The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-04-24
pOLTTTCIL.

The contest between the friends Of Bucking-
ham, Plat and IIawley over the Connecticut
Scna,orship threatens to be warm ono.
a correspondent who has recently visited An
dcrsonville Cemetery, says: "You may read
statements Of mortality unmovcl, hut when you
see row Of graves Of 1870 men who all died In
ono day, you are shocked. II must have taken
a small army to bury these men. They lay
shoulder to shoulder, rs they stood in the ranks
yet the dead Of one day more than fill row two
hundrcl feet long. My indignation went on In
crcasing from NO. l, diel February q, 1864,
to NO. L.. s4s, died April %, 1861 fear II
we all lived within sight Of Andersonvillc. there
would be no moderate men, hardly any just men,
but nation Of reycnseful men,"
The city authorities Of Norfolk and Ports
mouth, Va, who were required by General
Scho6eld to take the iron-clad oath, have, with
out an exception, notified him Of their inability
to do 50. Many of them were not in the South
ern army, but sympathircd with it, and hence
could not conscientiously take the required oath.
Private advices from the South state that the
rebels are waiting in much trepidaton to see
what the Senate will do with the President. II
he is removed they viii submit to Congress with
little opposition, in the hope that hereafter they
can recover their political ascendency in their
respective States.
The town elections in Ohio and Inliana have
gone strongly Republican. Cleveland, which is
GOO Republican this year, was 400 Democratic
last year. The Republicans carcicd Dayton, the
home Of vallandigham, by 800 majority. Last
fall the coppcrheads carried it by 100. The
vote ON the Michigan Constitution was no test Of
party strength. as nearly as many Republicans
votel against II as Democrats. In the local
elections Of the State the Republicans held their
own. and gained in many places.
The Boston Post thinks that Gen. Hancock
ought to receive the Democratic nomination for
the Presidency. The chief qualification dwelt
upon by the Post, is Hancock's alliance with
the rebels in the fif,h military district.
A Washington dispatch says few foolish
friends Of the President are endeavoring to re
viye the oil stories Of violence in case heis con-
yictcd. They whisper ominously Of Gen. Ham
cral ccpperhead Generals. The President says II
he is convicted he viii take the stump for the
Democratic candidates for President and Vice
President. lie has gone so far as to invite a
fricni to be his companion, which looks very
much as II he regarded conviction as possible.
A. T. Stewart has written letter denying the
report that he has withdrawn from the support
Of Gen. Grant for the Presidency. lie says he
regards Grants election rs ''the only cffectual
way Of giving peace and prosperity to our pres
cnt disunitei Union.
A Washington dispatch after quoting some Of
the rumors circulated by Democrats upsctting
the position of several Republican Senators,
says that ''truc. sensible Republicans laugh at
them. and are willing to wait the result"
Gov. Brownlow of Tennessee has written
letter to Hon. Horace Maynard, one Of the rep
rcscntatives from that State in Congress, in fa-
vor Of the impeachment and removal Of Prcsi-
dent johnson, and expresses the opinion that If
the Senate fails to convict him the rebels will
ultimately obtain complete mastery Of the posi-
ton. .....
General Sherman is detained in Washington,
by the Presidents counsel, very much against
his will. The other members Of the Indian
Peace Commission are waiting for him ut Fort
Laramie, and large number Of Indians are be-
ing fed at the expense Of the Government In
deed, the General says that every day he is de
tanned there costs the country ono thousand dol
lars.
The leading Democratic paper in tho North
west, continues to fire the Democratic heart
with such fuel as this: "T'he learea Of REPU-
DIATION is rorking. The storm, whose dis
tant murmurings rise and fall with every breeze
viii soon break upon the guilty heads Of the
graspins bondhollers and their pcrjurcd polti-
cal minions. The people are fast preparing for
REVOLUTION"
Because T. C. Phillips, elitor of the Kokomo
Und.) Tribune, spoke his mind thus freely Of
Andrew johnson, he has been removed as Special
Mail Agent for Indiana at is time for you,
Andrew johnson, to be going. Take with you
your man servant Seward your maid servant,
Grandmother welles your ass, Alexander W.
Randall. AMI flee to the mountains, where your
face may be seen no more forever"
The Railroads terminating at Chicago will
pass delegates to and from the Republican Ma
tional Convention free Of charge, upon the ap-
plication Of the Chairman Of each State Repub-
lican Central Committee for sufficient number
Of tickets for their respective delegations.
Messrs. ID. F. Rice and Alexander McDonal,
U. s. Senators elect from Arkansas, arc both
persons Of ability and rrspectability, and worthy
of the positions to which they have been chosen.
Mr.. Rice Is the chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, and the result Of the
late State election is largely due to his efficiency
'H' 'VbVhau - "V F'Vs"cht" W TIC rHst Nt-
tional Bank Of Little Rock. and a gentleman If
wealth and patriotism. 1t looks now as though
Arkansas would be fully restored to her old
place in the Union within n very short time,
and South Carolina and Georgia will not be far
behind her.
General wickham, one Of Lees ablcst briga-
der generals, has announced his determination
to net with the Republican party. lie is sew
srly cen.urci by the cx-Confslerates Of yir-
ginia.
The Springfield Republican s,ys that If the
truth we're known, probably the vote cast in the
third and ifth warls Of New Haven, aud the
sixth Of Hartford, constitutes one of.thc most
touching tributes to the memory Of the depsrt-