The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-09-05
: Current Notes.


The ST. Louis Globe sounds the keynote of
the Republican campaign in Missouri by de-
claring that the redemption CT legal tenders
is more pressing need than the redemption
of bonds, and that the honor of the nation
and the safety of its business interests de-
mand that these long-neglected obligations
should be redeemed, either by funding them
or by accumulating the gold which alone can
make them what they pretend to be.
Private information from some of the best
known citizens of the South leaves no room
to doubt that the current stories of outrages
fall far short Of the truth. 1t has also been
suggested to the President that these troubles
spring in large part from the belief that he
has formed new opinions in regaad to things
in the South, and is quite ready to do what
he can for the conservative party, and that
this latter class can now depend on him in
great degree. In order that there may be no
mistake in regard to his view or lis DISPOSE
ton in regard to life and property of all
classes, he has written to the Secretary of
War in the most decided terms, taking the
position that no civiliz d nation can tolerate
such infamous acts as are now so frequent,
and directing the employment of the military
force to assist the United States officers in
prosecuting their duties, and the prompt
punishment of Offenders. Washington Spe-
cial to Boston Advertiser.
The Nation speaks of Frank Moulton as a
man ''who was an avoWed 'heathen,' and
Buterite heatben to boot.'
Sand Poland shrieked, etc., will hereaf-
ter be the the favorite piece for school-boy
1ppi1mafiOu in VarnanDt Nam
mercial.
Is 1t the Northern newspapers that man
ufacture news Of Southern murders for polti-
cal purposes? How comes it then that the
Louisville Courier-Joarnag says: "We never
convict anybody of murder except niger or
pauper.''
Finding that The Democratic party is just
able to ''drag its paralyzed limbs along" the
st. Louis Republican (Dem.) predicts that be-
fore three years are over its friends and sub.
scribers will belong to new third party.
For bang-up quotation from the Bible,
commend us to Democratic stump orator.
General James W. Singleton, of Illinois, told
his hearers the other day that "as Moses lift
ed up the serpent III the wilderness, so must
the greenback be lifted up by our faith in
each other and in our Goverlment.-N. Y.
Commercial.
The ruffians who stopped the trains on the
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad and MUIR
dered the mail agent, because his skin was
darker than their own, must be brought to
justice, though it takes an army to accom-
plish it, and millions of money. 1t is not the
poor negroes, scourged, shot down, hanged,
that aloue cry tor vengeance. 1t is the gov
eminent that is assailed; it is the security of
every mans property, liberty, life, that calls
for punshment.-P Journal.
The New Bedford Mercury very wisely
concludes that the lesson to be drawn from
the result OF the Vermont election is, that in
these days, when party ties are relaxed, the
best men must be nominated in order 10 Sc
cure a victory. Correct No.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis lifts his voice in be-
half of the colored man. The idea ought to
have occurred to him earlier in his career
Worcester Gazette.