The Portland daily press., 1864-02-18
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


sis of Ale Porter, and Beer
W-On the fourth page-The Dying Soldier
poetry; Miscellany.
to- Rhode Island has filed her quota.
To- John Morrissey, the pugilist, is sick be-
yond hope Of recovery.
lB-The Machias Union says that shipping
boards are now selling in that market at $40
per thousand.
IH-We acknowledge the receipt of seven
ty-three new subscribers to our Weekly since
the last issue.
GB-A large tenement house, belonging to
the Great Falls, N. H., Manufacturing Co.,
was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning.
@Two persons were killed and several
badly injured by boiler explosion in Schuyl-
erville few days since.
geA Massachusetts Judge has decided
that man has no RICH. to punish a hired
boy,
grBussels Wool Factory, about two miles
out of Bangor, on the Levant road, was des-
troyed by fire on Thursday evening last, as we
learn from the Wing
ng-It is said that Col, Woodlands regi-
ment of cavalry, now in camp at Augusta is to
be attached to Gen. Burnside's expeditionary
corps.
Eg-Col. Freeman McGilvery of the First
Maine Light Artillery, is now in Augusta for
the purpose Of recruiting for the batteries in
his command.
aTRev. Horatio Stebbins has received by
the hand of Mr.. James Irish one hundred and
thirty-one dollars, the same being a contrabu-
ton from the citizens Of Hartford for the BEN
eft OF the L. S. Sanitary Commission.
-Elbridge G. Parkhufst the keeper of a
public house in Veazie has been on trial at
Bangor, charged with an assault with an in
tent to kill Albert D. Perkens. The Jury
brought in verdict on Tuesday of guilty
l-Andrew Peters Esq, one Of the lead
ing business men of Hancock Co, died at his
residence in Ellsworth, ON Monday evening
last, at the advanced age Of 50 years He is
the father of Attorney General Peters of Ban
gor.
gg- A great Metropolitan Fair in aid of
the Sanitary Commission is to open in New
York on the 18th OF March, and the ladies
connected with it make strong appeal to the
farmers of the country to send in contributions
Of their products in aid of this noble charity.
sE-The latest intelligence from st. Louis
says the utmost activity prevails in all the
ship and navy yards at that place, and that
upon the opening of navigation, viii be seen
one of the largest fleets ever concentrated on
the Mississippi. This feet will rendezvous
at Cairo and Memphis, under command of,
Admiral Porter.
Mr.. salisbury, the Senator from Della
ware, who disgraced his State and the Senate
by his drunkenness at the last session. said in
that body on Saturday last that, she would
never consent to equality, either poll or
social with the negro" If the pardon of either
is TO be asked for the equality, it certainly
should be that Of the negro. The sober negro
Is morally and socially, if not politically,
head and shoulders above drunken Senator
u Harpers Weekly condenses in small
space the argument which sustains the right
ofsodiers to vote. 1t says: THE Union
soldiers are merely citizens of the United
States lighting for their country and its gov
ernment: shall their patriotism and selfsac-
riice disfranchise them? Shall every loyal
man who volunteers and marches to battle
understand that bis going practicallystrength
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mon sense way of putting the argument,
which canno. fail 10 work conviction.
To- George Thompson in short speech at
the close of Miss Dickinson's lecture in Bos-
ton said, America cast him from her twenty
nine years ago as a vile and pestilent man, as
desturber ofthe public peace, as an enemy
10 the Union. He was denounced by the
President in ar address to Congress. But
said Mr.. Thompson, / am unchanged l
have not wondered off from the point on
which then stood, but have preserved it
without yariabeness or shadow of turning.
When ] was east Off these were my last worss,
America will yet witness another revolution
The first great noble one was for independ-
NHNN sNS 0NSSne; AOiASi; hhtiS HNiG
blessed, more impartial, will be for liberty
But you, the people of Massachusetts, will
live, and pray God / may live TO see the day
when the principle for which l am hated,
prosecuted, and banished, viii be the prinei-
PIES of the Old Bay State" l am no enemy
of America now! l have been an all but idol
atrous admirer of your country. Bring me
an American here TO night and place him
foot TO foot with me- and let US see who is
most American in feeling, in hope in aspera-
ton, he or l. Thirty years ago l saw this
dark cloud upon the horizon. Nothing that
has taken place in your country has surprised
me but this-namely, yonr,enthusiasm for the
cause for which pleaded apparently in vain