The Portland daily press., 1867-10-25
Political Notes, 6

An exchange says: "There are some indica-
tons that the Democrats will run their old
ticket, Mcclellan and Pendleton -indecision
and Republication. Such ticket will fairly rep
resent the party which solemnly declared the
war tor the suppression of the rebellion to be a
failure, and which now makes an alliance with
the men who attempted to destroy the Union,
and who are restrained from repeating the at
tempt only by the lack of opportunity"
When the intelligence of the result Of the
Pennsylvania and Ohio elections reached
Montgomery Alabama the old Irish news
agent there ran along the streets with the
morning papers, crying OUT Good news for
the rebels--the best have had since the time
they defeated the Yankees during the WARP /
The aggregate vote for Governor in fifty-six
counties of Ohio is 1921, 351; the vote for and
against the amendment is s,7l4 less. The
Yeas fail 1885 short of Hayes vote and
the Nays exceed Thurman's vote by 101s1
Hayes majority in these counties is 2,O63 %
1t is announced that the time and place OF
holding the Republican National Convention
will be fixed at meeting of the Nationpl
Committee at New York on the 18th of Decem-
Der. t'''---'''-'i t'- @ '''
Parson Brownlow will hardly make one':
ideal of a Senator, yet he can do nothing which
will derogate so much from the dignity of thai
body as the intoxication of McDougal and
Salisbury to which the public has. been accus
toned for years. -,
The Alabama Convention has been called
by Gen. Pope to meet on the 23d of November
the same day with the Louisiana Convention
The reported deficiency in the appropriation
for carrying out the reconstruction act is I'M
founded. The amount is 81, 100000 and over
half million remains nnexpended, after the
most expensive part of the work has been ac-
complished. 7intAjs 9haSf91 10 no'fsiiio
"A washington dispatch says lone Of the OBJ
jews VI secretary Stewards recent visit to
new 1ork was the formation of new Con-
serVative Republican party; and further that
the Premier and A. johnson have n n;,,otno
understanding on politics They cor,oi,1r,
have no understanding on politics with -
the public is acquainted
The New York Herald, after noticino 49,
various newspaper nominations for the next
Presidency, declares them of no account as
the question in the Republican party is mar
rowed down to choice between Grant and
Chase, and in the Democratic party to choice
between Gen. Mcclellan, Horatio Seymour
and George HI. Pendleton. OF Gen. Sherman
the Herald says he has too many peculiar
crochets OF his own TO serve the political pur-
poses OF either party, and so he NAV be count-
ed out. 1lh '1A'1 % Ei'7a
The elections in Indiana indicate a Rennbli.
can majority in the State of not far from thirty
thousand. Nine out of eleven Congressional
districts are Republican; and appearance indj-
cate that the next State election will result in
the choice of a legislature which will send
republican to the Senate of the United
States. .t-'a- As al H5sla.at Qua I3fH5a
Inc ioiedo Blade asserts, on what it cOnsid-
efs good authority, that Hon. Ben. F. Wade
mas no idea Of retiring from public life. His
friends next fall viii present him as a candi-
date for the House of Representatives from, Tho
Nineteenth (Garfeld'sI Congressional n ,hs
trict. ...t......, 20
OF the twenty-one Senatorial nomina,ion.
made in Massachusetts, fourteen are Prohih;
tionists, five License men and two doubtful.