The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-07-14
PRESS.
CORTLAND.
Wednesday Morning, July IA, 1869.
Republican Nominations.
u FOR GOVERNOR ais s.,.,.
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN,
Le,er fs.m .he .r.hwe..-No. VIII.
OF BRUNSWICK.

- OF BRUNSWICK 'aif'
| Letter from the Nsrfhwcsf-No. VIII.
~ ST.. PAUL, MNN., July 5, 1859.
TO the Editor of the Press. .,st-as s.f .,a f't-
Afew weeks since was conversng with
somewhat distinguished ex-judicial officer of
this State, and, alluding incidentally to an
extravagant statement which had that day
appeared in the local paper OF the place, he
abruptly interrupted: "By the way, did you
ever consider the singular power there is In
printed word?" Not exactly comprehending
the object of his query, 1 remarked that /
heard Starr King, in lecture on Substance
and Show" illustrate one of his propositions
by referring to the fact that barbarous ma
tions, whose character had without improve
nlent or change withstood the pressure of
long, expensive and bloody wars, waged in
the name Of Christianity, had by single leaf
of the New Testament, falling in the midst
gently as descending snowflake, containing
the simple sentence-"God is Loven-been
gradually converted from savage idolaters
into loving subjects of the ''Prince of Peace
80, I didn't refer to any po wer of that
kind" said my judicial friend,-aa power be-
hind rather than IN the words,-but refer.
red to things of every day life and experience.
The learned judge upon the bench", he con-
tinued, "the profound divine, the erudite
scholar, the philosopher, the statesmen and
the sage, take up newspaper or a nameless
book, and their eyes rest upon a singular
and novel proposition; statement bearing
upon divinity, science, philosophy, political,
economy or ethics, they read it again, delib-
erately and with emphasis; they remove care
fully and readjust their spectacles, and then
read still again, and finally fold the paper OF
close the book remarking, well, we viii think
this matter over when more at leisure' "And
yet," continued the judge" If the very man
whose brain conceived and whose hand pro-
duced the sentence, had made the same re-
mark orally in their presence, it would not
have commanded second thought or receiv-
ed more than the merest passing notice.
ash silf A PARALLEL .aa llf i4os5 sd'l
This conversation of my learned and difni-
fed friend, was called to mind few days,
since, while reading an article in the Press
inrelation to the "Great West and isother-
NAL lines, and could not avoid thinking, Mr..
Editor, if you had wiped your glasses little
more carefully, perhaps you would not have
deemed a quotation you made deserving the
candid treatment which you meted out to it,
orlif you had known more of the authority
from which you copied, you would hardly
have considered it deserving the attention
you invoked for it on the part of your numer-
GUS readers.
The article to which refer was in part
copied from Western paper, of pretentious
name-in the locality where published well
understood to be in the special interest Of
speculation and spectators, which treated of
valuations of climate and the singular deflec-
ton of sa : 's99 fas- ZIG H' q nn'
81 III NORTHERNAL LINES. tn a.faf
These lines, your readers understand, inn
aginary like those of latitude. and longitude,
indicate regions of equal degrees of heat or
like temperature, and inferentially suggests
similarity ofproducts of the soil. We e8
The financial journal from which you
made by Western papers) stated that the sum-
mer isothcrmal OF North Cape, Norway, in
latitude II degrees North, passes through the
great wheat growing region of Russia, and in
its western courEe strikes the American coast
on Long Island, sweeps down through Penn
sylvania, then up through northern Ohio.
passes around the foot of Lake Michigan.
strikes the Mississippi river little north of
st. Paul, and defects still farther north
through the valleys Of the Red river and Sas-
katehewan to latitude 5S degrees north!
ID POWER OF PRINTED WORDS.
Now all this being in print, the statement
has all the wonderful power resulting from the
fact to which the exjudge referred, as set
forth in the beginning OF this letter. When a
paper comes to us purporting to be the "Com-
mercial Regulator" the Financial Expositor,s
the "Wholesale Trade Journal" the sGold
Balance" or with any similar high-sounding
title, we naturally attach Importance to state
ments BY lying within its special field of OBJ
servation, and think its oracular teachings
worthy, If net of general acceptation, at least
OF careful consideration. lie teiiinf9d .aa' E
EHo sa1eia 4 ILLUSTRATION ~ eH s'i e 4i
The printed proceedings Of what purported
to be large. harmonious, enthusiastic and
respectable meeting, speaking unanimously
as 'fsce, the people Of England" no doubt
were read with deep and electric interest by
the dignified and naturally phlegmatic John
Bulls of that day, AMI possibly might have
been regarded as the rumblings and mutter-
ings of an incipient political volcano about 10
burst forth beneath the foundations of the
worlds metropolis; but when it was learned
that the entire meeting, thus augustly set
forth, consisted Of only three dilapidated jour
neymen tailors, convened by the light of .
single tallow candle in a London eockloft, the
significance of the printed word faded. away,
and the voice of the meeting no longer sway
ed and influenced the 'surging masses of the
British population. = v,.. ~. 6rs -
So, too, when it is known that the "Gold
Balance" like some old-fasbioned wildcat
bank, represents only an inkstand, parcel of
soiled cheap paper, and few shnllngs in
nickels; that all the brains and money behind
the Commercial Regulator" would be made
quate to construct mud scow; that the
sWholesale Trade Journal is conducted by
am ex-peanut pedlar, whose entire stock of ex-
perience and knowledge of trade and the laws
governing it have been acquired in operating
a capital of fsix bits; that the Financial
Expositor" is made up in small pawn shop
where the most extensive fnahcialo operations
consistin loaniDg small sums on dilapidated
dandy's wardrobe, pinchbeck watch or
paste ring; when such knowledge is obtained,
we cease to ponder over the lucubrations and
learned saws Of the two-penny Solons whose
@printed word may have at first fallen upon
the ear with startling effect. t5st -,
w RETURN TO IsorHERMALs. q obs 30
| But come back to the subject of isother-
mals; the most convenient dodge yet discov-
cred BY which land speculators contrive to
make the worse appear the better side. 1t
would seem at first blush as though no words
were needed to satisfy intelligent readers that
| the climate of North Cape. -four and half