The Portland daily press., 1868-06-29

Ihe N. \. Times Washington dispatch says
movement is on foot among Democratic poll
ticians opposed to the nomination of men OF
the Pendleton stripe to urge Gen. Schofeld as
suitable candidate to be brought before the
New York Convention. The movement is en-
tirely unauthorized by Schofeld or any of his
friends
General Butler will probably report from
his impeachment investigation committee to
day.
Noless than fourteen gentlemen are mem
TONED as the probable successors" of Mr..
Fenton as Governor of New York
In Detroit the Democrats have had supreme
municipal control for seven years, and have
increased the taxes from 1872 1922 under Re-
publican administration, to $4S4, 1893.
The Philadelphia Press congratulates the
country that Cincinnati, New York, and
Richmond have all, in turn, been honored by
the late convictions and sentences in the Uni
ted States District Courts of fraudulent reve-
nue. officers, and their next friends in the whis-
ky ring. Let the good work of expurgation be
pushed vigorously on. If the courts of justice
do their duty earnestly and honestly, they can
place Mr. Johnson's friends in the various PEN
Ot Iue uaClOn 1dSCer Cnau ne can
possibly pardon them out.
Mr.. Pendeton said in Congress, in 1862:
"Ycu send these notes out into the world
stamped with irredeemability. You put on
them the mark of Cain, and, like Cain, they
will go forth to be vagabonds and fugitives on
the EARTH" And now he wants to pay off the
debt with these "vagabonds." Certainly it is
vagabond proposition.
It is suspected that the following members
of the New York Convention may fraternize
with the Soldiers gathering" called on the
same day, viz: N. Forrest, General in the
rebel army and the butcher of Fort Pillow; B.
II. Hill, General in the rebel army; John b.
Gordon, General in the rebel army; Thomas
L. Price, General in the rebel army; a. B.
Vance, non-fghtng General in the rebel SER
vice; Wade Hampton, General in the rebel
army; J. G. Barrett, rebel spy during the war:
Robert Ould, rebel agent for the exchange Of
prisoners.
The financial part of Seymour's speech at
Cooper Institute, SO much lauded,by the Dem
ocratic press was said better and in half the
space by Mr.. Blaine in the House two DAYS
before.
Collector Smythe of New York will hardly
be confirmed as Minister to Austria He is
the man who seriously entertained the propo-
sition to raise fund to buy Senators. Under
his weak and inefficient manage ment the New
York Custom House has become corrupt be-
yond even the rather strong precederts OF that
locality.
The Boston Journals Washington special
says that Mr.. Blaine of Maine has been in the
chair during the entire consideration of the
tax bill, and to his exact and rapid ruling Mr..
Schenck, Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means, attributes large part of his sue
cess in securing prompt action.
Gov. Seymours speech is not so satisfac-
tory in its discussion of reconstruction as
in its financial arguments. He holds John
sons plan far preferable to that adopted by
Congress, forgetting that the latter was tried
from the spring of 1865 to April 1867, produc-
ing nothing but anarchy, negro apprentice
laws and bloodshed, while the former in fiji.
teen months has restored seven States to the
Union with democratic institutions.
II is found by the Impeachment Investigat-
ing Committee that Mr.. Evarts' fees from the
government for the three years since Mr..
johnson came into power amount to upwards
OF f.rty-eieht thousand dollars.
Ire President will send one or two vetoes to
the Senate this week, including one of the
District Election bill and of the Freedmen's
Bureau bill.
Though majority of the Maine delegates to
the New York Convention are Pendletonians
IT is reported that one or two of them are for
Frank p. Blair.
Judge Woodward and Hon. John L. Daw
son, of pennsylvania, are named for the Rus
sian mission. Gen. Rosecrans aud Gen. Nc
CIernand, of Illinois, are the prominent per.
sons suggested for the MexicIn mission.
Senator Sherman says that the entire ex-
peuse of collecting our internal revenue is less
than four per cent. In England it is six per
cent. Four per cent. is less than any other
government pas