The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-08
Political Notes,

Photographs are announced of "Goy.; Sew.
mour at Home" Why not as we have got
shakespeare and his friends" and "Irving and
his friends" give us Seymour and his friends
with blazing orphan asylum in the back
ground. - Z
At recent Second Advent meeting at
GAINESVILLE, Wis :, the preacher was very much
annoyed by Republican and Democrat on
the outskirts of the meeting, discussing as to
who would be the next President The
preacher approached them and said: "My
dear friends, you are exciting yourselves I'M
necessarily and wasting precious time in spec
ulating as to the future of the next President
of the United States, for before an earthly
election ia kes place our blessed Lord will be
President everywhere" "Ill bet you $685."
said the Democrat, she can't carry Kentucky.
Gerrit Smith OF New York, announces HIM
eslf as Grant and Colfax man
The New York Herald comedies that the
Vermont election is an overwhelming Repub-
lican victory."a 8sssf1 as
Cincinnati artist went a few miles into
Kentucky to make painting He stopped al
a small hotel, where his life was endangered
simply because he was from Ohio. One maj
swore he would kill the id Dutch artist from
Ohio, and if he could not find HIM then he
would have him Ku-Kluxed An amiablt
gray haired woman informed him that she
would like to scrub her floor with Yankee
blood. Mr.. Kemper went to Kentucky Sey
mour man. He is now converted. ,
ATerre Haute, Indiana Hebrew offers {
A. AZ
Grant will be the next President.
The Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union, whose
only fear is that Forrest and his bloody-hand
ed followers may be "too hasty," breathes ou
with Southern sweetness this gentle admoni-
ton: .. ~ .,,t. ..... .,..yt,
Suffer any and all taunts and tyranny unit
after November, and then-well we would rath
er be nimble squirrel than white Radical
The New Haven Palladium denies that the
naturalization law of the Connecticut legisla
ture has failed to take effect by reason of al
error in engrossing and adds that it is in full
force any virtue unless it has been tempered
with since it went into the hands of the Dem
ocratic Secretary of State. 2tyA4danTUH
The editor of the Lebanon (O.) Patriot a
Democratic paper, says he cannot, consistent
ly with his record as a war Democrat, support
Mr.. Vallandigham for Congress. IS f'tta
| Mr.. Glenn, the member of the New York
Assembly who was conspicuous for preferrine
charges of bribery against certain fellow mem
bers, has been renominated by the Republi
cans. p ,.i y -e.ss.yF
Chicago now has seven thousand "Tanners,'
or nearly half the Republican voters of Cook
| county. Among them, it is stated, are not less
than six hundred Jews, of whom one hundred
were Democrats before the Democratic nom
has been effected by the silly diatribes in ths
Democratic papers against General Grant fol-
his "Jew order" efelt sissts7ss.F y q
When Rosecrans returned to Washington
he denied that any correspondence had taker
place between himself and the Rebel chiefs
The explanation OF the denial given is that the
johnson men thought his mission failure
and it was then deemed best to suppress the
letters, but that General Rosecrans' vanity
finally led to disregard of their desires.
A we'll informed writer in Ohio makes &
careful survey of the political prospects of the
West, comprising the States OF West Virginia
kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis-.
souri, Kansas and Nebraska making thirteen
States, and giving 121 electoral votes H.
comes to the conclusion that Kentucky, alone
will go Democratic, and that of tho 12l vote,
given by these States, Ill will be given t.
Grant. With them, his election by large
majority il certain. F sIte