Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-02

posing BuLler, making his dlttuP' al 1t
nomination appear rather dubious.
The drouth is at length broken, much TO
the Joy of farmers and gardeners. The
hay crop will be considerably reduced in
hulk by the dry season, but the quality
will be excellent if the crop can be well
cured. Other staple crops have not snf-
fered much, and with good weather until
harvest will make fair returns to the pro
ducers Our farmers are just now antici- |
pating more wet than will be agreeable
for hayine, believing that one extreme
generally follows another; but with now
ing machines, horse rakes and hay caps
they manage to make great deal more
and better hay with less sunshine than
their fathers required.
LIBERAL REPUBLICANS L4SHED.
The New York Evening Post has been
aroused by the recent meeting of liberal
republicans in that city to apply some very
nncompliinentary language TO the party.
Since the Post is usually mild spoken,
even tempered paper, its remarks concern
ing the liberals is all the more noticeable.
After gently limiting that they think them
selves of great deal more Importance
than others do, and ridiculing their effort
to keep their organization before the pub
lie the Post says of the party.
lin its birth it was monster, and its
few weeks of life were an iniquitous de-
bauch under the assumption of a political
virtue 10 which it had no claim Its very
existence was an insult to honest people,
and its pretence of having survived the in
dignation and contempt which over
whelmed it is, if we take it seriously, an
i imperiinence without parallel By usur-
patton at Cincinnati and coalition at Bal
timore it postponed for years the purifca
lion of politics; and those measures of re
form, on which depend a renewal of thu
prosperity Of the country, it made impos
sible for an indefinite period by wasting
the opportunity, that one more game
should be given to parcel of politica
gamblers who cared for nothing but polit
ical power and the spoils of office. 1t be-
gan its existence by an act of audacity
and so long as it lived, from May to No
vember. it served only to feed the love OF
notoriety in mediocre men, or the hopes
Of worn-out political hacks whose careers
t1c, ho ~,
OF such men that they still form party
with "affinities" and principles" is more
fitly described by the slang term check
than by any other
1t may be quite true that in the present
state of politics any score or two of men
have the right to come together and call
themselves party, because in any proper
sense of the term there are now no par
ties whatever. But one thing at least
should be considered as settled: that any
body OF men who shall attempt, under the
name of Liberal Republicans, to revive II
political organization which is responsible
Tor the most disgraceful and disastrous
episode in American politics, prove them
selves by that act to be unworthy of re-
spect. or confidence, or indeed ANYTHING
bnt indignant contempt"
LETTER on TIE PASSAGE 70 Er.
..t.rE ROPE.
sTsf STEAMSHIP CALEDONIA,
Lat. 55o II Lon. To- 2O W.
NEAR THE COAST OF IRELAND,
June l6, 1878.
To the Editor Of The Journal
l have thought that letter written on shin.
board, giving some account of our passage
across the Atlantic, with incidents therewi,l,
connected, would not be uninteresting to the
readers of the Journal, and now as We are
within one days sailing of Londonderry,
seize the opportunity so as to mail my lette,
before reaching Glasgow.
Our passage across the Atlantic, though
somewhat delayed by headwinds, has been ar
unusually pleasant one We left New York
"Wednesday, June 4th, under an auspicious
sky, in fact, it was delightful summer after
noon. The pier was crowded with those who
udu cOtut W Diu titeH IEleHue ROOu Dyt, 10
some, who were going home to the old
country, to others, off for summer vacation.
Far in the distance we could still see the white
handkerchiefs waving above mass of heads,
seeming to say "a happy voyage and safe
return" Soon after we had passed the light
ships, the forts, and the islands, the lunch bell
rang and We all seated ourselves down in the
saloon with sharpened appeti.es, no one as
yet having appeared to be sick, bu, an hour
OF two afterwards, as the waves grew larger
and The ssotion became perceptible, change
took place. Suddenly faces grew pale, which
but shers time previous were beaming with
JOY, and tender husbands nigh. have been
seen holding their dear wives over the railing
while the dear ones were feeding the HUNGRY
fishes. Just At this point an accident oc.
Cured, which though painful, we cannot for
bear narrsting. One of the steerage passen.