The Portland daily press., 1863-09-29
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


to the amount of $4,000, notes worth $4,000,
and ST. 900 in bills carried off,
~ The training of the North Yarmouth
Light Infantry Company will be on Thursday,
Oct. lst, instead of Tuesday, as enormously
stated in the Press yesterday.
sV The Bath Times says the ell of the
residence Of jeremiah Robinson, Esq., of that
city, was destroyed by fire on Saturday after
noon last. The main part of the house was
not materially damaged.
10 Geo. w. Viles, of New Portland, has
been detected in forgeries TO the amount of
$4,000 or $4,000, principally paper OF his father
in-law, Mr.. Cults, of New Sharon as we learn
from the Courier
Gg- Mr.. Isaac G. Welcome, of Yarmouth.
has obtained verdict for 81, 100 against the
town of Leeds, on account of injuries receiv-
ed by him in crossing the railroad track at the
Dead River crossing in that town, December
22d, 1859.
grWhen this rebellion broke out the Uni
ted States stood low down in the scale, so far
as its navy is concerned compared with other
nations Now it stands mt the head of the
column. L. has 427 of all classes of war
sells t54 iron cads). France has 341 and Eng
land 357
sB- Thackeray, the famous author of the
Book of Snobs," defines snob thus: HE
trho mednly ddinires mean things is q saob.'
That is, he who meanly crnges to wealth, pc.
sitions, or aristocracy; protesting an admira-
ton for those who occupy prominent positions
or.weath or some other advantage, who with
out them would be despised,is snob, whether
he be Clergyman or ayman, rich or poor, of
American or foreign birth.
rMiss Emma Hardinge, who has many
friend in this city, sails in few days for CAL
iiornia where she will prosecute her benevo-
lent mission, which is nothing less than the
raising Of "a fund to found and permanently es-
tablish an asylum for that class of unfortunates
known as "outcast women" She has already
done much in this direction, and the funds so
raised have been deposited with trustees in
Boston, by whom they will be properly and
safely invested.
Ig- The Nashville (Tenn.) Union says an
institution which demands the possession and
direction not only Of the local government
of the States where it exists, but of all the
other State governments, and the federal gov
ernment itself, is nuisance and an imposi-
tion and should be abated. 1t is not enough
for slavery that it should control all the slave
tata nd ha nj
ry governor, Legislature, and sheriff, from the
Ohio river to the Canada line and the Atlantic
coast must be an obsequious servant and
slave-catcher for the Shareholder. There new
er can be a restoration of the Union on such
basis as the revival of the African code. 1t
is idle to talk of harmonizing on the very
ground of disunion.
sr The right of the President under the
Constitution and legislation of Congress to
suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus, no one can doubt. 1t is then aues-
ton purely of expediency-of necessity. 1t
was not until civil magistrates had interposed
their power to embarrass the President in his
efforts to suppress the rebellion, that be exer-
cised the power Congress had by special legis-
lation conferred upon him. "The decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States, de-
nying TO State Courts the right to interfere in
such cases, was defanty disregarded by in
subordinate tribunals, and to such an extent
that in order to assert the dignity and defend
the prerogatives of that Court as well as TO
secure the execution of the constitutional law
essential to the existence of the Republic, the
President found it necessary to interpose his
constitutional executive power"
sH-Euge genie, the Empress of France, who
possesses the immortal glory of having intro
duced the crinoline pettieoat, having been
somewhat fattered by her success has been
studiously engaged ever since in getting up
another innovation in the ladies dress. The
Empress thinking that the eternal white
stockings had become rather monotonous-
that red was too glaring, and blue too literary
asked herself if some other color could not
be adopted. She thought long and anxously;
and at last inspiration came -"the stocking
might be striped" The day after this mental
illumination, the Imperial ankles came forth
adorned with stockings of blue and white
stripes and all the courtiers proclaimed the
union of the two colors ravishing to behold.
BY this time next year, no doubt, the new
fashion will be as prevalent as that OF crino-
lines.
LIZ Rev. DR.. Junkins, father in law of
Stonewall jackson, gave an interesting ac-
count at the Fulton street, New York, meeting
on Monday last, as we learn from the Boston
journal, of the manner in which he obtained
access TO the hearts of rebel prisoners at Get
tysburg. He could get no hearing among them
until he took in his hand something that I'M
ocked the rebel hearts. He went into the
room where several hundred of them were
confined and said to the them: SOLDIERS,
hold in my hand cane that was given to me
by your old commander, Stonewall Jackson,
the day he married my daughter" The result
he said was affecting The sick and dying
men looked on the relic as the devout look on
the bone of saint who died in the odor of
sanctity. Tears came into their eyes-they
were entranced. DR.. Judkens babe him well
come, and never in all Of long ministry did
he have access to the minds of men as he had
among those rebels. The.cane became means
of grace. The reverent and almost supersti-
tious attachment of the rebel soldiers to the
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