Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-06
Political Notes.

foitlcaI Notes'
1t is reported that the Third party
men in Kentucky are beginning to come
out in favor of the Republicans.
One million of dollars has been re-
.ceived by the Board Of Excise in New
York for licenses to sell Intoxicating
liquors.
1t is said that there are more unem-
ployed workmen in the city of New York
at present than there has been for many
years past.
The Mississippians have begun
movement to raise means to purchase a
home for Mr.. Davis at the capital of the
State.
The Rhode Island General Assem-
bly, has promptly acCeded to the will of
the people of Providence, as expressed at
the recent election, and abolished the
two years term Of Office established by
the amended charter.
The editor Of Western paper is in
favor of woman suffrage, because it is so
pleasant to go around and pick up the
voters, or because he calculates to stay
at home on election day and let some
fair Canvasser come after him.
1t is three years last month since
Macmillan and Carlotta entered the
Mexican capital as Emperor and En-
press, with degree of pomp and cir
cumstance never before in modern times
witnessed in Mexico. 1t has been
wretChed three years for them both.
Hon. J. A. Cresswell, Chairman
of the recent Maryland Republican Con-
vention, has appointed five colored men
as members OF the Republican State
Central Committee OF Maryland from
Baltimore city.
The Newburyport Herald says that
a new association has been formed in
that city, opposed to prohibition and in
favor of making the license law a politi-
cal issue at the next election.
In the Maryland Constitutional Con-
vention, on Tuesday, Mr.. Peters, dele
gate, said that he had received a letter
from G. O'COnnor of New York, In which
he expressed the opinion that slavery
has never been lawfully abolished, and
that the amendment to that effect has no
place in the Constitution.
Hon. John F. Farnsworth Of Illinois
begins next week stamping tour in
North Carolina, which may be extended
into Georgia. j. M. Langston, an elo.
quent lawyer from Ohio, will soon enter
upon an extensive Southern tour for ad-
dressing his race.
"A gentlemen named Field, Vice Pres
ident of the Birmingham Chamber OF
Commerce, is now in Montreal on tour
through the United States and Canada.
to obtain an expression of opinion from
the principal Boards of Trades on the
question of abolishiDg privateering
during war. The Birmingham Board of
Trade is now agtating that subject.
ALI the Republican papers of Ohio
are advocating the equal suffrage amend
ment, while the Democratic organs op.
pose it, but not bitterly as yet. The
clause which DISTINGUISHES deserters
meets more opposition from the Demo
cratic press than the clause enfranchis-
ing the blacks.
The members OF the Grand Army
of the Republic" of Southern Illinois
Will hold a reunion at Clay City, on the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad, TO- day.
A cosmopolitan convention Of the same
organization will be held at Lafayette,
Indiana, on the I'd, Sd AID 4th of July
next, which is expected to be the largest
gathering of soldiers convened since the
suppression of the rebellion.
The official count of votes for Gov.
ernor, cast at the last election in New
Hampshire will be as follows Whole
number, 68, 602; scattering 1885, Walter
Hartman, IS, 8O9; John G. Sinclair, 3d.
667. Harriman's majority 3,016. This an.
nouncement will be extremely gratifying
to the friends of the Governor elect. A
large amount of money was staked on
5000 majority for Hartman.
The Journal of Commerce, Thurlow
Weeds paper, says of Horace Greeleys
letter to the Union League Club:-He
has not for years written anything so
strong, manly and straight to the point
as the letter which astounded his pupils
on Union square when it appeared night
before last. If he keeps on his present
track awhile longer, and should lose en-
tire favor with the men he has brought
up and educated, we don't know but we
may find vacancy for him on the Jour-
nal of Commerce.
"A Tennessee correspondent of the
New York Herald, describing the stump
encounter at Nashville between Emerson
Etberidge and Col. Stokes, says:
"The task, however, undertaken by
Stokes of proving to the blacks that
the Radicals were their true friends was