The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-10
Dominion and Provincial Matters,

ihC W. coHH NclOS COilpldiIS tUdC D0e DOCKS
of the city courts are full of men arrested for
drunkenness. ...s..-.st --.-.a
Large passenger lists are reported daily over
the Il. & N. A. Railway. - m.
The Toronto Globe accuses the Ministry of
attempting to smuggle bill through Parlia-
ment for 'the establishment of a system of
redeemable paper money" The Globe says that
the result OF making paper money legal tender
will be to drive coin out of the country. There
seems to be little chance for the success of the
measure.
The Washington treaty has been the subject
OF lengthy debate in the Dominion Pa Ria
ment the past week. The Globe strongly urges
the Assembly to reject it and take the conse-
quences. 500 80
The school laws of New Brunswick have got
into the Dominion Parliament, the matter be-
ing carried there by the Catholics, who demand
separate schools. Outside of the interest that
the matter itself involves, the question of how
the Dominion government en- interfere with
local legislation, is an important one. An op-
position paper says ''thc constitution which had
hitherto worked so easily and SO well could not
survive the wrench that would be given if the
Dominion government assumed to dictate the
policy or question the action of the legislatures
Of the different Provinces on subjects reserved
to those legislatures
In severe attack upon the action and speech
of Sir John Mcdonald on the Washington
treaty, the Arcadian Recorder says of the Brit
ish Commissioners:
As to the action of the Yankee High Joints
in this matter it is plain enough that they be-
NAh fhnu in thn fS1. ,sSSsn,
men of putty, whom they could knead, roll.
twist, pat, mould. and remould into any shape
they pleased; and they resolved to handle them
accordingly The result shows that their esti-
mate was correct a ..--.-z III
The Halifax Recorder says the United States
''gridiron" is beginning to resume its old place
among the shipping in this port. The large
American bark &c. A. Littlefeld, !" from Eng
land, with general cargo for this port arrived
this morning. i
( AN HONEST JUDGMENT.-The New York
Post says no paper in the Union expresses it's
opinions with greater impartially and Judgment
than the Independent which represents what
may be called the general sentiments of the
Protestant religious classes, and no paper has
greater influence with it's readers. What it
says of the ludicrous nomination at Cincinnati,
then, may be regarded as the decision of the
average good sense and disinterestedness of the
American community. The Independent has,
no more than we have, personal animosity
against Mr.. Greeley; on the contrary, it ad-
mires his character and course in many respects;
but it does not blind its eyes to his signal in
capacity for high public Office 1t says:
AS journalist Mr.. Greeley has been emf
nently successful. This is the field on which
he has won all his victories, and with it he
should be content. His best position is that of
a member of minority party, watching and
crlticlsing the majority, while having no political
responsibility for the measures that may be
adopted. AS leader, standard-bearer, a wise
and sagacious counselor, the record of his life
supplies abundant reasons for believing that he
would be signal failure. He has already COM
United so many blunders that even his warmest
admirers trust his Judgment with caution. The
crotchety structure of his mind, his vacllation
OF purpose, except when made persistent by
passion, his tendency to extremes, his lack of
courage and firmness the violent character of
his preJudices, the facility with which he NAV
be deceived in his estimate of men and meas
ures, and the general uncertainty of his mem
tai movements-facts that have become pro-
verbal in the history of Mr.. Greeley, especially
since his course during and after the late war
pre-eminently disqualify him for the the COM
plicated and responsible duties of the Presi-
ucHcy VI bHeSe OHltcu otdteS.
The Post adds: "That is, we have no doubt,
the honest opinion of nine-tenths of the people
who know Greeley, or who have watched his
career: and it will be the opinion of the other
tenth, we think, before this canvass is closed.
His own journal may fill its columns with the
utterances of the newspapers, and of the more
excitable politicians the mere Efroth of an
effervesing public sentiment-but these will not
finally determine the popular judgment. The
sober second thought of the people, as Mr.
Van Buren, wisely called it, is the final arbiter''
A MARRYING WOMAN. = Father, son and
nephe,c marry the same ,oOnaan-James Smith,
a young man twenty-five years of age was
brought up at Jefferson market Court New
York, Wednesday, for assaulting Eliza Brown
ell, keeper of a disreputable house in Greene
street. When the young man was arragned
before Justice Cox, his father, Geo. Jefferson
Smith, Marshal in the First District Civil
Court, and formerly Police Captain in the Sixth
Precinct, baIled him out Mr.. Smith, ST.,
made the following extraordinary statement:
Judge Cox, this woman first married my
nephew, then myself, and now my son. My
nephew, Alexander Dulles, was an officer in the
Confederate service, and on his coming to this |
,ity at the close of the war he met this woman |
md married her. They went to Charleston,
d ", t'hu sohuC pclSOuS Tile HOCel, knowing
ler character, informed her if she did not leave |
,he town she would be tarred and feathered |
they came back here and quarreled. She OBJ
Ialned divorce, and on his threatening to stab
ner II she refused to live with him, had him
s sIres . and sent on the Island for year.
She Then married me. | then kent hotel in
Mna m Long Island, and brought her there
thsr son n nad charge of the place, for was only
as Ma ~ night, having to attend to my duties
t ny absence s she got control of my son, and
ram away t Mth after her marriage with me she
Haven, Conn; and married him mn Tbe ev c,me
5aen aefe, and growing tired Of him In time
rested ON charges of assault ana mSat .Eg MN ar
2im herself, she kept him away iron from 0 mew
Bnwe gUlnH8 oe take ana him
,ver him again. Mr. Smith. Wb sne e, will
his his statement Il. is aye very wealthy man, owning
eal estate in the City valued at $aOO,oOO HE
Island, and after building the Town Hall there
presented it to the Selectmen of the place. Tn
l,a, oIa IL f4I..