The Portland daily press., 1874-09-04
Current Notes.

The Boston Advertiser in speaking of the
defeat of Judge Poland in Vermont, says
that in addition to the local influences
against him, 'some support was given by
one or two things in the official conduct OIL
Judge Poland, which his opponents magni.
fed out of all proportion to the importance,
The measure of the last session, which ha.
been industriously represented as "press-
gag law" has been used against him persis-
tently and with malice. Whatever errors oil
judgment Mr.. Poland may have made, he
has rendered important services to his state
and country not to be soon forgotten"
We had never wished 7. T. anything SO
bad as that. G. F. 7. says he has written
him sixteen letters within weekly. Y.
Mail.
In noticing the Southern outrages, the
Hartford Courant remarks: Meanwhile for
every union-lover there is food for thought in
the significant fact that these murders and
outrages are most epidemic whenever tenn.
porary successes, south and north, have in
flated the old rebel-democratic party with the
hope OF again crawling into power"
That is certainly no poor country which in
year marked by financial disturbance was
able to increase its exports to the extent Of
$50,000,000 upon imports of foreign goods
decreased nearly $7O,000,000. The net re-
suit is the reduction of our foreign indebted
ness on merchandise and specie account by
over $40, 100000 in one year. The civilized
world will have no long hesitation in lending
to country which knows how to pay so well
as these figures indicate.-StockhoIder
The French correspondent of the Arcadidn
writes as follows concerning the great Brook.
lyn scandal: The Beecher-Tilton scandal is
enchanting, interesting and ,delghting Eu-
rope. The Journal de Mdrseilloise calls it
'PAfaile Beecher, Stilton ct Victoria Vod-
hull Beecher, Stilton ct Victoria Vodhull
are described as clergymen of the Anglican
denomination, and wonderful account is
given of their adventures. 1t would seem
that these three persons have somehow or
other been led astray by Madame Brooches
tow, who is stated on good authority to be the
mother of Uncle Tom"
One of the highest English authorities,
writing in the London Times, shows that the
British harvest will reach 112 to 12O million
bushels, and that but Ga to Y million bushels
will be needed by Great Britain outside her
home crops. To supply this demand. our
own and other grain-producing countries will
have probably So million bushels to offer, for
which there will be no other competitor in
the markets of the world. England will
therefore be Obliged to import only 10 mil
lion dollars worth instead of the IT'S of the
past year, and in her markets grain will
scarcely be worth more than II shillings the
bushel. In short, the great buyer of the
world has the advantage of an over-supply,
and the consequences will be felt severely by
our farmers.
The Bangor Commercial should not allude
to Miss Anthony as "frisky wren" It is
neither proper nor safe. There are few bears
still left over in Maine Springfield RepubH-
can.
OF the Southern outrages, the Springfield
Republican independently says: 'It is almost
impossible to overstate the gravity of the sit
uation, the magnitude of the peril, the neces-
sity for prompt and energetic action. We
are not thinking now of the fall elections,
nor even of the probability of armed federal
interference with its train of consequences.
We are thinking of the inevitable reaction in
public sentiment at the North; we are think
ing of the inevitable halt to all progress,
moral, political, material, at the South. The
prospect is simply appalling"
The Louisville Courier-Journal cries out
owe give it up. There was chance that
the next House of Representatives would not
be Radical. That chance is gone. The out
breaks in Kentucky and the massacre in Ten
nessee settle that much. No people, no party
could stand under such load as the people
of the South and the Democratic party of the
Moth are forced to carry.