The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-06
Current Notes.

The Democrats in Congress, notwithstand-
ing their economical professions, propose to
build post-ofice to cost six hundred thou
sand dollars, at Memphis.
What with the Hon. Ben. Hill, the rag
baby, and the Louisiana brethren, the Dem
ocrats are having a hard time of it. They
seem to be foreordained to perpetual anxiety
and disaster. The devout Republican sees
the hand of Providence in it all, but the hon.
est Democrat attributes it to a conspiracy be-
tween Mr.. Blaine and the diabolical person
who Mr.. Conway says is dead.
History has curious and sometimes COM
ical way of repeating itself. GeIi. Pillows
loud calls for payment for his mules reminds
a correspondent that during the war in Mex
leo quartermaster in Pillows division wa.
detected in fraud, which consisted in con-
demning army mules In fair condition, and
repurchasing them, after little repairing or
pasturing, at army prices from a contractor
who had bought them at condemed rates.
These mules came by some process of army
slang to be called "Piiow's painted mules.'
Tally one more for Mr.. Blaine. A Port
land despatch to The Gold Hill Neocs of Ne
vada says: ''During the past ten days there
has been considerable discussion and canvass
ing among the Republicans of Oregon in re-
gard to the next Presidency of the United
States. Opinion seems almost unanimous for
Blaine. 1t is understood there was a strong
preference tor him among members of the
Republican State Central Committee, which
met here last week. There seems no doubt
that Blaine will have the vote of Oregon in
the Cincinnati Convention
Thank you, Mr.. Hoar. 1t was time some
Northern man spoke out in Congress and re.
buked the insolence of the Dragging traitors
whose necks have been saved from the rope
by the magnanimity OF the Republican party.
Ben Hill is proving very inconvenient ele-
phaut for his Democratic brethren, but as he
is talking for the benefit of his Georgia con-
stituents and has one eye on seat in the
Senate. he does not fash himself about the
effect of his speeches upon the prospects OF
the party elsewhere. Your chivalrous Soulh-
erner never dill care much for the feelings Of
the Northern mud-sills.-Neto HGuen Pdlld-
dunn.
The Democrats in Louisiana are bent up.
on running the Democratic cause. They be-
gan with the McEnery revolution, most
outrageous, unlawful proceeding, that threat.
ened the country with civil war. Now they
propose to take possession of the government
in Louisiana by subterfuge First it was
force; now it is fraud. The country looks
with deep anxiety upon all these expedents,
and asks, what would these men do In Wash
ington if they had power? Impeachment is
sacred remedy, not to be used as a political
expedient. We want reconstruction in the
South, and not revolution. If these schemes
continue, and some wisdom is not shown BY
the Democrats, the presidential election will
be walk over, as it was when Grant ran
against Greeley.-Neto York Herald
There is an unnistakable Blaine sentiment
in Ohio as we'll as in most of the other west
ern states. The Cleaveland Leader seems 10
think that Mr. Blaine has good prospect
for getting the vote of the Ohio delegation
after Gov. Hayes has been "complimented,"
for it say: ''The undertow of public senti-
In this part OF the state is strongly and uA-
mistakably for Blaine. The soldiers like him
for his amnesty speech. The business men
like him because he is man of affairs, who
knows something about business himself, and
has thoroughly sound and reliable ideas on
the duty of parties and the Government
toward industrial and commercial interests.
The New England blood of the Western
Reserve warns toward Mr.. Blaine because
he is alert, clear headed, ready in all emer-
gencies, experienced in public affair, and
honest above the whisper OF rep oach." The
Circinnati Commercial quotes the above and
comments: "In this part of the state the
undertow and the uppertow are for Bris-