The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-01-06
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Some Of the charges presented by the Secre-
!ary OF War are supremely absurd, AMI ohly
inoleate an ignorance on the part cf those
VINO framed them of the manner of disburse-
@ lne itS ~ every branch OF the Government
Ine GneI Jnstlceship is still vacant las the
Wo'iu SNOW. y the whole st tus OF the ques-
sion VI connimaiion or rel ction il an eng
~. Nd oplnr'hs are divided, and peek into
the mysteries OF an executive session of the
Fog Bank las Sunday paper here calls the
Senate) cool1 hardly solve it. The hing
must be decided. Or ratner probably win he
oil the first day OF the Ieasembly of Congress
and however much has been brought 10 near
autIgonistically to Mr.. Williams befue the
Conmistee, the odds are decidedly in favor of
conhfmai.o... II he is rel, C ed will the name
OF Gushing, or Evsrts be sent IN? aud il so
would their profound fitness for the position.
be questioned. The election of Governor
Booth OF California t. the Senate for The long
term seems to accord with the sentiment of
the wnolr country, opposed to the railroad
monopoly, in Caiora a. ard upon which issue
he was elected. He is locked upon as another
champion fof keeping the public domain ex-
clusively for actual settlers. Seua or Booth
is Il bachelor, scholar, gentleman aud in
the prime of life; some belle of Washington
may capture the worthy Senator bel, re his
SIX years have expired. His advent in society
here is anxiously looked tor by coutriving
mamas. The appointment of Caleb Cushing
to succeed Gen. Sickles as minister 10 Spain,
Is regarded as oI e of the most opposite APP
poiUtmeuts that Gen. Grant has ever made,
aud presun the country generally coincide
with these views. There does not seem to b. a
dissenting opinion. True to the character
istics Of human nature, of the American peo-
pie and the press, the newspapers have be-
gun to accuse Gen. Sickles of all sorts O, sibs,
OF omission, of commission and ever hing
else not included in The categores of these
two. How perfectly natural il is to most ma
tines TO kick man when he is down.
You are aware that the Ora d National
"Woman's >uffrage Convention is 70 be held
here on the fifteenth and sixteenth of jan
uary. The object they say. as TO examine
the fundamental principles of republican guv-
ernmt ct. and to declare anew the Constitu-
tlonal rights OF all citizen which is ne, drd as
q protest against the legislative, executive,
aud judicial corruption and assumption that
tOoay threatens the Liberties of the Ame.i an
people," What do you think of tie Salary
Grab after that? all other questions are but
miserable shadows; gossaner webs that float
like sunlight compared to the stupendous
words OF porlent embodied in the ''otject' of
this meeting OF pannieis and petticoa Is.
Susan B. A. thony, Isabella Beecher Hooker,
Lucretia Mott, DR.. Mary Walker, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton. and Phoebe Cozzens are
| among the prominent deeeates-what sort of
| chance, wonder, will poor correspond
eDt have before such battery OF tongues !?
/ think it will be safer to go in pettcoais. I
must try and borrow a full rig from my land
lady, so that l can report the gable of the
ole ladies intelligiely for your readers. Gen.
Butler, and Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson,
Wendel Philips, &c, &c , have promised to
address the CCnventon. Sarcasm aside, un-
doubtedly the proceedings will be unusually
interesting. TIL re ale one or two active
temperance clubs here, and desperate Efforts
are made apparently TO remedy the evil into
which the nation bas Insensiby fallen.
| There is no question but that we are u
whiskey drinking people; the nun Der ol
| young men drunk in the streets here on
| ChfistnI and the day succeeding would
have shocked the sensibties OF the greatest
P, old topper in Portland. Intpmperance is
growing with the nation, and'the love for
that purely Amrr'caD beverage wh'skey is
inhaled. And l begin to believe the Temper
ance cause with its ridiculous restrictions
has much to answer fer in this particularly
| increasing GrrLkenness-but there, forgo,
that AN act to write a temperance lecture.
FITZ.