Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-01-23
NEWS BY M ALL.

despatch from St. Petersburg announces
the issue of an imperial decree subjecting
all the male citizens of Russia to military
| service.
The Prince of Wales continues to progress
| satisfactorily. A grand festival is contem-
plated in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham on
the first of May.
The bill for the election of delegates to the
convention and for the admission of Utah as
State passed the territorial legislature on
Saturday and was sent to the governor. 1t
provides for the submission of the constitu-
ton to the people.
dispute occurred between some of the
crew of the English steamer Tiber, at Grand
Junction wharf Boston, on Friday night,
while some Of them were drunk, and Samuel
Hanson, fireman of the steamer, stabbed John
McLane, severing the jugular vein and kill
ing him instantly. Hanson has been fully
committed to answer.
The Colombian consul in Berlin contra
diets the statement that the minister Of Colon
bia at Washington has applied to our gov
eminent for a postponement of the payment
of SAP 900, the amount due the United States
from his government. The consul says that
Colombia owes the United States nothing,
and that her financial condition is most salts
factory.
Charles Summers name has been squarely
brought forward as the reform candidate for
the Presidency, by George Wilkes, in the
New York Spirit of the Times. 1t is veil
known,.as MIR. Wilkes states, that he came
| to Washington in December last for the pur-
pose of consulting with other anti-Grant re-
publicans as to who they should unite upon
as their standard bearer, and it is equally
well known that Mr.. Wilkes obtained pledges
| from prominent democrats that if an indie.
pendent nomination was made they would
| remain ''passive." The result has been the
| election OF Mr.. Sumner.
The Washington correspondent of the Bos
| ton Journal says:
| Mr.. Sumner was naturally surprised al
| hearing of Mr.. Wilkes article in the New
| York Spirit of the Times advocating his nom.
ination for the Presidency, as he had re-
cived no intimation that any such publication
would be made. He has latterly received a
very large number of letters from all parts OF
the country, expressing the hope that he
might be candidate, but he has never re-
piled to any of them, and nobody has letter
from him on the subject of the Presidency.
Representatives of the administration have
charged him with seeking the office, but it
would be difficult for them to mention any
fact sustaining this assertion, except, per-
haps, that he has felt obliged to differ from
General Grant on important questions. Mr..
Sumner does not think the office Of President
is to be sought, which will not surprise the
people of Massachu sets, who canno: have
forgotten his course at the time he was first
brought forward for the United States SEN
ate, when he declared that he would not walk
across his room to promote his election.
There is reason to believe that he has not
changed since then in his old-fashioned pre-
judice against office seeking. The higher
the office, the more important is the rule that
it should seek the man, and not the man seek
the office.