The Portland daily press., 1875-05-13
Current Notes.

Congressman Beck has been talking to
Cincinnati reporter, with degree Of frank
ness. He is going to be the next senator
from Kentucky, unless some other deserving
democrat wants the place more and has more
friends. As to the presidency: Whoever the
man is, it won't be Tilden. The West and
South propose to do the nominating, this
time; mo eastern bond-holding candidate
will stand any show whatever" Pendleton
and Hendricks have effectually killed each
other off. Remain Thurman and Allen, it
the latter is reelected governor, this fall, BY
a handsome majority-say 40,OOO-"all HI
itself couldn't defeat him forthe presidency"
He is net Mr.. Beck's first choice. A younger
man would be preferable. There is danger
that Allen may surround himself with the
ancient mariners of the party, his aontempo-
rares,-the "men of "reminiscences" MIR.
Beck calls them. "That is not what we
want" says the stalwart Kentuckian, "the
democratic party must look forward not back
ward"
We observe with some surprise that certain
recent off-hand remarks of ours on matters
and things in general, and the independent
vote in particular, have confirmed the Louis
vile Courier-Jomnal in an opinion. The
opinion is, "that the Republican party will
come together by throwing over the Presi-
dent and nominating candidate whom the
liberals can support" In the same article we
are told that the (white) South Is "bound to
chose the Democratic party as against the
Republican party;' that the (white) South
has been ''driven into the Democratic party
by the sheer force Of self-preservation;" that
the Courier-Journal sort * (white) souther-
ners have "no prejudice as,y.inst, no prefer
ence for, any one particular machinery over
another; and that they are substantially as
one, in political faith, hope and charity, with
the independent voters of the northern states.
We are going to suppose case, and then to
ask question. Suppose the Republican re-
union which the Courier Journal predicts is
really effected, and effected on the basis
which the COuyier-,Journal indicates. Sup
pose the President is ''thrown over" Sup
pose his ''ism' is tossed after him. Suppose
the office-holders, the warehouses, the cor
ruptionists, are invited to step down and out.
Suppose the national convention deliberates
and nominates in the spirit and temper of
Henry Wilson, of Carl Schurz, of William F.
Bartlett. Suppose its candidate is Benjamin
Fl. Bristow of Kentucky, or some other man
off the same piece Of goods. In that event,
supposing things to take that turn, what
would the COurier-Journdl sort Of southerners
have to fear from Republican success?
Why, as practical men intent upon results
and not particular about machinery, should
they prefer a Democratic success? Where
would the ''sheer force of selfpreservation"
come in a-Sprinafeld Republican.
1t does seem as if, in some Of the more arid
sections of our country, in climate cores
ponding to the billy parts Of Languedoc, it
would be worth while to attempt the cultiva-
tion of trufle-nursing oaks or their American
kindred. Such plantations, if made in
Southern California, Arizona or Colorado,
would do much good. even if they failed to
produce truffles. And if we should be able to
naturalize the Perigord pie in the United
States, there is a chance that the leather pie
of New England would be finally banished,
and clearinghouse hash permanently re-
stricted to the garbage heap where 1t belongs
and whence it is usually flched.-NeU York
World.
The Very Reverend James Gordon Ben
nett in his religious journal, the New York
Herald discoursed thusly of last Sunday:
'The air was still, the skies were azure and
blazing with lustrous light; in the bay the
waves were dancing light and clear and in
the park and on the banks of our two noble
rivers the trees were putting forth their ten
derest and most delicate green. But there
was moral grandeur in some of the religious
discourses of nature which was more glorious
than even this palingenesia of nature. The
resurrection of the spring goes as 1t comes,
but the resurrection of the human soul Is an
eternal BIRTH" ..
The trouble was that the distinguished
southerners came north as Democrats. Had
they come as Mr.. Wilson goes south they
would have been received most courteously.
Boston Herald.
The Cincinnati Commercial fears it will
turn out at the day Of judgment that Bowen
is a rascal.
The New York Post, speaking of the re-
cent raid upon the whiskey ring says:
The vigor, skill and success of the move
ment are very creditable to Secretary Bristow
and his associates. He may not be able at
once TO put an end to the illicit business, but
he will check it, and obtain for the govern
ment at least part of the revenue of which
it has been defrauded. More than that, he
will be able to secure larger measure Of
honesty in the federal service. The wisdom
of the frequent transfer of revenue officers
from district to district, as recommended by
the Secretary, is now manifest, and probably
there will be less opposition hereafter than
there has been heen heretofore.