is indefa-
tigable in his efforts to make the road all that
the travelling public can'desire.
sD-The Bath Times aays thatHon. Freeman
H. Morse, Consul to London, has authorised his
brother Edwin A. Morse of Bath, to draw on
him for such amount as he may deem proper
FOL a tod h;s al
ion for the relief Of soldiers, families in that
city who may be in needy circumstances.
sH-The track of the Maine Central Rail-
road, from Damyille Junction to Bangor, Is in
admirable condition. Mr.. Noyes, the efficient
Superintendent, assured us a few days since
when at Waterville, that there are not one
hundred defective rails upon the whole route,
and these would be replaced in one week of
good weather.
sg-In the notice ofthe farewell concert Of
Poppenburg's Band, by inadyertence, no men,
ton was made of the vocal part Of the enter
tainment Miss Poppenburg-a mere child in
years-performed her part admirably, and was
complimented by double encore and bou-
quet Her voice is yet weak, but she handles
it admirably, and age will yet add to its
strength and flexibiity.
sy- DIR. B. F. Buxton of Warren, formerly
surgeon of one of the Maine Regiments, may
be very loyal man, but he has consented to
place himselfin very questionable comp any If
an item in the Advertiser is TO be credited.
According to that he is to make one of a trim
ity of orators to address the copperheads of
Union on the the approaching 4th; Marcellus
Emery of the Bangor Democrat, and Virgil
Paris, to be the other two. No two men in
the State, probably, better represent the trea-
son that islurking in our midst than Emery and
Paris. Emery is said to be honest but infat-
uated. We never heard that Paris was en-
barrassed in his deyiltry by the quality Of
honesty. -
SEE woman in another column pic king Sambuc
Grapes for Speer's Wine Ii is an admirable article