The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-04
Current Notes.

There some talk in evangelical circles of an
attempt to be made soon to introduce the
Christian religion in Chicago-N. Y. Dis
patch.
George Bancroft, if we may believe Mary
Clemmer, gets up every morning at O'Clock
and makes his own fire. Which shows that
fame is not the all of life. Here is a man
known and admired of half the world. and
he doesn't know what happiness is after q
O'Clock in the morning. Democrat.
By the way, what fun it will be to see An
drew and his jury sit down side by side.
Anybody might have known they couldn't
get him out of the presidency, because he
went in so tight.-N. Y. World.
No shrewd actor now travels in the South
without having the play of 'Richelieh" in
his repertoire. When, as the Cardinal, he
says, "Take away the sword; states may be
saved without it," he has time to go out and
count the evenings receipts before the ap-
pl&use, which 'rises and falls, swells into
thunder, and dies away, only to rise again."
and finally subsidies. Times.
The people of Louisiana make it extreme
ly difficult for northern critics to take their
part, even against, manifestly oppressive acts,
for they show contemplate spirit towards
the negroes and disregard of law and order
which cannot be justified. We can conceive
people situated as they are bearing them
selves with such dignity, justice and patience
that the whole country would rally for their
defense. But The evils In Louisiana are not
by any means all ON one side. The assumH-
tions of the "carpet-baggers" have only been
possible because of the folly of the ''c9nser-
vatives," and that is the reason that the
people of the north have looked with apathy
upon the unwarrantable acts of the state gov
ernment that is sustained by federal bayonets.
1t is our duty, of course, to separate princi-
pies from persons i'll making up our Judgment
but we are all more or less subject TO preju-
dices.-BOstOn Herald.
The whole evil of the civil service system
has its origin in this eligibility of the presi-
dent to reelection, and there can be no thor
ougn reform of that civil service until the
president is emancipated and made independ-
ent OF the members of the two houses of Con-
gress, and they, in Ike manner, are relieved
of special fealty to him purchased by the dele
CATION of patronage. Chicago Tribune.
1t seems but the other day that after four
years OF bloody war, costing million of lives
and billions of treasure, the rebellion was
finally subdued. Had any one, on that great
day of AppomattoX Court House, predicted
that in less than ten years the American peo-
pie would put the control ofthe house of the
representatives in the hands of the rebels
there defeated would he not have been pro
nounced madmah? And yet that is pre-.
cisely the result we now see. as the fruit of
the Democratic successes. Many who shared
in bringing it about doubtless had no thought
of such conclusion. And how do they like
the work ?-ALbdny Journal.
1t is reported from Washington that eighty
five members for the Forty-fourth Congress
either served in the confederate army, or held
civil positions under the confederate govern
ment. In either case they may be regarded
as having cast in their fortunes with the
| cause of the rebellion. Now, if this report
be correct, it follows that the proportion of
members of Congress heretofore in the SER
vice of the rebellion is almost exactly the
same as the proportion of the population of
the states engaged in rebellion, and consider
ably greater than the proportion of the white
population of those states. This fact is worth
remembering when the Democratic charge OF
trampling the South under the iron heeP' is
brought forward.-Neu York Times.