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The Portland daily press., 1867-10-31
Established June, 20. 93S, 1869. Vol. 6.

THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS is pubiished
-very day, tSunday excepted at No. Prntets'
exchange Exchange Street. Portland,
TSSiS MA. FosTEIs, rnor,asrok.
IEEMs:-Eight Dollars year in adv nee.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The difficulty between Peru and Bra.
iii threatens to assume alarming pro.
portions. The army Of Bolivia with
whom Peru is also at odds, was en-.
camped near Lopez, the President, Mel
gueno, being personally in command
Garibaldi, on arriving at Geneva to
attend the Peace Congress, made a
speech in which he stated that his in
tention of moving on Rome was unal-
terable, and that though deferred, the
plan of action would soon be carried in
to effect.
The Columbian Congress has cxten
ded the Panama Railroad Company's
franchise ninety nine years for the con-
sideration of one million dollars cash
in gold in annual payments ofa quarter
million dollars from date.
The insurrection in spain may be
considered quelled. The insurgents
are fleeing toward the French frontier
and disarming, and thousands in Cata-
.onia, taking advantage Of the profiered
amnesty, have surrendered.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Gen. Gray, the agent of the State of
Missouri, has within two weeks collec-
ted S2,SO0,000 of the war claim of the
State, und deposited the same to its
credit in New York. Over $5,0O0,00O
of the claim of S6,OOO,O00 have now
been collected.
Questions have arisen as TO whether
the amnesty proclamation excluded
from pardon those who held brevet
rank higher than that Of Brigader Gen
eral, and as to whether the term
"agents' includes those who went
abroad to sell bonds and cotton.
A Missouri contemporary says thu
citizens of st. Charles county, i'll tha
State, during the past season, have ex
pended at shows and circuses none,
enough to build half q dozen schoo
houses, and furnish them with librarie
and apparatus.
The Intelligenccr Indignantly denic
that Senator Fessenden has written
letter avowing that he now favOrs i'm
peachment, which is true, so far a!
known. The letter on which the Iorig
inal statement was based, came from
an intimate friend of the Senator, ant
represented him rs favoring impeach
ment.
The largest railway contract evel
made by single person in this coun
try is said to have been made recently
by the Hen. Oakes Ames, of Massachu
sets. 1t is reported that he has con
tracted TO bcild the mountain section
section Of the Pacific Railway, some
six hundred miles in length, for s47,
100000.
Following close upon Garibaldi'l
declaration at the Feneva Peace Con
ference, that it was his unalteaable pur
pose to move on Rome, comes the in
telligencc that dispatches have been re
ccived at Paris announcing that tn
General will Immediately depart for the
Roman frontier,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The editor of an exchange in making
an appeal to his subscribers who are III
arrears to pay up, says:
1--WE hope they will settle without
delay. Not that we want the money
oh, no! Our ink is given US, we steal
our paper, and win our printers wages
at seven-up. So it costs nothing to
carry on business. Nevertheless, as a
matter of accommodation, and to ease
their consciences, we will take what
they owe, if they will send in imme.
diately."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

A certain green customer, who was
stranger to mirrors, and who stepped
into the cabin ofone Of our ocean stea.
mers, stopped in front ofa large pier
glass, which he took for q door, and
seeing his own reflection he said:
81 say mister, when does this ere
boat start ?"
Getting no answer from the dumb re.
Election before him, he again repeated:
81 say mister, when does this ere
boat start ?"
Inccnsed at the silent figure, he broke
out:
$50 to thunder, We darned sassafras
colored, shock headed bullcalf; you
don't look as if you knew much any,
howl!
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The following beautiful verse, were
written before the war, and may have
been read by some OF the Home Jour-
nal readers. Perhaps they will cause
an unbidden tear from the eye of some
one whose welded life is therein re-
Aected. Alas! there are many, we
fear, who are leading lives that strong
ly compare with the coulsur do rose OF
their honeymoon. And yet is strange
strange that frowns and cold words
should come in the married lie. 1t is
so easy, it seems to us, to never have
the first cross word, to always be kind
and happier as we grow older. How
strange such is not the case:
HOW STRANGE.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

QuERY.-How many negroes not 2l
wears old voted at the Brownlow farce
in August last in this State? And
Query, 2d.-How maay young men,
who were never in the Confederate ar
my, and who have become 81 one years
old since the surrender, we're denied
certificates2 And
How many old men were refused GER
tifcates, who never were in any way
A a.cQnnected with the Confederate move.
; mcnt. And
How many whilom Confederates and
renegades from the Confederate army,
who have embraced Badicalism, were
allowed to voter
Just asking for fun. No harm meant
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Military Commanders would set the ex-
ample ofobeying the Constitution rath-
er than Radical will, and forfeit his
commission rather than execute uncon
stitutional opposition upon an unre-
sisting people, such man would soon
have name far above that Of any on
the Continent
And what possible good can come of
the course now being pursued? Can
honor be won by expressing helpless
people? Can greatness be secured by
evecuting usurpations upon the Con
stitution? Can glory be achieved by
removing civil officers, by filling the
land with spies in time of peace, by in
sulting an unolfending people, and by
breeding perpetual hatred between the
sections
The issue is a grand one. Glory is
to he achieved or infamy is Inevitable.
II those who hold the power and could
end all these troubles now, by simply
obeying the Constitution instead Of the
Radical party, fail to do so until the
people shall themselves wake up and
with indignation hurl these Radicals
from power, then, these men who are
now consenting to be made the tools to
execute unconstitutional measures, will
lind themselves sued and arraigned as
criminals before every court in the
land, and they will become a.byeword
and scofting among the living, ant
held up us mere illustrations OF weak
ness and corruption in demoralizec
times, through all generations.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26
Do You Know What You Can
Do?

1t was evident that Jones had very
little conception of the powerful man
he was to fight until McCoole threw of
that slouchy suit and manner, and,
standing erect, displayed his gigantic
proportions to their full advantage
The difference in Jones appearance be-
fore and after McCoole had stripped
reminded us of the following Incl.
dent:
We have men ofvery long bodies and
very short legs and men of very long
legs and very short bodies. One oftht
latter class, who, while sitting down
looks like small man, but who towers
like giant when he gets upon his feet,
once edited country paper near Gin
cinnati.
One day a man who had no acquain
tance with the editor, and who had be
come greatly exasperated at certain
article in the journal rejecting upor
himself, rushed into the editors sane
tum in terrible rage, vengeance in his
eye-and the paper in his hand-espy
ing quiet looking little man sitting b.
the table writing, he rushed up to hin
and exclaimed
"Be you the editor of this paper ?"
II am, sir" was the reply.
"Did you write that infermous arti
Gle on meT pointing to the editoria
in question.
II did write the article you are point
ing at, sir" returned the editor, quiet
ly.
"Then, SIR" exclaimed the enraget
man, pulling off his coat, "do you know
what you can dor
Raising himself slowly upon his fee
until he to wered at least q foot and
half above his would-bc adversary, ant
bringing his fist down on the table saw
agely, lie said, "Well, sir, what can
dO?'
The man eyed him from head to foo
for moment in utter amasement, AM
then slipping on his coat again. ez
claimed,
"What can you do? Well, stranger
| I jcs' think you can give me the gol
darndest mailing that . man ever got
and he hurriedly shot out Of tho office
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The New.York Post is putting jeff.
Thompson, a guerilla on the Confede-
rate side during the war, who is now
out in letter favoring reconstruction
on the Radical plan.
The Radical editors used to hold up
jeff. as a miscreant, undeserving OF
auarter,-but the "miscreant" OF two
or three years ago, by some sort Ohio
cus.pocus, is now transformed into the
."patriot." So we go.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26
THE WORN WEDDING-RING

Your wcdding-ring wears thin, dear
wife; ah summers not a few,
Since | put 1t on your finger first, have
passed DER me and you;
And, love, what changes we have secn--
what cares and pleasures too,
Since you became my own dear wife, when
this old ring was new!
Oh! blessings OH that happy day-thc hap
piest of my life
When, thanks to God, your low sweet Yes
made you my loving wife!
Your heart will say the same, know
that days as dcarto you,
That day that made me yours, dear wife,
when this old ring was new.
How well do remember now, your young
sweet face that day!
How fair you were, how dear You were
my tongue could hardly say;
Nor how doated Oh you. All. how proud
was of you!
But did love you more than now. when
this old ring was new?
No, no; no fairer were you then than at
this hour to me;
And, dear as life to me this day, how could
you dcarer be?
As sweet your face might be that day as
now it is, It's true;
But did know your heart as well as when
this old ring was new?
0 partner Of my gladhess wife, what
care, what grief is there
For you would not bravely face, with
me you would not share!
Oh! what Il weary want had every day II
wanting you-
Wanting the love that God made mine
when this old ring was new!
Years bring fresh links to bind us, wife.
small voices that are here,
Small faces round our fire that make Their
mothers yet more dear;
Small, loving hearts, your care each day
makes yet more like to you
More like the loving heart made mine
when this old ring was new.
And, blessed be God all he has given are
with us yet; around
Our table, every little life lent to us still il
found.
Though cares we've known, with hopcfu
hearts the worst we've struggled thro'
Blessed be his name for all his love sine
this old ring was new.
The past is dear; its sweetness still OH
memories treasure yet;
The gricfs we've borne, together borne, W
would not now forget
Whatever, wife, the future brings, hear
unto heart still true,
Wen share as we have shared all else sine
this old ring was new.
And God spare us 'monsst our sons an
daughters to grow old,
We know his goodness will not let you
heart or mine grow cold.
Your aged eyes will see in mine all they'y
still shown to you,
! And mine in yours all they have see
since this old ring was new.
And oh! when death shall come at last
bid me to my rest,
! May die looking in those eyes, and res
f ing OH that breast.
y Oh. may my parting gaze be blessed wi
the dear sight of you,
OF those fond cyes-fond as they we
when this old ring was new!
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26
By FLORENCE PERCY.

SHOW strange It will be, love-how strange
when we two
Shall be what all lovers become:
You, frigid and faithlcss, l cold and un-
true
You thoughtless of me, and I careless Of
Our pet names grown rusty with nothing
to do
Loves bright web unravelled, and rent,
and worn through,
And life's loom left empty-ah, hum!
All, me,
How strange 1t will be!
"How strange it will be when the witche-
ry goes,
Which makes me seem lovely to-day;
When your thought Of me loses its couleur
de rose:
When every day serves some new fault to
disclose:
When you find I've cold eyes, and an eve.
ry-day nose,
And wonder you could for moment sup
pose
Twas out of the commonplace way
All, me,
How strange it will be!
slow strange it will be, love-how strange
when we meet
Vy:tl, :,,et ., ohtll tnuoh nft ho hopGf
When my pulses no longer delighted beat
At the thought of your coming, the sonnd
of your feet
When watch not your going, far down
the long street:
When your dear, loving voice, now so
tlrillingly sweet,
Grows harsh in reproach or command -
All, me,
How strange it will be!
"How strange it will be, when we willing.
ly stay
Divided the weary day through!
Or. getting remotely apart US we may,
Sit chilly and silent, with nothing to say
Or coolly converse on the news Of the day,
In wearisomc, old married-folks sort OF
way!
shrink from the picture-don't you?
All, me,
How strange it will be!
Dear love, if our hearts do grow torpid
and old,
As so many others have done:
If we let our love perish with hunger and
cold,
If we dim all life's diamonds, and tarnist
its gold,
If we choose to live wretched, and die un-
consoled,
Twill be strangest of all things that ever
were told
AS happening under the sun!
All, me,
How strange it uiN be-
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Ben Wade, in Il speech ut Cleveland,
Ohio, yesterday, expressed his convic-
ton that the country was in perilous
crisis and that the President intended
to enforce his policy at the point of the
bayonet. In private conversation he
afterwards remarked that the late Am
nesty proclamation was war upon the
Union, and that impeachment ought to
be expected.
Ben wants to be President, "peacea
bly, if he can, forcibly if he must" ant
that is why he goes for impeachment
The October elections are making
these demagogues more furious thar
evcr--but their power for mischief is
passing rapidly away.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

SAKE, the joker and poet, was once
taking a trip on q steamer; when he
fell in with lively young lady, to
whom he made himself very agreeable.
Ofcourse he made an impression upon
the damsel, who said, at parting:
Goodbye, Mr.. Sake: I fear you'll
soon be forgetting me-"
"Ah, MISS" said the inveterato puns.
ter, If / was not a married man al
ready, you may be sure I'd be for get
ting YOU"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26
In q Hurry.

A boy with post.office pantaloons
and ventilated hat rushed into drug
store the other day, with dipper in
his hand, and exclaimed:
"Doctor, mother sent me down to
shottecary pop, quicker'n blazes, coz
bulbs sick as the dickens with the pip
cn-chox, and she wants thimblefull
of pollygollic in this dipper, coz We
hadn't got bottle handy. and the kin
pups got the bine Writers int. Got
any?'
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The Louisiana census of 1860 show
ed population of 23,0OO-negroes over
.2l years of age Under Radical regis
tration this year they have increased to
over 10000 voters. The New York
Express shrewdly suggests that the
.ccnsus-takers must have made some
mistake here-seeing that all the able
bodied negroes down there (acc"rding
to radical authorities) laid down their
lives to "saye the Union"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

General Grant has furnished guns,
swords, cannon, caissons, etc, for the
use of the cadets of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute, and has also restored to
the Institute the old Cadet Battery,
which had been taken from it.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

A colored witness was examined in
a Washington City Court, to prove the
identity of a white man the other day.
District Attorney-"Didn't You see
the man?'
Yes, sab, I seed him"
"Was he white man?"
Don't know, sah."
"Do you tell me you saw the mari,
and cannot say whether he was white
or black?'
Yes, sab, I seed him; but dar's so
many white fcllers callin' demselbs mig
gers round here, I can't tell one from
todcr,"
Witness dismissed; explanation sat.
isla tory.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Col. John Forsythe says that "there
is miracle that neither God nor the
devil can work, and that is to make
anything but traitor, renegade, a
coward and a scoundrcl, out of any
Southern born man who would desert
his Southern mother in the hour of her
agonyand become q Radical .'-Louis-
vile Il dyertiser.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The Atlanta. Intclligencer says that
grounds have been leased in that city
for the term of five years, to be occu-
pied as military garrison. This looks
as if Pope regarded his dictatorship as
permanent.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

A cotemporary says: "There is n
man up in Our country who always
pays for his paper in advance. He has
never had q sick day in his life; never
had any corns or toothachc; his pota
toes never rot; the wecvil never eats
his wheat the frost never kills his corn
or beans his babies never cry in the
nirht; and his wife never scolds."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

We are grieved to learn that General
Pope is such decided "cussist." He
declares that "he don't care Oh if
if Order No. 40 does obstruct "recon-
struction. The id newspapers are
fighting him, and he will hit back"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

A letter has been received from
Thomas W. Ward, late collector of Gus
toms at Corpus Christi, Texas, in which
he says the town has been swept by
yellow fever this summer. One-twellth
of its inhabitants, and all the officers OF
the customs, have been down with the
dreadful scourge, and every doctor
and apothecary in town had died.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The following very perspicuous and
laconic manner oftclling plain story
may be instructive to slanderers
"Mother Jasper told me that she
heard Crate Woods wife say that John
Hardstonc's aunt mentioned to her
that Mrs. Trusty was present when the
widow Barman said that Capt. Heart,
alrs cousin thought Ensign Doolittle's
sister believed that old Mrs. Oxby
reckoned that Sam Trihc's better half
had told Mrs. Spaulding that she heard
John Rhenner's woman say tina, her
mother told her that Mrs. Bagatellc
had two husbands"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

"My DEAR" said smiling spouse to
her other half, I'm going . shopping
to-day and want . little change"
"Poohr p responded the savage
"that would be no change at all; you
go shopping every day."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

A young man living in Michigan,
dislocatcd his jaw while yawning, so
that it fell on his neck. A physician
was called who set it in its proper
place, but it fell down three times, and
finally had to be securely tied up to
keep it IN position.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Numerous suits are to be brought
before the Courts for the District of
Columbia to test the constitutionality
of the coniiscation act Eminent coun-
sci have been retained to try the issue,
including Caleb Cushing.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

All Subscriptions Required Strictly IN Advance.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

No notice can be taken Of Anonymous Communica
tions Whatever is intended for insertion In
The Home Journal, must be authenticated by
the name and address of the writer-not nee
cssarily for publication, but as guarantee for
good faith and responsibility
All business letters for this Office should bc nd
dressed to "The Home Journal" Winchester
All communications for publication must bc writ.
ten on one side Of the page and with all other
matters connected with the editorial depart
ment, should be addressed Editor Of The Homo
Journal, Winchester, Tenn.
We cannot, as rule, undertake to return articles
not found suitable for publication.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

81 say, boy, is there anything to
shoot about here?' inquired sports
man of boy he met.
"Well," replied the boy, "nothine
lust about here, but our schoolmastel
is just over the hill there cutting birch
rods; you might walk up and pop him
over"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

al want to buy sewing-machinc."
said an old lady, entering shop.
"Do you wish for machine with .
feller 2" inquired the clerk
"Sakes, no don't want any ofyour
fellers about me-"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

A writer in the New York Express
predicts that the next winter will be a
steady cold season, and not an open
winter, because the bees. have stored
but small amount of honey.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

An infidel on his death bed felt him
self fadriit in the terrible surges of doubt
and uncertainty. Some of his friends
told him to hold on to the end.
~ have no objections to holding on"
was the poor mans answer, "but will
you tell me what to hold on by!"
There is the fatal want. Infdelity
furnishes neither anchor nor hope to
the sinking soul. 1t gives nothing to
hold on by.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Prentice, of the Louisville journal,
gives this advice to The public:
"Never buy goods of those who
don't advertise. They sell so little
that they have to sell dear"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

An exchange thinks liberty, under
Radical manipulation, seems to be re-
solving itself into freedom for thieves
and thraldOm for honest men.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26
Cheerful Contest.

A few years ago, in a village in Ches.
ter county, Pa, the Mcthodists and
Presbyterians each built a church about
the same time. Soon rivalry arose
between them, especially among the jt.
venilc. portion Of the congregations.
On ono occasion the Methodist party
got the best Of an argument in this
way:
"Ah! Iguess we beat you now"
"How:"
"Why, we've got six buried in our
graveyard, and you've only four; and
there's old Mr.. Cooper is going to die
soon, and he'll make SEVEN"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

An eastern exchange thinks the liq
prohibition question in Massachu-
sets may cause the defeat of the regu-
lar Radical candidate for Governor.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The story that the President had is
sued orders for the re re-opeuing of reg.
istration in the South 10 authoritative
" contradictsd by the Int.lligencer.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The rapid advance In gold Il lats 4
attributed 70 serious appeshsaalea et
trouble At Washiustou - coon - ~
Rump Congress assembled
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Steamboats, are prohibited from ar
irving in Montgomery within sixteen
days after leaving infected yellow fever
districts.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

John C. Breckenridge says he is in
favor Of any plan Of reconstr ction
that will bring about peace and har-
mOny.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Senator Chandler's income is said to
be $150,O00.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

1t is stated that the corn crop in
Northern Wisconsin has been much in
jured by the frost.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

A machine in New Haven makes one
hundred fish hooks a minute from q
coil of wire.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

Where is the Union for which mil
lion live aad O. a.0oo. .0QQs 80 Wsee Civ.
en- : asks an Ohio paper.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-26

The health of Chas. Dickens is said
to be quite critical.