The Portland daily press., 1865-10-17

SUoOu 20 agree Win MIN pOHtlcdlty III rs
cent speech the senior Grant said "Our fight
istransferred to the ballot; it is our duty as
patriotic citizens not to allow this miserable old
Locofoco-Lecompton- Copperhead faction to be
galvanized into life, on the pretense that it is
the only party that can save the country"
| EB~ The Lawrence american says 'Fhe
nomination of Gen. Banks was an unmistaka-
BILE triumph of merit over circumstances. Re-
turning, after five years absence to his old
| District, less than two weeks prior to the day of
the Convention, three-fourths Of the delegates
already chosen and pledged to others, the tri-
umph of Gen. Banks is one of the most COM
plete and 1attering compliments he could re-
ceive, and evinced the deep hold he had upon
the confidence and esteem Of the people OF the
District,
THE World having repeated the SANDER
| against Mr.. Greeley, that he was ON the record
as having proposed the assumption OF the Rebel
debt! the latter says "thef falsehood would dis
| prace felon Its impudence is redeemed by
no scintilla of ingenuity. Its authors ears
should be nailed to the pillory with the rustiest
sort of ten-penny."
ErGen Banks takes unequivocal ground
in favor eff negro suffrage. Some one having
taunted him as being NEEDY politician the
Newburyport Herald - semi conservative
says "This is most TO his credit. He returns
from conquest without the spoils of war; he
has not robbed the defeated; he has not plum
dered the widows and orphans that the war has
made; he has not despoiled the men under his
command; his hands are unpolluted with
brides; and he comes. back to his home, after
four years of service where a mercenary man
would have filled his pockets, poorer than he
went away" ~
The Baltimore american says the freed
men in Alexandria = class that "can't take
care of themselves = not feeling inclined to
pay the exorbitant prices asked for coal by
dealers in that place, have formed protective
Associations, and procured several cargoes of
coal from distance, portion of which they
have disposed of to prominent white citizens of
the town at much lower figure than it could
be purchased from the regular dealers
vs. Philadelphia paper says that John
Wilkes Booth owned thirtieth interest in the
Homestead oil well at Pit-hole Greek, which
has stopped running, and it is possible that
Booth has tapped it at the other end. q
90 The New York Herald is unsparing in
its abuse of Mr.. Stanton, and of his late Assisl
tant, G. A. Dana, now of the Chicago Repatbli-
can. Mr.. Dana refers to this fact as follows
"It was our lot while serving in the war office
to be repeatedly applied to by the World, or by
its representatives, for passes to admit cores
pondents and reporters of that journal to the
different armies in the field and we always
refused them on account of the VIGOROUSLY
reasonable and disloyal character of the
World We accordingly rec ,gnize the perfect
right of that journal to abuse us with all the
sources of its great invectiye faculty, and we
trust it viii continue to exercise the privilege
with all its might"
% Massachusetts, sent fourteen hundred
men to the navy during the war. Two of them
are now rear-admirals, six commodores and four
captains
E-The venerable Madam Eustis, widow of
Governor William Eustis, died at her residence
in Roxbpry, Thursday, at the age of eighty
four years She was the daughter of the late
Woodbury. Langdon of New Hampshire, and
has survived her husband more than forty
years.
E5No democratic paper that we have seen,
has published the speech of Gov. Marvin at
Quincy, Fla What are they afraid of?
The New York Neocs, since the Presi-
: dents speech to the colored troops, puts him
down with the radicals"
G3 An old unoccupied dwelling house, be-
longing to Mr.. Rufus Rogers, of Topsham, west
Of his residence, was burned on Saturday night
week
sS3- A subscriber at Small Point, Phips-
burg, requests her weekly Press stopped on ac-
count of the expense. She says in note that
the postage is ha!f a dollar for flee quarters.
We trust no official takes advantage OF a sub
scriber's Ignorance of the law. The postage is
only tace'aty~ cents year, or twenty-five cents
for five quarters.
The proprietor of the Biddeford Journal
proposes to enlarge his paper so as to accom-
MEDIATE his increasing advertising patronage.
B Mr. Ruskin who is allowed to be Judge
of such matters, says that the present style of
female dress is the most graceful and artistic
ever worn. = - - t--~A
B-The Southern politicians are generally
in favor of negro suffering. r
BB Quincy Market-The place where the
Boston extremes meat. IrsH
go Carl Schurz is about to start a Republi-
can paper in St. Louis
, EzF- The Concord Monitor, weekly edition
the first number of which has been received at
this office, is as neat as new pin. tits made
up in quartz form, double the size of the daily.
at 81 year, and is worthy of forty thousand
subscribers. The Monitor is one of the few
papers that we can afford to steal from. Ordi-
narily we prefer to give credit to save our own
credit 4
eB- Information has been received at the
Freedmen's Bureau from Alabama, that small
pox is raging al through the State. Although
every precaution had been taken to prevent its
spreading, new cases appeared daily.
B4y-The jacksonville tFlorida) Mirror con-
tradiets the report Of the prevalence of the
yellow fever in that city.
~ The "a Maine Cavalry. 1t Fort Barancas,
Fla. have been ordered 10 be mustered out,
which viii leave very few troops in the State. 3
gB-Master Richard Coker, the boy soprano,
Is goineft London.
E1-rhe population Of Lowell is supposed
70 have increased Goo since the first Of May.
~ Herseheii v. johnson Of Georgia, advi-
ses the people Of that State 70 send men to Con-
gress, vino can take tho test oath.
kW-Dr. j. b. Church, who committed an
outrage upon little girl At New Bedford, few
weeks ince, was arrested at Prospect, in this
state. While on Che way 10 Boston, in charge
Of an oGicer. he jumped from the window Of
railroad car and escaped
EV-Collector King Of the New York Gus
tom House beheaded twenty-five special aids
On Saturday. Among those newly appointed
were three one-armsd soldiers.
49, The teacher Of the colOged school at
GreenEille, Tennessee, was notified by the citi-
zens 70 leave Immediately after the withdrawal
Of troops from that place.
~ rroles .or Smell of amherst, who has kept
q neteoroiogicd register for twenty-seven
years, states that ne never recorded so small am