The Portland daily press., 1874-11-21
Current Notes.

Senator Jones of Nevada thinks that
Secretary Bristow is the man for next Presi-
dent. He says he doesn't believe che has an
enemy in the world.''
DR.. Holland thinks that a reign of unbelief
is approaching The Doctor can do some.
thing to check its progress by stabling his
Pegasus. Argus.
Ex-Governor Lucien B. Farchild is coming
into prominence in Wisconsin as COM
promise candidate between the Carpenter
and Washburn factions.
There is growing belief in Puritan circles
that the recent political somersault of Massa-
chusetts was as much dispensation of Prov
idence as the smallpox or the scarlet fever
Brooklin argus.
A number of Democratic journals are
guessing at "the first act of Radical legislation
to be repealed by the Democratic Congress-
At guess, we should say it would be the act
forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors in
the Capitol building.-St. Louis Globe.
The legislature of Oregon has passed
divorce law under whichlthe voluntary sep
aration Of man and wife legally sewers the
matrimonial relation. Nothing could be
more convenient. The arrangement is truly
Democratic, as it should be, for Oregon is a
Democratic state.
The New York World has proposed re-
constructed Cabinet in consequence of the
Democratic successes at the polls, after the
manner of the British Government. 1t thus
gives the War Department to mcclellan or
Dick Taylor'-that is, the Union armies
ought at once to be commanded by a rebel
general. So much for Democratic progress.
The Hartford Courant, referring to the re-
port of insulting messages and packages sent
to General Butler since his defeat, says that
the wit and humor to be found in such at
tempts is of a very low order, and we'll adds:
"'The men who perpetrate practical jokes on
defeated candidate are usually the ones who
toady to him when successful"
We don't believe that yarn, Mr.. Journal.
Besides, we arn't favorite of the Standard
and we don't quite believe that the Standard
is such dreadful giant rs the Journal i'm
plies it is. Cudgel your brains for bigger
scare, some dreadful story that will make
each particular hairto stand on end like quilts
upon the fretful porcupine."
There is more joy in the cabinet over one
independent journal that has returned than
the ninety and nine that went not astray. Post
master Jewell has given the government ad-
vertising to the Chicago Tribune, right out of
the pocket of the Later-Ocean. Senator
Logan is as mad as his health will permit,
and thinks Mr.. Jewell will have nice time
getting confirmed, if he lives to take his seat
in the Senate.-Sprinafeld Republican.
Mr.. Banks has been mentioned for Speaker.
He took the salary grab; but he so really
peedcd it in his poverty, that scarcely an OPP
ponent he'd heart to complain of him in the
recent election for taking it. If he is to be
candidate for the speakership-and his quail
fcations are prominent-let his friends con-
tribute the money and put back the grab
Argus.
So tenderly considerate $50 mildly virtuous.
IfMr. Banks can have the speakership and
lis sins washed away by paying $4,000 iuto
the treasury, by all means let them do it.
One ofthe most significant and hopeful in
dications of the times is the fact that the
banks are discounting six months paper, at
five to six per cent, in preference to loan
ing'money at three per cent. con CALL" This
shows unmistakably the confidence that pre-
walls among eur bankers as to the steady in
crease OF business, and is the most encourage
ing indication we have had since the panic of
last year. When confidence once begins to
revive, it will increase rapidly, and, with
the abundance OF now idle resources at COM
mand, there will be general revival of all
productive business.-NeW York Erening
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