The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-02-14
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week lust passed, have been marked by the
same determination as before mantle ed, to
conclude them as soon as safely practicable.
The work done this year, at this time, contin-
ues far ahead of that done up to the same date
last year: and the hope of an early return to
the domestic Preside, seems to give an air OF
content to the whole body. s.---.s
The Committee on Education have been on
visit te the Normal School at Pennington,
and have returned with very favorable impress
sions of the value of the enterprise, and quite
assured that it will succeed, and be source
of great honor and usefulness to the State.
hope their anticipation will be abundantly
realized. II this educational movement in be- |
half of common education, SO long and ardu
ously contended for, is allowed now the vic
tory is achieved, to lag for want of hearty
support, and ultimately to be defeated, do
not see with what hope of success the friends
OF common schools can afterward ask for
measures to carry for ward their good works
in this branch of benevolence. A EsfaI
The Committee who visited the school,
found in attendance thirty-sour pupils--eigh
teen others being engaged In teaching. The
numbar is small. 1t was supposed it would
be in the first winter term. There is evident
ly hope, founded On seme reliable symptoms
for have heard it expressed several times
that The spring term will open With at least
one hundred pupils. May it prove So With
buildings, and teachers, and apparatus, how
much good may be done, If the youth Of our
State, who mean to enter upon the noble work
of teaching, viii but PVT themselves for awhile
under the guidance Of those who know SO
well how TO lead in this direction. Two hun
dred, equally as well as City. may be advanc-
ed, if they will but draw nigh TO the poel.-
How the village schools, In which these two
hundred would ultimately intermingls, would
feel the glorious impetus of that additional
ability gained in this direction to teach theml
How striking the contrast between them and
others going without this aid; or we are in
deed mistaken in the operation of this meas
ure.s 7 ie1s i ~ =; z...
The deaf and dumb OF the State have for a
long time received its kindly care. So it is
with the insane and the blind. But what of
the idiotP The despissd and doYn-trodden
idiot--whom boys may torment and unleeiing
man jeer at? Hitherto the road has been hard
indeed for this helmless child of misfortune.
How has the heart ached, of many one who
will read this remark, at the pitiless fate Of the
feeble-mjpded, whose parents, poor or heart
less, had left them to the charities of the poor
house or the highway. A resolve has been re.
ported, tightening the heavy hand from the
heads of these imbeciles. The education of q
limited number Of them may be provided for
| by the Governor and Council. according to
their Judgment. # the resolve pass, humani-
ty will have won another triumph in our Leg
islative halls.
The Governor, in his annual message, was
| down upon the fugitives from the draft, with
q discrimination to- put brand upon their
crauiums, by which they should be distinguish
ed from s'the rest Of mankind,n as was their
brother Cain of old. The subject was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary. They
found constitutional impeachment in the way.
A majority of the committee therefore report
Legislation inexpedient. Not so with min
ority-consisting of Messrs. Granger, Crosby,
Dingley and Barker. They admit the impedi-
ment-but consider it of Importance enough
to be removed. So they make majority re-
port recommending an alteration in the Con-
stitution, to meet the cowardly runaways /;
men who would enjoy the protection and
privileges of the country, when peace pervades
the land-but when perils environ it, would
skulk like SO many rats, to holes for protec-
ton, rather than prove their manhood by risk
ing something for the mother whose fertile
bosom has fed them. Let them stand the
1 drah, or forfeit the ballot. Cumberers Of the
ground, they are not worthy of the upright
position which Providence, for some mysteri-
Gus purpose, has youchsafed themi ~
The powers of the liquor agent are to be
enlarged Or rather, House document No.
81, says they ought to be. And SO it is pro-
posed to allow him ID sell to duly authorized
agents OF cities, &C., out of the State. Well,
that is fair. Other States sell their liquor to
us, through their agents-whie our law has
restricted the agent to sales in this State only.
1t is what the boys call tit for tat. Now, as
the year has never yet been named, by the
keenest researcher into futurity, when we are
to cease leglslating on intoxicating liquors, it
isquiie well to keep to work on it in harm
less direction. Let the agent sell, to whomsoev-
erwill buy, without regard to State lines-pro.
vided always, that he is well assured IL is to be
used tor a good purpose-which means, of
course, arts, science and sickness.
When Mr.. Jordan was returned to his pleas
ant residence in Berwick, and his seat adjudg.
ed to another man --by vote Of about four to
one-it was supposed that the matter was put
to sleep as soundly as sleep the resolves eulo-
CYSTIC of the venerated Everett, on the table
Of the Senate. No trump has yet pealed a
note loud enough to resurrect those resolves,
so ably supported and unanimously passed in
the House. Not SO, with the question of the
business Of the Berwick decision. Mr. Crosby
4 of Dsxter, attempted to raise that ghost.
] which it was supposed was SO absolutely laid.
Mr.. Wilson of Thomaston, first tried it inefIec-
tually-then some days after, Mr.. Crosby
moved an order, calling upon the judges Of
the 8. j. Court, to give their views of that
clause in the Constitution, which sent Mr..
Jordan whirling home. at the rate Of twenty
miles an hour, over the Kennebec road, on
Saturday, the 18th ult. Itwould be pretty
piece oil business enough, to prove now, by
the opinion Of these learned pundits, that that
exodus was made twenty miles per hour too
rapidly, and that Mr.. Lord was the wrong
man in the wrong place-and that Jordan had
been bowed out of his seat without authority.
hold no grudge against brother Crosby
and ! was glad to see him elected Speaker pro
tenn on Saturday, in the absence of the Speak
er. But after all, as the House passed upon
the matter fully and deliberately, by large
majority-after as able a debate al has been