The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-08-19
SENATOR ARR0rr

SENATOR ABBOTT AGAIN BELI1aERENT.-
The personal difficulty between Senator Alb
bott of North Carolina and Senator Sprague
of Rhode Island during the last session of Con-
gress is still fresh in the memory of the public
A Wilmington dispatch of yesterday tells of
another personal controversy in which Abbott
| is engaged. The dispatch says:
For week past a personal difficulty has
| been pending between Major j. A. Engelhard,
| editor of the journal, and Gen. j. Z. Abbott,
| United States Senator, which grew out OF an
editorial article that appeared in the Post of the
| 9Th inst, in which the editors of the Journal
| were denounced as public liars on account Of
| alleged injustice done to Mr.. Abbott in reports
| of his speeches. No collision or correspond
! ence having occurred in the meantime, on
| Tuesday evening Mr.. Abbott addressed note
! to Engelhard in which he stated that he Cab
| bott) and not the editor of the Post was the
| author of the offensive article and he was per-
| sonally responsible for the same. On Wednes-
| dence that Engelhard would attack Abbott on
| sight, but the vigilance of the authorities pre-
| vented any disturbance.
| On Thursday Abbott was arrested and placed
| under bonds to keep the peace. Engelhard
| successfully avoided arrest until Saturday
| morning at one o'clock, when he was surprised
| at a private house by the sheriff, and placed
| under bonds. Sunday morning Eugelhard
| with three friends proceeded to South CARROLL
ma, and addressed communication to Abbott,
| of which the following is an extract;
"You must now make a full retraction of the
contents OF that article, and an apology for
| publishing it, or give me the satisfaction to
| which am entitled in accordance with the
code of honor"
On Monday Abbott through some friends,
| replied in communication OF which the fol-
lowing is an extract:
''By the authority of Senator Abbott, and
| being fully empowered by him, in his name,
we retract in full the article in the Post of the
| 9Th inst, rejecting on Major Engelhard, and
express our regret that it was written OF pub
| lished."
The dn,ende was accepted by friends acting
| for Engelhard iu written Commune ton, in
which they stated that in nothing that had APP
peared in the Journal was any assault on the
and expressed regret that it had been so con-
| strued.
JUDGE DENT is the most surprising apppari-
ton Washington has seen since the eclipse and
disappearance of Buckley. Not content with
writing letter to Gen. Grant, he has now adj
| dressed very impudent note to Mr.. Boutwell,
in which he accuses the Secretary of being sun
grateful and INSCRIPTIONS" and of interesting
himself in Southern politics for the purpose
of promo ing interests of his own antagonistic
to those of his master" Gen. Grant In short
he charges that Boutwell, means to make him
self President in 1872, and that with this pur-
| pose in view he has sacrificed the President S
brotherin- law, and alienated the Presidents
! affections from his own family. The last
charge has an air of probability, for certainly
Gen. Grant seems as earnest in opposing Dent
as Boutwell, himself. As for the Secretary OF
the Treasury, the confidence of the people in
him is not likely to be weakened by the vapor-
ings of consequential little upstart Ike Judge
Dent.
The THIRD PARTY movement is very quiet
at present. What latent strength it may have
we are not prepared to say, but we do not i'm
agine il to be very formidable. The fact is
that the adherence to the Republican party of
the larger number of tho prominent men in
the temperance reform movement and disin-
clination on the part of the great mass of TEN.
| perance men, whether belonging to any organ.
ization or not, to break up associations, the
purpose of which is not yet accomplished, have
taken the 'snap" completely out of the third
party movement.
| THE Argus says in its careful and circum-
| speet way that if Grant were nominated for
| President to-day he would receive only the
votes of his hrothers-in-law. Its leader the
| same morning is all about one Lewis Dent
brother-in-law to the President, who "sticks
pins into the President" as the Argns attempts
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