The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-08-24
A Mean but Characteristic fling.


WHO Would NOT BE PATRIor'-Those officers
who have been transferred by the Administration
from their legitimate field of duty to marshal the
cohorts of abolitionism up the polls in Maine have
much to say in praise of their efforts and sacrifices
to save the Union. We give below specimen of
sacrifices endured by of Portland citizens at
New Orleans:
SALARY OF THE MILITARY MAYOR OF New
ORLEANs.-Ihe following are said TO be the items
Salary as mayor per annum, IS 900; salary as Cap
tam III u. 3 army 81 200 salary Assistant Adju-
tant General of State s2754 salary as Secretary Of
state, 5000; salary as Adjutant TO 60 days youn
tecrs $1,000; salary for carriage hire 81 400. Total
Sl5,35
Qaere-If the mayor of city bleeds thus freely for
his country, how ntolerable must be the suferings
ofth Military Governor of a Slater
The above moroccan is cut from the Argus
of Saturday morning. The Mayor of New Or
leans, to whom the above refers, and whose
sacrifices endured" ''to save the Union" are
so meanly sneered at, is Mr.. JAMES F. MIL
LER, son of n. J. Miller, Esq, of this city--a
man of excellent family, and whose friends are
numerous. Au the money he receives from
the United States is his pay AS Captain in the
military service. He has held the offices of
State, but holds neither of them now, nor has
he held them since filling the office of Mayor.
An official register of the city and State offices
shows this fact. His salary as Mayor is paid
by the city and is fixed by city ordinance.
He is furnished with horse and carriage by
the city, the same as former Mayors have been,
and he enjoys no extraordinary privilege in
this regard.
The above fling at him in the midst Of his
friends seems to have been gathered from a
correspondent of the New York Times, who,
report says, was employed in the Mayors
office, but for some detected or strongly sus-
pected malfeasance was kicked out of the
office by the Mayor, and he has taken this
method to salve his wounded honor.
But the intended sting in the above para
| graph is contained in the "Query,' and was
| intended for Gen. SHEPLEY. and is a contempt
| ible intimation that he is making large sum
of money out of his position as Military Gov
ernor, and that this is the secret of his defence
| of the government, and of his present views
| upon ths policy to be pursued. No man of
| Democratic antecedents can give cordial
support to the government, but he is accused
of corruption, and the Argus is ready to prefer
| such charges against the purest men, and those
who have always stood by it in the past. This
fact shows that the controllers of that sheet
have no appreciative sense of patriotism; they
can understand only the lowest and most mer-
cenary motives, and show plainly enough that
| Government could readily seeura fbeir sar.
vices lift would only pay the price.
In relation to Gen. Shepley it may be said
with truth, that against no man would such Q
base imputation be more unjust. He is a gen
tleman of ample means, was, when he left fol
the army, occupying a high social position
and was engaged in professional practice
that was fortune in ITSELF More than this
Geo. F. Shepley never has been the man Il
worship the almighty dollar" Avarice il
not a weakness of his character. Few mel
could be found in any community who woult
have less pecuniary motive for changing hi
position. He evidently left his practice fo
the army at a large peculiarly sacrifice;
practice worth $1,000 or $4,000 q year fo
the pay or colonel! His advancement ha
been because of his fitness for his new duties
and not to secure his services to the govern
ment, for government had them fully ant
heartily of his own free will. So much by wa,
of vindication of honorable men who lai,
their lives upon their country's altar takin;
all the risks OF such an act, against the attack
of a malicious, mendacious and unprincipe,
| press.