The Portland daily press., 1869-07-23

- IL law For the debt of the Confederate
states. we are undoubtedly responsible. That
debt was contracted for our benefit, to carry
on the desperate struggle for freedom. Fortu-
nately, the debt is chiefly due to ourselves, and
ifit be not paid, the South, and not Europe,
win he the sufferer. The federal debt is the
fruit Of q war Of conquest, the blood money
paid for staying our brethren, the price set up
on desolated fields and ruined homes, the fruit'
of eight years of fraud, chicanery and wrong
OF this we viii pay all that we are forced to
pay, and not one farthing more"
Mr.. Dana is the great killer of Presidential
candidates. After the rest are all disposed of
perhaps he will run in on his velocipede.
Senator Fenton goes to Europe to get rid of
office-seekers.
The New York World states that snakes are
the born enemy ofvermin. If that be the case
it is puzzling,to know how New York can be
infested with rats. Copperheads are as thick
there as leaves in vallambrosa.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial indulges in the following, eoficerning
Tennessee politics: THAT Senter will be elec-
ted, there is no longer any doubt, and when
the time comes for him to look toward the
Senate, he will find a rival in the field in Tia
shape Of the gentleman from Greenvile. Mat
ters are in admirable trim to bring about just
such a contest, and many of the candidates for
the Legislature who are now running on the
Senter platform will be found to be johnson
men when the case Of Senter versus johnson
If fully made out, and the claims of each to a
seat in the United States Senate are laid be-
fore the Assembly that is to be chosen. There
is no telling, at this early day. whose shoulders
will receive the mantle of Fowler, but l will
stake my reputation as a prophet that the
lucky man will be either johnson or Senter.
Old Badly has q weakness for the position,
but the days of that illustrious bird are num-
bered, and his political life ends on the day
that his Congressional term expires. His
shiny, bald pate and intellectual features will
never glisten in the councils any more, and his
clarion voice will not be heard at roll call; nor
will the light of his eye continue to illuminate
| the dark places of Constitutional law. If /
were to write his epitaph, l would simply say
| "Died of an overdose of certificates, admins
tered by the hand of D. w. G.. Senter" If the
supply of these voting papers had been as plen-
| tiful heretofore as now, Stokey would not have
been in Congress. from this district during the
last four years.
| Homowack of the Boston Transcript says
| Thurlow Weed shook hands with Governor
Washington Hunt on the latter's death bed
and became reconciled at Hunts request
Weed and Millard Fillmore have now buried
the hatchet at Saratoga and fraternized 1t is
reported that Weed and Greeley are going to
come together. All these politicians worked
together in the old Whig party
The Richmond Whig protests against Gov.
Walker being made Senator, and says: "We
| elected him as our Governor, and our desire is
that he shall enter upon that office and serve
out his full term. There are other liberal
Grant Republicans from whom we can and
will choose Senators at the proper time.
The Democratic organs in Mississippi sus-
tain Dent for Governor A paper called the
National Republican. is printed at the Office Of
the jackson Clarion, the leading Democratic
paper in the State.
Additional information received from Mis-
sissippi is to the effect that the movement to
nominate Dent as Conservative Republican
candidate for Governor is likely to fail for
want of support from the members of the Re-
publican party. Thus far only eleven Repab-
licans of local prominence have indicated their
/ intentions to support Dent, and they make it
conditional upon the tickets receiving the APP
| proval of President Grant and his Cabinet. AS
| this is not likely to be the case, the movement
| will in all probability result in complete fail
ure o join with the Democracy.
The Bangor Democrat says that two ex min
| listers, Kalloch and Clarke, are candidates in
Artansas for the United States Senate, at the
expiration of the term of Mr.. Ross. All these
gentlemen have recently changed their resi-
dence Ii would seeml a s w
The Alabama election for members of Con-
gress and State Legislature, will take place
on the Sd Of August. There are only two par
ties in the field, Republican and Democratic
and the Republicans expect to elect decided
majority in the Legislature, and at least four
Of the six Congressman. The Republican can
didates for Congress are as follows, in the order
Of the districts: Alfred E. Buck, G. W. Buck
ley, Robert s. Hef1in, Charles Hays. William
j. Harralson, and jerome J. Kinds. The
Democrats are supporting w. d. Mann, AN
Worthy. &c. Parkinson, Mr.. Dustan, Inde-
| pendent Republican, Peter M. Dox and W. C.
Sherrod- 1z..
THE LIQUoR CAMPAIGN IN MASSACHUSETTS
Some conflicting statements are met with
in regard to the effect of the prosecution Of the
new liquor law as well as in respect to the de-
gree of ardor evinced by those who are behind
the throne Of this new power, and who are
pushing things in utter disregard of all laws
and superstitions as to availability OF gene
raj policy of political actors. All Of the daily
papers except the Traveller regard the move
ment as subversive of good social order and
municipal government, as we'll as the interests
Of ''tbe cause" The Traveller replies daily to
its contemporaries and the war goes on with
varying success and doubtful vigor. The Jour-
nal is outspoken and elaborate in its fault find
ings with the present rule. In its last issue it
says, in the course of long editorial:
The active prohibitory leaders have always
denied to their opponents the possession of anv
honest motives in their opposition to the law
They class all who do not accept their dictum
as men to seek to apologize for intemperance
and desire to protecttae rum interest Itwould
be folly to attempt to reason with such rash
men, but this we may say, that while we never
approved of the License law of 1868, the re.
sponsibility of its failure may be attributed
enforce it. Weak and defective as it was, it
would have been productive of more good had
it received the attention of the State Consta-
bles and the police. The majority of this State
are ready for stringent License law. Open
bars and Perpendicular drinking" ought to be
abolished. These reforms can be effected and
the cause of temperance would receive on ac-
cession of strength by the cordial and hearty
sympathy which such course would awaken
in the hearts of all.
Such policy in regard to the State Temper
ance Alliance is an unholy compact with
great evil. They vote that the selling of intox-
icating drinks is crime, and they cannot be-
come party to legalizing the sale of such arti-
tured is taxed by National State and munich
pal authorities, and is sold. We send it out to
all parts of the globe and the State treasury is
enriched by the traffic. What evil can there
be in regulating it's sale? Prohibition has been
tried for some sixteen years, and where are its
fruits? Ks 9 ea
The staid old Advertiser some days ago
launched a broadside of ponderous projectiles
IN the same direction, while the Transcript
nghts clear up to the intrenchments, worrying
tne enemy at every assailable point. The Her
aid and the Post are fercer still, but from their
position as to parties can hardly be called SO
powerful allies as they are who assume. with
good grace, too, to speak ex cathedra Mean /
time the approaching political canvassing as
to the next Governor and the next Legislature.
as well as the settling of Mr.. Wilson's success
sor IN the Senate, will be likely to complicate
the subject with dangerous conditions If mot