The Portland daily press., 1874-03-19

With The hope of filling Boston with re-
morse, The Springfield Republican publishes
an extract from the biography of Samuel J.
May, who represents his father coming in
from walk and saying: 'sI have seen some
thing wonderfully interesting, this morning.
As passed the Old Granary burial ground
saw the tomb was open in which knew
the help of the sexton..I opened the lid of
Otis's coffin, and behold the coffin was full
OF the fbrous roots of the elm, especially
thick and matted about the skull !; and, going
out, looked up at the noble, verdant Fad
dock elm, and there, in TRANSPORTED glory,
was all that was material of James GUS.
Sand now," adds the Republican, some
wretched, commonplace modern bostoH al,
has burned up James Otis for fire wood! oh'
Boston, Boston!'
The NAVY Yard Butler organ takes the
Concord Monitor to task for saying that But
lerism was one of the causes OF the Republl-
can defeat in New Hampshire. 1t says that it
did not make difference of fifty votes. 1t
saws that the people believe in Butler be-
cause ''he is never coward and his faults
are palpably visible" There is no doubt
about the faults, but closeness to a navy
yard gives one very poor notions respecting
the opinions of the people.
The London correspondent of the Tribune
shows that the defeat of the Liberals in Great
Britain was not as real and marked as it
seemed. 1t was du. to the rotten borough
system-not yet destr0yed-rather than to
any numerical inferiority. As matter of
fact, while the Conservatives have prepon-
derance of fifty members in the House, the
Liberals had majority of $4,000 in the ag-
gregate vote. This was, however, "a, O37 less
than their ma jority of 1858, and that differs
ence of majority on the popular vote made
the difference between minority Of fifty and
majority OF over hundred in the House.
An election will occur in North Carolina
on the sixth of August next for Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, judges of one-half
of the judicial districts of the State, members
of the Legislature and county officers. The
Republicans have decided not to hold State
convention. II is thought the questions in
volved are of such local character that they
can be best settled without such conven-
ton.
The Hartford Courant says that the New
England States can only hold their influence
in Congress by taking care to send their ablest
men. They must at least have something in
view beyond getting places for their friends.
Putting Senator Stewart on the District of
Columbia investigating committee is like
placing an indicted murderer on the jury
which is to try the man who aided in the
.orip,o Poofo,, HoruIJ
Sunset Cox declared in the House Monday
that he is an "eclectfc political philosopher y
aad that the day for the formation of new
political party would speedily arrive. Let us
hear from the World on this subject.
Hundreds of people petitioned Congress
yesterday, for an increase of the currency,
which merely shows that are still hundreds Of
people who do not know the difference be-
tween money and paper promises to pay, with
no legal obligation to make them good. They
should pray for a real currency first, and then
consider the quantity needed. The crying
want of our people, if they only knew it, is
that their currency should consist OF money.
Boston GlOba.