The Portland daily press., 1862-11-05
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lead horse to the water, but strong man
cannot make him drink.
% We shall commence Gen. Busteed's
| speech in to-morrow's issue. 1t is as well
adapted to the latitude of Maine as of Mass
achusetts, or New York
Gy- The "gay and festive" gentleman of
the Argus finds it convenient to meet facts
with filings, and to turn the point of an un-
pleasant truth with very unmistakable un-
truth.
nR- We learn from the Portsmouth Chron-
cle that there are now about 1900 men en-
pioyed in the Navy Yard, viz: 400 carpenters; !;
carpenters laborers $50; masons 1876; smiths
about 100; joiners about 100.
nY-The meanest man in the world has re-
Gently visited Epping. On Thursday night ne
entered the Town Hall and stole fifty bushels
| of dried apples, which the ladies of that town
had prepared for our soldiers in the army
| Portsmouth Chronicle.
ag- Col. Frank S. Nickerson, of the Maine
18th, is spoken of in connection with Briga-
der Generalshp. Col. n. is every inch sol
der, has had much experience, has never fin
ched, was in the thckest of the fight at Baton
rogue, and sustains the future warpolicy with
out a why or a therefore.
lH- The New York World, the Seymour
organ of the city, calls Geo. Francis Train "a
! political buffoon," and thinks Gen. Cassius NJ.
Clay disgraced the uniform of an American
soldier in bandying trick, and chattering nom
sense" with him ON public stage.The World
is sensible il not always patriotic.
sg- The Advertiser, referring to the re-
cent serub-race between the Express Train,"
! and Cassius NJ. Clay, says, "Train appears to
have got the advantage" Think of ofit-Tran,
Massachusetts, born man defending the diui
nifty of negro slavery, and Clay, born among
slaves, denouncing it as Goddess, heartless,
brutal outrage upon the rights of man.
g- In one of the last speaches he ever
/ made, Mr. Douglas used these words:
"There are now but two parties in the coun-
try-the friends and the enemies OF the govern
ment. Every man who does not stand up for
all measuaes that may be adopted for the
maintenance of the honor Of the country at
whatever cost of blood and treasure that may
be Necessary, Is a traitor at heart"
GV-A Cairo dispatch states that the negroes
at Helena, Ark, are unwilling to be sent North
Neither do they want to go back to slavery.
| They readily consent to work for wages, and
arrangements are being made by which they
are to be paid fifty cents per day, except in
cotton picking, when they are to have seventy
cents.
g- The Machias Republican says the bar
ley crop of Washington county was very fair
this year. Farmers who have raised large
crops of it are beginning to ship it to n. York
We heard the opinion expressed that thou
sand bushels of barley would be shipped from
Dennysville the present fall to New York.
H-There is gentleman in this neighbor-
hood, worthy and respectable gentleman, who
returned few days since from Virginia. He
says that he crossed the Potomac on ferry,
between Washington and Harpers Ferry,
that he travelled about a hundred miles in the
"Old Dominion" visiting different camps, and
that he neither had pass nor had one asked
Tor! viii the Argus consider this an attack
upon Mcclellan?
GB- We have no disposition to add anoth-
er word to what we have said in reply, or
by way ofexplanaton, to our young soldier
| friend, w. G. NJ" in the Advertiser He is
as lacking in power to injure our correspond
ent Portland as we know the latter is in
disposition to injure Mcclellan, or our loyal
cause. "W. c. NJ" does not seem willing to
admit that he may know more at thirty, forty
or fifty than he does at twenty, but we willing
ly leave the decision Of that question to him
self, only hoping that he will take ten, twenty,
or thirty years to decide it,
just at this particular moment, while
the Presidents Proclamation is pending, the
State OF Massachusetts cannot afford even to
seem TO say that she does not back ii up, and
We are told that if Gov. Andrew is defeated
this is what Massachusetts will seem to say
Gen. Devens is just as devoted friend of the
administration as Gov. Andrew. and has been
a more constant and consistent friend in the
past than Gov. Andrew has been; but we are
told that his election would be taken as tri-
umph OF hunkerism, in which slavery, treason,
aud peace democracy would greatly rejoice.
This is all wrong, all unjust all outrageous, if
you will, but we are assured that il is so. Let
us take the fact, and generously make room
for it.-lSpringfeld Republican.
gc The tears ran down the cheeks of the
Argus yesterday, as big as good sized onions,
over the story of a New York paper, about the
thousands of flies that lighted in hungry
swarms" upon the "uncoffined dead' body of
poor contraband at Alexandria. Now if that
contraband had not been dead, but living
slave, and thousands of hungry flies had been
lighting" in the gashes cut by cruel drivers
whip, the eyes of the Argus would have been
as dry as its own editorials, and its fastidious
mouth would have been wreatlied in smiles.
The sympathy of that paper for dead negro
is equaled only by its hate of live free one
EXHIBITION AT GoRHAM.-The annual ex-
animation at the Gorham Seminary, of which
j. B. WEBB, A. NJ, is Principal, will commence
this morning, and continue through tomorrow
forenoon. Rev. DR.. Carruthers, of this city,
will give an Address this afternoon, at three
O'Clock, in the Congregational Church to be
followed by Poem from Isaac Choate, A. b.
The usual exhibition of speaking and reading
essays, will take place in the evening, COM
mencing at seven O'Clock.
Gorham is one of the most beautiful villages
in the State. and the praise of her excellent
Seminary is spoken by all who are acquainted
with its character. Mr.. Webb is Teacher of
great experience, of varied accomplishments,
and whose success affords his most htfinu an