The Portland daily press., 1863-05-26
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


the National Academy; Miss Dickinson.
ag-On the fourth page-Miscellany
I-Government has granted the citizens of
Bath permission to use a room in the Custom
House for an Exchange"
sBr They have four granite quarries in
Biddeford, which employ nearly 100 men. The
stone is principally prepared for government,
and is said to be of excellent quality.
sB-The Journal says that John Reed, ESQ.,,
of Lewiston, has been appointed clerk of the
Enrolling Board and Assistant Provost Mar
shal for the I'd District.
Lieut. Alfred r. Robinson, of Co. b.
9th Maine Regiment, who has been at home
at Bath on a brief furlough, left in the cars
yesterday morning to join his regiment at
Hilton Head Lieut.. X. is now senior officer
in his Co., the Capt. having resigned.
1g-Anarmy field officer, visiting Saco, writes
rs that there are two young copperheads in
that town trying to get appointments under
the Provost Marshal, and suggests that if they
are allowed to fix up the rolls,for draft it will
be perfect farce. We give the appointing
officer the benefit of his suggestion.
-An "undgnified" man was found near
the railroad crossing in Waterville day or
two since. Some persons would probably call
him 4 drunken man. Watervlle has the
meanest rumsellers of any place in the world
of its size. They are worse than the plague,
and are more to be feared than the Asatic
cholera. 1t is said that the town employs
m N IN WALL round baf fasf mic
up men who are murdered and thrown out of
the groggeries.-l Bangor Wing.
sgeThe Bath Times pokes sharp stick at
the people of the natural seaport" because
they succeed so badly in launching gunboats
both of those recently launched in this city
having stuck at the first trial. Well, we have
this consolation if the people of Bath beat us
in "greasing the ways" on which vessels move,
they seldom equal us in oing the ways on
which other kinds of business glide along
successfully.
sH-Not word in praise of Gen. Berry's
services, but half column laudatory OF Stone
wall jackson can be found in the Bath Court
er. Gen. Berry gave his life to maintain our
free Republican Institutions, and died a patri-
ot-Jackson gave his life to trample under
foot the Stars, Stripes and Freedom, and estab-
fish the stars, bars and slavery. The Gov
eminent gives such papers protection and al
lows them the facilities of the mails. Can the
mildness of the Government be better known
than by these facts.- Bangor Wing.
rY- The account Of the organization OF the
National Academy OF Sciences, printed on our
first page this morning, etfectually stops the
mouths of the premature gentlemen of the
press, who have been so anxiously inquiring
for the poets, artists and men of letters among
the American Fifty. 1t appears that the Acad
envy Of Sciences will vigorously conform to its
designation, and consist of but two classes
the class of natural history and the class of
natural philosophy.
srThe Belfast Journal-Copperhead
says, "True Union men will go with that party
which has ever been Union party, the Dem
ocratic." Was ever presumption and impu-
dence more unblushng? The Democratic par
ty always Union party Every State in the
Union that gave its vote for the Democratic
nominations in 1860, with the exception of
Missouri, Maryland and Delaware, are now in
armed rebellion against the Union, fighting
under rebel flag, and since then the three
excepted States named have repudiated the
Democratic party for the sake Of the Union.
ga newspaper correspondent in the ar
my of Gen. Rosecrans says: 81 know of moth
ing which for long time has cheered the
hearts Of the Western soldiers so much as the
arrest and sentence of Vallandigham.. There
are upwards Of fifty Ohio regiments in the
army, and the severest trial they have been
obliged to undergo was the treason of Vallan-
digham in their own state. Had ne been tax
en- here do not think he would have escaped
with so light a punishment, and when the news
came OF his sentence, long and loud shout
was given by the brave Ohio and Illinois troops.
Burnside's order has as good an effect with
this army as a reinforcement of a thousand
men,"