The Portland daily press., 1877-06-04
Current Comment,

Senator Lamar is said to be preparing a
speech on the future of political parties. A
| more pertinent subject would be the future OF
MIR. Lamar, so far as Northern opinion is
concerned, II he maintains his purpose of re-
fusing to 'stir up'' the Chisolm murderers.
1t is hard to realize that Gen. Grant, who
has just been received in England with great.
er honor than was ever accorded to an Ameri-
can citizen before, was declared day after day
by our 'independent'' newspapers "a wear ago.
to be half lmbecile sot, capable of talking only
about horses and bull pups. But it is a fact,
nevertheless.
President Hayes makes a good point when
he says that whatever may happen in the
South now, the Republican party cannot be
held responsible for it; that the South is in
the hands of the Democrats, and that party
alone mnst be responsible to the public opin-
ion OF the country for the conduct of public
affairs there.
The Lyncnburg Virginian and other South
ern journals are attempting to draw invidious
comparisons between crimes committed North
and South. We have not yet heard of case
in the North where "the people" have brok-
Ell into Jail and murdered helpless children
because their father happened to be (say) a
Democrat.
There are already signs .of the promised
early division among the white voters of Vir-
ginia. For example, we observe in the Nor.
folk Landmark an affecting appeal to "Stand
by the ticket in the municipal electio n,
against an unholy independent movement,
designed to divide the white vote, and '.des-
A,x,nI fNor
which has weathered many a storm.''
The latest report is that, while all the for
eigu ministers will be recalled, except, per-
haps, Mr.. Nelson in Mexico, they will be
given season of grace, Washburne staying
in Paris till August. Boxer in St. Petersburg
till next winter. The President has been
reading up Jefferson's writings, and agrees
with his view that the representatives of the
government abroad should be changed every
four years.
Mr. Erastus Brooks, in retiring from
the editorial management of the New York
Eoening Express recalls some interesting
facts. He has been connected with the paper
as joint editor and proprietor for forty-one
years, the first eighteen of which he acted as
correspondent at Washington during the ses.
sons of Congress. During this loDg period
1l2 daily papers have been born and have
died in New York city, and there are now
fewer newspapers there than twenty-five
years ago.
The Rev. E. E. Hale does not believe in
the gloom and wretchedness OF divers weekly
papers. II am afraid" he says, ''that
mo yubn oI tto
not having yet found out the best wavs of
saving time-are apt to be unduly impressed
with the weeping and wailng and gnashing
Of teeth of those writers for the press who
find nothing good outside the walls of their
own offices. From such meanings unutter-
able, the educated young men of America
would sink back despairing, but that always
in the same issue of the same Journal whic h.
ever it may be, there appears one gleam OF
golden hope. 1t seems that in that partcu.
lar office, by the united graces of natural se-
lection, OF evolution, and of accident, there is
one clear fountain of absolute truth and alb.
solute wisdom. From that office weekly will
trickle forth ris of wise direction, sufficient
for one week for the salvation of the land"
A correspondent writes to ask the Boston
Globe 'where is this Nicsic that is being so
frequently revictualled?" and the Globe re-
plies: Nicsic, or Nikish,o or Niksiski,is village
In European Turkey, thirty-four miles
northeast of Cattaro, on the boundary line
between Montenegro and Herzegovina; and
against fdfkay rhs supp5sition is that they
are holding the place against the besieging
forces of the Porte. Why it should be
necessary to revictua! Nicsic every few days
we do not know, unless an army of several
hundred thousand Montenegrin tramps are
confined there. We never hear of any fight
ing around Nicsic; all that appears to be 60
ing on there is the revictualng operations,
which, it would appear, are carried on on a
gigantic scale. 1t is not true that the Hun
g'ry'uns are holding this fort. Ncsic will
probably ego do vn to posterity" as the great
est centre of revictualling operations known
in modern times.