The Portland daily press., 1864-11-29
Unjust ImputatiOns upon Honorable
nfFc;als

Umclals'
Nv uapnf exclamation of its own miserable
allure the Adusrtiser yesterday morning had
a LONG editorial leader from which we clip the
following
Rut nearly every ivar and determination
man of the administration party, has not only
Withdrawn his own advertising, but induced
both Federal and State Governments TO with
draw theirs, from our columns; and the rep
resentatves of the dead man have been ac-
lively chased, by this same niqoer influence,
into the Probate Offices, where they find ready
agents OF the negro war policy, to co-operaIe
in giving direction from us fevery froDats
notice issued. The democrats WIDOW, anu
the democrats orphan, and the oelnoo o,,t ~
administrator, and the democrats eAeS LII
and the guardians of democrats Mino ., AZ
renal alike, through their mummy ~ VIC
tress or went of nroDer knowledge OF the mo-
t;ree aud Jae;ons of these voluntary advisers
and nort;1an Officials, have had their necessary
oc,,4,sh,,t;ons TO the support OF newspapers,
T., az shane of Probate notices, diverted into
oolrmns that are not only offensive to them
elves Int into such as would make their de-
coased relatives turn in their silent cofinS,
from intense anguish, If only such organs of
communication with the public here were per-
mitted to reflect their characteristics, even in
the spiritual from the present world, and thus
become known to the victimized dead.
Passing over whatever of bad taste and ma
lignant spite may be evinced in the above, we
only wish to state, for the benefit of "whom it
may concern" that so far as the intimation Is
made that any injustice or Partially is prac-
ticed in the Probate Court, to keep official
notices away from the Advertiser or to secure
them to any other paper, nothing can be falser
or more unjust. 1t is the privilege of every
man doing business in that Court to select his
own paper for advertising, and it is an invari-
able rule, when notice is ordered published,
to ask the party what paper he prefers to have
publication made in, and his wish is invariably
regarded. This the editor of the Advertiser
knows or might have known. There is no
session of the Court that notices are not or
dered to the Argus, and we have never known
the editor ofthat paper to intimate the slight
est unfairness or partially in the discharge of
the duties of the Probate office. Sometimes a
wish is expressed to have the notices appear
In the Mirror or the Advocate, and in all
S1cOo vAAO AO4uOoO 10 6AOHbCos II nv pAOSoee
notices appear in the Advertiser it is simply
because the parties in interest do not desire
it. 1t is true, sometimes, perhaps not unfre-
quently, a party says he has no preference
In such cases we dare say the Judge or the
Register, as the case may be, does precisely as
any other man would, order the notice tc
such paper as he would Selection his own bust
ness.
We have deemed this much only an act o.
justice to honorable, high-minded officers
against miserable and malignant imputation
officers who stand high in public estimation
and whose private and official regulations art
too well established to be il danger of suffer
ing, where they are known, from any attack
coming from the quarter to which we have re-
ferred. Judge WATERMAN is deservedly pop
ular; always urbane, accommodating and to the
last degree courteous. Mr.. HUMPHREY, the
Register of Probate, is gentleman who need:
only to be known to be respected. He is al
ways gentlemanly, unobtrusive, modest, ant
faithful in the discharge Of his official duties