The Portland daily press., 1868-03-03
Political Notes.

ri 1a Judge Jeremiah Black doesn't take any
credit for the recent repeated mistakes of the
. President. Speaking of Stantons removal
5u he said: 1.-THE papers talk about me as the
Presidents chief adviser. That's all humbug
n he sends for me sometimes, but he rarely fol-
lows my advice; if he did he would not make
sr such id tool of himself so often"
agi Orders have been issued by Gen. Hancock
reinstating the aldermen and ass istant alder
Dol men who were removed by special order No
A. This was done by direction of General
Grant r --.. -
Mrs. Cobb, the famous pardon brokeress
whose intrigues with the President have pro-
voked SO much scandal. watched the proceed
ings on impeachment in the House of Rep
q o. resentatives, Monday, with deep interest I'M
til the final vote was announced, when she
turned to gentleman standing near, and
said with deep sigh, $50 the poor old man is
gone at last"
,arl7 Friday at noon double guard was placed
at all entrances to the War Department. Two
20 commissioned officers are stationed inside the
b building. At night double line OF troops en-
3 circles the building This additional precau-
ton is not explained. -
sza Hon. Leonard SWEET of Chicago, formerly of
Turner in this State, is prominently mention
! ed in connection with the Republican guber-
material nomination in Illinois. Mr.. SWEET
. was the competitor of Gov. Yates, in the con-
vention of 1860, and was the intimate friend of
the late President Lincoln. -.
Neither Fessenden, Trumbull nor Grant
saw Stanton during last week. So much for
the story that those gentlemen are urging the
Secretary to resign. q
Friday night the President gave an enter
tainment to the Supreme Court at which all
the Justices except Chase were present.
The license-aw bill has been rejected in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Mr.. Schenek announced on Friday that the
tax on carriages will not be retained in the
new tax bill. There is another OF Brewsters
guns spiked. eaosf -
When Gen. Sherman lately passed through
Cincinnati, in talking about the correspon-
dence between Grant and johnson, he said in
an emphatic way "Gen. Grant is right, sir;
Gen. Grant is right in this matter"
A curious politician notes the fact that Gen.
Harrison died in one month after taking Tom
Ewing into bis cabinet, and Gen. Taylor died
in six months after Ewing joined his couacils.
~ A correspondent of the Chicago Journal
SAYS that he has it on the best authority, that
Gen. Grant and Admiral Foote jointly signed
pledge of total abstinence shortly after the
fall of Fort Henry in 1862.
In his speech at Frankfort, Jesse d. Bright
declared that if he had his way the govern
ment should never discharge cent of its own
oepts, but should pay for "every dollars
worth OF property destroyed during the war in
Kentucky and Maryland" That is to say, we |
snould repudiate our own oblinotions and ae |
sumo the losses of the Confedaratos WIFI, |
shows that the Democratic nlan Of ra,,,dio+;o,,
is not based upon even a false oo,ao,,,;a,, ~
economy, but springs from natural fordnoss
for either secession or swindliup.
The Mobile Register still contends +1,o+ A.,
Alabama Constitution has been ratified h.,
majority of the registered voters.
o. The Lexington (Ky.) Statesman announces
that William H. Wordsworth, late Democratic
member of Congress from Maysville District,
has announced his intention to act in future
with the Republican party.
Brick Pomeroy advertises for Southern |
nag to hang up in his sanctum.
g Ihe btterest enemies of Congress must adj
NIT that both Senate and House have pro-
ceeded with great delberation and dignity
since the impeachment OF the President. The
proposition to hold no official -intercoprse with
the President while his trial IS nroceedino
does not seem to meet with much favor
TIE managers selected by the House Of Ron.
resentatives to conduct the Impeachment wi
al are Butler and Boutwell, of Massachusetts
Logan of Illinois, Williams and Stevens of
Pennsylvania, Bingham of Ohio, and Wilson
of Iowa. All of them are lawyers and all are
very able men,