The Portland daily press., 1868-07-30

The CAMPAIGN IN MAINE.-Capt G. B.
Rounds, formerly of Auburn. is hard at work
"on the stump" in Washington county for
Grant and Colfax
The Machias Union ventures doubt at this
late lay as to whether there were many dele
gates present at the Republican State Conven-
ton. A few Democrats who ventured into
City Hall at the time had no doubt whatever
about it,
Parkman correspondent of the Dover
Observer says "it is now asserted that Sey-
mour will be elected President, as it is Under
stood that everybody will vote for him except
the Republicans, War Democrats, Floating
Population and colored men,"
The North Anson Advocate is distressed be-
cause "Ben. Norris" formerly resident of
Somerset county, but now citizen of Alaba-
ma, has been admitted to seat in Congress.
If there is any such thing as what he lawyers
call "estoppel" in politics, the Advocate would
be precluded from fault finding by the fact
that the only serious objection to Norris's ad-
mission came from Brooks, Democratic car
pet-bagger from Maine, and that about the
same time one Mann, of Gorham, Me-, whose
family still resides here, was admitted to a seat
as Democratic Representative from Louis
lana.
Hon. Joseph Baker will address the Angus
ia Grant Club on Tuesday evening of next
week, at the hall of the club, on the subject of
Taxation.
A laborer' writes to the Kennebec journal
thus: How is it with the Democratic city
government of Augusta? By it's DEGREES the
time allowed for the benefit of discount on
taxes of five per cent. is but ten days. OF
course the rich who have money at command
can take advantage of this snubbing system by
paying their tax forthwith and thus save per
cent. but if others not so rich, the common
people, find themselves unable to pay before
September 1st they are notified that instead
of having any discount in their favor they will
be charged per cent additional 20 the tax
assessed! thus discriminating against the la
boring classes by making them pay II per
cent more than the rich. This is Democratic
love- of the common people; this is Democratic
abholrence of taxes against the poor"
News ITEMs.-Charles G. Atkins, one of the
State Fish Commissioners is successful in the
artificial propagation of shad. The location
chosen is just below the Augusta dam. From
thirty to forty thousand young shad which
will arrive at maturity next season, have been
produced already.
The marriage of Senator Norton of Mime
sofa to Miss Cortlan, a Baltimore belle has Civ
en- rise to considerable gossip about him. One
correspondent says: "Mr Norton is a remark
able man in some respects. He has been in
the Senate three years, and has never become
infected with disease of cdcOethes loqueadi,
which has hurried so many promising men to
untimely burial. He is not possessed of the
gift of eab,' and has not during that time even
made an extemporaneous remark in the SEN
ate. This has carried the other extreme too
far, for really nothing is known of the junior
Minnesota Senator beyond the general declar-
alton of the ladies that he is very handsome" !"
The French and Turkish Legations in
Washington assert that the Cretan insurrec-
ton has been suppressed by the Turks, and
that the Congressional appeal to the Turks
was consequently unnecessary and uncalled
for.
The New York Board of Health at their reg
ular meeting Tuesday adopted rules and regu-
lations providing for the prompt disinfection
in cases of reported cholera, similar in effect
to those in force last year.
The miners strike in the Pennsylvania coal
regions has come to an end, and the employees
have resumed work in nearly all the colleries.
The rebel John M. Mason with his two
daughters is in Toronto.
Seventy-five persons were poisoned in Som
erville, Tennessee, on the 18th inst, by eating
ice cream into which arsenic had been intro
duced.
Silver mines have been discovered between
Wickenburg and Prescott, near Walnut
Grove, Arizona, of such richness as to throw
the whole population of the Territory into a
fever of excitement.
William B. Astor of New York is reported
to be worth one hundred and twenty millions
of dollars. He pays tax on one-half of that
sum and his real estate is worth double its as
sessed value.
Private letters from we'll informed source
in Paris speak of an approaching war between
France and Germany as inevitable, to COM
mence before the year is out. Some event of
great Importance, precipitating the result, it is
limited, will occur as soon as Count Bismarck
returns to Berlin. These views, it is said, are
very widely entertained in commercial land
financial circles, and merchants and bankers
alike are shaping things accordingly.