The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-07-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

SB-Our sharp neighbor of the Argus is
| highly excited because one of the editors of
the Press, who last year gave his vote for the
election of Gen jameson, now goes for Mr.. Co
burn, and asks if he has set his face against
the government and its Generals. That may
be proper question for friend of Gen. jane
son to ask, and we think we could satisfy such
man that our course implies no lack of con-
fidence in the government or of respect for its
Generals, but we are unable to see what right
| supporter of Dana or his platform has to
| press any question of the kind, especially when
that platform was opposed to the government,
and proposed Withdrawing our Generals in
| virtual disgrace.
LIGHT IN A DARK CoRNER.-York County
has been regarded as dark corner of the State
for the cause of patriotism, but the tide is fast
turning. On Thursday evening great meet
ing was held in South Berwick, $500 being
| present, and a glorious feeling was developed
| The meeting was addressed by Col. Sweat of
this city, and others. South Berwick has al
ready furnished fifty-three soldiers, and she is
determined to fill up the quota now called for
in a very few days.
sY-A friend has called our attention to the
situation Of Vcksburg with relation to the
bend of the river on which it stands. As the
city is on the side opposite to the tongue of
land which the proposed canal is to cut Off
the effect of the canal, if successful, will be,
not to make an island city of it, but an inland
city.
sE- Portland is well supplied with out-of-
town Editors.-tKen. Journal.
No sir! we are all in to,cn now.
State in the Union to make full cash payment
of her quota of direct tax. The money was
paid into the United States Treasury few
days ago.
sg- The Franklin Patriot, which last year
| fell between the two stools of Danaism and the
Jameson Democracy, not venturing to take
position on either side, has this year turned its
back square upon Names gallant General, and
| flung out the old soiled flag of last years
Danaism. 1t intends to go down with its colors
| flying.
~E- Gen. Butler at New Orleans, is evil
IDENTIFY the right man in the right place. For
| four months his troops had not been paid off
by the Government, but he has met the emer-
gency with his accustomed promptness. He
has taken the $4,000 which he seized from
Sam Smith & Co., and applied it to the pay
ment of the soldiers. Besides this he has bor-
rowed $4,000 in specie on his personal credit,
| pledging the Government for the debt; and al
| so borrowed 900 of the Adams Express
Company, and with this paid them all offup to
the date.
| .H- Yellow fever has not made its appear
| ance in New Orleans, Notwithstanding the pre-
dictions and hopes of the rebels, and physicians
| of experience are of opinion that there may
| probably be no epidemic this year. The dis
ease last summer was very slight, and General
Buffers judicious sanitary precautions viii, it
| is hoped, prevent any outbreak of the pesti-
| lence.
| sB- The Boston Courier says the treasurer
of a theatre in that city, in consequence of the
| scarcity Of silver change, took in one evening
over sixty dollars in twenty-five rolls of the
nickel cents. He foolshly opened some of the
| packages, and found they were only pieces of
lead pipe, nicely enveloped in blue paper.
% The Bath Times is authorized to say
that Charles J. Talbot, Esq. who has been
mentioned as candidate for Congress from
| the Sd district, has withdrawn his name from
the canvas.
IL DIR. Garcelon of Lewiston, and five or
| ci 9TH cd 1a6 10,
tor the army of the Potomac.
| IE- We learn that a man by the name of
| Andrew III. Quimby, said to be of Charlestown
Mass, poisoned himself at Seboomook Falls, 5
miles above the North East Carry, on the West
Branch of the Penobscot.-lBaugor Wing
To- We shall publish the Confiscation Act
Monday morning.
sD- Mr.. Robert Bonner of the Ledger, has
brought out another fast Animal gray mare
| that trotted mile on the Fashion Course on
| Wednesday in 2.2I.
BURGLARS ABRoAD.-We learn from a
| friend that the towns of Saco, Buxton and
Hollis, have been recently visited by despera-
does, who have in the dead of night entered
the houses OF some eight or ten residents, dis
| possessing them of property to considerable
amount. The inhabitants of these places, now
evidently thoroughly awakened, will be prompt
to mete out summary punishment to the Of
tenders. if caught, upon recurrence of the
| act.
sg-Lewiston's quota is so men; seventy
had enlisted on Thursday, says the Journal.
sE-" Let the pulpit thunder" says the
Temperance Journal. 1t already thunders
vastly more than it 'lightens.
sD-The Advertiser is informed by John B.
Brown, Esq, of the Portland sugar house, that
under the present laws, he will pay in duties
upon molasses which he imports for his sugar
manufacturing establishment, the sum OF
| $500 day, and an excise tax upon the sugar
which he manufactures from the molasses, of
| $50 additional per day-making daily pay
ment to the government of s1,650.
sy-The Lewiston Journal learns that the
bounty voted by the city of Biddeford is 800
| per man, less the bounty of the State. The
Journal also learns that in all cases men en-
listing will be credited to the quota of the
town where they belong, and not where they
enlist How with the town of Lincoln, where
the quota is only Is, while upwards of fifty
have already enlisted?
s-Mr. Charles Moody, OF West Minot,
1 saws the Lewiston Journal has LEFT nj our If.