The Portland daily press., 1874-11-10
Current Notes.

The enthusiastic citizens of Waltham spell
the name of the next Presi dent thus !:
Banks! He lives in that town. soH
The Chicago Times, formerly Bourbon)
reviews the recent Republican defeats from
the standpoint of progressive Democracy. 1t
says that in Illinois, "while the administra-
tion faction has lost three or four members,
the Bourbon resurrectionists have not gained
them" and that "the result in Massachusetts,
is simply protest agasnst Bntlerism." The
Times further observes that "wth here and
there an isolated exception, every Congress
sional change in the West and South eighties
a more pronounced inclination of the popu-
lar mind in favor of Pendletonian rag-money.
ism and reputation.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, the most influ.
entail organ of the Western Democracy SAYS:
1.-THE great Democratic states of this country
are Ohio, Indiana, Missouri. Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Texas and Georgia. Their repre-
sentation in Congress is more than four
fifths on the right side. They are not only
Democratic, but they are thoroughly deter
mined on having an adequate amount of cur
rency furnished by the Federal government
They constitute the heart of the Democratic
strength in the next House." The New
York World will have its columns full of
notices to quit and such choice comments on
Democratic Congressman as "You are bett er
fit for lunatic asylum than Congress-"
The Boston Globe, which has hitherto
championed Senator Hamlin says: CLAM
Inns friends in Maine and Hamlin himself
are greatly distressed al the overturn. There
is danger that Blaine, now that he is un-
seated, will make push for the United
States Senatorship, and if he does il is all up
with the shrewd old farmer-potician. And
then there is fresh talk again of Dingley and
a little of Perh am"
The Cincinnati Gazette closes its pungent
comments on the results of the election with
this encouraging Renaissance: "General
Thomas, on the night following the memo.
rable battle of Chickamauga, sat before his
campfire turning map. An anxious sGnti-
mel in the ba ckground sought encouragement
from the coun tie nance of the old hero, and
for this purpose he watched him CLOSELY. A
the moment the general involuntarily ret
marked:We are not defeated YETI This ex-
preston was promptly carried to the dis
couraged camp, and the spirit of the bows in
blue were revived. Next morning General
Thomas led that army to victory. We have
not General Thomas to lead the Republican
party, but Thomas will be found, who, free
from responsibility for the blunders OF the
last seven years, will reunte the party and
lead it to victory in 1876. Republicans,
therefore, should stand in their places and
stick to their principles, while the Democrats
who have achieved temporary victory, use
the rope that has been given to them."
Cannot Boston and New England do some
thing for the thousands of sufferers in the
great grain-growing regions of the far West
lor the very necessities of life on account of
Lne ravages OF the destructive grasshopber?
10 ourlpeople realize that hundreds of men.
women ana children are in danger of stqru-
ing TO death, unless relief is sent them imme
diately ?-Boston Globe.
The Washington Star mentions a ,umor
that John Morrissey will be candidate for
Sergeant-at-Arms of the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, and adds: eff John succeeds in buvinp
the property on Capitol Hill for which he is
negotiating purchase, with view to es-
tablish club house, he will always know
where to find the absentees when there is
call Of the House,"
This is not a good year for one-legged men.
General Robinson in this state, General
Beath in Pennsylvania, and other one-legged
heroes of the war, have been left out in the
cold by alpeople apparently determined to go
the whole hog.-Commercial Advertiser.