The Portland daily press., 1869-06-30

Gossip and G1eanings.
Paper cuffs Newspaper attacks.
"A colored preacher in Georgia can be
heard two miles when he gets warmed up TO
his work.
-Asyou are strong, be merciful. Beat your
carpets il you like, but don't hit 'eD achen they
are do,cnl
The indictments against Leonard Houck,
late President of the Meachant's National
Bank Washington, has been dismissed.
Extremes meet in Chicago, where now q
wife has sued to obtain possession of her hus-
band, who has been carried of by brother.
The Richmond Enquirer exclaims, "the
gallant Mosby is for Walker" The less Mos
by the more Walker
The attractions at Saratoga this season are
new springs, geological garden, and mon
ster ball room.
AN exhibition in Hamilton, Ontario, came
to a sudden close the other day. A fifteen foot
snake got out of its cage.
| Madame Bastanelli- -Tamanti has died at
Potsdam at the pleasing age OF one hundred
years. She made her debut as a prima
donna during the reign of Frederick the
Great.
The first salmon seen in the Merrimac riv-
er at Amoskeag Falls, for thirty years, was
| caught the other day. 1t is believed to be one
hatched from ova planted in the Pemigewas-
set in the fall of 1866.
"A Michigander only thirty-three years of
age has gone to State Prison for the fourth
time to serve out a sentence Of three years
Ia ,na1 klo
seventeen.
The Virginia canvass has brought from
their retirement large number of the ancient
political fossils of the State, who have been al
together forgotten since the war.
Miss Florence Rice, a young Michigan
contralto, is now in Paris.> Her voice is prais-
ed very much by the critics, and after year
or so of severe study she will probably venture
on debnt in Europe.
The Louisville (Ky.) Times bluntly tells
Jubal A. Early that If he would only keep his
mouth shut he would do vastly more service to
the suffering people South than in any other
way.
Ii it be true that the bones Of the Confed
crates who fell at Gettysburg are, in certain
places, sticking out OF the ground, the matte
se~e~~.aAnt itself would do anything wrong in
seeing that they are inferred. -
The New York Evening Mail condemns
with just severity the increasing practice with
some newspapers Of printing ridiculous car
toons and comic illustrations in their columns
1t says: "It is as though we should see Mr..
Greeley, or Mr.. Evarts, or Mr.. Beeoher, in the
motley Of circus clown and perpetrating
coarse jokes on his rival or enemies"
"A man in Orange, Ionia county, stored
| quantity OF maple sugar in the chamber of his
house this spring. The honey-bees of neigh
Dor have been drawing from his store for ma
| terial for honey, entering through the chinks
between the logs. 1t has been found imp ossi-
| BILE to dislodge the intruders, who have actual
~ driven the family from the house on several
| occasions.
Dana, in the Sun, says Of Smthson,who
has sued the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton for pro-
ceeding against him during the war as a rebel
| spy, that if he would change the ground of his
complaint, and bring an action against the
former Secretary of War for not having hang
ed him, he would show a better understand
| ing Of the case.
| The ex-President of the Royal Astronom-
ical Society of England startles his readers by
drawing the conclusion, in new essay, that
the length of our day has been certainly in
creasing; that ''the length of day may be ex-
pected ultimately to become yeari" Howev-
er-one's nerves become steady again when the
estimate of the increase Of six seconds in the
course of million years. As Mr.. Pritchard
| Justly remarks, the day win not be lengthen-
ed into year "in our fime.''
The oath Of fidelity to the Spanish Consti-
tuition aiken by the members Of the Cortes Is
drawn up in the following terms: 81 swear
by my religious faith, by my love for my coun-
try, and my honor as caballero to observe
and cause to be observed this Constitution, the
legitimate emanation of the national sover-
eighty"
An indignant Postmaster out West de.
mands discharge as follows:
DEAR Sm,-I asked You for my resignation
| some time ago, and recommended Alexander
d. Holdridge to be postmaster of this office; it
| is the peoples wish, and he being Republi-
| can, and my being Democrat L thought it
would be Immediately attended to. My busi-
ness is such that must go to Iowa, to be gone
| two or three months; my wife died last July;
/ my daughter and deputy must be absent also.
| am an old man, born in 1900. My GRANDPA
ther was cousin to Ethan Allen; and now,
1
| Congr ess," demand my resignation.
The subject of free seats still agitates the
religious communities of the land. This week
we have the following suggestions ON the sub
| ject by Rev. Mr.. Fulton, pastor of fremont
Temple Church, who has had great experience
in the matter. He says:
Build peoples churches so largo that every
| other seat may be free, so that the revenue
| from rentals win deffay the larger proportion
| of expenditure, and permit the collection to do
| the rest. Then you have the benefit Of both
| systems. None are debarred the privileges Of
worship; and begging, which must form q
part of minister's duty, and which depends
| so much ON the minister, can be dispensed
with. fremont Temple is free. In every city
there should be some such place. 1t is diff
| cult to sustain it. Only few ofwhat are call
ed our first families win support it. But these
would do their duty for Christ's sake, and in
Vulnerable benefits will thereby be conferred
upon the friendless and homeless ones crowd
ing our large cities
Zion's Advocate thus discusses the chances
of Lay Delegation editorially:~
The only place where there is any contest
over Lay Delegation, is in New York. Local
causes have produced irritations, and the
two journals there, divide the churches.
Elsewhere there is no excitement. A fair vote
is being polled, and almost unanimously for
the change. If there was opposition, there
ects, there is less need for large vote in favor
As il looks now, the vote in its favor will be
several fold more than against.
"A deacon of a church in Kalamazoo, Michi
gan, has given an edifice to the society on
condition that it shall hesfFee and that there
shall be congregational singing.
AN Episcopal clergyman of South Carroll
ma thus sums up the condition of the church
there, comparing it to that of 1860:
We had then 20 clergymen-now 53. OF
these, only 40 are at work. Our parishes, then
| 20, are now 50 nominally, but services in only
| AZ; and of this number only 10 enjoy the stat
ed services of resident pastors. OF funds be-
fore the war, the Society for the Widows and
| Orphans of our Clergy rad capital of $780,
600, now reduced by one half: tor the support
| of our bishops, 10000, now about $50 900; and
| out of $4,000, our Society for the Advance
ment Of Christianity has lost nearly S60,O00.-
| OF our church buildings, 13 have been destroy
ed, and about 26 chapels for negroes-a loss Of
at least $120, ,000-besides about 100000 in-
| vested in lands, bonds and stocks, now value
| less. Our Theological Seminary Is bankrupt,
| OF its library, and that which the Advances
ment Society had been fifty years in collecting
| we have rescued from the flames about one
third, mostly of broken sets. A legacy OF
about 100000 is almost alllgopR- ia Confeder-
ate Investments and the gessral wreck. The
total loss to us as Church is not less than one
million dollars.