The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-17

urer of Lucerne County, Pennsylvania, man
who can neither read nor write
AT the recent election in Kentucky, not
single candidate who had been in the conied-
crate army was defeated And yet, their sue
cess is called Democratic Victory, and
Radical Defeat, and is rejoiced in by the So
called democratic papers Of the North. Birds
of feather flock togather.
The Washington correspondent OF the New
York Post saws in his Tuesdays dispatch
prominent aud wcil-iDformed ONO pohti-
clans who arrived here this moihips' say INC
Republicans are sure to carry ONO py larger
majority than was given Generai draht last
year."
THE workingmen of the Seventh Congress
ional District are falling into the ranks as ad-
vocates of the nomination of DR.. j. G. Aver,
as a candidate for Congress. They remember
with gratitude the proofs of friendship they
have received from him in the past, and have
long regarded him as one of their truest and
best friends.
RETURNS from all but six towns in Vermont
give Washburn, Republican, 81 ,572 votes, to
1880 for Heaton, Democrat. The Republic
an majority in the State will be over 20,7O0
The Democratic vote is smaller in proportion
than it was last year, but they have gained four
or 1--WE members of the Legislature, and will
have about one tenth of the lower branch of
of that body.
THE democrats of Mercer county, Ohio,
about two weeks ago apopted the following:
Resolved, by the democrats of Mercer coun-
l1.1 t,,Ax IN
| favor Of the reputation of the bonded debt of
| the United States.
Resolved That our members of Congress be
| requested to vote against appropriations pro-
| providing for the payment of the salaries OF
the Assessors and collectors of internal reve-
| nue., or the interest on the bonded debt
GOVERNOR SENTER is showing his adhesion
| to the Republican party by designing Demo-
| cratic papers to receive the Tennessee State
patronage. The mortality of Republican pa
pers is consequently large. The Memphis
| EUening Post, one of the best and calmest
newspapers Of the South, is an early victim.
| Only one of the Republican papers has yet
sold itself to the Democracy, so as to retain
the government advertising.
| PENDLEToN is incorrigble. He not only
holds on to his greenback theory of paying the
public debt, which even Butler has given up,
but he goes against negro suffrage, Chinese
immigration, and the fifteenth amendment
generally. He is consistent in this, but not
very prudent, for scarcely more that half of
the democrats will go with him on either of
these issues. He puts himself in direct op-
position to John Quincy Adam, Rosecrans,
and the most sensible of the southern demo-
fhuS Iriynr than IN abod In
| else for president.
| GENERAL Robert Williams. who has been
| mentioned in connection with the Sena-
atorship from Virginia, is now in the War
Department performing the duties of Assis-
tant Adjuant General of the army. 1t it known
that his views respecting the constitutional
rights of Virginia and their proper recognition
by Congress, are not only acceptable to large
party in the State of which he is native but
are also acquiesced in by General Sherman
and the President, as they also were by Gen.
eral Rawlins, who was thoroughly anxious to
| have the State admitted Immediately after
| Congress met.
REFERRING to the dispa ches concerning our
recent election appearing in the N. Y. World
about heavy Democratic gains, the Tribune
| observes. SIT appears, therefore, by The
Worlds returns, that the Republicans have
this year, as compared with last, polled staight
sixty-fve and half in each hundred of their
votes, and with the Temperance ticket, seven
| ty-three and seven-tenths; while the Demo-
Gratis have polled sixty-five and six-tenths of
| their handred. The Democrats gain largely
relatively on the popular vote as compared
with the Republican straight ticket, in the
enormous proportion of enc single vote in a
thousand, gain which, if it holds good, for
| the remainder OF the returns, will make their
large increase relatively about forty votes
| in the State of Maine. With the Temperance
vote in its proper place, their relative increase
changes to a decrease, compared with the
other side, of more than eighty-one votes in a
| thousand. With the gain relatively actually
shown, the Democracy may fairly hope to
carry Maine in the year 1869, which is rela-
lively brief period for so hopeful party