The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-03-11

nTWe understand that last fall, just be-
fore the State election, Democratic City
Committee man called upon one of the we'll
TODD members OF the party, and said to him
that it had been deemed proper to assess him,
for campaign purposes, the sum of ten dol
lars. every well,' replied the gentleman ad
dressed, 81 do not object to the assessment;
think it is reasonable, but as | propose to vote
for Cony, think will pay it to the Union
Comnitteer'
sVAt the annual meeting Of the Franklin
County Agricultural Society, the following
officers were chosen; President, L. II. French
Chesterville Vice president, II. j. Prescott of
New Sharon; treasurer, w. Weeks of Farm
ington; Secretary, L. F. Green of East Wilton
trustees, N. Goodridge of Industry, VIM.
Woods of Pennington, Grin Daggett of New
Sharon, Capt. 4. johnson Of Pennington, and
Joshua Allen of jay; collector, L. Adams of
Wilton.
svThe Bangor Wing says that at Angus
ia last week a couple of soldiers, one belong
ing to the 30th regiment, and one in Bakers
cavalry, hired horse and buggy TO go to
Hallowell, but instead OF doing so they went
first to Hudson, and then started for the Prov
inces, intending to desert. They were hard
ly quick enough, however, as Provost Mar
shall Low received information of their move
ments, and started after them in the storm of
Monday, arrested them and recovered the
team at Springfield.
rCol. Dahlgren, who was killed in the
recent raid of Col. Fitzpatrick, first came into
notice in the campaign in Western Virginia,
while Fremont was in command of the Noun
tain Department. During the campaign last
summer in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vir-
ginia, Capt Dahlgren displayed great bravery
and enterprise. He was so severely wounded
at Hagerstown, that the amputation of one of
his legs was necessary. He was made Col.
of volunteers as reward for his gallantry in
the engagement at Hagerstown. He was a
son of Admiral Dahlgren.
nB-A Southern gentleman who has been
resident of Mississippi % years writing over his
| own signature, to the Baltimore American,
says the speeches of pretended peace men
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| protong this bloody struggle than any other
single cause touching the rdr. And by their
false pretensions Of horror at the great slaugh-
ter of human life in this war, they have ind-
rectly been the cause of the untimely death
of thousands of their fellow citizens. "If |
have any prejudice in this matter" says this
gentleman, "my early education and all my
associations through life would predispose me
| to side with the South. But see no redeem
ing feature in this unholy rebellion.
BThe Advertiser speaks of Helpers,
book as Gigantic lie." A man must have
an infinite amount of brass in his compost
| ton, to make such remark in the light OF
passing events. The great bulk of Helpers
book-and the most damaging part to South
ern institutions-was its statistics, taken from
official tables, while its forecast OF events in
| the then future has been more than realized by
facts, and its pictures Of Southern life and in
fanny, are now known to have fallen infinitely
below the reality. Helper was Southerner
and told the truth, and this was the head and
front of his offending. The talk about his
book being lie and libel, is about played