The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-03-24


" The Irish Brigade on the Rappahan-
mock celebrated ST. Patrick's day in fine STYLE
| Eight Major Generals were present.
We learn on authority not to be doubt
ed, that Gen. Hooker has promised to give
Gen. Howard the command Of corps-prob-
ably the 18th, lately Sigel's.
u The Black Brigade which has gone to
Florida, seems destined to dissipate all the
their value to the service, by deeds Of gall
lantry.
sE-The Bangor Wing says that on Friday
last barn belonging TO Mr. John Witham, of
Burlington, was destroyed by fire, together
with a lot OF hay and other property. There
was no insurance.
gFAn Ohio editor says the United States
cannot carry on the war six months longer.
He is one Of those prophets that have no
honor 10 their own country or any other, says
Prentice.
II Rev. Mr.. Lowering delivered very
able lecture in Park street Church, Sunday
evening last, on Free Speech and Free Press.
Portions of the lecture were thrilngly elo-
quent and did not fail to command the pro-
ioundest attention of the large and apprecia-
tive audience that filed the house.
LEA member of the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture is reported to have called Gen. Rosecrans
"a scoundrel, villain, a coward, and cotton
thief Is it any breach of political courtesy
~. AZ. - -
Generals, a Copperhead? or would humanity
suffer if his head was converted into dead
head?
sH-The name OF John T. Gilman, Esq,
appears as editor of the Portland Press o,
that all the stories about his retiring from the
| editorial supervision of that able and spicy
| Daily prove untrue. The Press as we are
| happy to learn, is on the top wave of pros
perity, Notwithstanding the attempts of the
| Argus, Advertiser and other decdgiaq sheets
| To crush il. 1t can't be crushed! - Halowell
| Gazette.
sY-A Tennessee lawyer, refugee from
| rebel tyranny, who found shelter at neigh
| boring village at the outbreak of the war, was
asked the other day why he did not return to
Nashville, now that the federal army Is In oc-
cupation and life and property once more Sc
cure. His answer was in these words: Il
| shall never 60 back to Nashville till Tennes-
| see is free State! l have always been dem
| ocrat, and have been a stakeholder. but, old
as am, believe that shall yet go home to
| State where slavery will no longer exist
| The speaker was man Of sixty, whom the
| rebellion has converted into an anti-slavery
man. New York Post.
.B- Gov. Hoppin of Rhode Island declin-
ed the Democratic and Constitutional Union
nomination for Governor, in letter full
| of devotion to the country and pledg-
| es to sustain all the measures adopted by the
President to crush out the rebellion. The
| State Committees of the two organizations
accepted, declaring that he can make no pledg-
| es "but an earnest and sincere devotion to ev-
cry measure having IN view the breaking up of
this wicked rebellion, and once more restor-
| ing the constitutional rights of every portion
of our once happy and prosperous country"
sy- Mr. Wiggin contended in his late
| speech in the Senate, on the National Resolves,
that Mr. Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation
was the first thing to divide the North, and to
develope an anti-war party, or party oppos-
ed to the prosecution of the war. The Sena-
tors memory must be somewhat treacherous,
for it is a matter Of history that fourteen
months before the Emancipation proclamation
was issued, the York county democracy in
State Convention in Winthrop Hall, Augusta,
led off in denouncing President Lincoln as a
"wicked usurper," and scornfully voted down
the proposition offered by Hon. J. W. Bradbu-
ry as an amendment to the resolutions of the
Convention, 40 support the uar so as to
maintain the Constitution Of the United
States.