The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-10-11

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EB- Burley, the Lake Erie pirate, who es-
capped from the Jail at Port Clinton lately,
gotto Canada safely, and has sailed for Eng
land. =
EB The Washington Star says :'sWe observe
lhat on an average, for every column of Phila-
delphia news we publish, ave are conlpelIed to
print about two columns of contradiction. It
is about time some Intelligent and reliable
contraband was placed in charge of press
news there" There is more truth than poetry
| in this. 20 N--A y" 'sTN
Bg- In thejail in Boston are two babies-one
seven and half years of age, and onef of nine,
sbothssmallfor their years and eyiienflys fifan-
tile in mind. Their offence was stealing few
grapes, and they are committed for non-pay-
ment Of fine and costs. Going from the meet
ing on Social Science, to visit the jail, strangers
would be surprised to see such q spectacle in
Roston.T Transcript. syy .sxvs sye.ry-
I Va Some wag says: among the new pub
LEGATIONS is announced THE Seizer, of Life by
the author of The Life of Cesar with few
words about the coup detct"
| iBN-The Petersburg Ihae1 announces that
Messrs. Brooks & Crane will commence the
publication of anew paper, the Journal of
I freedom, in Raleigh, in few days. The new
paperWih advocate universal suffrage and. the
equality of the races under the law. ,cr i.
B7f Fhe Winsted Herald which; whatever it
does, always has ehankerings after decent
society, has the impudence to say that the de-
feat of the suffrage amendment, which it did
all it could to aid the copperheads to Kill. is
unfortunate r But there is something more
unfortunate than defeat to noble minds; and
that iswhena good cause fails by the treacheryl
of supposed friends. Hartford Presssi 4a4 :.
~ BB "a great mass meeting of freedmen was
held at Edgefeld, Tennessee, on the 18Th inst.
Six thousand persons were present. An adj
dress was made by General Fisk in which he
urged the negroes to prove themselves worthy
Of freedom by industry and sobriety, and de-
clared his conviction THAT the black man ought
to be admitted to the, jury box and witness
stand, The negroes at Nashville, who have
crowded the city, are to be distributed TO rpla-
rs where their labor is needed, le I sa -
va The Mobile Tribune reports that q news
t~pe1, 2 pc edited by colored men, in the in
1855 u the cOlored people. is to be set up in
VS. e'ai siocnm made speech at SYRIA
ousy sne = Dsqes day in which he Expressed the
siia' 'ie negroes ougl 1t to be left to tbe
generous treatment of their former masters.
atlq u as the treedmen's Bureau. opo.bt- tn h
abandoned" The Buffslo Express susgeeS - il q,
instructive commen, on this recommandotin,,
the notorious fact t,nat in the common iaiI a.
Vicksburg, whers the General was lately sto.
TONED as Dep artment commander, twenty
two former slav. e masters and owners are under
arrest for M lrders and outrages upon ne
groes lalsss Ao on ~ 2 vac ~ /"
GF- Gen Butler is the only man who has
hung trait )r, and he is the man of all others
VINO enjoys he most of copperhead hate. BE
is Vnus chara sterised by sBrfck Pomeroy," the
u o1 cop perhead editor of the La Crosse
! ,"ls'l De'raoc rat General BENJAMIN r. But
,s IL, the equal traitor with jeff Davis the equal
~ gr"nSerer Wit Banks, the equal tyrant with
nau, the equal robber with Lafitte. the \
y ual thief Wit Athe most depraved wretch ever
sent to Blaclrw, 'lls Island, or the penitentiarv
the incarnation Of hell ITSELF"