The Portland daily press., 1873-09-25
Current Notes.

Current N0UeS.
An exchange thinks ''you cannot stuff
your ears with wads of greenbacks so effectu-
lily as to drown the voice of universal re-
proach" 1t must be admi ted that unless
one has the gigantic and hyrertrophied ear
peculiar to Chicago no more than moderate
competence could well be crowded therein;
out the salary grabbers seem to have succeed
ID in rendering Themselves pretty effectually
leaf with five thousand dollars.
Old and Ne,o finds the one true basis Of
Repub.canism is the old New England town
Meeting, the best school which America has
Tor the training of Republicans making each
own little Republic in itself, an 'orignal
cell'' in the body polite.
The Catholic World calls for an education
which shall recognize and protect the first
and the most important of all the rights of
citizenship-the right of conscience, which is
grossly violated by the system OF atheistical
education.
The New York Mail says President
Grant never showed more good sense, more
readiness ior an emergency. or greater mas
terry of the situation, than he exhibited during
the Fifth Avenue Conference. he met the
crisis like hero and a statesman.
1t is a strange fact that in pushing railway
bonds, of any character, banking houses can
always count upon the aid of large portion
IF the religious press. A majority probably
If the deuominational papers are ready at
my time not merely to open their advertis-
ing columns for this purpose, but to sell edi-
81 ,,1ofi. f11rr, fhn ntt1n,
into brokers' Office Nay, several of the
eading religious papers have gone so far as to
peddle railroad bonds among their subscribers
for a commission-and we hope they and
heir vctlmiZed subscribers are both satisfied
With the developments OF the current week
NeaU York Tribune.
The lesson is drawn from DR.. Drysdale's
vital statistics that after the age OF twenty
members of either sex may confidently ex-
pect from matrimony an increased longevity
o. at least five years and II diminished pro-
civity to crime and insanity, whilst celibacy
II unsafe, especially for unprotected males.
The close of last week showed greenbacks
TO be much more valuable than the public had
believed; and now the other aud nobler cur
rency is also equally needed in freer supply.
A very slight consideration. will convince any
one that 112 is now too high price for gold
how much more lqu dation is needed before
the country will perceive that we stand at
this moment ON the brink of specie payment
World.
The paper founded by the late democratic
candidate for the presidency has the follow
ng facetious hit: straight democratic pa
pers just now are fond Of quoting, The Old
Guald dies but never surrenders; but, in
e J,o foot hot tbpu artaiplU did
render at Baltimore, let them adopt this as
an amended war-cry: The Old Guard
surrenders but never diesP 1t has the adj
vantage of sincerity"
The suggestion of the New York World
that the government might advantageously
relieve the panic by a temporary issue of
greenbacks is enough to make the hairs OF
the old fashioned democracy stand on end
Cesarism has broken out in Knoxville in
its most malignant type, and Parson Brown
low has been the first person Frustrated
| The malady is said TO have been introduced
| by "a travelling correspondent of the Herald,
When broker advises you to sell out five
| twenties and buy ''fiIst-class' railroad
bond, ask him how much commission he re-
cei7es for placing them and whether he sees
any hay-seed in your eye.-New London TEL
| egrGm.
Judge Fullerton won the $500 purse at
Fleetwood Park yesterday in three straight
heats.-N. Y. Post. We regret to hear that
any New York judge has draggled his ermine
in the mud of the race-course, and so far
forgotten the dignity OF his position as to
indulge in foot race.
All great popular tumults call forth their
heroes, and during the recent financial hurri-
cane there was no grander figure than that
ofthe President standing calm and firm as a
niar of rock amid the breakers of wide
spread alarm and despair.