The Portland daily press., 1872-09-20
FOR vICE-PREsIDENT,
HENRY WILSON.
The Wickedest Man in Maine.

Fiffh hDistrict-WILLIAM McGILVERY.
The Wickedest Man i'm Maine.
Mr.. j. S. Pike in a brother of Hon. F. A.
Pike, late candidate for Congress in the Fifth
District. The Pixies are of course intensely
enraged and chagrined at the overwhelming
defeat which followed their violent effort to
carry the district Bat that any man, how
ever wild with passion should say such things
as j. s. Pike has written to the N. I. 1rt6une
seems almost incredible. Under date of Sept.
IL, two days after election, he says, among
other bad things, that open purchase of votes
was made in the Fourth ward of Calais, the
most respectable ward in the city, at prices
ranging from 500 to $105. His computation
shows that at least 80 votes were bought. 1t
is one of the blessings of this kind of slander
that its very extravaganza renders it harm
less. Everybody knows, who knows any
thing, that such thing would be simply i'm
possible. Our Maine people are not of that
kind and there are not probably five men in
the Fourth ward of Calais, of either party,
who could be influenced by bribery, however
COfCIu1 dppltcO, LuCu lSSo III IilC OpCn anu
public way alleged. There is no language
sufficiently severe to characterize properly
such dastardly charge. If the cowardly
maligner had mentioned any names he could
be punished by the parties vilifed. As it is,
he must be left to the contempt of the citi-
zens of Calais and all other good citizens. ''It
is a foul bird that defiles its own nest.' We
fancy that Calais will be an uncomfortably
warm place for this bearer of false witness
against his neighbors. We unhesitatingly
falsehoods, and leave him as the most unsav-
$ ory subject who has yet come to the surface
in this dreadful campaign.
The Marginal Way.
The City Council, by very strong vote
II to 2 in the council and to 1 in the Board
of Aldermen-has decided to go on and COM
plete the Marginal Way-so much of it as has
been commenced-prouid the Portland &
Rochester-R. r. Co. and the Back Bay Land
Co, who are specially interested in its construc
tion, give bond that the cost shall not ex-
ceed the estimates of the Engineer-about
$4S,00O.
We understand that there is already a
large business awaiting the construction of
this road, which is now lost to Portland on
account OF the expense of carting across the
city, and hope that the work, which is now
in condition not very creditable to the city,
may be pushed with vigor, so that what has
already been expended may be made availa-
BILE and our merchants may enjoy the ad-
vantage of the trade which the extension of
our railroads has opened up to us. We
understand that the construction of wharves
and warehouses is in contemplation on the
completion OF the work and large additional
water front will be made available for busi-
ness purposes. The guarantee required, linn
iting the additional cost of the enterprise, will
remove the apprehensions of many of our
citizens concerning an indefinite expenditure
of money.
Political Notes.
Dick Turner, the inhuman torturer of the
Union soldiers confined in Libby prison, has
clasped hands with Horace across the bloody
chasm.
The Worcester Gazette says: ''For good,
round, fully developed straw commend us to
the vote taken at the reunion of the Thirty
sixth Massachusetts regiment. Grant, 225;
Greeley, q"
For dead party the straight-outs are doing
very well. They have called State conven-
tions in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsyl-
vania, to nominate electoral tickets. In Ken
lucky three Democratic newspapers fly the
O'Conor and Adams flag.
The anti-Greeley bolt in Georgia seems to
be growing in force and obstinacy. A late
letter says that clubs pledged to oppose the
Chappaqua philosopher are quite numerous,
and that the dssafection throughout the
State is incurable.
A series of Republican mass meetings are
to be held in Western Pennsylvania this
month. Among the speakers announced are
Senators Wilson and Scott; Generals Burn
side, Fairchild, Albright, Hawley, Logan,
and Noyss; Hon. G.. W. Schofeld, Emory,
A. Stores, F. Carroll Brewster, and James
Pollock.
Governor Brown has quit the soft shell
crab and taken ID the oyster rs beverage.
He INDUCED to Ealf dozen raw the other
day, and they went right to his head. Speak
iRg about the political prospects soon after
wards, he said that Grant might carry three
States, and Wilson might possibly carry two,
making five III all for the Radicals. Louis
Democrat.
Since W&rmoth has cast his lot with the
Greeleyits he is no longes an infamous car
pet-bagger and thief, but a very proper man,
whese adhesion to the Confederates is the re-
suit of principle! These Reformers must
laugh in each Others faces as they twist and
turn and wriggle to suit the various localities
and the piebald nature of their organization.
The Des Moines Republican prints docu-
ments shnwing that Fitz Henry Warren, who
heads the Liberal electoral ticket in Iowa,
received pay as State Senator Minister to
Guatemala, and commissioner to settle claims
against the General Government for the
Fourth Iowa cavalry, all at the same date.
The Fifth Auditor certifies to the Guatemala
pay, while Warren's receipts, in his own
handwriting, are copied from the records in
the State auditors Office for pay as Senator and
For the latter he got S400. but
never collected 4 cent.
A correspondent writing from Winona
Mimi, says: "There has been considerable
talk outside of the State about the sweep and
swell of the Greeley wave in Minnesota; but.
the fact is, that in this city and county, which
has been set down as a stronghold of Greeley
ism, the 'wave' does not amount to percep-
tible ripple, and since the arrival of the gori-
GUS news from the east, is fast ebbing away
and growing Small by degrees and beautifully
less.' 1t may be set down as a fixed fact that
Minnesota will elect her State Republican
ticket and all her three Republican
candidates for Congress by handsome maiori-
lies. The most intelligent Greeleyites con-
cede that in this district Dunnell will walk
over the course. Indeed, many of the Liber-
ais propose to vote for him in preference to
any man who can probably be induced to run
against him.
The New York World is very unkind to-
ward those enterprising Greeleyites who rep
resented the State of Maine at CINCINNATI
1t denies their presence on that occasion. It