The Portland daily press., 1865-08-07
METRoPoI.1rAN RnpoRrrne.

1t has afforded no small amount Of amuse-
ment to those conversant with the facts. 10
read in the Boston papers the accounts given
of Gen. Grants movements in this State. One
paper OF large circulation, represented by a.
no matter what, has 1t that at the college din
ner at Brunswick the Lieutenant-Ge General
made speech, saying he Should fight it out
on that line." Gen. Grant said no such thing.
nor did he say, publicly, anything else. Gen
Chamberlain in his remarks, said that he had
done what many had failed 70 do--got speech
from Gen. Grant. He asked him if he would
say few words, and the General said ano,'
and Gen. Lee understood that when Grant
said that word he meant it, gentleman on
the floor, in an undertone, asked if he would
fight it out on that line, but the distinguished
Commander preserved an Expressive silence. .
Ansther reporter for "hubn newspaper
makes Gen. Grent deliver brief speech from
the platform on the State House steps,
other pure fiction Of the imagination.
Still another, In describing the excursion
from this city to Augusta, speaks of what oc-
Cured "as the train neared Bath" and tells
what occurred at that place. The train actu-
ally went within nine miles of bath, and not
an inch nearer
One OF these reporters we saw at Augusta
after the dinner, who had evidently found
some place where he could get his pump in.
for he could scarcely preserve his perpendicu-
lar, and was reasonably suspected Of being IN
able to "see hole in a LADDER Some Of them
were very generous in sending bottles of wine.
with their compliments, to gentlemen, at the
dinner table, when the wine had been provid-
ed by other parties, and they were permitted
to drink of it only by courtesy
In this city some of these fellows called up-
on the Mayor to furnish them with carriage
to follow Gen. Grant when he was invited out
to ride, and they had the insufferable impu.
dence to tell him that such had been the ems
tom of mayors in other cities. They didn't
come that game over the unbending, STRAIGHT
forward, common-sense Mayor of Portland. !.
There were some gentlemen on the corns of
reporters that appeared here, in the rear-not
train--of Gen. Grant; men who observed the
proprieties of gentlemen, and won the GOOD
opinions of all with whom they came in con.
tact There were others who disguised decent
men, and did little else than make themselves
appear ridiculous and beget contempt for the
publishers who hold them in countenance.-
Ihey would force themselves upon private
companies unbidden, partake of Inequalities
to which they were not invited, drink wine in
tended Tor other lips, and contriye in various
ways 70 make themselves Doors, unmitigated
clowns, and insufIerable nuisapces 9ft
An officer in the army, who commanded one
OF our Me. regiments, said to us that th;s class
was fairtype ofthose who followed tbe .r,nv
to write up small men, to magnify nue,;le 800
ness, and to create newspaper heroes So $3.50
ing as their compensation such chean garhs..
slops and waste as was to be picked up arorn5
the camp. There are honorable excentions -
this remark The Carletons, the Ricb.rd
sons and Others whose army correspondent |
has been read by delighted thousands. vera
not of the "ffy" to which we have REFEREED |
These to whom we allude were not SO much |
the special correspondents of reputable news
papers, as they were the private blowers for
particular regiments or individual officers
Some regiments felt as loudly called upon to
maintain one ofthese swabs--in order to keep |
, !. valiant deeds before the people--as they
uiu 70 nave a surgeon; infinitely more than
'ney ulo 70 regard the teachings of the chap
'N ~ was not such regiments, however,