The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-07

Tt .is a welJ-Flown fact that during the last
thirty wears the post routes at the North
bava afforded an income to the Department,
while those of the South have been an expense.
to It. IT viii be SO next year, and therefore,
we are prepared to see the Report Of the Post
Office Department for the year ending June
80, 1865, and thereafter, show deficit, and
large one too, ifall the routes asked for at the
South are established.
Letter from the Federal Capital.
Progress In WdshinJton- Col. DahEgrem--
j. M. & the FeaiGns-Itens l4.
st, WASHINGTON, Nov. I'd 1865.
To the Editor of the Press: - 100
The metropolis is gradually becoming indoc-
trinated with northern ideas. As an evidence
ofthis we may cite the factsthat the lecture sys-
TEN, an; essentially Yankeeinstitution is grad
ualy taking firm root in this rather unconge-
NAL soil. 1t is true the lecture going epidem-
ic which visits northern cities with such pune
tilious regularity, comes here at rather uncer-
tain intervals; bat it is sign of hope that it
comes at all. Foury years ago some gentlemen,
who. had come hither in that generalinfux Of
northern barbarians which followed the south
ern exodus, organized and Introduce to this
enlighten town that unparalleled novelty,
a course of popular lectures. The course was
delivered in tbe lecture, room of the Smitbso-
MAN, and was a most decided success. The
next winter, owing to the progressive and
Somewhat radical Character of the first course.
no hall or church could be obtained for SINH
lar lectures in the whole city. Another year
wentbv. and we had three courses announced
besides the scientific one at the Smithsonian.
AZ this last was of character unusually
adapted to common comprehension. and in
fact well calculated to attract the public
Aoassiz. DIR. Lord of New York. and Prof
Whitney of Harvard giving several lectures
each-as Cough moreover lectured several
times on q separate account, drawing OF course
packed houses: the other three courses receiv-
ed but an Indifferent support. Apparently dis
oouraqed by this circumstances. the various
lecture associations died out, and we had no
lectures last1 winter. For this season however
we have the promise of better intellectual fare,
as the Continental Literary Association are
understood to have engaged the services of
several distinguished lecturers, and arrange
ments are said to be making for the delivery
of Dr. Macgowan's lectures on Oriental Life.
The learned Doctor was invited a year since
nv monV Senators ana members OF Jlo House
to deliver them in the Capitol, but circumstan-
ces occurred to prevent. They have been de-
liyered, and received with great favor in Lon
don. Paris. Edinburgh and Dublin.
A further indication of advancing ciyiliza-
ton among us NAV be found in the gradual
decay Of preiudices inGendered by Slavery In
the good old DAYS of bondage and the street
omnibus. no colored nerson' however strono
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on T1,esdav the 91st MI md 1yoro oordncta5
by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, assisted by sew
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