The Portland daily press., 1872-05-21
Washington Matters.

Washington Matters.
HIGH SOUTHERN TRIBUNE TO GEN GRANT.
Col Benjamin s. Ewell, Adjutant General of |
Gen Joseph E. Johnst ton during the rebellion,
brother of the late Gen Ewell, and now Presi-
dent of the College of William and Mary at |
Williamsburg, Va, has published long letter |
urging the Southern people to vote for the re- |
election of Gen. Grant. He not only believes |
that the administration of Gen. Grant has been |
in the main highly successful, but that the |
South herself owes to him largely whatever of |
peace and prosperity she has attained since the |
war, and that her best interests demand his re- |
election. The letter of Col Ewell, when we re- |
member his position during and since the war,
and that he is eminently fitted to speak for the
South, is one of the strongest tributes to Gen.
Grant which has come from that section since i
the opening of this momentous campaign.
$1O00O00OO JOB.
Mr.. Bell of New Hampshire introduced bill
Monday, authorizing the proper accounting Off
GERS of the Treasury to adjust and pay the ac-
counts of such railroad and transportation COM
panies as rendered service in the transportation
of troops and military stores of the United
States from August 1, 1861, to August 1, 1867,
at the then current tariff rates. A number of
railroad companies in New England are inter
ested in this bill. 1t was referred to the Com
mittee on Claims. .asssia
fer DEFICIENCIES PROVIDED FOR
The passage of the deficiency bill is good
news for many government employees who have
been unpaid for some time. Several United
States courts have been closed since February
because the marshals had no funds for the pay
ment of witnesses and other fees
BIDS FOR PUBLISHING CONGRESSIONAL DE-
e1c'lt @ BATES.
The bids for reporting and publishing the de-
bates in Congress were opened to-day The
publisher of the Congressional Globe did not bid,
and the lowest bidder was w. j. Murtaugh of
the Washington Republican. The bids viii be
| reported to Congress, with proposition from
| the Congressional printer to publish the pro-
ceedings at the Government office
| SECRETARY GooDALK's sAGRicULrURE OF
MAINE for 1871, though later in its publica-
| ton and less bulky than some former reports,
is sound and valuable a, ever, bearing upon its
pages, from beginning to end the familiar i'm
press of its learned authors ready hand and
! fertile brain. Whether we remain at home
among our own practical, through life farmers
| or go abroad among wealthier gentlemen who
make farming an intellectual pastime or pur-
suit, we can certainly maintain an honest and
laudable pride in the agricultural department
| of our State of Maine government and in the
| level headed gentleman who conducts its man
| agement In these hours of doubt respecting
men and measures political, it is particularly
| grateful to us to be thus once more informed,
| by an always sensible and reliable annual re-
port upon the progress of things agricultural
The assured reliance universally placed upon
Secretary Goodale, tribute to his uniformly
| judicious management and solid sense, is
| hopeful and comforting reality in these days of
perplexity. We commend this report as
Astounding in vigorous and racy original mat
| ter; inspiring lectures and discussions by our
own farmers and their learned friends and CO.
| adjutors from Maine to New York; an admira-
BILE discourse from the scientist Maury and Sc
lections from the writinge of DIR. Voelcher,
John Bennett Lawes, and other European c.
lebrities ny .s.,.-,zr ..-s-s ~
,aqil News Items by Mail. y. ...s. 7.5
George f. Nutter, the Pennington On H.)
| forger has been heard of in Florida.
John Greeley uncle to Horace Greeley, died
in Londonderry, N. H.. the 18th inst, aged 49,
Harry Gilmore, the Maryland guerilla, says
he will stump that State for Greeley next fall.
A movement is on foot to re-organize the
Tammany Society by dropping the secret fea-
ture and making admission free to outsiders.
The New York Tribune is going to show that
the city consumes 10000 gallons of adulterated
milk daily and don't know it. asfis
/ A schooner, which, with its crew of two men,
| has been ice-bound in Lake Huron for four
months, came into Port Huron week ago in
| good condition. - paas p NsgoE us
A letter from Richmond, Va, represents the
Greeley fever as dying out, and that the de-
mand for strict Democratic nomination is in
creasing every day. 80 Af. gsgItg
Mr. Simonton the manager of the Associated
Press gets Judgment of IS 600 against the Bos-
ton Times for libel, and the Times pays it by
saying that it was mistaken, and that Mr.
| Simonton is entitled to the respect and conf
dence of mankind.
Senator Summer is understood to have de-
MED the expression attributed to him, that if
the PrAaihAn.;ai~ .atest shnn,ld- hD-.'oO, rruer-
dent Grant and Horace Greeley, he will sup
port Greeley. -~.o
Not long ago the whole stock of the parafin
wax in the world did not exceed four ounces,
and itwas carefully preserved in the laboratory
of Professor Liebig as chemical curiosity
There is now produced in Scotland alone o
quantity of not less than 800 tons annually.
Edward A. Pollard urges the South to sup
port Greeley. l511
Fashionable young ladies in New York carry
umbrellas suspended from their belts by
chain, a Ia Gardiner.
George Washington was arrested at Kansas
City, No., last week, for beating his wife Mar
tina Washington.
Six hundred thousand sewing machines
amounting in value to $25, OOO, 900, are annually
sold in this country Sew industry thrives.
A resident in Brooklyn, who was picked up
in the streets of New York drunk, with loose
change to the amount of 1924, 800 was discharg-
edifrom custody on Friday by Judge Ledwith.
Senator West of Louisiana, informs the Sem
ate that the government has rubber blankets
sufficient for the army for one hundred and
thirty-seven years, ponchos for eighty, blouses
for thirty mine years and artillery jackets for
nine years. '.r i'@ 20 CT q
1t is understood that all the Naval nvestiga-
ton Committee except Gov. Blair will sign
report, generating the Secretary from all
charges of corruption or mismanagement. Gov.
Blair thinks there is ground for the latter
charge. afaH ma
Borgland, a Maryland tailor has lately be-
come over-enthusiastic in the belief that he
has discovered new religion, q leading article
Of the faith being the clothing of the sect in
swalow-tail coats. t T-2 ~
The report that ex-Gov. Seymour heartily en-
dorses the nomination of Greeley at Baltimore
is denied by the man who received letter from
that gentlemen. He abdes the decision of the
Baltimore meeting.
late number of the London Standard saws
that the political campaign just opened in the
United States, has caused hundreds of street
riots, men and women have been shot down for
their political sentiments, and a reign of vio-
lence and bloodshed has been inaugurated
which we pray England may never see' An
exchange imagines that if the Standard could
only have photograph Of DR.. Greeley cutting
down scrub trees with his little Ratchet at
Chappaqua, and the logs for miles around COW
cred with politicians waiting to interview him,
its statements wonld have assumed rather
different cOlOring >,