The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-04-29
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED ID.

GB-On the first page-Letter from New
Hampshire; Military Hospitals in New York.
gB-On the fourth page-Prices Current.
Several duels, horse-whipping and
law suit have arisen in Paris from newspa-
per critics ridicule Of an actor because he was
fat
G-Lord Dundready gives his friend the
following reason why dog waggles his tall
because the dog is stronger than his tail If
he wasn't the tail would wagge the dog"
NVThe Cincinnati Enquirer states that
during the past week nearly 1000 deserters
have passed through that city on their own
voluntary return to their regiments.
grThe Lewiston journal says John b.
Jones & Co. of that city, have contracted for
the grading masonry work on the Dighton and
Somerset X. r., Mass, to be completed by the
1st day of next November.
oB-Nearly fifty refugees, composed mainly
of East Tennessee farmers, with families, ar
rived in Cincinnati on Saturday They came
overland, having been starved out where they
have been living in the Southern Confederacy
They have gone to Illinois.
BrDaniel S. E. Starr, who emgrated to
Alabama from Connecticut twenty-five years
ago, was hung by mob at Montgomery, Ala,
on the l4th ult., for having written asbook
against the South. The book was in manu-
script.
sB-A city contemporary says, "a special
dispatch from Captain Shaw states that the
10th Regiment was to leave Acquia Creek
| Z" for Maine to-day, and would reach Portland
" about Friday" For this same special dis
patch, thus coolly appropriated, the Press paid
STAG!
lg- Major ]. w. T. Gardiner has been Or
dered to relieve Major f. N. Clark in the du-
ties OF superintendent of volunteer recruiting
service and chief mastering and discussing Of
ficer at Augusta. Major Clark has been or
dered to Boston, as Assistant Provost Marshal
General of Massachusetts,.
B-"There is as much difference in the
Democratic party now as there ever was p
exclaimed violent declaimer the other night
at the organization of the Democratic Club
and by the seventy-eight persons who were
present the declaration was Periodically ap-
| plauded.
GB-If it be true that men have been found
| in the Army on the Rappahannock, holding
Geographic communication with the enemy,
and sending him messages, should it not also
be made true that somebody has been made
to suffer for it, by an uncomfortable extension
of the muscles OF the neck?
sg-It was reported in Ireland that the able
bodied young men of the island were leaving
for the United States, to the n lumber of 1900
week, and that the emigration was likely to
continue. English writers and officials ac-
knowledge, in their anger, that these men 90
under the hope of ultimately liberatng Ire
land from England, with the aid of the Ameri-
cans.
The Boston Courier has been thrown
into Mysteries every time secession sheet has
been forcibly suppressed by an outraged
northern community, and yet it copies approx
ingly an article from the Louisville Journal,
advising the "Union men, of Lebanon, Ky.,
to suppress paper published there which
"openly espouses all the ultra measures of the
present administration
LA Pennsylvania deserter, named James
Hummel, was shot on Saturday, 18th instant.
at New Berlin, and when last heard from was
not expected to live. The officer, who at
tempted to arrest him, was resisted by an
armedlmob,and fired at Hummel in selfdefense
alter receiving two shots from him. Hummel
had been mustered into the service as a vol
untary paid substitute for drafted man.
nH-The election of Geo. F. Emery. ESQ.
to the Presidency of the newly-formed Demo-
cratic Club, may be a good strategic move
ment, but if the actors think his loyalty will
cover up their apprehension they greatly de-
ceive themselves. No one man is possessed
of sufficient loyalty and patriotism to spread
over so large surface without becoming in
visibly thin. So much copper cannot be so
easily plated. The coating would appear
amazingly like guilt!
Hitherto when an indiscreet northern
man has got into trouble at the south by the
utterance Of opinions not well pleasing to
shareholders, and has been mobted, perhaps
| put to death, northern conservatives" have
| exclaimed, "Served him right" HE should
have known better than to brave the public
sentiment of the southern people," But when
| sympathizer with southern treason outrages
| northern sentiment and Is forcibly snubbed,
the same conservatives" whine about 'Con-
stitutional Rightsw The truth is, with such
| persons it makes all the difference in the
world which side of Mason and Dixon's line
man is on, in determining his rights, or
whether public sentiment is entitled to defer
ence and respect.
sv The Argus complains that Gen. Hun
ter compels able-bodied negroes to enter the
military service; says they hide in the woods
to get rid of his conscription, and intmates
that the poor negroes have been cheated
made free only to be forced to fight Hunter
takes the sensible view that negroes are no
better than white people; that they are none
too sacred to fight in defense of their own lib
erty; and IN this he shows that the freedom of
the slave is not the object but an incident of
the war; and that the same military necessity
which makes the negro free requires that he
should fight. While white men are conscript-
ed we don't know why the negro shonld be al
lowed to shirk. If some of them hide in the
woods, it only shows that they have no more
pluck or patriotism than those Conperhead