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The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

THE Republicans of South Carolina refuse
to make nominations for State officers be-
cause they know free contest is impossible.
Their meetings would be broken up and their
candidates killed or driven away. Their on
ly hope for free ballot is in the restoration
to full power of the Republican party of the
North. Such restoration, be it remembered,
is in danger of being defeated by the new
NATIONAL organization which is doing its
best to break up the old Republican party.
A vote against Republican candidates in the
North is in effect vote to turn over the con-
troll of the Government to the South Caro-
lima assassins who are repressing liberty of
speech and killing or exiling those who dare
to oppose them. Let Greenbackers of Re
publican antecedents think of these things.
The next House will be Republican or Demo
cratic. Which one may depend upon their
votes.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
Those Appropriations Again,

The request of the argus was complied
With beforeft was made. The questions it
asked in its issue of yesterday were answered
in our issue of yesterday. The statement.
of Senator Window, chairman of the Senate
committee on appropriations, shows clearly
the nature of the Senate additions to the bills
passed by the house, and the demagogism
of the Democratic leaders in attempting to
cast upon the Republicans the responsible
ity for the increase. The Democratic House
is responsible for the appropriate ons, and it
cannot shrk that responsibility. The fact
cannot be Ignored that it increased the ap-
propriations nearly 500, 100000 over last year,
and that great part of the increase was due
to its neglect at former sessions to provide for
the necessary running expenses of the Gov
ernment. 1t did not save: it only postponed
bills that it knew must eventually be paid.
1t did pass nine deficiency bills last session,
and these bills were rendered necessary by its
failure to provide at previous sessions for
necessary expenditures. The Argus takes
good care to ignore these deficiencies. The
''o1lclal figures" which it quotes are taken
from the speech of Mr.. Atkins of the House
committee, whose way of reasoning is to
count the amount the Democratic House re-
fused to appropriate in former years as so
much saving and to ignore the fact that the
present House has been compelled to make
up the deficiency. He makes the Dem
ocratic neglect do duty as a virtue
twice. At first he calls it saving; and
when the House remeded the neglect by au.
thorizing increased expenditures he omits to
mention that fact. Thus the deficiency ol
$30,OO0,000 does duty twice and is made to
appear saving of $6O,O00,00O. Having
wrestled with this question and been thrown
the argus will now perhaps be kind enough
] to tell its readers how much the Republicans
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
News and Other Items.
Peach rot is reported on the Hudson.

Peach rot is reported on the Hudson.
Customs receipts yesterday, $761, Jos; inter-
nal revenue, 1894 ,229.
Grasshoppers in Dakotah are flying east
ward.
The state constable of South Carolina left
Columbia Thursday night with requislton
upon the Governor of Massachusetts for III. Fl.
Kempton.
By an accident On the Manhattan Beach rail-
road Thursday night, five persons were injured
but none fatally. Many of the passengers had
narrow escape.
1t is stated that If Sitting Bull and his fol-
lowers return to the United States they will be
captured and treated as prisoners of war for
the Custer massacre.
At Titusville, Florida, last Friday, John K.
Saunders met young man named Sweeney,
and charged him with insulting his sister, and
before Sweeney could draw to defend himself
shot him three times. Sweeney fired three
shots at Saunders after being wounded, and
died in few moments.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

THE Biddeford Times of last evening con-
tanned a suggestion that Gen. Butler meet
Senator Blaine in joint discussion of the
financial question at several points in this
state. The suggestion is an excellent one
and will undoubtedly be heartily seconded by
all the hard and soft money journals in the
state. The Greenbackers consider Gen. But
Ter the ablest representative of their views in
the country, and he is the man of all others
to convince the people if those views are
sound. Such discussion could be easily ar
ranged and would not consume much time.
There are large halls at Portland, Augusta,
Lewiston and Bangor, and at these points
large numbers of people can easily be gath
cred. Four meetings will be sufficient to
present both sides of the financial question
to large part of the population of the state,
and in way in which the people can UNDER
stand 1t. The hard money men want an op-
portunity to refute what they believe to be
the fallacies of the Greenbackers on the same
platform on which they are delivered, and to
the same audiences. The Greenbackers are
presumably as anxious to meet the hard
money advocates. They now have an op-
portunity. Gen. Butler can spare a few
nights undoubtedly before he begins his cam
paign in Massachusetts,, and will be glad of
such chance to assist his Greeuback friends
in Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

ness. He must put the telephone in the closet
when the boys come up for game of whist. Be-
cause is poem stating-in a manner intended
to be naive and piquant, and which succeeds in
being rather ponderously pert-why Mrs. Rol-
Inns is fond of Mr.. Rollins 1t is not she says be-
cause he is all thatis lovely, but because she
herself
"The naughty Young maiden who once was so
wllful to teach"
has become tractable; because, since Mr.. Rol-
ins expressed his devotion, people turn round
on the street,
TO praise
certain new charm in my look
And grace In my ways.
(One can imagine Mr.. Rollins slowly shrinking
together, as his perfectly allowable self-appre-
citation escapes through these punctures)
"Not go much for what you are yourself
AS for what you make mer'
The consummate selfshness Of the woman
who could write thus, driving the chariot of
culture over the crushed form of Mr.. Rollins,
valuable only because he made her Mrs. Rol-
lins-gives the keynote to the whole volume
rsonalities-however distasteful II is to in
trude upon the private life of an author, which
belongs to the public only as far as the
dubHOr ulSpldy5 ll-aI6 IenuereQ necessary 10
review of The Ring of Amethyst 1t Is q
book that if written, should have been read
only BY the kinsfolk aud immediate friends of
the author-and it may be that destiny, more
regardful of delicacy than the poetess has been,
may so arrange matters. The worth of the
poems-:hough they betoken literary cultiya-
ton and some talent-would By no means have
uecessitated so long a review, had it not been
that this extreme example of the undesirability
osmaking ones private affairs into items for lit
erary circulation will 60 much good as a warn
ing. A woman capable of genuine passion,
enough to qualify beyond the ordinary woman
to write of it. would have passions first in
stinct Of reserve and have in some way dis
guised it-even as slightly as the semi.trans-
parent veil that Mrs. Browning wovs in naming
the record of her rare nature Gin which however
the brain overweie hted the woman's instincts
something too much) Sonnets from the Portu-
guese. Mrs. Alice Wellington Rollins merits
some praise for literary excellence, bat will
probably regret in the future that she was so
il,-advised as to publish sentiment SO terribly
discounted by its expression to the public.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
sOLON CHASE 9 ON SPECIE PAY
>- MENTS.

% "With this sum specie payments can be
resumed mt cnce, and the premise that is
written ON the face of the greenback to pay
the dollar, made good. This would give
Bill good dollar for his work, and the
wounded veteran good money for his PEN
sion, which is only justice and fair play 10
Bill an he veteran; that is, Bill not only
would for gold wages as he
does now, but would buy his goods
mt gold prices, and thereby save
another large item of the $25434 that
ls ressed ont of him annually
Specie PAYMENTS IS THE ONE
THING NEEDFUL In OUR PRESENT
CONDITION, AND WILL CURE Us OF
MANY FINANCIAL ILLS. The moment
you have got specie payments, PendIeton's
and Buffers theory of paying the bonds in
2reenbacks, which means neither more or
less than more and meaner money, be-
comes obsolete. If Congress i'm its blum
derinKs, did not agree to pay the principal 1
Of the bonds in gold, il onght TO have
agreed to, and specie payments will make
the agreement what it ought to be, The wit
Oh man cannot devise any scheme that will
bring about specie payments other than re-
deeming greenbacIks with gold; that is let
somebody else have some good money be-
sides the ebendhslders.-SOLON CHAsE,s
"FOOR MANS TRACT" OF 1871.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

"7he Uery man OF all others aDho has the
deepest interest in a sound currency, and
aohO suffers most by mischieuous legislation in
money matters, is the man aoho earns his dai-
ly bread by his daily toll. d deprecated cur
rency, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling bet,oeen morning and noon, and fal.
ling still totoer 6et,oeen noon and night, these
things constitute the oery harvest time of spec
ulators, and of the ,0hole race of those soho are
at once idle and crafty. y \ n A disor-
dered currency is one of the greatest political
ersls. Hundermines the rirtues necessary for
the support OF the social system, and encour-
ages propensities destructive to its hnppiness.
1t acars against industry, trugality and econ
o1ny, and 1t fosters the epiI spirits of entrau-
dgance and speculation. Of all the contri-
dances for cheating the laboring classes Of
mankind, none has been more efect,al than
that achich delades them with paper money.
This Is the most efectual Of i1,ventions to fer
tilize the rich man fields By the s,oeat of the
poor mans bro,o. Ordinary tyranny, oppres.
sion, ercessice td1ation, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared with
fraudulent casrrencies and the robberies COM
Matted By deprecated paper."-Daniel
Webster.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
Books Received.

Agamenticus. By E. P. Tenney. Clsh, 267 pp.,
S1.25. Boston: Lee s. Shepard. Portland: Hoyt,
Fogg & Donham.
Poems of Places. Edited by Henry W. Lopgfel-
low. Asia. CLOTH three volumes, 245, 262. 2iO pp,
81 each. Boston: Houghton, Osgood s. Co. Port
land: Loring, Short 81 Harmon.
The Dance of Death. By William Herman.
Third Edition. Cloth, 1si pp., si.25. New York:
American News Company. Portland: N. G. Fes-
senden.
Future of the Rfpub lie. Lecture delivered at
the Old South Church, March 30, 1878. BY Ralph
Waldo Emerson. Cloth, Al pp., so cents. Boston:
Houghton, Osgood s. Co. Portland: Loiing, Short
q Harmon.
The Works of William Shakespeare. From
the text of Clark & Wright. With copious CLOS
sary. 10 which is added an index to familiar pas.
sages and an index to the characters in each play.
American edition, Cloth, 1897 pp., s1.25. New
York: I. j. Cromwell. Portland: Hoyt, Fogg s.
Donham.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
THE OFFICIAL AUrRORITIEs.

Fsue gears ago 1851 the bank note circulation
OF the country draou rted to not much more than
t,oo hundred nailion dollars; ,aoao the circulation,
bank and national, exceeds seuen hundred NAL.
Hozas.-PREs. JoHNsoN's ANNUAL MESSAGE TO
CONGRESS, DEC. 1866.
Without Including sevea and three tenth notes,
many of the small denominations of achick acre
IN circulation as money, and all of aohic tend in
some measure to saceH the imitation, the paper
money of the country amounted, Oct. 31st 1866,
to the sum of 1874, ,21S, ,0SS.-SEc McCULLocH's
REPORT, Dec. 1865
Not more than fue per cent Of the legal tender
intereStbearing notes. Dfrst issue of 7-3O's] are
sn circulation as currency COMPTROLLER
CLARK's s CURRENCY REPORT, DEC. 1865.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

GENERAL PHILo CLARK of Turner is a
veteran Democrat whose gorge rises at the
thought of the adoption of the soit-money
hcresy by his party or its candidates. At
the conclusion of Mr.. Frye's speech in Tur-
ner, the other evening, General Clark rose
and said he "was not in the habi. of speak
ing at Republican meetings, but he could not
help thanking the gentleman for his splendid
argument for sound money. 1t was the good
old Democratic doctrine of the fathers, of
Jefferson, Madison, and all the old Demo-
cratic statesmen
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

QUEER people those New York policemen
A wild Texas steer escaped from its pen the
other day, got into the streets, and tossed six
men and women on its horns. The police
men on the route blazed at 1t with their re-
volvers, much to the alarm of the street pas
sengers who were busy lodging the shots,
none of which hit the beast. Soon quick
witted butcher ran into the street, tripped
the steer, cut its throat and, business-like,
proceeded to skin it. Thereupon the police
arrested him for violating the health code.
The story reads like page from Gulliver.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
JAMES BUCHANAN.

"Such medium lirredeemable paper mon
ey,) has always been liable to fuctuation. Its
value is constantly changing; and these
changes, often great and sudden, expose in
dividuals to great loss, are the source of ruin
GUS speculations, and destroy all confidence
between man and man."-Chief Justice Mar.
ebnu
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

"Ihe loss sohich america has sustained since
the peace, from the pestilential effects of ire
deemabte paper money, on the necessary conf
dence betsceen men, on the necessary confidence in
aepublic councils, on the industry and morals of
the people and on the character of republican qov-
ernnent, constitute an enormous debt against the
States chargeab1e eoiM this uaadUssed measure,
aoach ma remain ensatised, or rather it is an
accumulation of fguilt aohich can be e1piated no
other7oise than by voluntary sacrifice on the al
ar ofjastice of the poaoer aohich has been the TO-
strosnaent CT it.-James Madison
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

As a very important source of strength
and security, cherish public credit. Ono
method Of preserving it is to nse it as
sparinsly as possible; avoiding occasions
Of expense by cultivating peace, but re.
membering also that timely disbursements
10 prepare for danger frequently prevent
much greater disbursements 10 repel il !:
avoiding likewise the accumulation of
debt, mot only by stunning occasions Of
expense, but by vigorous exertions in time
Of peace 70 discharge the debts which un-
avoidable wars may have occasioned, mot
ungenerousiy throwing upon posterity she
burden which we ourselves ought to bear.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

ANOTHER tradition spoiled. 1t is asserted
that the famous portrait of Beatrice Cenci by
Guido, is not portrait of the Cenci and was
not painted by Guido. 1t is said to be
Madonna painted long before Guido's time
by Paola de Verona. What about the haunt
ing horror and hopeless despair of those eyes?
Tourists hereafter must find some other look
there. The old one is not proper.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

THE letter on absolute money elsewhere
printed will be recognized as from the pen of
one of the most prominent educators and
soundest thinkers in the State. 1t cleverly
exposes the fallacies of those who argue
that perfect money can be made out Of
nothing or that a man discharges debt by
issuing written or printed evidence of bis
indebtedness. The communication of 81.
T. G." should be read by all who are in
danger of being misled by the sophistries of
the Greenbackers.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

"a return to specie payments at the earIi-
est possible period compatible with due re-
gard to all interests concerned, should ever
be kept in view. Fluctuations i'm the value
OF currency are always injurious, and to
reduce these fluctuations TO the lowest pos
slbIc point will always be a leading pur-
pose In wise legislation. Convertibility,
prompt and certain convertibiIity into
coin is acknowledged TO be the best and
suresr safeguard against them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

"A CORRESPONDENT of the Argus remarks
that Harpswell ''tavors hard money and
sendng >. j. Anderson to Congress-" That
is as striking an example of the non sequitur
as is often seen. The idea Of sending a soft
money man to Congress to uphold hard
money principlesl
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

IL (paper money! tends to aggravate the
inequality offortuaes; to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer, to multiply nabobs and
paupers, and to deepen and widen the gulf
achich separated Dives from Lazarus.-Ihom-
as II. Benton.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

ELSEWHERE Mr.. Nasty sets forth the ad-
vantages of non-exportable currency which
enables the people to keep their capital at
home It works wonderfully up to GER
tain noint
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

lrredecmable paper money '.converts the
business Of society into a mere lottery; and
when the collapse comes, as come il must,
II casts laborers out of employment. crush
O. manufacturers and merchants and
ruins thousands of honest, industrious
ciiizens.D
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
To Let

"A PLEASANT Cottage on Clark St., corner OF
"A Spring. Cottage nearly new. Sebapo water
&c. Apply to AUGUSTUS r. MOULTON,
aaodu 1s8 Middle St.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
LOST AND FOUND.
TO LET.
Rooms toLet.
To Let.

"A land street,-12 rooms, hard and soft water
bath tub, gas &c. Will be let on reasonable terms,
Apply to S. W. ROBINSON, 19i Middle st, auStf
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

Paper emissions by the government are
Of n nature 20 liable to abuse, may say
20 certnin to be abused, ihat the wisdom OF
the government will be shown by never
Trusting it,elf W th SO sed ducing and dam
gerous power" o.,
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

Apaper currency is great curse to any
people and a particular curse to the laborer
Of any country, for its depreciation aloays
falls upon the lab0rer. r.-Andre,o jackson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
To Let.
To Let.

0NE OF the best $1i rents you can find Apply to
~ w. W. CARR, 1877 Newbury street. Also a
onestory house, all alone to yourself about So
auodtI w. w. CARR,
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

"Capital may be produced by industry and
accumulated by economy, but only juggers
will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks
with paper" ."-Thomas Jefferson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
For Sale /!

The new and thoroughly built
house 8 Ellsworth st. Very pleas
antIy situated; i'm the healthieSt
part OF the city. The best bargain
i'm the market this season.
Apply on the premises.
j. R. AVERILL.
july31 dn
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
have reduced taxes and how much the Del
ocrats have.
Good Out Of Nazareth,

The article given below, copied from that
staunch Democratic paper, the Belfast Jour-
nal, undoubtedly voices the sentiment of the
most consistent, respectable .and enlightened
portion of the Democratic party of Maine.
Those Democrats who have an intelligent
knowledge of the history of their party,
who cling to its traditions and refuse to for
sake the doctrines preached by its founders,
naturally feel alarmed and disgusted at the
attempt to convert the old organization into
soft-money communist party. Their belief
is too strong, their attachment to principle
too sincere to permit them to enter into COM
binations wherein they sacrifice principle to
gain power. They are not minded to sell
their blrthright for a mess of pottage. The
honest and manly utterances of Mr.. Simpson
here subjoined, will find an echo in many a
Democratic heart:
MR.. HALE's NOMINATION.
The Republican convention for the Fifth
District has been held, and the Democrats now
know what they have to meet in the coming
canvass. The man who has for five consecu-
tive terms walked over the course, is again in
nomination. There can be no hope of de-
feating Mr.. Hale by Misrepresentation or abuse.
He is an able man, with a national reputation
and personal popularity. This may as we'll be
ackn owledged, as humiliatingly to assert that
the party has for ten years been beaten by a
candidate who conspicuously lacks these quail
ties. Nothing is gained by undertaking oppo-
nents
The speeches of Blaine and Hale presented
the financial issue as the one on which the
battle is to be fought. 1t has been selected
with great judgment, and their position is
stroug ene, because it Is right, as time will
show. The only way for Democrats to preserve
their self-respect, or to have shadow of hope
for success now or in the future. is to adopt
anew the sound money platform of the State
convention of 1874, 1875 or 1876. The resolu-
tions of the present year are receiving soft
money Interpretation, of which those of the
years named are entirely incapable. This is no
time for timidity. twaddling or carrying favor
with greenback folly. The Congressman has
vote that directly reaches the currency ueE-
tion, and there are many, very many Dem o.
Gratis who are determined that their votes next
September shall sustain a candidate who is and
has been sound on this important issue, and
whose platform shall declare for sound money,
without shadow of equivocatioD.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
Livery and Hack Stock
For sale,


Owing to the near expiration of
my lease Of the Congress street
Stable. will sell in lots to suit
customers, the whole or any part
Of my Livery and Hack Stock.
Among the horses may be found
some of the best family and driv-
ing horses to be found i'm the state,
and any one intending to buy,
would do well to call and see
them. My carriages comprise
Top and Open Buggies, PhaetOns,
Jump seats, Carryalls. Park Phae-
tons, CarbiOlets. and all the carri-
ages usually found i'm a well aP.
pointed stable. Also, = good
Hack teams in good order, also 4
BarOuche i'm good order. This
sale presents am unusual OppOr-
tunity to buy q horse or carriage.
The stock will be sold on favor.
able terms. j. f. LIBBY.
5i1 Congress Street.
au2 diff
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
THE. PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10.
FOR GOvERNOR,
SELDEN CONNOR.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

Co., A very pleasant Rent of G to rooms. Gas
@; and Sebago. 1G9 Newbury Street near Frank
-Ws&a lin. w. o. PITCHER.
auo d1w*
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
WANTS.


Three men to deliver my papers In
Portland, none bnt strictly honest, tenn
perate men need apply. Also an Office hey.
DR. ROBINSON,
au7d2t* 80 Free St. cor. of Cotton
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent our
ournal,
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10

MnNEV to lean on first class Real Estate
mO1N G II Security, in Portland, or vi-
mission. Apply to F. q. PATTERSON, Dealer in
Real Estate. 379f Congress Street. no18dn
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
jy31d2
House For Sale,

49, Brick house No. IA Pine street. Lot 22x76
E;;: feet, Furnace, gas and Sebago; well finished
,E4sI and convenient. Large part of purchase
money may remain on mortgage. House open from
10 to 1, and from to 8. Immediate possession
given. Further particulars upon application to c. p.
MATTOCKS, No. 81 Exchange street.
jy8 dtf
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
House for Sale,

TN Western part of city, New House containing
office. au2dH
The Portland daily press., 1878-08-10
HALL TO LET.

MISSION HALL, Williams Block (formerIy
VA known as "Arcana Hall) having been leased
by the undersigned will be let on most reasonable
terms for Lectures Concerts, Sociables, Meetings,
Suppers, Fairs. &c. Apply at the Hall, opposite
Casco Engine House,
ap16eodlf R. M BARTON