The Portland daily press., 1874-11-20
Current Notes.

1t is said that the trouble with the pls,;b;.
tory law is that it is ahead of public selsi
ment. That's what's the matter with the
ten commandments, too.-Boston Neacs.
An alliance between the South and the
West is advocated by the Richmond Wing
'They are" it says, "both sick of hard times
and opposed to hard money
We remember that Horatio Seymour felt
just so about the Presidential nomination,
six years ago, when, whispering he would
ne'er consent, he consented. -Springfeld
Union.
Notwithstanding the late revolution the
Chicago Times still launches its curses at the
Democratic party. 1t is one of the most
difficult things in the world for Chicago
editor to leave off swearing
;. A Washington special says the President
has commenced the preparation of his annual
message. There is no douDs onte-ioined BIZ
his friends that he will rigidly adhere to the
civil service reform.
Respectable people in Washington don't
like it because Harrington, the district-attor-
ney now on trial at Washington for conplicity
in the District Safe burglary, as present at
COL Grants wedding reception.
The Democratic party is by no means out
Of the woods. 1t stands as yet full knee-deep
among the reeds and brambles. 1t has sim
ply gos itself in position to fight. 1t has, as
it were, disentangled itself from by-gone po-
litical bondage, and its future must needs de.
pend upon the most matter-Of-fact and cir
cumspect use of its opportunities. -Louisrilte
Coavier-Journal. ,f..is -t .H
In recording the fact that Richard H, Dana
ST., of Boston, the venerable poet, reached
his eighty-seventh birthday on Sunday, the
New York Eueaing Post recalls the interest
ing incident that when he was editor of the
North american Reuier he received a.. ~
EN- of "ThaaaGopsis,i' written by William
Cullen Bryant, then resident of Massachu-
sets, and youth ofonly eighteen years.
The Chicago LITER Ocean maintains that
the real ground on which the Republican
party stands is opposition to resumption,
and claims at the same time that the
recent elections show that the people will
MT sustain hard money policy. But yet
he Democrats who carried Illinois adopted
hard money resolutions at their state conven-
ton.
The South asks nothing but an erasure Of
the score with the same liberty enjoyed by
the North to mind its own business. The
statesmen of the South wLo made and lost
the fight for the confederacy are either old
men, no longer in anyoody's way, or else
they sleep the sleep that knows no waking.
The young men of the South, the rank and
file of the confedercy, have as clear title to
the land they till and the air they breathe as
the rank and the file of the Union, and they
ask to be given an equal title in the govern
ment, to whose support they contribute their
proper share Courier Journal
The San Francisco Bulletin says that with
in few months no less than seven coal-laden
ships, bound for that port, have been burned
at sea, or in harbors where they had taken
refuge. Their cargoes averaged not less than
fifteen hundred tons, the loss of coal was not
less than ten thousand five hundred tons,
worth about $106, 700, and the average value
of the ships was not less than 100000 each,
or 1920, 900 in the aggregate. This list is
looked upon as warning against allowing
wet coal, which produces spontaneous CO M
bustion, to be put into vessels. L .i "a. 81