The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-30
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BB The National Intelligencer says that the
following was published in its columns, several
years ago, as a bona Jfde advertisement EVAN
ted-by the advertiser, board in respectable
family, where his godly example and Christian
conversation will be accepted as sufficient
compensation. Address, ETC." ai' - 80"
ga contemporary says that "a persons
character depends good deal upon his bring
ing up. For instance, man who has been
brought up By the police seldom turns out re-
Specialize ~ r,
Mass, who was tarred and feathered last April
because it was alleged that he had expressed
joy at the assassination of President Lincoln,
has recovered $500 damages of his assailants at
the Essex, Mass, Supreme Court. z I q ] Z
GB Maryland mobs are burning down negro
churches and school houses. Gov. Bradford
has offered $500 reward for the incendiaries.
Who does not see in this one of the evils of
emancipation 2 Had the negroes been kept in
slavery they would have had no school houses
to burn!
The latest intelligence from Newfound-
land records the defeat of Confederation in that
APSOsSos
Globe says the same feeling of opposition to the
Quebec Scheme pervades all the Maritime
Provinces; and, as far as they are concerned
that scheme may be fairly considered rejected
by the whole of them. Certainly, if presented
to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, it
would be as summarily disposed of, by these
Colonies as it has been by New Brunswick and
Newfoundland. 7r rfufo sTer.ltttgr
EB-The Boston Transcript says Mr.. John
R. Manly, the clerk of the 2Sth Society for
many years, and warm friend of the late
Theodore Parker, has just placed a memorial
stone on the site of the Parker farm Spring
street, Lexington, to indicate the birthplace of
Mr. Parker, and as testimonial of the venera-
ton in which he holds his memory. The stone
is Of light Concord granite finished on all sides,
three feet square, three and half feet high,
and resting on base four feet square and one
foot high. On the front face, in raised letters,
is the simple inscription Birthplace of Theo-
dore Parker, 1910. SO 81 tsia $50 .17.' 81
EYn Four hundred thousand dollars were
coined at the Philadelphia mint last month
the larger portion of it gold. Where does it all
60 to-? e.lt' ~. isfi'i4 it'aa ~ "
EB-T The Boston Adoertiser gives the Round
Table hard rap over the knuckles because the
latter found fault with General Grant for going
with George Wilkes to see horse race The
Round Table is sometimes set with more mus
tard than beef a3all 10 ts- .iii..si
BB-A Washington dispatch says no credence
whatever is given in official circles to the pub
lished rumor of a collision between our forces
and Maximilian's troops on the Rio Grande
Jenkins, the newly elected Governor of
Georgia is pronounced Conservative seces-
siOnist. This is about the same as. calling a
man temperance drunkard, an abolition slave
holder, pious thief, or holy assassin [Bos-
ton Transcript. &&Es4 ~ - "
BY The grand jury in Chicago have indicted
all the proprietors of the slaughter-housess and
soap factories in that city who create nuisances.
By-Itis decidedly cool in the copperhead
Argus to intimate that the Freedmen's Aid So
ciety takes no interest in, and proposes to ig-
more, the question of the freedmen's rights ais a
citizen. The very object of the society is to ed
ucate and elevate the freedman, and not indif-
ferently 70 fold'its hands while he is made a
mere serf. 1t would be like christian society
ignoring the question of religion. s3g8 gfog-'
EY President johnson is progressing, and
| in the right direction. Previous to his note of
Nov. 18th to Gov. Humphreys of Miss, he had
distinctly laid down but three requirements for
the admission Of the rebel States to the Union,
viz the repeal of the ordinance of secession;
reputation Of the rebel debt; ratification of
the emancipation amendment. But in that
note he prescribes an additional requirement,
which is, "the adoption of such measures giying
protection to all freedmen or freemen in person
and property, without regard to color, as will
entitle the m to resume all their constitutional
relations in the Federal Union" Az b.. "
ER- The ladies' windows in the Chicago
postofioe are now attended by girls The. OBJ
ject is to stop the flirting with the clerks.
gB-Northerners are reported to be f1ocking
to Alabama to buy or lease plantations. A
month ago plantations were selling at five dol
lars per acre, but now the average is ten dol
lars, and rising
E-The Boston Herald insists that we are
about to realize great reduction in the prices
Of the accessories of life. Agreat many people
would like to see it in that light. s 81
EB- By orders from the Navy Department
from one-third to one-half of the $500 men now
employed at the Navy Yard in Charlestown
are to be discharged on the first OF December.
E- Mr.. Bailey was re elected mayor of
Portsmouth on Tuesday last, by a vote of 901
to 262.
EThe next Wisconsin House of Repre-
sentatives will stand &c Union men to "a Demo-
Gratis. The senate will consist of % Urioniste
and 10 Democrats.
GS A proposition is before the Mississippi
Legislature to ratify the first section of the
Constitutional Amendment, leaving the last
section out in the cold, 1t wont do, gentlemen.