The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-16
Fiction.
Dare to be true; nothing can need lie;
A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.

The people of this country are supporting an
army OF about sixty thousand men. nearly all
OF them stationed in the South, to enforce
| Congressional measures of despotism, intend
| ed TO establish and enforce negro domination
over that vast region of territory. 1t is author
| dollars year, per soldier, to support this ar
| my, making one hundred aud twenty millions
| per annum. # this sum is divided among the
white population of the entire country, accord
ing to the last census, Names proportion is
about two millions, eight hundred thousand
dollars.-AugatSta Standard.
The annual message of the President says,
''The aggregate strength of our military force
on the Both of September last was 56,315, and
the total estimate for military appropriations
is $77,124,707, including a deficiency in last
years appropriation of $13,6OO,o00. The Stan
dard's 10000 is cut down by the Presidents
| figures to 56000 and its 100 millions to GA mil
| lions. We don't propose to follow the Stan
dard into the census report; the investigation
thus far has saved the State treasury $1,3O7, :
600, which is enough for one day.
Old Thad. says, 81 shall now pass into a
world where the weary cease from troubling "
Then the old sinner must pass ont OF himself.
Wherever his soul is there will be trouble. He
may truly eXclaim with the poet myself am
hell."-Bdngor Democrat.
What a delightful exhibition of christian
charity the people make who offer these indig-
mites to a dying man and find fault with
rhaddeus Stevens because, as they say, he has
malignant" disposition!
1t is humilating to think that body like
the United States Senate, which should be one
OF the most dignified and august tribunals ON
earth, should spend days and weeks in listen
ing TO such disgraceful stuff. But to such a
level has the reign of Radicalism brought this
heretofore high-toned body.-Belfast Journal
The Journal alludes in this delicate way to
the testimony presented to the Senate during
the Impeachment trial. The Enlightened"
gentlemen who formerly gave character to
the Senate were Messrs. Mason and Slidell.
Robert NJ 7. Hunter who was willing to "set-
tie" in 1860 if Congress would order the cleo
ton of taco Presidents, Robert Toombs. Jeffer-
son Davis, jesse D. Bright, Yulee of Florida,
and above all, Wigfall! OF all that charming
company Senator Salisbury is the sole sur
vivor, and it is a rather melancholy reflection
that in a few years, at most, the country will
have to get along without even him.
This victory lin New Hampshire) gives us
Connecticut without a struggle. - Press
March H.
-, SO predicted the Press The result, after
the most determined struggle" which the
Radicals could make, is Democratic majority
April Il
vi which gain 443 must be credited to New
Haven 24O to Bridgeport, and 154 to Hartford
-o5' IN three large towns near the Neau York
line, leaving Democratic loss in the rest OF
the State which shows itself in the Legislature
in Republican majority on joint ballot of the
two Houses increased by 12l Doesn't that
give us Connecticut?
Cincinnati elected an entire Democratic
ticket except Clerk Of the Police Court. and
one other officer iddeford Democrat April
ID
The election took place on Monday, April g.
On Tuesday this false report was sent over
the wires, and on Wednesday, April 8, it was
corrected. Everybody has known for week
that the Republicans carried the city.