The Portland daily press., 1863-10-08


@F Hon. Erastus Corning, who was elect
ed representative to the next Congress from
the Albany district, New York, has resigned
on account of feeble health.
sg- The Montreal Witness says that the
Indians of Lower Canada are very anxious to
have English schools established among them,
feeling dissatisfied with the state of ignorance
in which they are kept by the French Catho-
lie priests who are set over them.
S A Copperhead exchange boasts that
the democratic Generals, Mcclellan, Fitz
John Porter and Buel have not.been heard
from making political speeches. Why should
they? Why should men who were so tender
of rebels in arms, and So anxious to avoid
hurting them, be expected to deal blows at
rebels not in arms?
sg- Amy one who reads the newspapers
cannot fail to notice the increase of crime in
our large cities. Murders are so common in
New York as to excite but little surprise.
There can be no doubt that war tends to
cheaper human life and prepare men to take
it on the slightest provocation. The conse-
quences of the present war will remain long
after "peace comes to stay"
sB- Adj. Gen. Thomas, now in the South
west, organizing negro regiments, and aided,
at his own personal request, by Frederic Doug
lass, is an old line Democrat, Maryland slave
holder, and man who has heretofore been as
much opposed to abolition as any man in
America. He opposes slavery for the sake of
the Union. that being the Unions most
dangerous antagonist. But then Northern
copperheads denounce him.
vHawthorne has dedicated his last novel
to Franklin Pierce, and in the dedication he has
referred to the "deeply heartfelt hopes" and
apprehensons of the ex-President in behalf of
our national existence, to which the Hartford
Post-loyal democratic-says, "there are three
parties who know that the fine sentiments of
this dedication are all CANNON. One Of these
parties is the public, one is +. Pierce, and the
other is Mr.. Hawthorne"
sB- Paris letter says of Louis Napoleon,
81 do not remember to have seen a face with
more profound expression Of stony gravity,
cue "ouiN hot soy iuipdooaoihb1. uc
are slightly deeper than one would expect to
see in man OF fiity-five, and very decided
general tone of age is beginning to settle
upon the whole physiognomy. The skin has
leathery, bilious hue, aud the features bear
traces of the acute pains which it is known he
suffers"
q Col. Jennerson, whose pedigree, if that
We're worth anything, is as good as the best,
said in a late speech in Missouri, 81 care not
who it is that kills rebels if he does it etiectu-
ally. When negro comes to my camp, put
musket in his hands and make him fight for
his liberty. The negro has no right to ask
white men to fight for him and lay like lazy
and indoent hog basking in the sunshine
They can fight! They may fight! They must
fight for the liberty for which white soldiers
are pouring out their hearts blood all over
this distracted land"
rr The Providence Journal calls earnest
ly for the exposure of the author of the recent
kilograms from Washington, censuring Gen.
Burnside for not reinforcing Rosecrans, and
says: "lf any officer of the government has
had any hand in this nefarious business, he de-
serves swift, severe, and efIectual punish
ment The public have right to know who
it is that is thus playing upon their credulity,
and by heartless ialsehoods attempting to stain
| the fair fame of one of our most loyal and ac-
complished generals" We cannot understand
how the government can prevent the people
from thinking, talking, printing and telegraph
| iper hot &c Hlo =. H.
newspapers must receive reports they get
with not only grains but pounds of allowance.
sg- The copperheads in Campaign County
Ohio, nominated Lieut.. VIM. Hamilton, of the
Goth regiment from that State, for Clerk of the
Courts. Lieut.. II. has ever been an unflinch-
ing Democrat but he declines the honor of cop
perhead preferment, saying, $40 allow my
name to be placed on ticket and associated
in political contest with such men as c. l..
Vallandigham and George E. Pugh, is descend
ing little lower in the scale of degradation
than had expected to reach.'-and he adds,
"If / had one thousand votes to cast at the
coming election, every one of them should be
given to John Brough."
w whenever mouse is Onered 10 let, IL is
usually to a family without children. When
application is made for tenement, the first
question asked is, show many children have
you?" One lady, it is said, took advantage Of
man whose business it was to let houses tc
families without children, by requiring her five
children to roam in the burying ground while
she went house-hunting Finding one tina,
would answer her purpose, she went to this
shrewd letter of houses and stated her case
"Have you any chidren?" asked the portly
man in spectacles, scarcely looking up. 81
have flve,' said the lady demurely, "but they
are all in the graveyard" She got the house
1t was proposed at one time by an impatien
house hunter, that law be passed that NJ
children shall hereafter be born under twenty
! one years of age!