The Portland daily press., 1868-01-04
THE Official Vote for Governor is reported
RaIiticnI Nnfea


Among the bills pending before the Senate
is one introduced by Mr.. Drake, which pr)-
vides that,in none of the southern States shall
the registration lists be opened after the con-
ventions for making the new constitutions
have been held. This bill will be pressed to
early action, because General Pope, in order
ing the voting on the constitution of Alabama,
has directed the re-opening and revision of his
registration lists. Mr.. Drake contends that
is aviolaton of the spirit, if not of the letter,
the reconstruction acts.
The report of the military committee on
Secretary Stanton's case will he offered at the
first executive session of the Senate when it
meetsnext week. Mr.Stantons friends assume
that the Senate will reinstate him, and that
Gen. Grant will at once retire from the War
Department, even if the President should or
der him to remain. They say that Mr.. STAN
ton does not wish to remain in the War De-
partmeut, but, if reinstated, will resign after
being there long enough to show that he is
sustained by the Senate. Others say that the
Senate is not as unanimous as is represented.
Miss Emma Hunt is enrolling clerk to the
Kansas Legislature. An exchange very prop
erly suggests that she should be "engrossing."
Mr.. Greeley, after venting all his spleen on
F. w. and H. j. R., has considerable fund of
good feeling left, which he uses on rare occa-
sions. Of the editor of the Independent he
says: Freedom has fewer champions, Jour
nalism has no more worthy member, than
Theodore Tilton. May he come TO us on the
platform and in the press for many, many
years." .r
Montgomery Blair is reported to be on the
point of war upon Grant. He says that the
General shall never be President
Our consul at Crete has been recalled be-
cause he sympathized too strongly with the
Greeks. In no way could he have better rep
resented this country than by doing as he
did, but if Mr.. Seward is so fully determined
that our consuls abroad shall preserve a due
neutrality why doesn't he recall the gentle
man who helped the Pope's mercenaries drive
Garibaldi from Rome? p
The Senatorial contest in Maryland is very
exciting. The indications now are that Gov.
Swami will re defeated and that Ex-Governor
Pratt or w. T. Hamilton will be elected.
The Augusta Standard, speaking of the
Grant movement, exhausts pretty extensive
vocabulary of abuse upon the Argus, saving:
1.-THE movement does indeed embrace all the
rotten hearted hypocrites, public thieves, bond.
holding aristocrats, shoddy contractors pimps,
spies, robbers and vagabonds."
In the State Senate Thursday, Mr. Ludden
of Apdroscoggin, opposed the order to provide
each Senator with two copies of the Legisla-
tive journal. on the ground of necessity for
economy. On motion to table and thereby
defeat the resolve, all three of the democrats
in the Senate voted against tabling aud there
by in favor of the extra expense provided by
the notwithstanding. as Mr.. Ludden well
said, the sincerity of the democratic cry for
economy.
The Biddeford journal has letter from Az
gusta which forecasts the legislation on the
temperance question, intimatinr that "a bill
repeating the constabulary, and the entire cider
clause of the law of 1858, amending that law
so as to allow apothecaries to sell LIQUOR for
medicinal purposes, and amending last years
amendments SO as to allow fine or i'm ptison-
ment, at the discretion of the court would
unite both wings of the temperance party in
one solid column IN support of temperate and
effective legislation" The Temperance con-
vention week from Tuesday will have some
thing to say about that programme.