The Portland daily press., 1863-01-14
For the Daily Press.
Important Senatorial Caucusing.

Republicans, 106
Democrats, A
Independent Republican,
Total ISL
-lAdvertiser.
The above classification of members of the
House, calls to mind the proceedings of an
independent Republican" caucus, presumed
to have been held in private parlor of one
of the leading hotels at Augusta, to nominate
a'candidate for the U. S. Senate. The pro-
ceedngs, written out at length, would read
something as follows:
Pursuant to call, the Independent Republi-
can member of the House met in caucus at
Room No. =, and was called to order by Mr..
Smith, on whose motion the gentleman from
Westbrook was called to the chair. Frank
Smith was appointed Secretary.
The chairman read the call, and spoke with
evident warmth and emphasis of the import
ance of the movement, in order to relieve the
State of the odium of an abolition repre-
sentative in the L. S. Senate, and to put i'm
his place man of sound conservative views.
who will favor compromise, peace, and the
Crittenden resolutions, and by whom "what
ever intervention and wherever coming can
serve to restore peace to the nation, or the ma
tipu W pcdct. VIII NC uctlUeu an acceptable
gift of Providence, and a God-send of immeas-
urable blessings to this, and all Kindred ma
tions."
The remarks of the eloquent speaker were
greeted with rounds of applause. On motion
of f. o. j. Smith, a committee consisting of
Messrs. Smith. Frank Smith, 1.-THE Secretary
and the editor of the Advertiser, twho had
been courteously invited to occupy seat in
the caucus was appointed by the chair TO
~ nd tb.a &
date for the L. S. Senate, to be supported by
the Independent Republican member of the
House. The committee attended to their du-
ty. and reported as follows:
Whole number of ballots, y
Necessary to a choice, 5-S
Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith,
And Hon. +. o. J. Smith was declared to be
unanimously nominated as the candidate of
the vigorous and promising Independent Re-
publican organization of Maine for Senatorial
honors. The candidate was loudly called for,
and responded in brief speech, in which he
declared that intervention didn't mean inter-
vention, and that deadly hostility to slavery
in 1856 was perfectly compatible with defense
of slavery, as Il God-ordained institution, in
1862.
Alter the adoption of series of resolves.
offered by Mr. Smith, of Westbrook, and brief
speeches from the editor of the Advertiser,
the Hon. Mr.. Smith, and the gentleman from
Forest Home" in which the candidate Was
highly eulogized for giving $500 to encourage
men to enlist in a war in which he gently ad-
vises them to revolt againt authority, to APP
point their own leaders, and to take the con-
duct OF the war and the terms of peace into
their own hands, and for Offering to loan the
government a very large sum of money for
war purposes. which the editor of the Adver-
tiser said it would be bad policy in the State
to accept, the caucus dissolved with three
cheers for the candidate, three for the chair
man, and three for the secretary, and a "tiger"
for the 'bully editor" of the Advertiser, and
adjourned to the bar to flicker up" and treat
good resolution. az. S. c."
REPORT OF THE BANK COMMISSIONERS
We are indebted to the courtesy of A. c. Rob-
bins, Esq, for copy of the Annual Report of
the Bank Commissioners of the State of Maine
for 1862. The commissioners, having visited
all he banks and savings institutions in the