The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-06
Political Notes.

The process of reducing the clerical force in
the Treasury Department is still going on.
About q dozen female clerks and copyists
were discharged day or two ago, and many
more have been notified that they will be dis
charged. The report that other female clerks
are being appointed is mistake. No appoint
ments of any kind are being made.
Saturdays New York Tribune says editori-
ally that the executive committee of the Union
Republican Campaign Club sent "a Republic
can voters to their homes in Connecticut on
Friday. U. aaJe. .. -
The New York Worlds Washington dis
patch says General Grants friends in Wash
ington deny that his views on impeachment
have been made known to any one, and say
that there is consequently no authority for
the recent announcement in the Tribune
The frigate Sabine has been detained at
New London, Connecticut, three or four
weeks, at an expense of $4,000, that fifteen
or twenty sailors, who, according to law. have
no right to vote there, may cast their votes for
James English. Democratic economy. a
The Chicago Tribune says that twenty-three
States have held their State or District Re-
publican Conventions and appointed delegates
to the Chicago Convention, and all, without a
break in the line, have pronounced for Gener-
al Grant as their candidate for the Presidency.
"Perley" telegraphs to the Boston journal
that as the trial progresses and witness after
witness is examined, it becomes more and
more evident that the President must be
found guilty. The entire testimony has con-
clusively provedt the assertions of the manag-
ers.
The talk about partisanship in the conduct
of the impeachment trial is conclusively mega
lived by the invariable unanimity of the DEM
ocratic Senators and the independence of the
Republicans 1t is impossible that men so
unlike as Reverdy johnson and Garrett Davis
Ior instance, should agree ON every incidental
question, except on the general ground of sup
porting the President through thick and thin.
Ex-senator Foster of Connecticut is spoken
of as candidate for appointment as one of the
Judges u 'ne court Of Claims, to supply va
cancy caused by the death of Judge Wilmot.
A package OF democratic tickets, designed
for use in one OF the wards in Newport, RI.
on Wednesday, was given to a LADY, NV mis-.
take, and she kept them till late in the after
noon, thinking they were theatre tickets. The
Democrats had to vote fast after they got their
tickets. ..-..........
The daily Internal Revenue receipts are
showing an improvement, and Friday reached
Sl,SOo.o00. The Bureau is preparing list of
Ine exemptions under the new law just pass
gu, renewing manufacturers from taxation.
AT the Gouldsboro election on the 31st ult,
.ne iono"lng town officers were elected:-
moqerator' L. B. Sawyer; Clerk, j. c. Googins;
selectmen, Hardy leighton, Samuel W.
Cleves, j. G. Googins; Treasurer q n Has.
kell; Collector, Asa T. Trundy. snno-in.aas
ing School Committee, j. C. Goopins Tho
Moderator and Collector are Democra..
the other officers Republicans. - "ou
Governor Oglesby of Illinois has oppointed
the 10th day of April, the anniversary Of the
assassination of President Lincoln, as day of
9astng' humiliation and prayer,