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The Portland daily press., 1878-06-07
The Greenback Convention.

The Lewiston Greenback convention was
made up Of all the elements Of discomfort. A
few men in 1t had a quarrel with the consti-
tuition of society itself, and held it to be well
to do away with our present laws and GUS
toms and to make fresh start all round.
But they had absolutely no influence with
the majority of the convention and took
good care not to air their theories-for many
of the men about them had considerable
property interests and were incapable of the
slightest sympathy with the Democratic
socialism which has been brought into this
country with other bad and foreign ideas by
European refugees. A larger number while
giving no conscious support to the dangerous
vagaries of communism did believe that in
addition to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness every American is born with the
right to be rich, and that the times are sadly
out of joint when poverty can exist in the
land. They felt that the unequal distribu-
ton of property was an injustice which
should and could be remedied, and as law
abiding citizens they looked to law, not to
violence for the remedy. But the larger part
of the convention was made up of shrewd,
hard-headed men who have no disposition to
| quarrel with the nature of things and enter
tain no impractical theories in regard to the
equal distribution of wealth, but who believe
they have real grievance. They, like all the
rest of us, feel the burden of hard times, but
are mistaken as to the cause and remedy.
| Having made no or at the most very super
| ficial study of commercial laws they have
been led to think that return to specie
| payments is the cause of our business dis.
tress and industrial stagnation. They have
not learned that in the departure from not
the coming back to, specie basis for our
currency is the origin of our woes. Mised
by dishonest and designing men they seek to
make debt-credit they call 1.-THE basis oi
capital. They wish to give local habitation
and name to one of the most extravagant
fancies of the great French satirist who four
hundred years ago proposed Common
wealth. in which all men should be debtors
| and borrowers. These people shaped the
sentiment Of the convention. There were it is
true not few noisy demagogues seeking only
the advancement of their own fortunes, who
pushed themselves to the front and claimed
the places of honor; but they were cunning
enough to defer to the general sentiment.
The average of opinion found its express
sion in the platform, in which, aside from the
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absurd call for paper money, there is little
that Is Objectionable. 1t is to be sure rather
funny to find men asking in the most eco.
nomlcally governed state of the Union for
retrenchment of expenditures and reduction
OF salaries; but for the rest the Republican
party surely will not quarrel with the Lewis
ton delegates, for it has anticipated their de-
mands. They protest against the perpetual
ton OF our bonded indebtedness; the Repub-
lican party has paid off $40 mill ions of that
indebtedness-to have paid more or paid
faster would have put an intolerabIe burden
upon the people. They demand retrench-
ment In expenses and reduction in the num-
ber of officials. The Republican party has
reduced appropriations by millions of dollars
and officials by thousands of men. They de-
sire legislation that shall secure to each man
the just rewards of his labor. The RepubIi-
can party has released from slavery four mill
lions of laborers, and given them for the first
time in their existence the right to ask wages
Tor their toll. All these things the Republi-
can party has done and will continue to do
unless it is deprived of power. And in this
good work it has been opposed from the
start by rival organization. The Demo-
cratic party has steadily fought these things.
But as long as the Republicans were united
it failed of success. Its only opportunity is
in the dssensions of Republicans. That op.
portunity the new party is giving it. The
only result of the Greenback movement
must be the weakening of the organization
which has already done much to effect that
retrenchment in expenditures and that les
sening of the interest bearing debt which the
Greenbackers say they desire, and the
strengthening of the organization which is
opposed to the Republican party and the
achievement of these objects. Is that the
end which Republicans who have Joined the
new 'Nationap' party, desire?
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"Ihe oery man OF all others avho has the
deepest interest IN a sound currency, and
aoho suffers most by mischievous legislation in
money matters, is the man aoho earns his dai-
ty bread By his daily toll. 4 deprecated cur
rency, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling betaoeen morning and noon, and fdI-
ling still loyer betgeen noon and night, these
things constitute the uery harvest time Of spec
ulators, and Of the aohole race of those aoho are
at once idle and crafty. Il disor-
dered currency is one of the greatest political
euils. Nunder1aines the Uirtues necessary for
the support Of the social system, and encour-
ages propensities destructive to its happiness.
1t acars against industry, trugality and econ
omy, and it fosters the euil spirits Of ertrau-
agance and speculation. Of all the contri
uances for cheating the laboring classes Of
mankind, none has been more efectual than
that aohich delades them aoith paper money.
This is the most efectual Of Intentions to fer
tiaze the rich man fields By the sooeat Of the
poor mans brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppres.
sion, ercessire taration, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared aoitb
fraudulent currencies and the robberies COM
mitted By deprecated er."-Daniel
Webster
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American Art Through English Eyes.

The London Athen9um's second notice of
the Paris International Exhibition contains
some pleasant words about the American pic
lures in the department of the fine arts. SIT
vas not to be expected" says that journal,
'that the United States, whose energies are
absorbed 10 opening out its resources, and in
the perhaps too feverish development of its
trade. could compete with states, some of them
having schools of painting the outcome of CEN
turies of practice and traditions. Neverthe-
less the Republic, and the well-wishers of its
art, may fairly congratulate themselves on the
appearance of the gallery here. The paintings
are arranged in one room sufficiently large for
them to be all easily seen; the appointments
are not so luxurious as in the English and Ger
man galleries; still it has not like the galle-
res in which the French pictures are displayed,
the look of warehouse or goods station, and
we think American artists will be satisfied
with the care and judgment Mr.. Armstrong
has shown in hanging their works"
Mr.. Btidgmaa's Burial of Mummy is "for
size and dignity of subject one of the most inn
portant productions from this country. "All
the details of costume and accessories are
thoroughly studied, and the drawing and paint
ing are deserving of high commentators as will
be understood by those who remember Mr..
Biidgman's Nile Boat in the last years Acade-
my exhibition. Especially beautiful is the
landscape, showing the mountains, with the
last rays of the setting sun lighting up their
tops, and the stretch of river beneath rejecting
cool and pellucid sky tints."
Mr. w. P. Dana's Atlantic by Moonlight.
is painted sin harmony with the subject, strong
and sotid, yet with much refinement in its man
pulation.
"Mr. Dana has also q small but powerfully
painted work of men gathering seaweed on the
shores OF Oman. In Mr.. Wiuslow Homer's
wofk we come on American ground. Swapping
the Whip is very pleasant little picture;
string OF urchns are joined hand in nand, Wniie
at the extreme end some have tumoied on tue
grass; we seem to hear their shouts OF laugnter
they at least do not take their pleasure sadly.
More s0mbre in tone and sentiment, out not
ungenial, is his Visits from the Old Miseress, a
lady coming to see some old negro women IN
their cabin the respectful, conhding air OF the
negresses aud the kindly consideration of their
old mistress show great capacity for rendering
the more subtle emotions. SUNDAY Morning In
Virginia is also negro subject, four children
learning their Bible lesson and al old woman
with truly pathetic expression, quietly seated
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Current Comment

Considering his practice, Anderson is an
inexcusably blunderng peliurer.
Louisiana presents thirsty field to plant
system of Sunday-schools in.
We would prefer 40 terms of Grant to one
term of Democracy with Southern claims
aud communism thrown Inst. Louis GLOBE
Democrat.
The Democratic party has done what it
was feared the Republican party could not do
of itself,-brought all the factions of the
Republican party into line and under one
leadership. Chicago Tribune.
"Give him consulship in warm place."
said Mr.. Hayes when he endorsed Ander-
sons application. We do not betray conf
Christian way of telling Anderson he might
go to Halifax. Washington Post.
Last week a boastful Virginian bet five
dollars that he could leap over circular saw.
He lost his bet, and the ''Mother of Presi-
dents" lost contributor to her bell punch
fund. Perhaps the Democracy will come out
the same way if they 60 cavorting round
revolutionary things.-LopeH Courier.
A phonograph was found wandering about
the streets of New York yesterday, yelling,
"Fraud! fraud! fraud first triumphant! the
de facto President! fraud! fraud! fraudulent
President! fraud! fraud! fraudp A disgust
ed newsboy kicked the fraud-shrieker sixteen
times across the street and back, but it kept
up its cry OF ''fraud fraud fraud, de facto,
stamp of fraud fraud de facto fraud fraud
fraudp' The insane phonograph was finally
arrested, and when asked to explain its
strange conduct, said it belonged to Mr..
Dana, editor of the Sun, and was not respon-
sible for its ridiculous language. 1t was dis
charged, with a reprimand, and advised to 60
West.-Norr. Herald.
Hendricks is said 20 be meditating a sort of
Democratic revolution against Tilden. His
friends make no secret of the fact that he is
greatly enraged by the Potter movement,
looking upon it as mere lever to raise Til
den to denomination. Mr.. Hendricks con-
siders this breach of contract, for he was
promised at st. Louis in 1876 that if he
accepted the nomination for Vice-President,
then he should have the nomination for Pres
ident next time. This promise, his friends
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-07
DIR. T. r. Lees of England.

This gentleman will be in Portland on Sat-
urday from Canada, and at the request of
temperance men here, he will be at the City
Hall on Sunday night. The cause of tenn
perance owes to him very much of the ad-
vanced position it holds in the regards of
English speaking people the world over. At
a very early age DR.. Lees became convinced
that alcoholic liquors in whatever quantity
taken by persons in health, and under what
ever circumstances, were always mischief
and never a good. For many years this
theory was not accepted by the faculty and
was ridiculed by most of the members of it,
Now it is accepted without qualification by
many of the most eminent physiologists in
Great Britain.
But DR.. Lees may well receive hearty
and hospitable reception from all loyal Ameri-
cans, from the fact that it was largely due to
him that the masses Of the English working
men were true to the North during the re-
bellion. the Southern Aid Society under
the presidency of Lord Wharncliffe, arranged
for monster mass meetings of the people all
over the kingdom where they were har-
angued by able hired speakers in favor of the
rebels, but DR.. Lees attended these meet
ings elsewhere, and carried them enthusias-
tically against their promoters and in favor of
the North, so that after several unsuccessful
attempts of this sort, the Southern Aid Soci-
ETY. abandoned the project and the great mass
of the working class and the middle classes. of
the country were warm and staunch friends
of the North. 1t was believed at the time, as
it is now, that this attitude of the great mass
of the English peorle restrained the govern
ment from executing their purpose of recog-
nizing the Rebel government as the French
government solicited it to do.
The Portland people therefore, without re-
gard to the temperance question may well
extend to DR.. Lees hearty welcome and a
grateful recognition of his services to our
country in the hour ofits greatest need.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-07

A LETTER from Gen. Sherman containing
the following significant sentiments was read
at the reunion of the Ninth Army Corps in
Springfield Tuesday:
l approve highly these army meetings and
banquets for there is real danger that the
silence of our soldierly masses may again as in
1861, be misconstrued. The men who filled the
ranks of our Northern armies were of the most
industrious class, who now again are so i'm
mersed in their business matters as not to hear
and heed the violent harangues of another
kind. Therefore l hope you will have at Spring
field a full representation of the old Ninth
corps, and that you will speak right out and to
the point, that the enemies of our country may
not ag ain commit the fatal error Of rushing
into civil war.
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TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE

claim, was made by the personal representa-
tives of Tilden, and he looks upon Tilden's
conduct now as the blackest treachery. So
enraged Is he, the Indianapolis Jonrnol as
serts, that he meditates a separation Of the
Western from the Eastern Democracy, and
if Alexander Stephens's protest had received
a more encouraging support in the West and
South he would have Joined him and made
the fight at once. As it is, he is waiting for
a good chance. This is the substance of
political gossip in indianapolis. 1t doubtless
exaggerates the turmoil in Mr.. Hendricks's
mind somewhat, but there is every reason to
believe that suca turmoil exists there. OF
course it will never amount to anything. Mr..
Hendricks never goes to extremes in any
thing except straddling.
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"The loss aohich america has sustained, since
the peace, from the pestilential effects of irre-
deen'able paper money, on the necessary conf
hepublic councils on the industry and morals of
the people and on the character of republican qoU-
ernnent, constitute an enormous debt against the
States chargeable aoiM this uraaduased measure,
aclach mast remain unsatised, or rather 1t is an
accumulation ofguilt aohich can be eapiated no
otherwise than by a voluntary sacrifice on the al
ar of justice of the pooer wlsich has been the 10
strunaent CT it.-Janaes Madison.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-07

GA return to specie payments at the earli-
est possible period compatible with due re-
gard to all inter ests concerned, sh culd ever
be kept in view. Fluctuations in the value
of currency are always injurious, and to
reduce these fluctuations TO the lowest pos
sible point will always be a leading pur-
pose i'm wise legislation. Converlibiiity
prompt and certain convertibility into
coin Is acknowledged TO be the best and
suresr safeguard against them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
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As a very important source of strength
and security, cherish public credit. One
method of preserving it is to it as
sparingIy as possible; avoiding occasions
of expense by cuItivatinx peace, but
membering also that timely disbursements
to prepare for danger frequently preven
much greater disbursements TO repeI il !:
avoiding likewise the accumulation of
debt, not only by stunning occasions of
expense, but by vigorous exertions in time
of peace to discharge the debts which un-
avoidable wars may have occasioned, NOT
ungenerousiy throwing upon posterity ihe
burden which we ourselves ought to bear
GEORGE WASHINGTON
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'Such medium (irredeemable 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
Oh
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Paper emissions by the government are
of a nature SO liable to abuse, L may say
so certain TO be abused, that the wisdom of
the government will be shown by never
trusting it.eif w th seducing and dam
gerous a pcwer.o
LEXANBER HAMILTON.
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THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 2

we DO not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are In
al cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
out as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
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ANDERSON was pretty we'll used up by Mr..
Reeds cross examination Wednesday. 1t is
believed the statement that the paper sub
mitted as the Anderson-Weber coDtrac is a
counterfeit was prompted by the knowledge
that Weber's signature is forgery. He did
not dare to admit that he sent the forgery to
Senator Matthews.
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Irredeemable paper money "converis the
business of society into a mere lottery; and
when the collapse comes, as come il must
il casts laborers out of employment. crush
es manufacturers and merchants and
ruins thousands of honest, industrious
citizens.o
JAMES BUCHANAN.
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1t (paper money! tends to aggrauate the
inequality Of fortunes; to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer, to multiply nabobs and
paupers, and to deepen and aoiden the guB
which separated Dioes from Lazarus. -Thom-
as II. Benton.
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"Capita! may be produced by Industry and
accumulated by economy, bat only juggers
will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks
with paper" "-Thomas Jefferson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-07

THE reduction of the tobacco tax from "a
TO 16 cents pound is to be followed by an
attempt to reduce the whiskey tax. The
Democrats believe these great industries
should be encouraged.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-07

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couptersgned by Stanley T.
fullen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon US by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
nfrpoI
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THE most unfortunate result of the Oregon
election is that it will give the vote Of that
State to the Democrats should the next
Presidential election be thrown into the
House.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-07

a paper currency is a great curse to any
people and a particular curse to the laborer
Of any country, for its depreciation alacays
falls upon the lab0rer.-Andre,u Jackson.
The Portland daily press., 1878-06-07

FERNANDO WOODS tariff bill is we'll out
of the way. Its defeat is the best thing the
House has yet done.
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Two Story House for S25OO

Eight rooms, gas, SebagO, good
drainage, very pleasantly located
opposite the Reservoir, No. BIS
Bracket street. The best bargain
i'm the market. Apply to f. G.
PATTERSON, 379 Congress st.
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The managers of the Paris Exhibition
look for deficit of three million dollars. OF
this the Nation will pay three-fifths, and the
city of Paris the rest.
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For Sale i'm Deering.

ANE and half miles from Portland, the resi-
~ dence of Mr.. A. W. Longfellow, consisting of
410 acres Of land, in grass, fruit and woods Cot
tage house containing IA rooms, including bath room
Also barn. carnage house and woodshed. Fine view
public institute or for house lots Apply to
JOHN G. PROCTER, 90 Exchange street.
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To he RpvptaH.

A VERY desirable front room, with large alcoye,
"A Bath room upon same floor, Apply at
jan7dtf 606 CONGRESS ST.
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PROPOSALS.
Proposals for Loan of $4,000 to
the Town of GOrham.

CEALED proposals will be received at the office of
- the undersigned, until the eighth day of June
next, for loan of fifteen thousand dollars to said
town, for the purpose Of erecting buildings for the
Normal School located there.
The payments OF said loan are to be in equal annu-
al instalments, distributed over series of fifteen
years. the first payment becoming due in three years
from the date of ISSUE The rate of interest is to be
five per cent. per annum, and payable eemi-annu-
ally. at some Bank in Portland or at Treasurers Of
tce in Gorham.
Parties making proposals will specify what amount
they will take, In what denomination ($100, $780,
$780, $500, or $1,000 pieces), and what length Of
time; also what premium they will give for the
same.
The right to reject any all proposals is reserved
STEPHEN HiNCKLEY, Treasurer.
Town Treasurer's office, Gorham, May 22d, 1878.
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REAL ESTATE.

MnNEVt to lean on first class Real Estate
NUN r 4 Security, in Portland, OF Vi
cinity. Rents collected, taxes paid, &c. on Com
Real Estate, 379l CONGRESS Street, no18dtf
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new MOdern style House on Con-
greSs street for Sale or to Let.
Two story house No. 8l6 Congress street, between
Vaughan and Ellsworth, rooms, modern improve
ments, suit of parlors with marble mantels, open
CRATE, bath room finished in ash and black walnut
wash bowls, hot and cold water in bath room. cham
bers b and kitchen, cemented cellar, &c. Price only
year including water Apply to
F. G. PATTERSON, 3794 Congress Street.
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Examination of Teachers,

NVHE Committee on Examination of Candidates
l. for Teachers of the Public Schools of Portland
will hold session at the High School Building, on
the first day of July next. at 10 a. m. Persons de-
srous of positions teachers in the public Schools
not having taught in the city the past year, whether
holding certificates or not, must present themselves
for examination as above. THOMAS TASH
Superintendent of Schools.
Portland, June 4, 1878. je5td
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HALL TO LET.
TO LET.

Two good front rooms aln Me-
chan1c Hall Building, ouifable for
Doctors or Lawyers. EnOuire of
GEO. A HAIR MON.
Jewelier, Mechanic Building.
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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
CITY OF PORTLAND.
SEWERS.

GEALED PROPOSALS will be received at City
DAY, June 18th, for constructing the following
sewers, pipe to be furnished by city:
Merrill Street, Extension, % rods, IL in. pipe.
Monument :" to Mountfort, 90 s' +" 6.
Munroe to Anderson, 33 s. &c"
North s Extension, 20
Portland from Alder toward Preble rods 10
in, pipe.
Plans and specifications at City Civil Engineers
Office. Right reserved to reject any proposals. To
be endorsed proposals for Sewers" and addressed
to JAMES E. HASELTINE,
je6d1w Chairman Committee on Sewers
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-01

FROM J. A. TYNEs. A WELL KNOWN
CITIZEN OF WILSON, N, C.-My wife had
suffered for ten or twelve years with a
kind Of dry letter, which kept the scalp
covered with dandruff, and caused her
hair to fall out and get very thin and
turned grey, but after using London
Hair Color Restorer," the letter was
cured and the grey hair restored to its
natural color, the hair stopped falling
out and is growing beautifully. By
telling of the effect it had on the head
of my wife | have induced number
to try it, and | want you to send me a
dozen bottles by express. | enclose
postoffice order for So to pay for it.
London Hair Color 3estorer is sold at
IS cents bottle by all leading drug
gists. DR.. Swayne& Son, Philadelphia.
sole proprietors. Sold by John Beng
ston, Druggist, Rock Island.