The Portland daily press., 1870-11-14
paiitieal saies.

Ex-Gov. Newell OF New Jersey, Who was
defeated for Congress In New Jersey, proposes
to contest the seat on the ground of frauds
A rumor comes from Washington that the
English mission has been offered to General
sehenck Of Ohio.
The Senate of New Jersey will stand twelve
Republicans to nine Democrats-a Republic
can gain of four. The Assembly will very
probably stand thirty-iour Republicans to
twenty-six Democrats-a Republican gain of
eight. This secures us the United States SEN
ator and the apportionment Of the State under
the censns of 1870.
The New York World does not seem to be
particularly exhiliarated by the recent cleo
tons. 1t says: 'Even in the flush of victory
(reierrlng to the result in the Empire State)
we are saddened by the thought that New
York is still a Democratic Goshen in an out
lying Egypt OF Black Republican ascendency."
Chief Justice Chase, in letter written last
July, but Just published, exposes some of the
miscellaneous made by Judge Black in re-
| gard to the late Mr.. Stanton. He establishes
| beyond reasonable doubt that Mr.. Stanton
| opposed slavery nearly thirty years ago, sup
porting views which Mr. Chase set forth as
the resolutions of political convention. He
states, in contradiction of Blacks assertion,
that Mr.. Cameron proposed to resign his seat
in the Cabinet in order to accept the mission
to Russia. Further, the Chief Justice de-
clares that the Lincoln Cabinet did not vote
''six to one in favor of surrendering Fort Sum
ter" at the beginning of the war.
"PARENT," whose communication appears
elsewhere, expresses the opinion that we must
be partly to blame for beginning the active
hcstilities now raging between the PRESS and
Argus. Our correspondent is entirely mis-
taken. The origin of the present difficulty
was this: the PRESS published an article on
the New York election in which it made no
personal alusion whatever, and did not SO
much as mention the argus. But the latter
! paper replied with torrent of the grossest
personal abuse it could command, though it
had not even the excuse which it claimed for
its unprovoked assault, every statement that
we made being absolutely true except one
which owed its untruthfulness entirely to
what was obviously typographical error.
Our rejoinder to this was a not i'll natured
paragraph in relation to the Argus editors
well known habit of writing his leaders with
his scissors, and it was that pleasantly which
has provoked such filthy paragraphs as were
never before seen in Portland except on one
occasion. Three years ago the author of the
current Argus obscenities, prompted by we
| know not what twnges OF conscience, took
| it into his head to imagine that an article in
the PRESS had reference to his being drunk,
though it had no more reference to him than
it had to the Cham of Tartary. Tbereupon
be wrote unpublished substantially what was
reprinted last Thursday morning. So little
fertility of invention has he even in his
chosen field OF effort! It is bad enough to
print old "news," but what shall we say of the
| Intellectual impotence of the man who repro
duces mass OF filth that is three years old ?
1t is only fair to add that the author of this
delicious moroccan. made a suitable verbal
apology soon after its first appearance, saying
that he never was so much ashamed of him
self in his life. But be has suffered serious
| moral deterioration since. il would seem.