The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-12-01
IR-Mous Giles. Co. b, 7tb Maine Regiment

VIZ rfo"s NitSss W. ~ ttb Adliit
has been sentenced TO be shot for desertion.
There is an Irishmsn, employed as porter
on the Great Eastern Railway, who brags of
having watch that keeps correct time. He
was heard to remark, a few lays SINCE upon
pulling out his watch: "If the sun isn't over
that hill in minute and half, he'll be late
gg- The news from Gen. Banks is of the
most encouraging character. He is sweeping
downward upon Texas from the Rio Grande,
crushing rebellion, and charging the Union
men of that State from the despotsm that has
been over them.
% The only one of four sons Of Geo
W. X. Strong of New York, not in the army,
who is farmer in Missouri, was drafted, and
telegraphed TO his father to know what he
should do. The General replied: "Go!-flght
for your country until the rebellion is crushed"
lc Major Gardiner, Assistant Provost
Marshal General of Maine, has directed each
Provost Marshal in the State to recruit some
two hundred picked men, not less than five
feet eight inches in hight, fol- the batteries of
light artillery in the field.
sgThe Bangor Wbig says two men named
Roberts, supposed to belong to a gang Of horse
thieves, were arrested in Vermont a few days
since. They are supposed to belong in Lew
ston and have been engaged for long time
in stealing horses in this State and taking them
to Vermont.
sv- The Bangor Times says, Captain
John McMullen, of schooner Edward A. De-
Hart, Of Georgetown in this State, is among
the missing and it is supposed he has abscond-
cd from Gloucester, Mass, with some thou
sands of dollars belonging to the owners of
the vessel, although we see in the story, as
it appears in The Cape Ann Advertiser, as
much that indicates foul play as delalcation.
.vThe Vermont Agricultural College en-
dowed by Congressional grant, has been in
corporated by the legislature, and its board of
Trustees selected and organized. To get rid
of local feelings on the question of location,
that matter has been referred to three dstn-
guished outsiders, viz: Benz. r. Curtis and
Gov. Andrew Of Boston, and Ex-Gov. Nor
gan of New York.
sB-The Merchants Magazine, for Novem-
Der, has complete alphabetical list OF all the
| vessels which have been captured by the reb-
ell privateers since the rebellion broke
out. 1t comprises a.. list OF It's vessels, of
I $1,000 tons. An article is also devoted to the
| consideration of the subject whether Great
Britain is liable to indemnity for these depre-
dations. The writer is OF the opinion that
| she is.
: ag- The New Bedford Mercury says that
one of the editors OF democratic paper, in a
large city about sixty miles off, while con-
versing with loyal slave owner from Ten
nessee, deplored the condition of that State
and commenced the well worn TRADE against
Charles Sumner and the radicals He was put
to silence by the Southerner, who assured him
that the rebels, and not the aboltionists, were
responsible for the war. The radical dodge is
evidently played out with all sensible men.
sH-A New jersey paper contains the fol-
/ lowing account of an attempt to assassnate
the Rev. J. b. Owing, pastce' OF the NJ +.
Church of New Wilmington, Mercer comfy.
He was returning from the post office about s
O'Clock in the evening, when some cowardly
ruffian attacked him, first knocking him down
/ By stirkeing him on the back of the head, and
while he was yet senseless from the effects OF
the blow, attempting to take his life by cutting
just back of the vein, cutting backwards, and
inficting serious ifnot a fatal wound. He
had received previously three different anon
ymous notes threatening his life, from what
source is not known. The perpetrator has
not yet been discovered.
V- At meeting in Boston on Sunday
evening last, in relation to the freedmen on
the Mississippi, over which Gov. Andrew pre-
sided, Hon. Geo. S. Hillard-heretofore reck-
oned with the Boston Courier 'conserya-
tives, gave fine speech, in the course of
which he observed he syMpathized fully with
all that had been, or could be said against
American slavery, and urged by every consid-
Grafton of jnsticc and humanity, that the Con-
| gress about to assemble should make provision
to meet the necessities of the large and grow
ing numbers of Africans who become depend
ent upon the nation for their very subsistence
on being released from the house of bondage.
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| Meanwhile private generosity must perform
the needed office of relieving their wants, aud
he urged generous response to the appeals
made at the meeting.
sge The Argus frequently engages in car
rying Goals to Newcastle, and we shall soon
expect TO find it looking for grapes on thorLs
and figs on thistles. 1t insists, for the pur-
pose of pulling wool over the eyes of Irish
voters and exciting their prejudice, that the
emancipation policy viii bring thousands of
negroes to the North to compete with the
Irish in the labor of their hands. This silly
nonsense is worn quite threadbare. Nothing
but slavery in the South, and the infamous
burdens there heaped upon the colored race,
have forced the few free negroes in the North
to leave the sun in which they delight to bask,
for the grudging soil and Siberian climate of
the North. With freedom at the South it
would become the paradise for all colored
people in the Union. But if it were true that
the freeing OF them would bring them North
tocompete with the Irish population, we don't
see why such a fact should argue against their
emancipation or in favor of their enslavement
The Argus, we suppose, would enslave native
born Americans for the benefit of Irish imm-