The Portland daily press., 1868-08-13
Political Notes

st. Louis lately had Democratic mass meet
ing. The Republican said that fifty thousand
were present. The Times, also Democratic,
called the number ten thousand, while the
Democrat gave four or five thousand as liber-
al estimate. lai Mjra ...f s.!t %
Mr. Evarts has finally decided that Rollins
conditional resignation as Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue cannot be accepted by the
President and successor appointed until the
conditions named therein are fulfilled. m
Six of the eleven Republican candidates for
Congressional honors from Indiana were SOL
diers in the war to crush rebellion. Will the
Democracy match this ticket, if they can?
The Hartford Post learning from the Times
that "the common bed-bug has appeared in
very alarming force" in that city, and that
soft soap" is the thing to fix 'em, says that if
soft soap isn't handy Horatio Seymour's let
ter of acceptance should be read to them. That
document is something between "soft soap"
and concentrated lye." .......
The Tennessee election occurs to-day.
A late North Carolina paper has list of per-
sons who say that although they have always
been Democratic they cannot support the tick
ct with Blairs name on it. 'i
Wade Hampton & Co. re straining every
nerve in the campaign in Sou tn Carolina. Gen.
Hampton. Howell Cobb, Gov. Vance, Gov b.
f. Perry, the Hon. j. B. Campbell, Gen. M.
Y. Butler, and others, are addressing large
meetings in every district of the State
his is what the London Spectator saws of
the New York Convention and the platform it
adopted: .-.a.f l..a.- t.-t 90
We never remember to have read American
documents which puzzled us so entirely as the
Democratic platform" and the report of the
meeting by which that platform was accepted
They read as if the Democrats had lost their
senses altogether, had degenerated from great
party to mere faction, too hopeless of success
to care for anything except the programme
which shonld most fully defy and irritate their
antagonists
Morrissey is not to be returned to Congress.
Chanler and Wood from New York city are
also to be laid on the shelf
The Democrats of Wisconsin talk of nomi-
mating Brick Pomeroy for Congress to run in
opposition to General Washburn. -lH
Howell Cobb, after his fiendish speech at
Atlanta. Ga, few days ago, matchmaking
and denouncing the Union men of the South,
should remember Andrew Johnsonss scathing
rebuke delivered in the Senate in 1860 In re-
ferlng to the seeding members of Buchanan's
Cabinet, Mr.. johnson said: "Cobb remained
in the Cabinet until the Treasury was bank
rupt and the national credit disgraced at home
and abroad, and then he conscientiously se,ed
ed" Such is the man who sets himself nm &c
tue censor of men and morals at the Soutb "a
described by one who is at present his bosom
friend
Ihe resident of the South Carolina Demo-
cratic State Convention, held ON the 9Th inst
at Columbia, on taking the chair. said:
Your State has been despoiled of her sovsr-
eighty; your people have been deDrived of
their liberty. You are now enterna on ,h o
great work of restoration We must rastor..
the great. proud, noble Carolina OF former
days. [Cheers. The crumbling walls ana
solitary, smokeless chimneys OF your noble
State honse are typical OF our present political
condition. Thank God, that noble, brave
building lies in ruins. [Applause] Thank
uou, 1t is not desecrated by those beings who
assa ne TO e9lsIate for Us Let us resolve be-
ole nlsn Heaven that the land which was
o i tne nome of the Huguenot and the Cav
amer Shal never be ruled by the Puritan and
African. lGreat applauseJ -
Hon. l. n. Morris, late Democratic ,uambar
of Congress, OF Illinois, now strong for Grant
publishes political letter, which contains Tho
following extraordinary prediction:
A few days after the nominations woro
male by the convention which assembled in
New York on the 4th instant, had a CONVEX
sst,on in Washington City with Gen. Cushing
Vi MasS;achusetts, in which that eminent jurist
ana ana politician sad: "The simple question to
GS rernn at the election i, shall General
naS, or Frank Blair be President for he
I Wiz Jour years? for il Seymoar is elected he
WIN not live year" The announcement. I
;G na,. startled me. knew General Cush-
and tb rm"i hn knowledge of Gov. Seymour,
~Ao 'na' ne never INDUCED in an idle remark