The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-07-22
It isn't often that newspaper gets an

answer so prompt and thorough as one
lately made to the Lewiston Journal.
That paper in recent issue had the toll
lowing
We have been waiting for an authoritative
answer to tile charges made in the .'open let
ter, OF Col z. A. Smith, of the Portland Press,
to Gen. Roberts, the Democratic nominee for
Governor, In which it was alleged that Gen.
Roberts resigned his position in the army and
left the service in 1868, not on account of sill
heaith,1 as mad been supposed, but because he
preferred that the war for the Union should be
failure, rather than to be successful on the
basis OF the emancipation of the slaves.
Inc Lewiston Gazette thereupon calls
the Journals attention to work pub
llshed some years ago by Nelson Dingley
y Co., entitled :. Maine in the War"
This work, published by the proprietors
of the Journal, was vouched for by that
paper as a perfectly reliable record. 1t
has this to say of the Democratic candi-
date
Col. Roberts rendered his resignation in the
autumn of 1862, at a time when a commission
as Brgader-General was being placed at his
by unremttting and faithful seruice qcih his
regiment, he felt that in Justice to himself and
family he ought to retire.
The presumption is that the journal is
satisfied
The count of the ten millions in the
vaults of the L. S. Treasury shows that
the amount agrees to cent with Gen.
Spinner's figures That is pretty good
bookkeeping. Alas! the untold millions
that ought to be there, but have stuck to
the Waxed fingers of the radical All Sins,
on the way from the pockets of the people !.
At his Fourth of July Grafton in Els
worth, Neal Dow isreported to have said
A man once said to me that we shall never
stop rum selling i'll Maine; that there will be
places where it will be sold secretly If not
openly. TO which | replied that when the law
makes it capital offence, and hangs the man
engaged in it, rum selling will stop.
We believe that Mr. Dow had something
to DO with an attempt to suppress rum
selling in Portland. in which a man was
shot dead-and it didn't stop the traffic.
Why should the halter be more potent !?
If cruel and unusual punishments were
not forbidden, the rum sellers might be
sentenced to listen to BOWS twaddle un-
til they should ask to be hung rs relief.
Lady Franklin, wife of Sir John
Franklin, of Arctic fame, is dead. Thirty
years have gone by since he sailed on his
last and fatal expedition, and it is but 4
few years since the veil which shrouded
the fate of himself and party has been
lifted 1t is now known that they persisted
of cold and hunger, and believed that
their awful suf1erings impelled them to
cannibaism. 1t is supposed that Capt.
Hall had proof Of that fact, as he left a
sealed packet, not to be opened until after
Lady Franklin's death, out of regard to
her feelings.
The Editors and Publishers OF Maine
had their annual excursion and good time
generally last week. They met at Port
land and proceeded to the Marshall House
at York IIarbor, where they established
headquarters for n week Excursions
We're made to various points of interest
in the vicinity Those of us who were
kept away BY family cares and other OBJ
structons expect to read interesting ac-
counts from the more fortunate brethren
The price of Democratic Legislators in Con-
nectcut has fallen to $500 a head, the tariff
being regulated by the memorable laws of sup
ply and demand. Portland Press.
Let us see, 1t took $50 600 a year tor
tour years to bride the President to sign
the salary grab bill. How do the amounts
compare with the rank of the officials !?
Will the Press figure it out by the rule of
proportion and let MS have the result?
A despatch from London says, in re-
gard to the marksmcn now abroad, that
''The excellence of the American marks
manship causes establishment The same
thing has happened before, John, when
our boys We're shooting in earnest