The Portland daily press., 1873-09-19

back the Lieutenant who had contracted
some three thousand dollars liabilities while
cruising in the Asiatic Squadron, and who
now cau't come home till the accounts are
settled.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Various epithets have been bestowed upon
'the Changers in the West. Tue latest idea is
to call them Potato bugs, title which they
do not dIsown but accept as applicable, mas
much as they are numerous, multiply rapidly
are ''of the right stripe" andpropose to clean
out the entire patch, and then lay by, to
come out bright, new and numerous the uext
season ready to renew the campaign. N. Y.
Mail.
1t nav be said in behalf of Gen. Butler that
when he advertises to go up there is no post
ponement on account of the weather He is
not an adventist or balloonist: but his
robes are always ready aud his preparati us
for departure complete. Rochester IN, "
Democrat.
The particular duty of the Democracy, at
the present juncture, is, according to an
Eastern organ, to permanently Impress pop
ular sentiment with their power as an united
and determined POLITICAL organization" Just
so. And when the Democracy has accom-
plished this remarkable feat, we shall be ready
to believe in the pc sibility of a mans lifting
himself in the air by the straps Of his boots.
PGttsburg Commercial.
The following is specimen of high-toned
journalism in Mississippi:
Would that an avenging heaven would
send a deserving thunder-bolt and strike the
corrupt carcass of this archfiend, Ames. from
His green earth, and consgn it to the worms
of the dust. and that his blackened ard polll-
ted spirit might descend into the bottomless
pit, and there, amid the smoke OF its torrents
. WFiflta and yvronuln fnrayor nd
Il 1t is al undoubted fact, however humiliat-
ing 1t may be, that crime and criminals are
regarded with less horror in America than in
any other country on earth. The fruits of
this laXity of public sentiment, and the con-
sequent failure Of justice, are being piled
mountains high in the form of thefts. of the
most astounding character and crimes of the
| most hideous description. And tue worst
feature of the situation is, that these thef.s
are committed by men wearing the sembance
| OF responsibility, and called 'defalcations;
| the bloody deeds of murder are done by
! gentlemen" and called "homicides - and
| in far too many cases neither the thieves nor
| the mulderers are punished, but permitted to
| go free and allowed to stare the honest por-
! sion of community out of countenance in the
! common walks of respectable life.-Inter
! Ocean.
| IfWashburn is pail-maker, Butler is ca
| pable of judging of his work, as Butler learn
| ed the ira himself when young man, and
has been a ''stavef" ever since.-BostOn Post
No doubt, the happy illustration of Arch.
| bishop Whately, that there are no more notes
in the sunbeam than in the other parts OF
| the atmosphere, though they are more visi-
| bic, is to some extent applicable to the de-
velopments of crime at the present time. II
| is exaggerated in appearance, if not in
| ON INF 70 ,.a1a inn
Gus by any increased means of giving il
| publicity. The telegraph carries the knowl-
elge Of it to every harriet, and brings back
| from every hamlet a reverberation in kino.
| But the thing must exist before it can be
| telegraphed: there must be a noise beft re
there IS an echo. Where there is smoke
there if fire says the adage, and when the
telegraph and the press groan under bur-
den of disclosures, it is because there are cor
ruptions to be disclosed.-N. Y. Post.
the council of ten has been a mnch abused
institution so long a time that every school
| boy has had his fling 1t, together with the
inquistion and the rotten monarchies of Eu-
rope" as an enemy of liberty; but ii had its
| advantages. The innocent man was con-
| demned by less than dozen masked old gen.
tlemen, who were bound to keep their own
counsel for their own sakes; the whole nation
was not called in to partake of their injustice
and the guilty man as he tumhled into the
| canal in a sack, had the consolation of know
| ing that was really the end of him. He would
not be visited in bis last gasp bya score OF
| reporters, nor have his coffin and corpse pho
! tographed for the morning papers. There are
many items Of the civilization of these effete
monarchies which we may study to advantage
! if we do not borrow them. N. 7. Tribune.
We do not see why our contempt: aries
persist in CHASING our Representative Fl. NJ.
| Hall, Esq, among the Democrats. He voted
| for the Republican candidate for Governor
and has repeatedly and openly avowed him.
| american.