The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-01-22


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Caleb Cushing has Just received his
commission rs Minister to Spain
If there is in the country paper that
is printed better than the Wiscasset Oracle,
we never saw it
Where, OH where is the mach legislated
menhaden mi0s porgie Portland Press
He will be seine next summer
The cock that crew when Peter de-
MED his master, was expected 1t the Port
land poultry show, but did not arrive
A schooner of $50 tons is to be built
at jacksonville, Florida, under charge of
II. II. Carter, formerly of this city. Ship
building is something new in that locality
The President has nominated for Chief
Justice Morrison r. Waite, Of Toledo,
Ohio. He is 4 man ofeXcellent reputation,
good lawyer, but Ly no means an eln-
inent one
Its a pity that Coy Dingley, in re-
commencing the tax commission, did not
also hint at one ior reducing State eXpen-
SEES. Such an oyerhaulin" is sadly needed.
We can find nothing worth printing
concerning the great hen convention At
Portland For some reason the biddies Of
this vicinity and their husbands didn't at
tend
The Portland Argus heads its report
OF the hen convention with its ola cam
paign rooster. The first glance gives the
impression that a Democratic victory has
been realized somewhere
Thomas A. Pike, of Portland, is charg-
ed with numbering his wife during q drunk
en- spree, by throwing her violently down
and rupturing a blood vessel She was
young and handsome, but had a hard rep
utation
"A correspondent ask s if thu law ere
ating the collection district Of Belfast does
not require the Collector Of Customs to re-
side at Belfast 1t does. But since the APP
pointment of Barnabas the people Of Bel
fast have been anxious t. waive their
rights in that p articular
Some puritannic citizen of Bangor has
sent to the legislature u petition for the
suppression of masquerade balls. Mr..
Morrow, who presented it, must have
smiled behind his superintendent beard, at
the folly Of such foolshness. The next
thing will be to enact that it shall be felony
to fiddle, and damnation to dance.
And now the owner Of the haunted
house in Springvale offers $40 to any one
who will stay under its roof all night, And
what is gratifying to know, tie Portland
Press has found the man to do it We sus-
pect that the individual is a reporter for
that paper, who intends to push his enter
prise into ghost-land. If he shall succeed,
it will be much more interesting reading
than Capt. Hall after the North Pole, or
Livingston hunting up the sources of the
Nile Further developements are awaited
What rabd secesslonist ever proclaimed
a stronger doctrine of States rights than this
plank Of the New Hampshire Democratic plat
form adopted the other day:
That the people Of the State have the sole and ex-
elusive right Of governing themselves az a free,
sovereign, independent state. Bangor Wing.
We don't know where the doctrine is
more strongly stated, unless it be by those
rabid secessionists who formed the colsti-
tuition Of the state Of Maine. They boldly
proclaim that ali power is inherent in the
people who have the right to alter, reform,
| or totally change the form of government.
They had also the wickedness to proclaim
in the preamble that they proved them
selves ''into q free and independent state
by the style and title of the state of Maine
And yet, because the Wing had not then
arisen to shine, those men went to their
graves without dreaming that they were
traitors
- he excitement that followed the dis
covery Of Caleb Cushing's letter to Jeff.
Davis is in curious contrast with some
other matters belonging to the history Of
the rebellion. War was by many deemed
probable at the date Of that letter. Presi-
dent Lincoln hestated about sending ships
and men to Font Sumter Gen. Scott Is on
record with the opinion that the country
would be divided, and Horace Greeley
with the sentiment that the States should
be allowed to depart in peace. And more
curious still, after the war was over.
Longstreet and Alderman, who fought it
out in the rebel ranks, were nominated to
the Senate for important offices and con
tirmed! Surely, strange things do happen
in politics.