The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-18

The agent of the Saco Water-Power Co. |
states that parties are seeking to lease the
Great Falls of the Saco for improvement. As
soon as the road is extended into the forest
country above Conway we shall see impor-
tant operations in the cutting-out OF lumber.
We shall also see, sneers and slurs and ders-
i've laughter to the contrary notwithstanding,
charcoal-blast iron and the best of steel man
ufactured on the line of this road. so soon as
parties with adequate capital take hold of
the work. The record of this railroad as re-
CARDS manufactures is already one of honor
1t is already adding to the business of Port
land by its promotion of diversified indus
tries. 1t is certain to do much more in the
future.
But further. Manufacturers already es-
tablished in this city, as the Portland Sugar
Refinery, the Star Match Co., and others,
have publicly testified that their operations
are grievously hampered by the want of ade-
quate transportation facilities to the interior,
that this is their great difficulty. They have
declared that the P. & O. railroad will give
them, and others situated like them, relief
and ample accommodation. Here, as every
where prompt and cheap transmission OF
goods is the very first essential condition of
successful manufacture. We look to see
every friend of varied industries in this city
casths vote for the completion of the P. & o.
railroad. a-..
TO-DAY the Democracy as has for years
been their custom, go up to Bangor to de-
nounce, restore, shout and retire for year.
The grand successes of the Republican party
the past decade has so changed the political
ground that the convention will not denounce
the war as ''fratricidaP' and should end, as it
did in 1861, or denounce it as an abolition
outrage, as in 1868; or declare it a Failure
and demand a cessation of hostilities, as in
1854. 1t will no longer declare its unalter-
able hostility to the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution, for it is not
exactly the thing now. Heretofore the name
of Horace Greeley has been the signal for
derisive shout, but to-day his name will be
SiCCoOu w DO HULL dppioloC do WOulu UudJ
of JEFF. Davis in 1852. 1t has sixteen times
before resolved to be victorious in Maine; it
will to-day re-enact the same farce with as
much ecldt as if it was a fresh joke
The Portland correspondent of the New
York Tribune, now an independent organ,'
who is no less an individual than the editor
of the Independent organ here, is attempting
to urge on the faithful by saying that the
Greeley movement is gaining ground in Maine.
The writer, associating as he does with the
leaders of the Democracy and picking out
here and there dsgruntled Republican, who,
having held a good office a long period, is
soured because he was not retained longer,
and the few whose cry for, twelve years has
been, "Polly wants a cracker" probably tells
the truth; but if he refers to the mass of the
Republican party, he greatly errs. ''a"
WE grieve to learn from the country that
Mr.. KimbalPs caricatures of 'sUncle Horace
are still extant, and the Tax Payers Picto-
rial still adorn the walls of many place
where the faithful few assemble. Doubtless
Mr.. Kimball, when he scattered those terri
BILE pictures of the good ''H. Co." never en-
tertained the idea that he would the next
year support him. But Democracy has be-
come so uncertain of late that its wisest
cant most always sometimes tell'' where
fate will consign it, 4asfi, hgHi
Political Notes.
The Adams men expect to determine at
the meeting called in New York on Thursday
whether to abandon the candidate of their
choice or to take vigorous measures for pre-
senting his name at Baltimore. Some of
them, including Carl Sehurz, are anything but
complimentary in their illusions to Greeley.
Robert Ould, ex-rebel commissioner for the
exchange of prisoners, is candidate for Cong
ress in Richmond, Va, on the Greeley ticket
To make sure of the votes of the Federal
into the hands of the rebels, the Greeleyites
ought to raise the ghost of Capt. Wirz, and
run him for something.
The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist gives
unqualified adhesion to the Cincinnati candi-
dates, yet it frankly remarks: eff we were to
select for the head of our columns the name
that would come nearest being the exponents
of our opinions, we would place there Jeffer-
son Davis" JEFF. not being available, how
ever, the man who bailed. him is equally &C
ceptabe.
The Nashville Union and american, which
was enthusiastic for Greeley when the nomi-
nation was made, has since seen reason to
modify its views. In its last issue it said:
1T is a fact too patent to be denied or
doubted that the Greeley ticket is weaker to-
day in Tennessee than it was month ago.
1t is equally as evident that this diminution
of strength is attributable to the uncalled for,
unprovoked, unjustiiable, unceasing warfare
which few of the unconditional Greelyites
have made upon the Democracy. Careless of
consequences to the Cincinnati nominees,
they are determined that the Democracy
shall go down."