The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-23
Political Notes.

| James Redpath says that he knows that
Gratz Brown labored and fought for the cleo
ton of James Buchanan, and that he once
heard him say, 81 like slavery as a social In
stitutson myself"
c. c. Bowen is said to be hungering after
| the office of Sheriff of Charleston county, S.
Or, and very fat one it is, too. ..-..
Hon. A. G. Lebroke of Foxcroft, has be-
come Liberal, and spoke at the Greeley
meeting in Bangor Saturday night. Mr.. Lee
broke bolted the nomination of Gen. Cham
berlain is 1869 and ''stumped' the State for
Mr.. Hichborn. BIS l.f .tr5 .z,El. -,sa "
During the New York draft riot of 1858,
howitzer, trebly shotted, was planted on the
Tribune stairway, and men stationed beside
it, ready to fire it off upon the first attempt
of the mob to storm the building. What
fortunate thing that the attempt was not
made j. 1t is fearful to contemplate what
large number of good Greeley votes might
have gone down before that howitzer.
A New York letter says the Greeley men
are very noisy in print, but they are quiet
enough in their places of gathering A more
dsconsolate looking place cannot be found in
the city than the headquarters at the Astor
House. 1t would look like funeral, only
there are not folks enough. Judging from
the papers you would suppose that it would
take half dozen policemen to keep the
crowd down. .'....4.~ as
Henry Clay Dean, of Iowa, and blatant,
vulgar, anti-war Democrat, is to run on the
"LiberaP' Republican ticket of Missouri, as
candidate for Congressman-at-large. An ex-
change congratulates its readers on the fact
that since the performance is to come off in
Missouri, "Iowa will not be obliged to hold
its nose, or go into the cologne business, I'M
less the wind is steady from the South"
On the 23d of April last Senator Thurman,
in his place in the Senate, while the Defcien-
cy bill was pending, denounced the appropri-
alton for carrying the Fourteenth amendment
into effect, declaring that the Democratic
party al,cays ,vds and always oould be oppos-
ed to that amendment Mr.. Thurman now
supports Horace Greeley for President, be-
cause, if elected, he will be bound to act with
the party which catered to his ambition. The
inference is plain.
The Eastport Sentinel predicts that Mr..
Hale's majority in the Fifth District will
be double what it was in 1870, when it was
rbout 1900.
The Associated press agent at Bangor will
feel obliged to the argus for adding toits Sun
day despatch that the Democrats are sure of
majority in Bangor. ,a.
Gov. Salisbury, of Delaware, says 1000
Democrats of that little State, will refuse to
vote for Greeley. .F rt.
Morrissey, who lost $25, 200 on Basset at
Long Branch, lost another $4,000 in trying
to make things even by betting on Longfel-
low at Saratoga. Morrissey also bets on Hor-
ace Greeley.
Should Mr.. Greeley be made President, he
would recommend that 100000 should
be paid to the ex-slaveholders, as compensa-
ton for the loss of their chattels-personal, as
that is the amount he was for paying them in
1854. But there would be nine years. inter-
est to be added, Which, at the rate of six per
cent, would be $4,000 600; and the two
sums would make very grand total of $616,
0Oo3OOVs Ahio WOulu NC COHSlucT6u a SIUdll
amount, under Greeley administration, and
probably other demands would swell the sum
to 81 SOC, 000,000,-besides what would be
paid to rebel soldiers in the shape of pensions.
You see that Greeleyism would be chargea-
BILE
Our moist friend Col. Lang has been chal-
lenged in the Kennebec Journal to publish
his much-talked-of, much-wept-over cores
pondence with Speaker Blaine; and Daniel
T. Pike and VIM. 7. johnson named as the
gentlemen to superintend the matter.
The Enquirer thinks Gratz Brown has
number of '.precedents for his New Haven
speech" We recollect but one-A. J.'s-
Cincinnati Gazette.
Ii. A. M. Barley, mail contractor from
Fredericksburg to Orange Court House, Va,
was on Saturday last savagely assaulted, at or
near the latter place, by four Democratic
members Of Greeley club, one of them being
the editor of the Piedmont Virginian. Bart
ley had in public place, favored the re-elec-
ton of Grant. He was assailed after night
fall with pistols and clubs, and but for the as
sstance rendered by colored men would pro-
badly have been killed.
In Georgia, Judge Wright always Unionist
will probably be an independent candidate
Tor Governor and be supported by the anti
Greeley Democrats and Republicans, with
good prospects of success.
Every well, sir" said Democrat, "as my
party has finally confessed that Republican
ideas are right and Republican amendments
to the constitution and Republican legislation
are to be maintained, I will go for Grant, who
carried these ideas, amendments and laws to
success"