The Portland daily press., 1872-03-14
Grand Army Of the Republic.

Gen. Daniel White of Bangor in assuming
| the office of Commander of the Department of
Maine, Grand Army of the Republic, to which
he was elected at the annual Encampment at
Biddeford, Jan. 31st, issues General Orders,
No 1, in which the following Staff appoint
ments are made E. E. Small, Bangor, Asss-
tant Adjutant General; j, A. Dole, Bangor,
Assistant Quartermaster General; VIM. H.
Pencil, Portland, Inspector; John F. Godfrey,
Bangor, Judge Advocate; Charles w. Tilden,
Castine, A. d. C. and Chief of Staff; P. F.
Woodfin of National Asylum; VIM. p. Jordan
of Portland, Nelson Howard of Lewiston, John
S. Wiggin of Bath, Chas. D. Clark of Bangor,
Augustus L. Smith of Augusta, and E. F. Lord
of Upper Saltwater, Aides de Camp; S. W,
Siphers, Post 6, Gardiner, Hermon Bartlett.
Post II, Bangor, and F. A. Stackpole, Post 10
Kenduskeag, are appointed Assistant Inspec-
tors.
The following extracts from General Orders
No 1, are of interest to the public:
X.-All Posts in this Department are warned
against engaging in Lotteries or other enter
prises in violation of the laws of the State, As
sistant inspectors will be charged with the duty
OF reporting any violation of this order.
Xl.-The Grand Army of the Republic being
ton in this command endorsing or relating to
any of the political parties, whether by resolu-
lions or otherwise, is strictly prohibited.
HA-.H
REV. Mr.. BoLLEs LAST LECTURE.-A very
large audience-completely filing Fluent Hall,
gathered last evening to listen to the last of
Rev. Mr.. Bolles' lectures ON the microscope.
The subject announced was .'The Spectroscope
and Polariscope applied to the Microscope"
The lecture was to be made up more largely of
experiments than the preceding ones-experi-
ments of very delicate nature; and so far as
they applied TO the Spectroscope were suffi-
GENTLY successful perhaps, to convey to the
minds of the audience an interpretation of some
of the greatest mysteries in the natural
sciences, if they did not fully meet the expecta-
tons of the lecturer and his assistants. If they
developed the truth of but single proposition,
they were successful; that by means of the
spectroscope the chemical composition of invis-
ible objects can be clearly ascertained, and that
a pencil of light from one of the luminous
heavenly bodies determines the elements of
which 1t is composed, and measures the direc-
ton and speed of its flight through infinite
space. By its use, it was shown that certain
fixed stars, whose light is years in reaching the
earth, hold in their composition mineral sub
stances like those which are abundant in our
planet. The lecturer also proved by the same
tests, that comets are only vaporous bodies;
and relieved the fears of his hearers-if any
had them-that the predicted collision of the
approaching comet and the, earth would be
harmless to the heavier body.
1t is a matter of regret that the efforts to APP
ply the polariscope failed, owing to a mechani-
cal defect in the apparatus; but the audience,
though disappointed, were very good-natured,
and sympathized heartily with Mr.: Bodies, who
had labored so hard for their entertainment and
instruction, and up to this time to their salts
faction. - ~ -as ~ ~ -
At the close, Mr. A P. Stone called the au-
dience to order, and moved that Collector
Washburn be invited to preside over the meet
ing; and that gentleman consented. Mr.. Stone
then offered the following resolutions, which
were adopted by a very decisive vote:
Resolved, That having listened to the course
of lectures by the Rev. E. c. Bolles, upon the
microscope and what it shows u.s. we desire to
express the high degree of qualification we
have experienced during these lectures; and to
tender our grateful acknowledgements to the
lecturer and his assistants for the pleasure and
profit they have afforded us.
Resolued, That we regard these highly enter
tanning and instructive lectures as well adapted
to promote more general knowledge of the
wonders of creation, and of the marvellous rev.
Citations of the microscope; and we cheerfully
commend them to the generous patronage of
au enlightened public -
Mr.. Bolles thanked his friends for, this vol
untary and fattering testimonial, and remark
ed that if he had succeeded in opening to his
friends new field for innocent amusement or
inspired desire for investigation into the mys-
teries of natural science, he felt himself repaid.