The Portland daily press., 1868-07-21
Political Notes.

Semmes, the pirate, supports Seymour and
Blair, Of course, and has made a speech urg-
ing their election. 1t is suggested that if they
should happen to be elected, he would make a
good Minister to England to settle the Ala-
ban,a claims. N' @'.aF H+
The Commonwealth says: ave are expecting
every day to hear some enthusiastic Democrat
give as reason for Colfax's uufitness for the
Vice-Presidency, that he was never drunk in
his life." ...l4
Dix to Seymour-"I have troops enough to
take care of the mob, and you too" 1+a,l
Only one Canadian paper discusses the Pres
idential nominations of the two parties in this
country, and that is the Toronto Globe, which,
being friendly to the United Statesis naturally
friendly to the Republican party and its NOM
inees. Aa 0s1e.saJ g 20 a5lai44g ..ts
Where did Gen. Blair graduate? One paper
says that he is an alumnus of Princeton and a
third that the University of North Carolina is
his alma mater. 5000 al1 ea 81. s+og., ssse
Robert Toombs who once proposed to call his
slave roll from Bunker Hill Monument has
lately made one of his ACKNOWLEDGMENT in
Atlanta, declaring that Gen. Grants demand
for peace cannot be answered unless the De-
mocracy succeed. Among other things he
said: l9gd Haf -a Fad. sef 7.l
will tell you another fact which is enough
for this time, that as the late war was produced
py the defedted Democratic party in 1860. we
snau never have peace until it is restored in
1868. If Gen. Grant wants peace let him ioin
the Democratic party. [Cheers | saw. by
God, that neither despotism nor tyran-
ny, nor injustice, meets with peace in
this world or the next. We want no peace in
Cnalna. Of 4.
ana as we have now no possibility of fighting
with the sword, let us fight with the ballot-box.
line Manchester Union tells good story. In
the northern part of Merrmack county a crowd
OF the unterrified We're sitting in a piazza the
other day, when an old traveller, ragged, dirty,
rusty, unshaved and unshorn, and evidently
half-seas over, strolled up to the piazza and
stared vacantly at the crowd which began to
ply him with questions Finallya man said to
him. You're Seymour man, aren't you, old
iehowf Strengthening up, the old chap ans
wered, FROM my present appearance Won
would probably judge l was a Democrat but
I.aint. learnt my politics before took 10
drink"
Collector Smythe having been rejected as
minister to Austria it is now the .nrn of
the poet SAKE to be nominated,
1t is said that some of the Democratic SEN
ators are urging to President to veto the tax
Dill. They are the agents OF the whiskey
ring.
The st. Louis Democrat says that the nomi-
nation of Frank Blair by the Democrats will
add 5000 to the Republican majority in Mis-
souri,. . Ell E...
Congressman seem determined to start for
home the first of next month. Besides ALI the
other reasons We have given for their remain.
ing in session, there is one of great Importance
johnson has entirely recovered from his i'm
peachment fright, and shows the asperity eff
MS feelIngs by the flood of vetoes and messages
ne Is inn'cting upon the country. He only
awaits the adjournment of Congress to make
new aggressive movement, tho e. - ~
which will be the pntting of Cooner tI'a "
torious, in Mr. Rollins place, as Internal Ra,,
enue Commissioner ad interim.
Whatever may be thought of the Repub-
licans in Congress who opposed impeachment
there is no difference of opinion. so far as wa
can discover, in regard to the conduct of
Messrs Stevens, Butler and Pike, in stepping
off from the most creditabIe and the strongest
plank in the Chicago platform, and towing with
the hideous monster of reputation.