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The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
The Presidential Canvass.
[September Atlantic.]

September Atlantic.1
1t is to be regretted that the Democrats
have not chosen, by their nomination and
platform, to identify their canvass clearly with
few broad principles of legislation, admins
tration, or constitutional Interpretation. A
thorough discussion of the fundamental ideas
of our government, as far as they concern the
powers of national and state authority, would
have been exceedingly valuable in its educa-
tional influence upon large masses OF tiers
who have never been led to serious coDsid-
Grafton of the questions involved The tradi-
tions of the Democratic party led it to take
the side of state authority as against the
federal power; those of the Republican party
lead it to favor the extension and strengthen
ing of the national authority at the expense of
the state governments. A contest ON this
would have involved the revival of the early
discussions between the federalists and the
anti'federalsts and close study of the opin-
ions of the fathers of the republic, and would
have lifted the campaign to high ground of
statesma ship. The Democrats, it is true,
would have been somewhat at a loss to recon-
cile the theory of their party with its practice
when in power Jefferson, the great advocate
of the state 's-rights and loose-govern ment
theory, made all exceedingly vigorous admin
istration when he got to be President, and was
as much disposed as his federalist predecessors,
Washington and Adams, to make the most OF
the powers given him by the Constitution.
jackson, when he wanted to destroy the
United States Bank and when he threatened
to hang the South Carolina nullifiers, was as
stalwart ''strong government an as was
Grant in later years. Pierce and Buchanan, in
their efforts to fasten slavery upon Kansas
against the will of her people, stretched to the
utmost all former broad interpretations of the
Constitution. As rule the party in power
takes liberal views of the extent of federal au-
thority, and the party out of power makes use
OF the rights of the states to combat its sue
cessful rival. Nevertheless, so far as profess
can claim to be the party of the states, and the
Republicans can claim to be thatof the nation.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
VERMONT.
Corrected Returns Make the Republican


Corrected Returns Make the Republican
Majority $3.50.
BosToN, Sept. 10.-A private telegram re
ceived here from Rutland, VT, says 229 towns
give Farnham 47,178, Phelps 2O,940, Heath
and scattering 1882. The same towns in 1876
gave Fairbanks "A 1888, Bingham 20,595, scat
tering ~.
BRATTLEBoRo, Sept. 10.-Fifteen town in
Windham county give Democratic gain of
ITO over the vote Of 1876, while the other eight
towns give Republican gain Of 1893. The
Republican majority on popular vote in the
county being 3O41, an increase of % over 1876.
Tyler (Rep.) for CongIess has majority over
Two Democratic and one Independent repre-
sentative as against 20 Republicans are return
ed. Both Wilmington and Whiting have
elected their representatives by a majority of
one vote.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Sept. 10.-The
Vermont returns from the gubernatorial vote
of the State have been received from 238 towns
leaving three towns more to be heard from.
The congressional vote has been received
from 230 towns. A clerical error was made
here last evening in compiling the vote for
governor in the third district. The correction
of that error and numerous others made by
sending in unofficial figures reduces Farm
hams majority considerably below that re-
ported last night A careful revision of the
returns gives the following vote for governor:
Farnham (Rep.) 1901.
Phelps (Dem.) 21,247.
Heath (G.) 1872.
Farnham's majority over all, 25,1S2.
The same towns gave in 1876:
Fairbanks (Rep.) 44.402.
Bingham Dem.) 0,622.
Scattering 70.
Fairbanks majority, 23,70S.
Towns to be heard rom will not increase
this majority materially.
The Congressional vote is as follows: First
dis riot, Joyce (Rep) 1891; Randall Dem)
673l; Martin co. 635; scattering, II; Joyce's
majority. 1928.
Second district-Tyler (Rep.) Il, 6S5; Camp
bell Dem.) 6,544; Mead (G.) 1913; scattering,
Is. Tyler's majority, 8777.
Third district circuit Rep.) II ,29S; CurrieI
Oem.) 5753; Tarbell co. 1916; scattering 3S2.
CIRCUITS majority, 3947.
Town representatives -205 Republicans, 16
Democrats, as far as heard from.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
Magazine Notices.

The September Atlantic brings the conclud-
ing chapters of "The saltwater Tragedy" one
OF the most vigorous, witty and delightful
novels Mr.. Aldrich has yet written. Richard
Grant White describes visit to Oxford and
Cambridge, which will have great interest for
many readers. J.T Trowbridge writes a charm.
ing poem on "Twoscore and Ten," and other
poems, which will attract all lovers of poetry,
are "The Perpetuity of Song'' by James T.
Fields, Unaware" by Maurice Thompson,
Each Side the Bridge" by A. B. Street, and
"West Wind" by Celia Thaxter. The Wash
ington "reminiscences this time relate to the
short-lived Harrison Administration. There
are two political articles,-one on the "Pro
gress of the Presidential Canvass" the other
on the important subject of the political Re-
sponsibility Of the Individual by R. R. Bow
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
Another ALLEGED Purchase.

1t was sure to come, land it is on time. In their
reckless rage and disappointment the Demo-
Gratis are charging Gen. Weaver, the Green
back candidate for the Presidency, with ac-
cepting brides from the Republicans. Here
is what the Utica Observer says:i
"In plain words, Mr.. Weaver has been
bought up, body and SOUL by the Repu blican
managers. 1t has been known for weeks that
Marshall jewell paid Weaver's Alaba ma ex-
penses, and sent word down there to his Re-
publican committeeman to aid the Greenback
ticket all they could. Since the election in that
State, Weaver has been as thoroughly an adj
junct of the Republican party as any Logan or
Woodford of them all. He has been sent into
Maine now to act as tender to Jim Blaine's
machine, and it must be admitted that he is
earning his money admirably. We should 'ad-
mire to know as they say down in the Pine
Tree State, just how much Weaver was
bought for"
Will Greenbackers stultify and degrade
themselves by aiding those Democrats who
accuse all Greenbackers, from the Presidential
candidate down to the obscurest voters, of sell
ling their votes to the higest bidder and ped
ding out their support? No Greenbacker who
has particle of self-respect can do this.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
MARINE NEWS.

Wrecks on the New Hampshire Coast.
PORTSMOUTH, N H., Sept. 9.-The schooner
Joseph Pierce, of Bangor, Capt. Smith, Ports
mouth for Gloucester and Lynn, with barrels
and blocks, was strained bya heavy sea on
Wednesday night off Isles of Shoals, filed
and went down in about twenty minutes. The
captain and crew took to boat and were
picked up and brought to this port to-day,
where they were furnished transportation
home.
Schooner Eddie F. Treat, Capt. Y. 7. Hodg-
don, owned in Bath, Me-, from Bangor to Bos-
ton, with slate and wood, went ashore off
Frost's Point and was soon stove to pieces.
Part of her cargo is coming ashore. The YES
sci is total loss.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, Sept. 9-Schooner Ari-
zona of Camden, Me-, with lime for Boston,
was brought into GAINESVILLE to-day by pilots
Wrecks on the Jersey Coast
AsBURY PARK, N. j., Sept. 9.-The spar of
large vessel was washed ashore this evening
A water tank apparently of large vessel is
ashore at Great Neck Pond. The storm is ex-
traordinary, and the spar and tank are sup
posed to belong to vessel wrecked off shore.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
Southern Campaign Literature

They have got out new edition of Pollard's
"Lost Cause for home consumption down
South, to which is appended ''The Life, Char
acter and Public Services of Jefferson Davis"
all of which is done up in attractive sstyle and
calculated to sire the heart of Southern
Democrats about this time. We append few
choice extracts, evidently not intended for
this latitude:
The pregnant lesson of human experience is
that few nations have had their first civil war
without having their second; and that the only
guaranty against repetition is found in the
policy of wise and liberal concessions graceful
ly made by the successful party.
There is a better judgment already read by
the Southern people of what the war has de-
cided as against themselves The last memoir
able remark of ex-President Davis, when a fu-
gitive and before the doors of prison closed
upon him was, THE principle for which we
contend is bound to reaSSert it self, though il
may be at another time and in another FORM
1t was a wise and noble utterance to be placed
to the credit of an unfortunate ruler
Defeat has not made all our sacred things
profane. The war has left the South its own
memories, its own heroes. its own tears, its
own dead. Under these traditions, sons will
grow to manhood, and lessons will sink deep
that are learned from the lips of widowed
mothers.
quence OF defeat in this war that the South
should lose its moral and intellectual distinct
uveness as people, and cease to assert its
well-known superiority in civilization, in po-
iiticai scholarship, and in all the standards of
Individual Character over the people of the
North. That superiority has been recognized
BY every foreign observer, and by the intelli-
gene everywhere.
The war did Lot decide negro equality: 1t did
not decide negro suffrage; it not decide State
rigts; 1t did not decide the or thodexy of the
Democratic party. And these things which
the war did not decide the Southern people
will still cling to- still claim and still assert in
them their rights and views.
The contest with political fanaticsm and
sectional violence is not yet ended, and in the
issues OF party made since the war the South
nnds herself this time in distinct and firm ALI
ance with party in the North in sympathy
with the educated reason of the world, and
with all the human instincts in her favor, de-
Tending the doctrine of the superiority of races
and maintaining the broad and noble interests
OF the white mans government in America.
That the result of the war between the
States settled any principles of government of
which we hear 80 much, is preposterous 1t is
an absurdity inlphilosophy that force is treason.
The assertion is blasphemy against liberty. 1t
is treason to the kingdom of Chris The
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
Three Yeas-Sixtv-Five Navs

Ihree YeaS-S1Xty-F1Ve Nays.
Prodigal Butler and the Dem ocratic press
are suddenly claiming in substance that the
Democrats saved the Union. But truth is al
ways simple. On the 18th of December, 1868,
the Hon. Green Clay Smith of Kentucky, in
troduced the following resolution into the
House of Representatives:
'"That we hold it to be the duty of Congress
to pass all necessary bills to supply men and
money, and the duty of the people to render
every aid in their power to the constituted au-
thorities of the COVER nment in the crushing
out of the rebellion, and in bringing the lead
ers thereof to condign punishment"
On this plain test question in a full House
the vote on the Democratic side was three yeas
to Si1ty7fue nays. In the next August the
National Convention of the same party called
the war a failure, and demanded an immedi-
ate cessation of hostilities. Such was the
Democratic process of Saving the Union.''
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10

overthrow of the Confederacy no more proved
that the princles upon which it was founded
and the objects its founders had in view were
wrong, and those who opposed both were right,
than the death of Abel proved that the offer
ing of Cain ought to have been as acceptable
TO God as that of his murdered brother. Jeffer
son Davis in manacles at Fortress Monroe, a
spectacular to heaven and earth did no more
prove that his governmental theories We're false
and his practices reasonable, than did Jesus
Christ, Gifted up'' on Calvary, with "the
crown of thorns'' upon his sacred head, the
rugged nails in his hands and feet, by which
he was secured to the cross of crucifxion, be-
tween two thieves, and in the midst of his
ieering enemies, prove that "the gates of hell"
had prevaileded against the councils of the
Eternal Father and the devil is the lawful
sovereign Of the universe!
The South has borne all Mr.. Davis has
borne all. They survive! The South Is ris-
ing from her ashes, and she grasps the sceptre
of power!
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
[Albany Journal
A. Wedding in High Life.


At Worcester, Mass, September LIST, by Rev
DIR. X p D. Ency, The Democratic Party OF
Massachusetts, to the Widow Butler of Lowell.
No wedding which has occurred in
the Bay State for many years has
attracted so much attention or been
attended by such general satisfac-
ton. Both bride and groom have long been
we'll known not only in their own State but
throughout the country, and all who enjoy
their acquaintance unite in declaring that they
were made for each other.
The bride looked just lovely, being dressed
in complete suit of thin illusion. Her hands
were bare, owing to her preference for hand
ling everything that comes in her way without
gloves. She wore no veil, and thus tho crowd
present at the wedding we're able to see that
her sweet, expressive face was as bright as
twenty-five caret-brass.
The wedding presents were numerous and
were all of the most Promising kind. Strange
as it may seem, not a Spoon was rendered by
any of the BRIDES many admirers, and all ref
erence to that useful article of table ware,
which generally figures so largely on the Ia
bles devoted to nuptial gifts, was studiously
avoided by the happy but sagacious groom.
The Louisiana friends of the young couple sent
an exquisite chrome of Beauty and the Beast,
the Widow regarded as the right light. DR..
Alonzo Garcelon, of Maine, sent a mirth-pro-
vCking bust of the three graces-Purity, JUS
tice and Fair Play. Charles Francis Adams,
remembering Emersons remark, "the only
gift is a part or myself sent refrigerator.
Samuel J. Tilden sent his best wishes in cy.
pher. General Hancock sent superb model,
in filagree, of the Dutch Gap Canal. Sunset
Cox sent an excellent study of a Shoo-Fly.
The groom's present to the Widow took the
form of very tender epithalamium, having
as its lovely refrain
OF all sweet words of tongue or pen
The sweetest are these, i've captured Ben.''
The Widow gave herself away and, as she
coquetishly remarked to the groom, this was
not the first time she had given herself away,
away-dead away.
The wedding breakfast which followed the
tying of the nuptlal knot was simply sump-
tuous. The tables groaned under the weight
of boned crow, pie a la humble and related
Injuries No spoon victuals were served.
The happy couple left in the evening, on the
Widows yacht for the Saline river country,
where they expect to spend some years.
No cards.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
MINOR KILOGRAMS,

Yesterday morning Jerome B. Brown and
wife, aged respectively 20 and 81 years, were
killed near North Adams Mass, by an engine
while crossing the trailroad track.
A dispatch from the British Island of Gre
NADIA, West Indies, say that boat with COM
pany of architects and some ladies has foun-
dered. Eight adults and an infant only were
saved.
Hayti was visited by the same hurricane
which swept across Jamaica. The coffee trees
suffered very much There was little loss of
life, although much valua BILE property was de-
stroyed.
Early Wednesday night the stage of the Pc
cos mail line was stopped by three men near
Antonio, New Mexico, and the mail bags rfled
Deputy Sheriff Geo. Gleason was shot four
times at San Antonio and fatally wounded in
an attempt to arrest horse thieves.
Miss Conquest was injured, though not seri-
ously by a fall at Wallack's theatre, N. Y, on
Wednesday night
The Arabs who attacked the English steam
or off Khalifet have been captured.
Princess Orloff of Russia, wife of Prince
Nicholas, the present head of the family, is
dead
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

Narrow Escape from Serious Loss of Life.
BATH, N. H., Sept. 10.-The New York Ex-
press going north on the Boston. Concord &
Montreal Railroad me, with an accident here
at Z O'Clock this evening. Three Pullman
cars and an ordinary Car were thrown from
the track the accident being caused by a
defective brake rod. The next to the last car
was overturned down a steep embankment
near the end of the bridge. Seven passengers
were on board but all escaped with only slight
bruise. The next two cars were badly smash
ed and one man had leg broken.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
THE DOMINION
Thirty Miles of Flame-12O Families
Homeless.

Thirty Miles of Flame-12o Families
Homeless.
New YORK, Sept. 8t1.-A dispatch from
Upton, Quebec, last night, says: The district
traversed by the flames lies between st.
hughes and ST. Valerian, Is miles in width,
and from St. Dominique to the River St. Fran
els, some 80 miles in length. About 100 fami-
lies are homeless, with restitution and begga-
ry staring them in the face. Thus far no Or
ganized efforts have been made to relieve the
distressed. At 10 tonight additional reports
are received of fresh burnings and the winds
rising.
The estimated loss to the present time is
100000. The fires are still raging and the in
habitants bravely trying to subdue them, but
with little success. A young man named Tes-
sler, while endeavoring to save a family
named Christie, who had been hemmed in by
fire, was so terribly burned that his recovery
is doubtful. Charles and Lorenzo Warner,
who went with two other men on the morning
of the 9th to their property in st. Germain,
were completely hemmed in by fire and
obliged to remain until this morning, when
they managed to escape. In St. Theodore par
ish the passage of the fire was SO rapid that in
one case where corpse had lain in house
ready for burial, they were obliged to bury
the body close to the house to save it from be-
ing burnt and flee for their lives The latest
reports from St Helene state that the fire still
RACES in that vicinity and several houses have
been DESTROYED,
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
FRYEBURG.
5000 People Listen to Senator
Blaine and Hon. A. w. Tenney.
OXFORD REPUBLICANS FULL OF EN-
THUSIASM.
rSpecial Desnatcb to the PREss.1

Especial Despatch to the PREss.]
FRYEBURG, Sept. 9.-The largest mass meet
ing ever held in western Oxford greeted Sem
ator Blaine at the fair grounds in Fryeburg to.
day. Fully five thousand people were present.
Special trains brought manv from adjoining
towns and also from Portland Four bands
furnished music. Hon. Joel Eastman of Con-
way presided. Senator Blaine spoke nearly
two hours and held the careful attention Of
the vast assembly. 1t was pronounced by all
to be fair and manly discussion of the politi-
cal questions of the day.
Hon. A. W. Tenney of Brooklyn, N. Y,
followed in an able and telling speech of thir-
ty minutes.
The Republicans have never been SO thor
oughly aroused since the war and Monday the
vote will show large gains from last year.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
DOMESTIC PORTS.

SAN FRANCISCO-Ar 31st, ships Eclipse, Hum
phreys, and Spartan, Reed, Departure Bay.
PORT EADS-Ar 9Th, ship Virginia, Delano, I'm
Bath.
CHARLESTON -. Sid 4th, sch Nellie Bowers,
Spear, New York.
Belfast. 0''
Cid It'll, sch Gertrude Smith, Jameson, Belfast.
RlCHMOND-Ar 9Th, sch Lizzie Carr, New York
NORFOLK-Ar 4th, sch Billow, Haskell, from
Rockland.
ALEXANDRIA-Ar 9Th, sch Ring Dove, Swain,
Washington.
BALTIMORE Cid 9th, scbs Catawamteak. Ken
nedy, Harlem; Annie Lee, Look New York
PHILADELPH1A-Ar 9Th, barque Norwegian
Liucoln, Antwerp; sch Laura V Rose, Leeds from
Gardiner.
Ga Sth, schs Ethan Allen, Blake, Portland; Edw
Waite, Lee. do
NEW YORK-Ar sth, schs Alexandria Talking
ingham Grand River, MS; Olive. Frye, Shulee Ms;
Alzena, Windsor, Ms; NJ Sawyer Falkingham'
s. , John, NIB; Walter Hall. 1horndlke, and Ida
Hudson, Rockland; L Adams, Nickerson and
Laura Bridgman, Haskell, Kennebec; c Paine,
Fisher, 40; Franconia do; Curtis, Curtis. GAR
diner Sophia Wiley, Belfast Geo Savage Snow,
Bangor; Mabel Hail. Hail. vinalhaven.
CID Sth ship Golden State. Delano Hong Kong;
barque yilora H Hopkins, Hopkins Cork; sch L B
Gregg Havener, st Lucia; White Sea- Storer Fer
nandlna.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
BY TELEGRAPH.
STANDIsH.
Hon. e. Fl. Cove Addresses Large
Republican Meeting.
THE DEMOCRATS EFFECTUALLY
SILENCED.
Especial DESPATCH to the Press,

p"PSS1'eR ICSEdVCH 10 I0SS'I
STANDIsH, Sept 9.-Hon. E. Fl. Cove spoke
here tonight to crowded house. The Demo-
Gratis attended in considerable numbers with
the avowed intention of interruptng the
speaker by questions and confusing him if pos
sible. But he stated his present position SO
frankly and fairly and proved his own consis-
tency and their own inconsistency so plainly
that but one question was asked. which was
quickly answered to the satisfaction of the au-
dience and confusion of his interrogation. Mr.
Piper of Washington followed Mr.. Cove with
ringing eloquent speech on national matters
Much enthusiasm prevailed, and altogether
the meeting was considered one of the most
successful of the camp aign.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
NEW YORK.
Burning of the Manhattan Market.

Burning Of the Manhattan Market.
NEW YORK, Sept 9.-The Manhattan mar
ket was burned last night. The original cost
opened in 1871, Oakley Hall, then mayor, lay
ing the corner stone. In 1878 it passed into
the hands of the late Courtlandt Palmer, on
mortgage of $150,000, the Manhattan market
company having been embarrassed almost from
the very beginning of the scheme to conduct
the largest market in the world. The loss is
$1,500,0O0 The market, hay sheds. an adj
joining block and ninety freight cars of the
Hudson river railroad were burned.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10

ker. Mark Twain contributes characteristic
story of "Mrs. McWiliiams and the Light
ming" 7. S. Perry writes instructively of Sir
Walter Scott. Ellen W. Olney, who has writ
ten some admirable short stories, has this
month one entitled eau Serieux." Miss Kate
Gannett Wells discusses "Women in Organi-
zations." Other essays, criticisms of new
books and a bright Contributors Club COM
plete a thoroughly enjoyable number of this
~,
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
NEW ENGLAND FAIR.

Addresses by Vice President Wheeler,
Judge Harlan and Senator and Judge
Hoar.
WORCESTER, Sept. 10.-Despite the some
what threatening weather there was larger
attendance at the New England fair than on
any previous day. Vice President Wheeler,
Judge Harlan of Kentucky, Senator Hoar and
Judge Hoar, addressed the audience in brief
speeches.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
TRAGEDY IN A THEATRE.

A Jealous Husband Shoots His Wife, a
Man and Himself.
NEW YORK, Sept. "a terrible tragedy oc-
Cured in the dress circle of the Melbourne
Opera House the oath ult. during the perform
ance of the Huguenots. A new arrival, Nc
Gregor Greer, maddened by JEALOUSY, shot his
own wife and M. Sandry, a member of the
French Exhibition Commission, and himself
The former two have severe wounds, butiare
recovering. Greer has since died. M. Sandry
has resigned his appointment.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
The following were the closing quotations Of
ChicaEoLive Stock Market.

10Y IEIcETBpnD
xaiAI.Aos Sept. Hogs-Receipts IL 900 head;
snlpmenrs 44oO head; prices 59106 lower; market
= weak common grades almost unsaleab1e; mixed
packing at 6o95 90; light at SO@5 30: choice
cattle-Receipts 34OO head; shipments 800 head
strong export demand and liberal supply; common
70 choice shipping at OO65 90; butchers cows at
Sheep-receipts 500 head; market firm; common
70 81 medium at 5094 90; good to choice 4 25@
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN.

Encouraging Reports from the Southern
States.
NEW YORK, Sept 9.-At meeting of the
Republican National Executive Committee,
ex-Gov. Jewell presided. Reports on the
progress of the campaign in the Southern
states made by Mr.. Atkinson of West Virgin
ia, Cooper of North Carolina, and Elliot of
South Carolina, chairmen of State COMMITTEES,
are said to be of an encouraging nature.