The Portland daily press., 1873-10-24
Current Notes.

The World has resumed its old occupation
of comparing the white and colored VOTE
and proves to its own satisfaction that the
Democratic party had last year clear MAJOR
ity of the white voters of the United States.
But how does that better affairs?
The New York Herald sounds note Of
alarm at the Entertainments of England on
onr commercial domain. 1t bases its warn
ing ON the new line of British steamers be-
tween Liverpool and Vera Cruz, and says the
vast aggregate trade of the American States
is slipping away from us.
Either Allen or Thurman must be the next
Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
The office, that is to say, the candidacy, will
be kept in the family anyhow.-C Cincinnati
Commercial.
Pennsylvania Democrats, since election,
feel pretty much as the Irishman did about
his little pig. 1t didn't weigh near as much
as he expected, and he never thought it
would.
From Robert Toombs comes the doleful
sound that the building of the ox-cart is
among the lost arts in Georgia, and that the
people of that State might raise their own
hay if thep would, instead of sending North
for it. He tells the planters to hold on to
their cotton until easier times, except as
much of it as is required to pay their debts.
The question of Mr. Summers reelection is
already entering Massachusetts politics. The
Springfield RnpubHcan says: Gen. Buffers
partisans are actively seeking admission to
the Legislature, this fall with ali express
view to the advantage that it will give them
in getting in again, next year, when that
question comes up for decision.
The recent financial troubles leave Turk
ing uneasiness in the public mind. Capital
will fear, and labor will suffer, during the
winter; and should Congress exhibit pro-
fuse and lavish disposition, the republican
party would be called to the severest account.
II, on the other hand, it should begin by re-
moving the scandal of the last Congress, and
continue by sternly rejecting jobs called i'm
provemeDts, it would at once commend itself
to the hearty sym r,athy and support of every
honest man, and viEdicate the good name of
the party.-Hdrper's Weekly.
The most hopeful and gratifying business
fact lst now is this: Every vessel cleared for
foreign ports is filled with American produce,
and the constant cry is for more. The bal
ance Of trade is all in our favor, and will work
out golden results in due time. A little pa
thence and confidence is all that is needed to
place the country back upon footing of I'M
exampled prosperity. Journal.
The Joliet (Ill.) Republican calls attention
to significant fact when it says: SIT is fact
worthy of notice that the Liberal papers, like
the Chicago Tribune, claim that the Liberal
party of Iowa has made great gains. They
don't say anything about the farmers and
'grangers.' The farmers and grangers have
shook the bush, but the Liberals have gather
ed the apples"
The most disheartening feature of the pros
pect OF specie payments is that every man
has his own pet theory about it. Mr.. Sumner
and Mr.. Amasa Walker appear to be the only
two persons in the United States who agree
upon one method Worcester Gazette
The Democrats have not lost so much by
absenteeism as the Republicans, and they call
it gaining Gazette.
If anything has been demonstrated in the
political history of our State it is that the
attempt to enforce the temperance reform by
political means is failure. The question of
whether such ought to be the case is alto
gether outside of the fact. The fact remains,
whatever may be thought of it, and men as
reasonable,a las those who are laboring so earn
estly for the suppression of intemperance in
our communities ought to consider it. 1t will
not do for man who honestly wants to go
to Europe, but who prefers to go in balloon,
not to go in steamship, because as matter
of fact balloons are not yet regularly passing
between the Old and New Worlds.-N. Y.
Post.
The st. Paul (Minn.) Press has the follow
ing just estimate of independent journalism.
"To raise hill generally is Halstead's idea Of
journalism. SIT is what he and Horace
White and Charles A Dana mean by nde-
pendent journalism To blacken and blast
public and private character: to destroy cred
it; to annihilate confidence; to set the million
poisoned tongues of SANDER wagging through
all the haunts of men-this is the mission of
the independent journalist, as they conceive
it.