The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-10-14

nation for Governor of Come cticut
ADvIcEs from Iowa say that Ex- Representa-
tive James Wilson will be made Senator in
place of Grimes He has hitherto declined to
be candidate. -e
IT is reported that the Confederate ar
clives deposited in one of the banks Oh Naon-
ireal include valuable documents anectipg 'ho
Alabama question. .,.o
MD I,rwr1LYN BREEsE, the Republican
candidate for Secretary of State in Wisconsin,
:. : horn in Wales in 1885, and came to this
.o,,o,rv and settled in Columbia county, Wis
consin, in 1910.
THEN. Y. Herald says that President Grant
was asked to purchase editorial notices" of
favorable character in the Sun by an advance
payment to Dana in the shape ofthe New York
ColIectorship. But Grant declined to be puff
ed at that price, and hence Dana's venom to-
ward him.
Hon. 7. L. Clingmap, OF North Carolina, in
a letter in regard to certain bonds of that
Safe, says that the people are satisfied that
in the end it would cost more 10 repudiate a
debt than to pay it. This opinion is by no
m cans confined exclusively to North Carolina.
Do those writers who state that T anklin
Pierce had the strongest Cabinet of any Presi-
dent remember that Monroe had John Quincy
Adams for Secretary of State, VIM 81. Craw-
lord for Secretary Of the Treasury. Smith
Thompson as Secretary Of the Navy, John c.
Calhoun for Secretary of War, aud William
Writ for Attorney General? What other &C.
cupant of the White House had five Presiden-
tial candidates in his Cabinet?
How is il that the administration has sue
ceeded in effecting so large reduction of the
public debt? The answer can best be had by
stating two simple facts. One is, that in six
months the government, with reduced taxes, has
collected twenty-one millions of dollars more
than in the corresponding period OF last year.
This is owing to the superior viglence of its Of
dcers. The other fact is, that the Secretary Of
the Navy has economical to such an extent
that he has not yet expended dollar of this
yrat's appropriation, having raved enough
from last years fund. These facts simply il.
lustrate the retire ncbment and integrity every
where exh bted by The government officials.
THE Mississippi Republican platform il
The most liberal to sustain Dent the Carpet.
Dagger, as against Alcorn to the manor born
II declares for universal suffrage and universal
amnesty; the omission IF the disfranchisipe
and prospective clauses from the new Consti.
tution; the removal of the disabilities imposed
under the Fourteenth Amendment, by act
OF Congress; the ratification of the 18th, 18th
ard 10Th amendments; Freedom of speech and
ofthe press; Free schools for every child in the
State; opposition to that unequal and unjust
system of taxation that discriminates against
labor, aud bears unjustly upon the industrial
classes, and revision of the code to accord with
the conditions of free labor
THE N. y. Herald speaking of Pere Hya.
sinthe's contemplated visit to this country, ad-
vses him as follows: "Presuming that he
will arrive safe among us, we beg to advise
the Pere on few matters of mundane import,
as follows:-Lst him firmly avoid any accept.
ance OF the Inequalities of the city at the
hands of the Common Council of New York :
let him politely decline the use of the Gov
ernors Room in the City Hall for the reception
Of his friends and, above all, let him stead
lastly refuse to say what ticket he will sup
port at the November election. By due atten-
ton to these matters Pere Hyacinthe will in
augurate a brilliant ecclesiastical career in
America and cause Pho Nino to regret that he
himself had not come over-without Anton
uelli-long since, in accordance with our re-
peated invitation, and thus have anticipated
him."
The Nashville Press and Times of the 9th in
slant thus refers to Mr.. johnson; "Mr. John
son is at the Maxwell House, working more
for the Senatorship than he worked
thirty years ago for seat in the Legislature
Years have not palled, nor honors stated his ap-
petite for Office. 1t grows with the growing
age like the miser's lust for gold. The declar
ations made by him so often on the stump.
chat he desired no Office, were only rhetorical
dourishes and figures of speech, to be read
backward, and he nov button-holes, argues
promises, and entreats, with as much zeal as
ever youthful aspirant did, on the threshold
Of official honor. -
THE campaign in Mississ' ppi is getting very
lively, and to make it tragic as well as inter.
esting, political murders are being committed
Intelligence has been received of the assassina-
ion of Captain j. E. johnson, Military Sheriff
IT Sunfower county, by appointment of Gen.
raj Ames. He was shot and MORALLY wound
ID on the 4th inst. while quietly eating his sup.
Yer in the town of McNutt. There had been
10 difficulty between Captain johnson and the
murderer upon s!hch apology for this murder
'us deed can be based; but it was purely DO
itical assassination. A day or two after this
occurrence A. M. White, Probate Clerk of Tai
shhatchie county, was shot and severely
by the Kuklux Democracy. The Re.
publican papers of the S ate are full of vigor.
nd are turning the tables of carpet-bag de-
'""r'at,on and ridinnle on Judge Dent with
nuch effect. The last document put in circu.
alton is a certificate from the Clerk of the Pro-
ate Court of Cohoma county, to the effect that
Judge Dent is not resident Of that county,
lor does his name or that of his wife, or any
person by the name of Dent, appear on the tax
oils of that county, either as a landholder or
oo'ltax payer. A serious disaffection has also
sprung up among several of the principal Dem
'cratic papers in the State. The Columbus
Holly Springs Reporter, Houston
Record, Port Gibson Standard, iuka Gazette
movement, and favor the reorganization OF the
Democratic party. .HE
A SPECIAL Washington dispatch to the Bos-
,on Post, seys some of Jefferson Davis per-
'onal friends here expect that he will favor
hem with brief visit on his route from Bal
,lmore to Mississippi Several of them who
nave returned from visiting him in Baltimore
lay that he has partially recovered his health,
but expresses an earnest desire for quiet and
ieedom from the excitement of public affairs
n the future. They add that in these express
ions he does not intimate any expectation of
personal interest in public affairs. He never
theless fears that some of the local politicians
in Mississippi will attempt to advise with him,
and announces that he will repel all such at
tempts without regard to the probable conse-
- of unfriendly criticism fro his old
--iso report that he studiously
'u' "-o oontentetthe present political
araf "a expressing hope that the Lib
Id the Dem.a. republicans of the soutb
i, a. ''"'S III he NORTH vopId suooo,a
"a the pending campaign, Rshrri n,a =. succeed a
lanes ne is reported to 1--we said ~, W parry
democrats OF the North re,resen. vho. ~ 'ne
y. Tue principle of self-gomrnment, W. . az"
Conservative Republicans of the south rep n4e
sent all that is left of.he same principle to
Vic people OF that secton. 1t is therefore ev;-
aene tnat Mr.. Davis is of the OPT MON that
northern Democracy and Southern Go
ave hepublicarsm are one and the same
'hing, SO far asthe difference of circumstances
ris ,ns Two loe,ltles will allow it, Finally, his
ION Of Tp9r MN Ito 70 De In favor of the cleo
ippi" 'o'nor Vi Missis-