The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-21
Political N0fea.

The committee on southern railroads will
ask the House to order an investigation of the
post Office departments. They alIege that there
Is an abundance OF evidence, taken by them.
which warrants the suspicion that Randall has
not administered the department honestly.
The Republicans OF New Hampshire are cir
eulating thousands OF copies of the infamous
letter of franklin Pierce to JEFF Davis, written
at the Clarendon Hotel, January 6, 1860. in
which he predicted that "the fighting would
be within our own borders in our own streets /"
The Hon. j. Il. Flanders, in accepting the
editorship of Democratic paper in Wiscon-
sin, is recommended to the readers as "a
stralght-out secessionist"
A gentleman doing business in Cincinnati
is going to send home to New Hampshire to
vote the Republican ticket, young man in his
employ, give his time and pay his expenses
That is the spirit.
The Maryland Legislature will probably
elect GOV. Swami as United States senator in
place of Philip f. Thomas, who has been
rejected on account of his disloyalty. Gov.
Swann's record is more Objectionable than
Thomas's and there is small probability that
he would be allowed to take his seat. The e.
nal result of the whole affair NAV be the re-
election Of Reverdy johnson, of whom a cor
respondent of the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser admiringly says: "To see him in the
Senate, one is reminded of the days when-in
what is now the supreme court room-tbe
sunny smiles OF Clay lit up the hearts moved
by his eloquence, and when Webster stood in
fore nsic glory, expounding, in the deep-toned
hor ,fb IS
ton"
The Freedmen's Bureau has been discontin-
1ed in West Virginia.
A Washington dispatch says that the Sur
raft trial has been put over by the wish of all
parties interested to the March term of the
court when Chief Justice Cartier will preside
he VIII not allow any fooling or brow-beating
by the counsel.
1ue common Council of New York has APP
propriated the sum of $1,000 for the portraits
OF Mayor Holman and ex-Mayor Gnnther
The World says that there are over a tnpdrod
thousand people out of endowment in Tho,
city and gives detailed accounts Of ,ha dos,i
tuition among the laboring classes. Yet nen,.
ocrats will "retrench" in the manner aho,-o
stated. - ...-
The New Hampshire cores pondent of the
New York Herald, after visiting different sec
tons of the State and conyersing with lead
srs of both parties, has no doubt of the re-
election of Governor Hartman. ......
AT the instance of Mr.. Blaine OF this State
the President has been requested to lay be-
lore Congress all the correspondence relating
70 Inc nomination of Sherman as brevet GEN
eral.
A Washington dispatch says that Thomas
McCreey of Kentucky, elected to the Senate
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resiopa-
ton of Mr. Guthrie, is citizen OF Davis cam
ty and is known throughout the State as a
hne speaker and a successful advocate, bnt
has lived in Imperative retirement for some
years. The representatives from his stste
speak Of him as man of fine abilities.
Senator Morton has received six hundred
congratulatory letters since he made his great
speech on reconstruction.