The Portland daily press., 1868-10-02

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Z The Washington Chronicle learns that the
Sed,for Of the Mobile Register has received a
letter from Manton Marble, editor of the New
York World, counselling change of tone on
the mart of Southern politicians, and stating
that hundreds of Democrats in New York city
alone were daily going over to the Republican
party in consequence of the extreme opinions
and bitter feelings manifested throughout the
South,
The temperance men in Illinois are making
separate nominations for Congress in few
cases, In the fifth district they have nominal
ed Samuel ID jrr of Neponset.
A partial list of the speakers ON the Repub-
lican side in Pennsylvania during the next
ten days includes the following: Senators VIII
son, Cragin, and Patterson Of New lamp
shire, Representative Dawes, Lawrence, JAKE
Mercur, Stevens of New Hampshire, Ella ana
Banks several new candidates for Congress In
Pennsylvania, Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Col.
John w. Forney, Hon. Horace Greeley, Mayor
McMicbael of Philadelphia, Generals Kinks,
Rawley and Fitzpatrick, Major 2. X. Pang-
born of New Jersey, and Hon. Lewis Barker
of Maine. The entire list comprises no less
than fifty names and iorty-eight meetings are
announced to be held before election.
Hon. Lewis Barker of Maine has now passed
over into Pennsylvania and is laboring there
with great success.
General Carl Schurz writes TO frlend III
Iowa: "From all the States L have Visiled
| have brought back the assurance that the
| Germans will give larger Republican vote
than ever before, and 1 have no doubt Iowa
| will prove no exception to the rule"
The Nashville Banner is becoming fastidi-
| Gus. 1t says:
See to it that the man who blacks your boots
| is good true Democrat; that the man in
| whose hack you ride is opposed to Radical rdS-
| cdtity that the man who saws your wood; who
| cooks your dinner; who drives your plow; who
builds your fence; who shaves your chin, is a
! man who does not agree. that it is right
| that carpet-bagger, an adventurer, an out
| sider, who does not own dollars worth OF
| prope ty, nor soil enough to bury his useless
| carcas>,-etc., ETC., is not the man who ought
to represent this community.
Senator Wilson, according to the New
| York sun, prouOunces the State of Pennsyl-
vania as safe for Grant as Maine or Vermont
Grants probable majority Mr.. Wilson esti-
mates at from fifteen to twenty thousand
The Commercial Advertiser says New York is
rs sure as Massachusetts,.
The Springfield (Mass) Republican, whos'
ecitor has just retained from a tour through
Colorado aud the West, says that il regards
the Republican victory in Colorado "as o
more value as an indication Of the tendencies
Of public opinion than the increased Republi
can naj5rities 10 Vermont aud Maine
Among the recent aceessions 10 the sup
port Of Grant and ColfAx Is Hon. james n
Walton u Philadelphia. originally Of stFOuds
barg, Pa. He Is ooe Of the old Democrats o
tue State. and besides holding other Offices
was Treasurer Of the Uaited States Mint, a
Philadelphia, by appointments of Buchanan
COR four years.
Mr. Pollard, the historian, in his ~Politica
Pamphlct" has the following language:
Men OF the South should realize in a pro
found historical sens, that the COricderai,
! caasr = mach to-day a living actual ONE, A
/ when the htst battle of Manassas was ioughl
II q an uDo0nziuded, living cause.