Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-04-28
Political lettings.

| lican nomination Tor governor IN Nlscohsih'
DrMocRArIc politicians t,lk Of "rclegat-
ing the currency question to the congress
siona districts in the next presidential
canvass.
Nor much of democratic victory in Con
necticut, after all, with a decrease of the
democratic majority in the Legislature from
fty-six last year to thirty-four this year.
IT is said that forty members Of Congress
are emulous of the honor of being the first to
move the repeal of the postal clause which
was adopted at the close Of the last session.
TnE st. Louis Globe says 1.-THE next
Pesdent Of the United States will be named
in Republican National Convention, to be
held in the city of Philadelphia on the ith
Of July, 1876"
TnE active enforcement Of the new Maine
liquor law, was begun at Bangor last Thurs
day. Fourteen suspected establishments
were visited by the sheriff, and in thirteen
liquor was found.
IT is reported that Attorney General viii
liams denies that he resigns for the purpose
of securing his election to the United States
Senate, asserting that he proposes to practice
law in Washington.
No man Of note can 60 to Washington
without being suspected of being after the
presidency and yet Washington is just the
last place in which Presidents are made,
though often they are turned out there.
NOBODY succeeded in getting President
Grant TO say he was not in the field for
third term, while he was in New England
In other words, nobody succeeded in max
ing the President make himselfappea foolish
TIM governor Of Tennessee, an exconfed
crate officer, lately reviewed the United States
troops at Nashville. lie had often before
reviewed them through feld-glass, and de
sired to see how they would appear on closer
inspection.
PonTIcAL Independence seems to have
reached rather startling development at
Red Wing, Mimi, where, at recent mum
cipal election, out Of a total vote Of one thou
sand only twenty unscratched" tickets
were found in the ballot boxes.
| Gov. KELLOGG has reduced the state debt
Of Louisiana nearly three millions duringh his
administration. At the same time the mu-
nicipal debt of New Orleans has increased
fully that amount under democratic rule
No wonder that it is dying city"
ILLINOIS reform" legislature has ad-
journed aud the Chicago Tribune feels con-
strained to remark, that " it adjoums leaving
behind a recollection OF aparaleled scenes
Of confusion, disorder, and violence, and a
mephitic reputation like that OF menagerie."
Northumberland JEWELL has a
good opinion Of the press. lie says: II
there is anything wrong in the post office
department, | want the newspapers to know
it, for as a rule they deuounce fraud Of all
kinds, and are potent in remedying existing
evils"
SAM RASDALL, of Philadelphia, is at
Washington watching his chances for the
speakership Of the next House. lie counts
upon his nomination 10y the democratic eau
Gus and subsequent election as reasonably
sure, aud expects that Fernando Wood will
give him his support
HARPER's WEEKLY says Nothing in
the political future is clearer than that, il
the Republicans cannot shake off the incu-
bus of a third term, OF establish that they
do not seek their purposes by questionable
constitutional means the result in Connecti-
cut foreshadows that in the country"
THE latest cabinet gossip from Washing
ton is to the effect that the President has
actually rendered the Attorney Generalshipt to
Judge Pierrepont, Of New York, aud that in
the event Of the possible retirement of Sec
rotary Fish, this summer, L. lockwood Hoar
is mentioned as likely to be his successor
DEMocRArs who think their party is grow
ing harmonious on the currency question,
win find food for meditation in this para
graph from the Cincinnati Enquirer: ave
are just as much devoted to the greenback
doctrine as ever. We are ready to fight
specie resumption and contraction inside
the party or out"
- Gun APA haAAtA-NH Has bltiA hfAuH ~
five members Of the Louisiana legislature
who were elected from their seats by Cen
de Trobriand. This will bring an important
phase of the recent struggles in the state be
fore the courts. 1t seems probable that the
case will ultimately go to the supreme court
for adjudication.
THE contest in the Congressional Conven-
ton of the ninth district of Georgia, between
Messrs. Bell aud Hill, is unfinished. On
the three hundred and thirtieth ballot, Mr.
Hill received twenty-eight votes and Mr.
Bell thirty-three, and the adherents of each
candidate We're firm. The scattering vote
prevented a choice between them.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that the Re
publicans of Louisiana and whole country
are now convinced that the Louisiana con
seryatives are treacherous, and that no faith
can be placed in their solemn agreements
Mr.. Wheeler has a revelation of a predomi-
mating feature in the Southern character
which many have discovered before him
namely, its assimilation.
The Springfield, Ohio, Republican says ;
Gone of the most fragrant political outrages
ever perpetrated in Ohio was the prosecu-
ton of ex- Gov. Noyes, in Hamilton county,
in the midst Of campaign in which he was
the leader of the Republican party, on a
false charge Of robbing the treasury. The
case was recently dismissed. Everybody at
the time knew there was nothing in it.
AMONG the terms of the Wheeler compro-
mise agreed to by the democrats of the
Louisiana legislature, was the following, viz /:
THAT the House of Representatives as TO
its members as constituted under the award
of Messrs. George f. IIoar, w. A. Wheeler,
w. 7. Frye, Samuel +. Marshall, Clarkson
N. Potter and William Walter Phelps, shall
remain without change, except by the resig-
nation or death of its members, until new
general election"
PARAGRAPHS about the ill-health Of Pres
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