The Portland daily press., 1868-07-16
Political Notes.

The Tribune happens to know that Re-
publican from another State, vino was in
New York when Seymour was nominated, left
$4,000 at the st. Nicholas to be invested on
the election of Grant and Cofax, if any Sey-
mourite should have equal faith in the sue
cess of mis- candidate and it has not yet heard
of any one going for that money.
The report of the Special Committee APP
pointed by the Constitutional Convention of
Texas to inquire into and report the number
of outrages and assassinations in that State
OF which Union men were the victims shows
that during the administration of Gen. Ham
cock and Gov. Throckmorton the lumber of
murders in the State averaged fifty flee month
ly, and during the administration of Gen
Buchanan SIXTY per month, while the number
during Gen. SheridaDs administration did
not exceed an average of nine for the same Pc
Rod!
The fifth district Repnb can Congress
onal convention assemblies at Ellsworth on
the fifth of next mouth.
Lynch, Perham, Peters and Pike voted
against the appropriate on for the purcha of
Alaska. The bill has yet to pass the Senate,
but it will meet with little opposition there
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Post says that Chief Justice
Chase declared Tuesday to western friend
that while he could not personally accord
with the resolution against the Reconstruction
acts, and believed that the pre- sent Constitu.
tions of the South ought to stand till changed
by the people of each State, all voting yet he
was Democtat-a States Rights Deme-
crat and in full sympathy with the Democrat
ic party. He also spoke very highly of Ho-
ratio Seymour. This quiets the story about
the third party.
The New York Tribune strangely enough
winds up sermon on the political sin of over
confidence and its fatal results by declaring
that the only States that are morally certain
to go for Seymour and Blair are Kentucky,
Mary land and Delaware land even Deiaa-
ware might be carried for Grant if his friends
were as active and jealous as they should be"
Mr.. Pend!eton had a telegraphic wire laid at
his own expense from the main line to his res
idence, in order to receive the news from the
New York Convention comfortably. He got
all arranged Just in season to hear of Sey.
mour's nomination.
Hon. Martin f. Conway, formerly member
of Congress from Kansas, is now in Washing
ton, and announces himself for Grant and
Colfax. He has been an adhereut of Presi-
dent johnson.
The New York Democratic State Conven-
ton will probably be held about the 10th of
August, and John I. Hoffman and Henry G.
Murphy are the most prominent candidates
tor its nomination for governor. The chances
are in favor of the former since Mr.. Murphy
has lost Peter Cagger one of bis strongest
supporters.
A Southern Republican paper shrewdly
placed its hopes of success in "an abiding faith
in the stupidity Of the Democratic party" 1t
must have been premonition of the nominal
ton of Seymour aud Blair.
A letter from reliable New York cores
pendent says that over 10000 voters in that
city, in the banks, insurance offices, stores,
marts of trade and among the mechanics who
though-not exactly Democrats, would have
gone for what they call Conservative man,
openly avow themselves for Grant
The Democratic convention for this Con-
gressional district is to be held at Biddeford
on the 4th of August.
A Democratic paper makes the following al.
fusion to John Wilkes Booth: "Some few
years after these stirring events, John Wilkes
Booth, young man of generous impulses,
fne attachments, manly sentiments and noble
aspirations, whose gentle manners won your
heart stung to the quick by the sight of his
country's wrongs and injuries, conceived the
bold idea of freeing that country from the iron
rule. and, in obedience to the promptings of u
patriotic heart, shot the foul usurper dead"