The Portland daily press., 1863-02-19
PORTLAND, Me- THURSDAY MORNING,

generally by those rightly named "croakers."
have known OF no instance when an order
has been disobeyed by any body of troops;
nor has there been time, In my opinion where
an order to move upon the enemy would not
have been obeyed with the same promptness
and alacrity as has hitherto characterized this
army. refer particularly to the spirit of the
troops in general.
There may have been isolated cases of dis
affected officers. Afew such have been known;
and possibly others in high places have cher
ished too much the Fitz John Porter spirit.
But we are already rid of all known to be of.
this class; and Gen. Hooker is determined to
weed them out. All patriot soldiers bid him
GOd-speed and frown upon every species of in
subordiuation and disloyalty to the Govern
ment.
few days ago Lieut. Lawrence, of the 7th
New York, belonging to the I'd corps, was
heard to utter words like these; Burnside
got stuck in the mud,and l am glad of it. Gen.
Hooker won't do any better than Burnside
He will get stuck in the mud too and don't
care if he does" He went on in this strain
for some time in the presence of soldiers, citi-
zens and officers. The latter checked and re-
buked him, but this only increased his abuse,
both of his Commanding General and of the
Government.
This talk was reported to the corps COM
mander, who had him arrested at once and
summarily tried by Court Martial He was
charged with violation of the 9Th and goth ar
ticles OF war. The purport OF the first charge
was behaving with contempt, or disrespect,
toward his commanding oficer;" of the Sec
ond, conduct to the prejudice of good order
and military discipline He will probabl
soon be at liberty to associate with Lieut.. of
the 10Th Maine, who was dismissed from the
service for a cause somewhat similar.
While we hear of the thermometer at 20 or
.Jo<~. L,l< T.. Nr...s q. a.
here that we do not need fires in our tents
during the midile of the day. To-day the
sun is out bright, and the mud is fast drying
up; but rains have been quite frequent of late,
and we expect some stormy days In February.
Occasionally the storms begin with sleety
snow, but usually ends in rain.
1t Is well that we are to have little more
cold weather, for wood is becoming scarce.
The pickets have been once or twice extended
in order to embrace more wood. The pines
were pretty extensively taken for building the
log hlts, and the oaks aud hafd wood for fuel,
both vanished like dew before the sun.
The headquarters of the corps are at the
house OF Mr.. Fitzhugh, who owns large tract
of land here. The other evening he was stand
ing in his door-yard as he says, aud hall un-
consciously admiring the splendid elect of the
thousands Of camp fires upon the hills and
along the valley in front Of him, when sudden
ly he recollected that the fuel which fed them
was all his own; and he felt like saying with
the frogs in the fable--it may be fun for you,
but II is destruction for me.
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