The Portland daily press., 1870-11-07

80 ~ "onuoi hhilpS lives, ScOlulUS VIII
not De reckoned among the Lost Arts. He
Is king in that realm, and whether in calling
Lincoln slave hound, Governor Andrew a
traitor, Grant drunkard, or in attacking the
church and the ministry, ard almost every
public man of the past generation, he has
fully sustained his reputation"
The Springfield Republican says that it
credits the report that Gen. Schenck is to be
appointed to the English mission. 1t adds:
"He has brains enough, indeed, to undertake
the whole job oil our foreign diplomacy, and
still have leisure for an occasional hand al his
favorite poker; and, with the Alabama ques-
lion transferred to Washington, as it is, he
" Il find himself with a.great deal of super
flous time and strength on his hands, at
London"
Senator Couking, in his powerful speech in
New York city last Thursday evening, made
the following statements, not new, indeed, but
never to he forgotten:
Wise administration enabled Congress last
Ju y to strike from annual taxation at a sim
gle blow S7S,S4S,S z7 33-S55 900 from in
ternal revenue, $23, 636,S27 B from tue tariff
This dismissal OF taxes, added to those dis
missed before, make the reduction of annual
taxation since Jul, II, 1865, S251 ,S4S S27 80.
The number OF articles previously taxed, ar
now tree, IS more than 49, 90. (Great az
ause.) The Democracy cry Down with the
taxes" When the bill reducing taxes was
passed in July, not Democrat voted for it
in either House.
The Demo rats of St. Louis have nomina
ted colpred man as their candidate tor Con
gress. 1t was done in bullesqua, and bis
election would be a joke they would net like
to swallow. But Stranger things have hap
pened.
Politics. and especially primary meetings,
are getting mixed in Rhode Island. The
Providence Journal has the names o: ftiy-
thee Democrat, who voted at Republican
caucus in Pawlurket.
Hon. Samuel Mayall, who represented tie
First Maine District in Congress from 1852 to
1855, but who has resided in Minnesota tor
man. years past, made speech at Demo
cratic gathering at Anoka, MINI. a few days
since. This spetc,, according to the St Paul
Press, was chiefly about Alexander Hamil-
ton. Fisher Ames, John Adams, jefferson,
Gen. jackson, Sam. Mayall. aid other illus
trou. atesmen Of ancient times" The body
OF the speech comprised long extract from
one OF ia ,kson's messages.
II can be asserted upon Official authority
that, instead Of TIE President I+ceding in any
particular fiom The execution of bis avowet
l. dian peace policy, as has beeen ascertained
aid is believed 10y some, ON the contrary he
is more convl1 ced OF the propIiety and wis
dom Of securing the aid OF the religious ele-
ment OF the country in the work of subduing
and civilizing the Indians, and he is deter
mined to carry out his vie vs. in this matter to
the fullest extent practicable.
At the great Republican meeting in Cooper
Insti ute, N. Y, Thursday evening, Judge
P.err-pont said that the Democrats could elect
President in 1872 only by nominating a
Republican. They would not do this, how
ever, but would probably nominate Senator
Tluiman of Ohio. He added that if God
spared the lie OF Gen. Grant he would be le-
elected.
in Lowell, Mass, on Saturday 122 Intellectual
ballotilss were had and the Convention ad-
journed sine die.
TRAIN IN FRANCE.-It will not do to
draw hasty differences un'avorable to even
the reddest OF Red Republicans who are
creating distul bance at Marsellles because
they are lionizing George Francis Train and
making him "General-in- Chief of the Nation
al Guard" A man Of Trains preternat,ral
activity AMI unequaed capacity for noise and
rant naturally rises to the surface in the
midst Of such civil convulsions as are now
taking place in Southern France. When The
fury OF popular feeling reach IS such pitch
that even Rochefort is for the moment placed
in the position of a conservative it is not
strange that IN the midst of the tumult the
people are unable to see that Traiu is
mouptebank instead OF hero II they took
him for leader in their sober senses we
might vel say of his going to France what
the clown SAID of Hamlets gong to ENGLAND
that he has gone ito re over his wits there;
or. il he do not, it's no great matter there"
f,r the n ason that twill not be seen in him
there; there the men are as mad as be-"
If additional testimony were needed of the
'rrible bartarity OF the Prussians we have it
ia the statements of DR. j Marion Sims, late
Surgeon in-Ghef OF the Anglo American am
buiance in France. and who was present dur
ing all The fighting obou' Sedan and Bazeilles.
He declares that the newspaper reports were
not in the least exaggerated, and it he We're
to live a hundred years he never could forget
tue sufferiDgs endured by the French prison.
ers fiom starvation and inhuman treatment "
the burning OF Bazielles. he says tt at the Ba
varians, in their rage, g fastened the doors
ana set fire to each use, burning great
number of women and children. The smell
OF charred human flesh Tor several days after
ward was s kenng. The Bavarian- also
shot priest there, and some nuns and school
girls, besides a great number OF citizens.
One of our ambulance corps, DIR Blewett, saw
the Bavarrans driving before them an old
n an ami an cid woman who bad their hands
tied "ehind their backs, the q vafians KICK
eng them along the street, OF Bazeilles and
the next day he saw these old people shot
dead" Wounded French soldiers we. e burn.
alive IN the houses where they lay.