The Portland daily press., 1867-07-18

| President of The Senate, though it ought to lie
! known to everybody in this country that the
Senate chooses its President when there is
/ Vice President of the United States, quite as
much as when there is no such officer in exist
| ence. -.-y-- FNtl-
HELIoTYroGR is term applied to
new and wonderful development of modern
science, by which the Photographic art may be
| used for the production of metallic types by
which the pictures made by the sun may be
| printed in the ordinary letter press style. The
inventors have not yet perfected their discov-
cry, but have gone so lar as to feel certain of
accomplishing great revolution in the art of
| printing. One of the merits of the invention
consists in the ability to change the size of the
picture or page to be reproduced Thus mus
ic of the ordinary piano size, can in few
hours be reprinted in small quarto, octave or
| any other desired size. A map six feet square
can be reduced, and the type made to print an
| illustration for an ordinary volume.
| I'D -s- IT
THE LIQUOR QUESTION IN CoNNECTICUT.-
| The committee OF the Connecticut Legislature,
| which has had under consideration the petit
ton asking for license law, has closed its
| Investigations. The majority report, signed by
five members, will be in favor of granting the
prayer OF the petitioners -Four will stand
by the prohibitory law now on the statute
books OF the State. This result was not unex-
pected among those who knew the compost
ton of the committee. A strong fight will be
made i'll the legislature, but as an adionrn-
ment siue die viii probably lie reached next
week, the matter may finally go over to the
next session. The law reported by the major
| ity OF the Committee constitutes the County
Commissioners an excise board, with power to
| grant licenses to persons of good m oral char
! acter to sell liquor after the LIST of September.
There are TO be no sales on Sunday, nor be-
tween the hours of IL o'clock midnight and
! sunrise, nor to minors under is years of age
without consent of parents and guardians,
and no sale to an habitual drunkard OF an in
toxicated person.
| EUROPEAN CoNoUEsTs IN AsIA.-Late dis
patches mention recent victory of the Cars
troops over the Khan of Bokhara in central
Asia The war in that quarter OF the globe has
been in progress for some years, and though
the success of the Russian troops has not been
by any means uniform, it has resulted in large
acaessions to their rulers domains. 1t is said
that ambassadors from Bokhara to The British
\ government in India have made strenuous eff
forts to enlist the sympathies Of England in
the struggles of their country against the
| Russians, but without success. The victories
OF the Russians in Central Asia and the prog
ress of the French in Cochin China, only serve
to make theaEnglish eager for extending their
boundary in Further India. There is report
Great Britain will soon annex the King
dom of Bufmah. The effete nations of the ORR
ent afford to Eur ,pean powers much more
promising field for their schemes of conquest
than they are able to find on this side of the
Atlantic. Hereafter all the Maximlians will
| probably be sent eastward. 7h 73iiStiiaa2i
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TIE INDIAN WAR.--Generals Buford and
Sanford, who were appointed several months
ago 10 investigate the causes of the Indian
war, agree in reporting that It should not be
continued. 1t is not only wrong in principle
but in policy. War was invited by the Gov
eminent when it ordered the construction Of
the road to Montana from Fort Laramie
through country which had been by treaty
yielded to Indian occupation. We had ceded
It's possession to the tribes, and reclaimed it
without paying them. That they resented this
interference by attacking our frontiers is not
surprising, for we cannot expect from Chey-
| enne chief the moderation of the English
Premier or a French minister OF course the
hostilities OF the Indians, though provoked,
are not therefore to be overlooked but they do
not affect the dignity of the United States, and
they do not compel declaration Of ~ ar ag ainst
the whole Indian race. The true policy is to
punish individuals, punish tribes; keep faith
with our Indian subjects to the letter, and 10
remember, when apparent occasion for war
arises that there can be no worse method of
settling the real matters in dispute, than by
the Inauguration of an indiscriminate warfare
The EUROPEAN PRESS on THE DEATH OF
MAxdfLIAN.-Th tragic death of Maximili.
an has created a profound sensation in Eu-
rope. The london Times, with characteris-
tic torgetfulness of history, talks as if it were
the first event of the kind on record, denounc-
ces it as foul murder, which will cause its
authors to be execrated everywhere, and de
clares that it will reflect eternal disgrace on
the names of Mexico and of Juarez
The Daily News reminds its readers that "if
it be true that this unhappy man has persisted,
| he has only fallen into the snare which he had
set for others. 1t was he a European Prince,
who protested to have gone to Mexico to SOW
| the seeds of civilization-who interrupted the
humanities Of war, and set the horrid exam
| pie Of execution in cold blood" The STAR Mr.
Brights organ, thinks there was far more ex-
cuse for this execution than for the shooting
of Murat, and admits that "if the Mexicans
/ hov va NJ 70 tl,o l,,ol
country, they have acted only on the common
practice of Europe e,rs.lr,,.r .,.-t LIZ ,,.;,
| The Pau Mall Gazette, deploring the
| event, holds the French Emperor directly re-
| sponsIble for it. That journal says: "The
| ghost of the murdered Macmillan will ever
stand beside the Imperial throne The
French Journals, of course, take different
view, 1t is not the French Emperor who is
blamed by them for leaving Mexico, and aban-
doning Macmillan to his fate, but the Ameri- /
can Government which obliged him to do SO.
The Independence Beige refers to the event
in the following terms:. ,.Ferssls,f ,l43, seD
| We can only judge of the simple fact, an
this is to be deplored, though less on account
| of the man who has been the victim, than the
| cause which has made him a martyr. His ca
| reer was over, and to continue in existence
| with the remorse and humilations which must
| accompany it would have been the most cruel
| punishment that could have been inflicted ON
| him. 1t cannot be said that his execution was
| crime, but it was certainly political mis-
| take, as all violent and extreme measures are,
and Republican Mexico will lose in sympathy
| and consideration what it thinks it may have
gained in security.
The ATLANTIC CABLE AS A PAclFIcAToR.--
However correct may have been the views of
the enthusiastic individuals who predicted for
the ocean telegraph important influence in
promoting international comfy and good feel
ing, it is certain that it has not thus far had
| any effect i'll advancing the cause of harmony
among individuals. The New York papers
vent their Indignation at the trumpery dis
patches that reach them from Europe by desie-
mating the man at the other end of the line"
| "being." If calling names We're ALL the trouble
| would not be serious; but when a difficulty
arises between the Directors of the Cable
Company and the members of the Associated
Press that leads to public atfray in which the
nose of Cyrus w. Field is ignominiously pull
| ed the matter becomes alarming. The difficult