The Portland daily press., 1874-11-13
Current Notes.

Republican journals are criticising the Re
public Of New York very severely for fits dec
laration that President Grant has changed
his mind On the currency question.
"Unloadl" says the Cincinnati Commercial
to the Republican party, Unne cessary. The
people have tipped the cart over. All we
have to do is to omit to pick up the baggage.
right the cart, and go. ahead.-St. Louis
Democrat. li 81. a .I
A rural New York Democratic editor on
hearing of the election news, let's himself of
thusly: ''We feel as though we could unbut
ton our flesh, swing back our ribs, and just
squeeze every Democr at ic, Liberal ard Re
| former to our hearth
A Washington correspondent writes thai
ga good many sjobs" are already getting int
shane for tho SESSION OF Congress
A-long them ars the Pacific Mail, Northern
Pacific railroad, and the contractors ring in
Washington. l-sF
We find this chaste paragraph in the fire.
eating Atlanta Neacs, prompted by the Dem
ocratic victory of Tuesday last: esD-n the
Reconstruction and Civil Rights billsv' The
advice will be received cordially and acted
uEon promptly by the northern brethren oil
the Democratic fold.-Rochester Democrat.
A committee of the Chattanooga conven-
ton is preparing report of such reliable in
formation as can be obtained relative to out
RACES in the Southern states. A member OF
the committee states that it appears by the
sheriff's books in one county that $50 rur-
ders have been committed within very briet
period-all the victims being Republicans.
The Michigan Republicans find they have
little over dozen majority in the new
Legislature, and are now free 70 talk about
candidates for that sena.orshp. Judge
Campbell of the supreme coart is 'favorably
mentioned" but we imagine there are not
very many politicians who want to bet heavi-
ly against Chambers getting another lease
of the seat. ,-s.. e,is ~,
In reality, therefore, the defeat of the Re-
publicans this tall is blessing in disguise.
1t opens up way for more permanent sue
cess in the future. Let Congress and the
President exercise proper wisdom during the
coming winter and all will be well. Let
legislation upon the currency question be in
the interest of the people, and not solely for
the benefit of capitalists, and the Republican
parry Will NC otLOuSCI 1CtO Judu ~ was Ill
1S72.-Toledo Blade (Nasby's paper.) F
The Lewiston Journal in an article on
"free railroad passes" says that such passes
were originally given to editors as an ex-
change for favors to the roads in the way of
announcing trains and other matters of inter-
est without pay, but that of late some railway
managers have got the idea that they bought
the support or silence of such journals as re-
ceived passes. The paper that would be in
fluenced for railroad pass should be put
upon the ''porringcr' list at once. boy
Essex" which has long borne, with too
tame silence, the unenviable name Of
''Butler's district, u has at last.emancipated
herself, and there was not an honest and lib
eral minded Republican in Massachusetts on
Tuesday evening who was not sincerely graf
flied. Even if the Democrat whom the
voters OF the Essex district have elected were
bitter, vindictive, and impractical, rather
than generous and liberal in his sentiments,
he could not possibly do more harm to the
politics of the country than Butler has done.
IN. Y. Times.
1t was the New Orleans revolution that did
the business for the Republicans. ''That,"
says the Atlanta Ners, ''aroused the people
of the North to the fact that the southern
people had reached the limit of forbearance,
and that they were determined not to submit
longer to OPPRESSION" and the northern peo-
pie "were not willing to incur the expense
and to shed the blood necessary for the sup
preston of another revolution. One by one
the malignant and cowardly enemies of the
South are disappearing from the political
arena. 1t is retributive justice and a fine po-
etical revenge, for as fast as they disappear
our leaders come to the 'front.' loaded with
we'll won honors."