The Portland daily press., 1862-08-04
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

v Doubtless Consistency is jewell
but if so it is very sure that some people have
great aversion for this kind of jewelry. For
example; they urge, as particularly emphat-
| ic objection to emancipation, that injustice
would be done to the white aborers of the
North, by overrunning the free States with
class of people who would work for low prices,
and thus take the bread from the mouths of
white mems children. But it is nevertheless
fact, singular as it may seem, that this very
class of sympathizers with honest white labor
ers, were ready year or two since, not only
to allow slave labor to go into all our free ter
ritories, to compete with and degrade free la
Dor, but they insisted fidelity to the South and
love of the Union both demanded that such
labor should be protected in those territories,
even against the united voice of the free inhab-
itants thereof This was precisely the Brock
iDridge platform, which even our friend-"the
gentleman from Indiana"-has. declared he
supported, because he preferred it to that Of
any other Presidential candidate's-either
that of Lincoln which proposed to exclude
slave labor from the territories, or that of
Douglas which propose to leave the whole
question to the people Immediately interested.
1- A short time since the Advertiser adj
vocated the overthrow of slavery-the liberia
ton of every bondman. That was a few days
before the Press was started. Saturday, Bro
Case said:
The truth is this. The Southern negroes
are not yet sufficiently intelligent to render
freedom a blessing to them.
r Hallowell Post office was recently rob
bed of 800 worth Of stamps.
A TALL ONE.-There is man in the 18th
Regiment at Augusta, who is feet, 6 Il
inches high. His name is Edwin Farrar, from
Bethel.
DTWe are indebted to Capt Drew, of the
18th regiment, for late New Orleans papers.
sg- The subscriptions of the Chicago mer-
chants to the war fund already amount to
about thirty-four thousand dollars.
sB Kentucky holds an election for State
officers to-day. We have right to expect the
election ofgood Union men in place of Magofiin
and his association.
.g- An exchange objects to negroes in the
Camp because they are lazy, and says they
contrive to shrink all hardships, and are gross
| ly indolent when not under the strictest sur
reiilance OF an officer. Don't this prove that
they know how to soldier?
nD- The Boston Post says that all recruits
who enlist in the old regiments will be dis
oh he
of service. Some regiments have now less
than two years to serve.
rg-Under the head of"The time has come.
the Advertiser of Saturday gave its readers a
the two following paragraphs, which are its al
pha and omega, its beginning and ending:
We recognize the negro as "a man and a
brother" of an inferior and subordinate race,
for whom Christ died and rose again, as he did
for his superiors.
If the Government would send the editor of
the New York Independent, Wendell Phillips,
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Senator Chandler and
such like, to Fort Lafayette, TO stay there till
the war is is over and the Union saved. all the
people will say, Amen. So mote it be.
THE CURcULIo.-The Waterville Mail says
it discovers no signs of the curculio, this sea-
son. and also states that plums of all kinds are
very abundant.
PATRroTIsM-Mr. Zacheus Higgins of Eden,
has furnished four soldiers for the Union army,
his fourth son having just enlisted in the COM
pany raised in Ellsworth and surrounding
towns Ellsworth American.
II Milton s. Beckwith, the oldest hand in
the Ellsworth American office has enlisted.
B Waldo is responding nobly. Her quota
in nearly full.
sg- The country editors are living fast just
now. The Franklin Patriot devotes nearly
half a column to thanks TO various individuals
for onions, potatoes, peas, &c. Better than
sawdust buildings anyhow.
I- The Somerset Farmer understands
that Rev. Mr.. Bullen has accepted the chap
laincy of the 10th regiment.
APPoINTMENT.-We understand that our
friend Col. J. F. Miller of this city, has received
from Gen.Shepley, the appointment of Adjutant
General of Louisiana, and will accompany
Gen. S. to New Orleans this week. Col. Miller
was one of Gov. Washburns aids last year.
sg- The Argus suggests that we should be
sent to Fort Lafayette. If justice is done all
around, we shall soon be obliged to go there,
or to some similar hotel, if we would continue
our personal intimacies with the editor of that
paper.
As the Argus has copied from the
Boston Post what that paper gathered from its
columns in relation to the Chief Magistrate
of this city, will it kindly copy paragraph
from Saturdays Post, gathered from different
source, and which shows the readiness of our
Boston contemporary to do an act of justice.
A REPENTANT-Tne individual who was
jerked into the Frog Pond on Boston Common,
Monday, for uttering anti-Union sentiments,
and who was afterwards jagged by the police,
has repented. Withdrawn his bad words and
enlisted in the Federal army. Let the repen-
ted have all due credit.
GoING UNDER.-The New Orleans Delta
says that JEFF Devils promises his soldiers,
somewhat alphabetically, that each one shall
be allowed quarter section of land at the
close of the war. We can promise many of
them, including JEFF himself, that they will,
about that time, enter section Of land, say six
feet by twot
sE-Eydently to cast odium upon one of the
Massachusetts senators, the Boston Courier
says: