The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-06-16
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTE

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or Bearer Miscellany.
GB-The Missouri Democrat says the mass
of the people of that State are in favor of
immediate emancipation.
lY-The Lewiston Journal speaks Of the
good prospects of the temperance cause,
among the catholic population of that city.
Father Durnin the Catholic priest, seems to
be an earnest laborer in the field of reform.
1g-We learn from Mr.. Steve rs Mail Agent,
that the fruit trees of Massachusetts are suffer-
ering severely. In some parts of the State
there is scarcely green leaf on the trees.
Worms are supposed to cause this sad condi-
ton of things.
sB-The Old Eastern Railroad depot which
has SO long disgraced the city of Portsmouth,
has recently been taken down, and the Com
pany now have the largest depot in the ,corld,
literally "as big as all ont DOORS" They have
not yet been able to make the roof pater-
tight.
eTWhen Jefferson was President, Aaron
Burr was made the subject of an arbitrary
the administration who were favorable to Burr,
like the copperheads of the present day, tried
to get up an excitement on the subject, and
made strong accusations against President
jefferson, and Gen. Wilkinson
sErIt is stated that Col. D'Utassy, the
commander of the Garibaldi Guard of New
York, who is serving a term of Imprisonment
in Sing Sing, instead of being a Hungarian
of Pesth, of the name of Strasser His his
tory, if his statements are true, show that he
was bold and unprincipled adventurer.
|. grWe see no improperly in the copper
heads of Ohio going down South, within the
rebel lines, for candidate for Governor. A
large proportion of them evidently arc there in
sympathy, and as much deserve to be sent
there as Vallandigham himself Why not go
among their best friends for a standard-bear-
or?
lT a correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, writing from Vicksburg, says the rebels
do not dare use any of their seige guns oppo-
S'"~ o"i ioi icai VI ouI sudIpSuDOleTS,
but they have gun, however, which domin-
GERS the river, and is pestilent bother to us.
They call him "Whistling Dick" No gunboat
has any business where this terrible gun can
get shot at it. 1t shoots ball two and a-haIf
feet long, steel pointed, weighing two hundred
and fifty pounds, can tear through our best
iron clads, and is thought to be the best gun
of the war.
sPlt is a notorious fact that the only states
in which the so-called Democrats have gained
victories within the last two years, are those
which have no provision to allow their soldiers
in the field to vote, while in those states that
have allowed their gallant sons the exercise
of this privilege, the Republican Union flag
has been triumphantly indicated What
ever success may attend copperheadism now
or whatever reverses may result to loyal men,
one thing is sure; when the soldiers return
from the field they will spot and remember all
copperheads and traitors.
aE-The quondam editor of the Advertiser
recently Canal DELEGATE from Illinois, and now
| special correspondent TO that paper, wakes
bold and defiant as he travels westward
Writing from son the Mississippi" he says
"The President did well to put the [Chicagol
| Times upon its legs again, for it ,could have
| been put upon its legs without his permission
| and against the soldiers ordered to Chicago,
| &c. Here is a suggestion of direct resistance
| of military authority. We heard this doughty
knipht of the anilI advocating tho ras;et,pca
unto blood, of one of Burnside's orders, in one
of the hotels in Chicago, but he was extin-
| gnished by one OF our Portland merchants
about as speedily as farthing candle would
be by immersion in a jar Of carbonic acid gns.
| SH-The Bangor Jeffersonian, which has been
accused of wishing to divide the Union men
| ofthe state, and to repel all loyal Democrats
says: "We are and have been from the first in
favor of a cordial union with all genuine, I'M
ion Democrats, Of the Ben. Butler stripe, who
| go for putting the rebellion to death, and US
ing all the means necessary to accomplish
that result. Such Democrats neither ask nor
desire the Republicans to ignore their name
or organization, but rather ask us to hold on
to both, as the only sure means of preventing
the treaaonable Democratic party from COM
ing into power, and OF saving the Union
| without dshonor. We are opposed to selling
out the great loyal Republican organization TO
sham Union Democrats, all for the benefit OF
the traitorous Peace Valandigham Democrat
ic party.'