The Portland daily press., 1862-07-28
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
ag- The New Orleans Delta notifies its
readers that no more shinplasters
money-wil be taken at that Office.
IERev. j. p. Weston, President of Lom-
bard University, formerly of Westbrook Sem
mary, is spending his summer vacation in can
wasting the West tor funds to save the institu-
ton from debt and embarrassment
.vFather Taylor, the veteran sailor preach
err, recently offered the following prayer:
80 Lord, guide our dear President, our
Abraham, the friend of God, like old Abraham.
Save him from those wrggling, intriguing, pol
itic, piercing, Shiny, boring keel-worms; don't
let them go through the sheathing of his in
tegrity."
lr There is deed on file in Cambridge,
Mass, which describes piece of land as bound
ed by "stumps and stones" where Daniel Har-
rington licked William Smith,
1c The Pennington Chronicle estimates
the capital invested in grape vines in the coun-
ty of Franklin, to be not less than three thous-
and dollars.
MINISTER CAMERON has arrived at st. Pc
tersburg and has had an interview with the
Emperor. According to strict etiquette audi
ences are not granted to ministers till some
time after arrival, but in this case it was al
most Immediately granted. The Car showed
clear knowledge of American affairs, and ex-
pressed strong desire for the permanence of
the American government.
L. A paragraph is going the rounds that
the women of the South were the cause of the
rebellion. Undoubtedly they produced the re-
cruits.-lPo
- Some people deny that slavery las
caused the present rebellion. We would like
for such persons to answer candidly if they
think such rebellion could have been insti-
gated if there never had been a slave in the
country, or if slavery had been abolished for
ty years ago?
sB-A man who denies that slavery has caus-
ed our troubles, and ascribes them to the abo-
litionists, had he lived eighteen hundred years
ago, would probably have thought that the
sins of the jews did not lead them to cruelty
the worlds Redeemer, but that his advent was
the producing cause of all their calamities.
sB-The false quotations of the Argus cease
to annoy us. When leopard changes his
spots that paper may learn to tell the truth
Instinct will hardly allow ii to do so sooner
A few days ago it made us say there was no
practical difference between confscation and
emancipation. We used the word abolition
aud not coniiscation. Saturday it quotes us
as fayoring the hanging of rebel prisoners
We spoke only of rebel leaders, for whom the
Argus, very naturally seems to have won
derful degree of sympathy. By the way. the
gentleman to whom we referred as having ex-
pressed a wish to hang the rebel leaders, and
whose expression in this regard so shocks the
Argus, has been highly eulogized by that pa
per within the past four months, and praised
for his conservative spirit. However some
peoples paaise is less complimentary than
their Gems ures.
THE HISTORICAL CELEBRATION. - The
Hon. William Willis, Judge Howard. and 9th
er members of the Historical Society, with
other gentleman of this city, forming party
of some twenty or thirty, will visit Bath to-
day in reference to the proposed celebration of
the landing of Popham's colony at Sagada-
hoe on the (l9l 10Th of August, 1907. The
Standing Committee of the Maine Historical
Society, consisting of Hon. William Willis,
Rev. Leonard Woods, ID. d., Hon. Il. H. Gard
liner, Rev. DIR. Packard, Rev. A. ID. Wheeler,
and Rev. Edward Ballard, invited the Mayor
of Bath to call public meeting of its citizens
on the subject. This meeting takes place this
evening. 1t is supposed that members of the
Historical Society, and citizens of other towns,
will take part in the meeting. 1t is proposed
to visit the site of the old Fort on Tuesday,
and Capt. I. l.. Casey, U. S. Engineer, ac-
companies the party. We are requested to
say that all members of the Historical Society
are invited to join the excursion. The oblig-
ing and intelligent Superintendent of the Ken.
and Portland Railroad Co.. has rendered the
use of a car to the party, all of whom are
passed free over the railroad. The party leave
at p. NJ. to-day.