The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-07-15
ORIGIN AL AND SELECTED.

s1-On the first page = Boston Correspon-
| dence.
lE- In Boston two Catholic and two Prot
estaut clergymen have been drafted.
SB- A portion OF the dispatches from New
York yesterday morning, relating to the riot
there, was received after we had gone to press
10 Hou. Moses Macdonald, of this city,
and Abraham Sanborn, Esq, of Bangor, were
the orators for a Copperhead demonstration in
Piscataquis County on the 4th.
sge Sunday night about eleven o'clock a
fire broke out in the Tannery of Edward Ber-
ry which was destroyed, with some thirty
cords of Bark. The fire was the work of an
incendiary.-I Bath Times.
svThe Portland Advertiser is in favor of
suspending operations on the Potomac to
allow the enemy time to get breath, powder,
provisions, as they are now laboring under
many disadvantages, but Gen. Meade don't
see it in that light Bath Times.
Commissioner Ludlow says that Vice
President Stephens and Commissioner Ould
were greatly chagrined at the refusal of their
request to visit Washington. Stehpens had
baggage enough with him for stay Of six
months.
% AT the Harvard Commencement to
day, Roscoe Palmer Owen, of Bath, has dis
sertation on Advertisements, and Henry
Newton Sheldon, son of the Rev. DIR. Sheldon,
late president of Waterville College, delivers
the valedictory Grafton on England and the
United States.n
cB- The market quotations upon the last
page, by inadvertcnce and the confusion pro-
duced by the draft drawing through our city
and particularly our office, escaped correction
before the paper went to press. The mistake
is one of so objectionable character that we
feel chagrined to mention it. 1t will not be
repeated. The review of the market is as full
and accurate as usual.
Sg- The Argus has put itself beyond the
pale of honorable opposition to the present
administration, by indirectly endorsing, at
any rate not repudiating, the course of the
Portsmouth States and Union, which openly
avowed that the design of towns raising mon
ey to pay the communications Of drafted men
was to end the war by Withholding recruits
prints as these, that have bred the New York
riots.
rE-A subscriber on Com. Street, is in
formed that we have no controversy with any
loyal Democrat; but we deny not only the 10y
atty but the democracy of such men as Fer
nando Wood and James Brooks, whose infa-
nous teachings have deluged the streets of
New York with innocent blood. Nor do we
have particle of faith either in the loyalty or
democracy of any man who apologies for or
afiiliates with, those gentlemen. JET. Davis is
quite as much patriot, and as justly entitled
to respect as they.
% We are sorry to see in the Argus par
agraph similar in tone to those which, in the
New York Herald, have tended 10 stimulate
the unholy mob which has disgraced that city
The draft upon Portland is no more than upon
other parts of the State or other portions of
New England, in proportion to her population.
The call of the government is for one-thrd
less than the number actually drafted, the ex-
ira fifty per cent. being to cover cases of phys
ical exemption. The enrolling officers have
no power to consider physical disabilities; that
is question for the medical examiners.
sy- A citizen called at our Office yester-
day to know why the trains on the Grand
Trunk road are not advertised in the Press.
We could not answer him. We are issuing
about 5000 copies Of the Press daily, and they
are circulated extensively along the line of
the road to the State line, but while the trains
are advertised in both of the Copperhead pa
pers of the city the managers of the G. T. do
not think it worth while TO advertise in any
loyal paper in the place. Personally we care
nothing about it, for our space is filed with
advertisements that pay better than those Of
railroad corporations.
u Few men are possessed Of more moral
purity than Gen. Dow. This is conceded alike
by his political friends and foes. He cannot
therefore suffer lasting injury, nor his family
and friends lasting modification IRON such an
noying publications as that made in yesterdays
Advertiser and Argus, taken from the very pa
per which was so ready short time since to
accuse him of stealing But the moral invul-
uerabity OF Gen. Dow does not lessen the
contempt in which these men should be held
who, in the face of his devoted family, and
while he is absent from them suffering from
honorable wounds, will give publicity to such
scandal. Were Gen. ID. verify guilty, aud were
those only who are without sin called upon to
cast stones at him, it is doubtful if he would
suffer from missiles aimed from the quarters
in which this base attempt to annoy his family
and many friends has been made