The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-23
Current Notes.

| Pat Donan, of the notorious Lexington
| MOI Caucasian, is not dead, and now the
Missouri papers are calling upon the Louis
port to the contrary, to send on man to
make good its statement.
The Commercial Advertiser exclaims, ooh,
mighty Cesar! hath it come to this?" Ex-
Governor Seymour has been nominated by
the Democrats for Assemblyman from the
First District Of Oneida. And now, what
next? Perhaps Mr. Herman will accept a
Coronership in Utica
1t would seem that in this contrast of num-
bers between the Evangelical alliance and the
Free Religious meetings lies the most evident
lesson OF the hour. The minds that feel no
absolute need OF a personal religion are few
and in many ways exceptional. The mass of
mankind, whatever may be their intellectual
characteristics, find it hard to live without
some immediate and sensible dependence
upon a higher power. Heinrich Heine ex-
said he must have ''a God to whom he could
talk in the sleeplessness of midnight." New
YORK Tribune.
favor the national savings bank scheme. 1t
says: "The friends of the measure claim that it
is the duty of the government to provide abb
selute security against loss for its citizens by
offering the p orer classes safe place of de-
posit for their small earnings. We do not
think so. 1t is no part of the duty of govern
ment to receive deposits for the accommoda-
ton of its citizens any more than it is to
bnild and rent houses, or loan money for
their accommodation. We would much Iath-
er see the functions of government curtailed
and the number of its officers reduced tlan
extended"
SIT is said that nine-tenths of the ministers
OF the country are not as well paid as base
ball professionals. And pray, why should
they be? The base ball professional has to
go round the country toiling and struggling
with balls and bats and cigars and champagne
and things, while the minister has little or
nothing to do bat get up in the pulpit and
preach. -C0urier-JournGl.
The Waupnn wis., Leader thus pointedly
states an axiom: THE duty of the citizen is
not wholly performed by the election of good
men to Office. Continued watchfulness over
the public interest is needed. A cordial sup
port of every measure tending to secure good
government is an ever-present duty. which
should never be neglected"
Inc Phladelphla N0fth American thus
comments upon an event of peculiar import
to the iron trade: s'The New York Shipping
List of the 9Th contains an incident of more
significance than is often packed in the same
space, when it says that no ship of the Black
Ball line has arrived at New York from Liv-
erpool, in forty years existence, without an
invoice of iron as part of her cargo, until the
Charles B. Marshall entered few days be-
fore. After forty years struggle, then, so
much has been gained by American iron in
dustry forty years of trial, suffering, hope,
and courage that suggest the like term in the
wilderness. One, and principal packet line
has dispatched a ship from Liverpool to New
York without iron in her cargo! 1t is not
the first gun Of victorious attainment for
American industry, but it is loud one, and
will be heard far and wide."