The Portland daily press., 1866-10-20

Saturday Morning, October TO- 1866.
Mayor Hoffman ana Governor Jenkhn-
PORTLAND.

Mayor Hoffman ana Governor jenkins.
Mayor Hoffman, unlike Mr. johnson, has
not reached the summit of his ambition. He
is mayor of New York, which to be sure is
something. 1t is better than to be merely an
alderman in bis native village. lndeed' IL Is
not to be disguised that aldermen IN dotnah
do not sustain desirable reputation, either
morally or mentally. Mayor Hoffman has
therefore cause TO seriously congratulate himself
that he is not an alderman. His aspirations
however are not confined to Manhattan. That
well inhabited and i'll regulated i land does
not offer sufficient scope for the display of his
executive talents, and he aspires to govern
the State. By way. of dieting for governor.
ship, probably, Mayor Hoffman dined lately
with Governor Jenkins of Georgia. After
wards he made a speech somewhere for
get where, bat it was reported in the World
aud related to the assembled people the aston
ishing circumstances of that semi official din
ner.
Il dined the other day, in New York, says
Hoffman impressivey, "with Governor Jen-
kins of Georgia" The World does not men
ton any applause at this point. We rather
wonder at this, for there can be no reasonable
doubt that gentle murmur of admiration
was audible, and the World reporter must
have had keen ear and quite mysterious
faculty of discrimination, since he mentions
elsewhere simultaneous and finely contrasted
demonstrations which he calls Applause for
the speaker and Kisses for Congress" A re-
porter who can distribute the applause and
Kisses like that, would be expected to notice
any demonstration attending Mr.. Hoffman S
announcement of an important fact about his
dinner; but we can only repeat that the World
is silent Oh this point.
Mayor Hoffman proceeded to reveal the
conversation which enlivened his square
meal with Governor Jenkins Tho revelation
resembles some of Mr.. Stewards disclosures of
cabinet secrets, in both matter and manner.
Georgia. said jenkins, ''is the Empire State
OF the South, but we can't deyelope it." Civil
war won't do it, certainly, and the Georgian
Legislature seems to have become aware Of
that circumstance, for the Governor proceed
ed to say, holding up a glass OF wine to the
light, one fancies, with an approving glance
I'VE passed last winter series of laws for the
incorporation OF companies to invite North
ern capital down there to develope our re-
sources" If Northern capitalists are so pune
tilious as to wait for an invitation before I'M
dertaking to develope the resources of Geor-
gia, we should call it very good plan to send
them a neat invitation. The finest cream
laid paper and the most brilliant feats of typo
graphy would not be unworthily bestowed in
announcing that the State Of Georgia will be
Eat home and receive United States stocks,
greenbacks, gold, in short any form Of North
ern capital on short notice and to any amount
after date fixed. But we venture to SUGGEST
that it was unnecessary to organize 'sincolpo
rated companies for this purpose. We con-
tlive to get up balls and give parties at the
North without depending on corporate bodies
to distribute the invitations. The business
might certainly have been entrusted to the
Governor. ~
What appears to have puzzled Mr.. Hoff.
man however, was the circumstance that the
invitations after all did not get abroad
"Why," said he, "dd you not send up your
law here, to let the people know what you
were doing?" Sir" replied the Governor OF
all the Georgias, with all imaginable wave Of
his napkin, "we did not have money enough
in the State treasury to pay for more printing
than was needed for the public Offices And
that is all on this important subject There
are no newspapers in Georgia, OF in New York
i'll which law to "develope the resources" OF
Georgia could be published. of course There
was no way in which to bring the matter be-
fore the public, and il naturally slahAia-l' ---
This GtIk of inviting Northern n.en to in
vest in the Southern States under present cir
-cumstances, reminds us of .wo tame wolves,
o. which we have heard. The wolves were
very tame so tame as to be "the incest play
things in the world A gentlemen called to
see the creatures. The lady OF the house le-
marked TO him that they were very tame
just see here" said she, and fondled them
as if they were innocent little babes. "You
put your hands upon them and see how tame
they are" she inyiiingly suggested. Ofeodrse
he would, but, as he approached four rows OF
teeth admonished him to keep safe distance
Yet this the woman assured him was only a
playful demonstration, and to show him how
exceedingly well tanned they were, she enter
ed the house and returned with three little
kittens, which she placed before the wolves.
She then engaged in further conversation
with her visitor, and soon after, both hearing
a faint squeak, turned round just in time to
see the tail of kitten number three going down
the throat OF the tamest wolf. We regret to
believe that Nertherners would be very UNI
wise just at this juncture, to test the tame
ness of the Southern States by exposing CAPT
tai there. aara .Fa -