The Portland daily press., 1873-09-19
Current Notes.

An exchange says, Somehow it appears
very hard for the average Democratic news
paper to distinguish between a legitimate
criticism of an opponents political opinions
and acts, and the motives which are
the governing influence 1t seems very
difficult for them to question political princi-
Piles without assauting private character.
So noticeable is this, that to-day, there can
hsrdIy be found man prominent within the
Republican party, but has at one time o.
another been made the target of insinuation,
or more open and Inscriptions charges"
Gerritt Smith thinks ''if the temperance
people would only content themselves will
requiring the government to protect person
and property 1.-THE great, if not indeed the
one duty of government) and to this end to
shut up the dramshop and etfectually punish
both dram seller and dram drinker, the tri-
umph of temperance would not be far off,
The Hartford Courant is a journal of I'M
bounded hope, of limitless confidence in the
possibilities of the future. 1t says: GAS far as
safety, certainty, and efficiency are concerned,
the steam whsle can be successfully displaced.
viii the gain to the public peace and quiet OF
individuals would be incalculable. The obsta-
cles to such a conspmmation are less in the
want of proper legislation than in the indiffer,
erence and laxitv OF popular sentiment. Still
there are hopeful indications that the time is
approaching when the voice Of the locomo-
tive steam whistle shall dwindle away and
vanish into an echo"
bad Butler won the day we should have
been told that it was owing to the malign in
fiuehce of the President eXerted in mis- be
half; and now that Butler is discarded we
Iii n
sets Fave repudiated Grant. This is all bosh
The President has no warmer friends thar
Messrs. Dawes and Hoar, and other gentle
men who opposed Butler, and despite all that
has been said, he has kept himself aloof from
the contest. Troy Times
The Springfield Republican thinks "this
leaving money to cities is getting to be very
fashionable vice for bloated millionaires and
princely roues." Can't this viciousness be
turned in some other direction and they be
persuaded to give their money to some worthy
class of people--journalsts for example.
The constant menace Of Democratic as
tendency, however faint in reality, has had a
poweriutihhuence in cementiEg the various
elements which have made up the Republ-
cat canvass in Massachusetts, and must bea
the sole responsib lily for the existence o.,
Bdtlerlsm and Tweedsm anywhere.-N. Y.
Eoeaing Post.
The Courier-Journdl thinks it mnst be very
gratifying to the descendants of Homer that
the recent discoveries of Dr. Schliermann on
the site OF ancient Troy ''go TO show that the
old man was not the consummate liar that
most people suppose him to have been.''
The N. Y. Herald has gone into the co
nundrum business and asks rs the Ameri-
can Republic failure?" We opine not. hui
we confess to some fears when men with tic
usual modicum Of common sense join the
Herald in the cry against Cesarism, for the,
is danger of the enduring, then plying, thel
embrace g process of Pope's quatrain.
If the spirit OF the cautious and cow-fearinl
Eneiishman, who asked Stephenson the me
morable question regarding the milky mothe
of the herd and the locomotive, is permit
to hover about the scenes of his dnte-norten
interrogatories it will undoubtedly feel GLOW
Dissatisfaction at hearing that train run
ming over COW has caused result fatal t.
the passengers, and that it was quite as bat
for the 'puir uniucky bodies as for the coo.
No floating debts in the Navy Department
Witness Secretary Robeson's order seadine