The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-02-09
RIGINAL AND SELECTED.

20 On The first page Worthlessness of
the Rebel Cavalry.
sg- On the fourth page - Aud Lang Syne
in Gaelic; Rules for Behavior; &c.
~ The venerable Josiah Quincy attained
his ninety.frst year this day Two well-known
merchants of this city, both over four score,
who were of his military family when he com
handed the Hussars, paid their respects to
sheir former chief, Notwithstanding the ex-
IRENE cold.-lBost Evening Transcript, 4th
u The Price Current has donned new
pead, and is altogether one of the neatest lit
he weekles in the State Editorially it needs
no new head, for Mr.. RICH cannot be sur
passed in the field of labor which he seems to
have made his speciality Mechanically it is
got up in Mr.. Thurstons best style.
~ The Augsburg Gazette states that the
ex-Queen of Naples has at last decided to re-
turn to the world and rejoin her husband,
Francis the Second. The resolution is to take
effect in few weeks, unless the lady change
her mind, an accident quite within the bounds
Of possibility.
sB-The New Haven Historical Society is
eNeshS cp"'c fatuatit into tt> lD>>tc-
sion. Among them is the plan of the siege Of
Yorktown, Va, by Washington and Rocham-
beau, IN lI6l, taken on the spot, together with
Colonel Trumbulfs diary OF the siege; also
the original appeal of Gov. Trumbull To hasten
up levies and recruits during the revolutionary
war, document never in print.
sE-A negro was arrested and hogged in Bal
timore, the other day, for kicking a white wo-
man. Such fellows as this, the Breckrinidgers
want TO see spread all over the land. and have
made war 10 bring the thing about. In the
South, they fight; but at the North, they OBJ
struct the Government In all possible ways ex-
eept that, and employ the most Of their valua-
bic time in bowling at the administration for
attempting TO put down the rebellion Hart
ford Post
-1-One thing is certain, and say il for the
. shalne OF the Northern disunionists, there are
really no bitter opponents to Mr.. Lincoln's
Proclamation, except in the Free States: re-
peat, say II for the shame Of Northern dsun-
.onists, that have not in New Orleans heard
one objection made to the Proclamatio OMIT is
accepted here as a thing invited by the rebel
lion, and viii be acquiesced In by the Union
men OF the South, as the only way TO get out
Of present difficulties. and secure peace in the
future.-t New Orleans Cor. n. Y. Times.
-H- About four weeks ago, some 5000
worth Of bonds, including two $1,000 bonds on
the city of Portland, were stolen from the safe
Of Boston broker, named White. Nearly all
the bonds have been found in Albany, New
York, and Boston. The president of Boston
bank had bought the Portland city bonds, sup
posing them TO be all right. Various suspect
ed parties have been arrested and examined
1t is said that two or three Wall street brok-
ers are implicated in the business.
sH- The Brunswick editor call us "turn-
coat in politics" At a time like the present,
If man will hesitate to sustain the govern
ment, to stand by the Administration, and to
denounce traitors and secessionists, through
fear of being called turncoat, we do envy
him. Call us anything but doubtful patriot.
Some men think it proof of superior wisdom
that they have never changed their opinions.
Old Gov. King told man who boosted that
for forty years he had never varied his political
opinions, that he "niust be foolr'
IL The Argus has repudiated Gen. +. S.
Nickerson as a Democrat, and intimstes that
he has never been anything but Breck-
inridger, from which he developed into a bla-
tant abolitionist. Gen. Nckerson, during the
campaign OF 1860, was on the stump for Doug
las, and was considered one of the rising men
of Waldo. He has been to New Orleans,
seen slavery in nil its beauty, and like Butler
he believes must fall that liberty may sur
vive. Of course the Argus reads him out of
the party.
sB- The only common bond of Union now
left the democratic party, is defense of slavery.
Every other old landmark has gone by the
board. Even the author of the "irrepressible
conflict doctrine is patted on the back, be-
cause he is supposed TO demur at emancipa-
tion. Thurlow Weed, the lifelong enemy of
democracy, is quoted as an oracle, because
ry Clay, the great apostle of anti-democracy,
is appealed to on this question, while Jeffer-
son, the head and founder OF the democratic
party, is ignored because he was opposed to
slavery. Verify, democracy has become the
synonym of despotism.
IL The London Times has provoked the
contempt Of England and the world for itself
and the Conspiracy, by publishing an article
advocating slavery on Scrptural grounds. The
Liverpool Post says it has inaugurated reac-
ton in favor Of the North. Here is an apt
passage from Mr.. Russell's Diary; the
Times correspondent could hardly have dream
ed of its application: The miserable sophists
who expose themselves to the contempt of
" the world by their paltry thesicles on the Di-
vine origin and uses of slavery, are infinitely
more contemplate than the wretched bgots
"who published themes long ago on the pro-
"priety of burning witches, or on the necess-
" tY for the Offices of the Inauisition.n