The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-16
Political Notes,

A pamphlet has been published in Mobile,
Alabama, bearing the following suggestive
and euphonious title: "Rol of the Black
Dupes and White Renegades who voted in
Mobile City and County for the Menagerie
Constitution for the State of Alabama"
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer says the friends of Mr..
Wade for the Vice-Presidency figure up one
hundred and thirty four delegates at Chicago,
and the friends of Mr.. Colfax ifty-two.
There is a rumor upon somewhat doubtful
authority that Chief Justice Chase will not adj
minister the oath to Mr.. Wade when he be-
comes acting President.
General Sam f. Carey, of Cincinnati, O.,
was the only Representative, with any claims
of being Republican, who voted against the
impeachment resolutions, and the statement
that she lately declined to prosecute the
thieves who robbed him at New York. because
he learned they wanted to test the constitu-
tionality of the laws against theft" is only
fair hit on his reasons for his vote.
Hon. H. II. Starkweather member of Con-
gress from the Third District of Connecticut
has published an address to the Republicans
Of his district, congratulating them on the
act that they have increased their majority IN
nearly every town in New London and Wind
ham Counties, and predicting that in Novem-
Der, with General Grant as their leader, the
State will be triumphantly carried by them.
An dttdche of the New York Herald wrote
the threatening K. K K letters to prominent
Congressman.
The Louisville Democrat says: "Yankee?
Let the name cease to be a reproach. The
Democracy OF Connecticut have redeemed it
and made it glorious" The Democracy of
Connecticut are not Yankees, or Dutchmen. or
Irishmen. They defy classification. They are
sui ge'aeris.
The Hartford Post mentions four prominent
candidates for the position of United States
Senator to succeed Dixon; Henry B. Harrison,
of New Haven; Augustus Brandegee, of New
London; and ex-Governors Buckingham and
Hawley. The Postprefers Gen. HawIey.
The Dmocrats carried Albany, N. Y, and
Lockport, N. j., on Tuesday.
The New York Tribune predicts that the
popular vote in 1868 will amount to over six
millions. In 1864 it was 4,034,7S9.
Inc Argus calls the following from the Lou
lsvllie Courier, a Significant paragraph
Henry Clay Dean and ex-Rev. c. Chancey
Burr dld not stump Connecticut for the Dem.
ocratic party" So it is; the eloven foot uos
disguised in the neatest Of patent leotborS
during the Connecticut campaign
Friend after friend departs" Tho pros;
dent is said to have quarreled with Gen To-
renzo Thomas.
The New York Herald says the Radicals are
going to change the national government to
dictatorship of highly original kind, to be rul-
eddy Grant, the Senate and the National banks,
the term of Office of the President, Vice Presi-
dent and the present Senate is to be extended
10 Ten years from the LIST of March, 1869, and
1ne supreme Court is to be virtually abolished.
1nese De parlous times, my masters"
The Democratic papers are complaining of
the Repblcan Senators because they don't all
vote together.
Col. James Mann, late of Gorbam Maine is
the Democratic candidate for Coperess in tho
Second District Of Louisiana. If he vero q
Republican candidate our Democratic friends
would call him carpet-bagger."
In Bergen, N. j., Hutton, Democrat, was
elected Mayor yesterday. The Democrats
elected seven out of twelve aldermen; a gain
OF six. Hudson City gave thousand Demo-
cratic majority; gain five hundred. Hoboken
Democratic gain Of four OF five hundred.