The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17

The San Francisco News Letter impolitely
alludes to Mr.. Joaquin Miller as ''the long
haired, greasy bowler of The Serras," and
the English public as an (ex) head man
among the Moaocs. A Modoc chief would
hardly deign to eat out Of the same dish with
him, it says.
The Philadelphia North american says:
esWhat we want is not foreign market for
our produce, but an increased home market.
We iced not diminish our crops. There are
thousands at the South who never eat wheat
bread because it ie beyond Their reach.
There are other thousands who cannot get
even corn bread, a ID therefore eat clay.
For these the grand civiiizer must be the
railway, ami by that agency the West must
send its grain to the South to feed those who
raise cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, hemp, and
who make tar, pitch, turpentine, resin, and
who gather sumac or work in the factories"
A series of caricatures now popular in
Vienna represents the Austrian idea of the
besetting sins of the great powers. Prussia,
naughty dame resting upon a sword, rep
resents Pride; England is a scrawny female
seated on a cotton bale, and is called Ava
rice; Russia goes skating and scowling by
under the name of Envy; Turkey lois on a
sofa, fat odalisque, as Luxury; France,
with mans hat in one baud and glass of
champagne in the other, dances decollete
/ cancan, and is called Immodesty; Spain is
wild Petroleuse, and represents Anger; Scot
land is a bonny lass, dropping to sleep on
mountain side, as Lazness; America sits on
pile of Pub. Docs, scribbling furiously, and
the iuiquity she represents bears the uncanny
name OF "Zetungschreiberei."
In these days when banks have to sustain
so many breaches of trust, it is no wonder that
they occasionally announce themselves as
uspenders.-W Worcester, Mass, Press.
We always took great delight in Mr.. Cur
tis's "Easy Chair" in the Harper's Magazine,
but we never knew before exactly what be
did to it. We have some light on that point
from the Chicago Aduance, which speaks of
"the Easy Chair, which he has gided with
graceful renown." The trope is trife con-
fusing.-Sprinafeld Republican.
A lively verbal warfare is going on between
the Winnemucca Register and the Unionville
Siloer State, both published in Nevada. The
latter paper, after severely rejecting on the
paternity of the editor of the former, says
that be is a hunchback ape who can't write
his own name without wiping his nose with
his tongue. A cringing, debased, and decrep-
it wretch, whom, had be even the semblarce
OF human being, we would kick publicly
through the streets of Winnemucca.
believe all historians will hereafter admit
that the policy of the bold and well-planned
attempt to seize hold of the power of the
United States to promote slavery was almost
the greatest escape civilization has ever had
Mr.. Forster.
The Chicago Times, which has been called
Democratic, says: "That eminently servile
| organ of putrid Renaissance, the World
4 OF New York, enumerates few of what it
calls the popular decisions of last Novem-
| ber.'"
Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, expresses
his view of the proper policy to be pursued
by the Republicans in Congress, as follows
Reduction of the Congressmens salary to
S5,O0O; measures to reduce the cost of trans
portatlon; the reduction of taxes: retreuch-
ment in expenditures; and the adoption of
measures to raise our paper money to the
| specie standard.
1t seems to us that Mr.. Murray is carving
| the horse business little too far. he NAV
be devoting the proper degree of attention to
the dnties of his sacred calling, But we can
not help thinking that the Gospel has, at
least during the present season, played second
fiddle to the horse.-Neoo London Telegram
1t is hardly safe, nowadays, to name a
mountain or baby after a man, till he is
dead. He may embezzle or take back pay,
| or become a dreadful railway autocrat, or a
candidate for the presidency, then you'll wish
you hadn't done it.-Grace Greenwood.