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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09
Washington Letter.
The Fight Over the Nominations-The
Presidents Course Approved No Harm
to Come to the Party.
WASHINGTON, MAY 6, 1881.

WASHINGTON, May 6, 1881.
To The Editor Of the Press:
Dead locks are the order of the day, and no
sooner does one complication disappear, than
another one pops up. The telegraph has given
you the particulars of the Presidential muss
yesterday. 1t is piece of strategy that has
set all tho thinking men to thinking, and the
newspaper men to writing In few hours
to-day all the New York newspapers were
sold and the readers thereof were MAKING
their own comments, stimulated by the edito-
rials of the great New York editors. 1t is a
characteristic of Americans to want to know
what others say on grave national question be-
fore venturing positive opinion of their own
So to-day every one wanted to know what the
leading newspapers had to say-or what re-
sponse the country was making to the move
of President Garfield in Withdrawing the New
York nominations. Does it mean war? The
intelligent reader understands that there can
not be two "bosses" in one household and so
either Senator Conkling must boss the party
and the administration or the President must
The past has little to do with the main ques-
tion, nor have the great services of Senator
Conkling during the canvass; for it is ques-
tion whether we shall have President at the
White House or in the Senate. Mr.. Garfield
thinks he is President, and he does not intend
to abdicate nor commit hari kari.
But see how nicely the great New York SEN
ator controlled the Senate caucus committee.
BY the terms of the agreement he could block
the confirmation of his political enemies,
while the President was poweress to retaliate
in kind. He was handicapped, and in self-de-
fense had to do something. His position was
analogous to that of General Grant after the
battle in the Wilderness. Grants orders to
his officers were, on the evening after the bat
tle for the morrows work: "By the left flank,
forward" His officers were puzzled, but the
movement led to victory, and also led Gen.
Lee to make the remark, "The army of the
Potomac has a commander now" So if Presi-
dent Hayes in any sense let his party and his
policy drift President Garfield with so ac-
tive. able and aggressive Premier, does not
propose to let any one Senator officously con-
troll things.
The general drift of opinion here is that the
President is right in Withdrawing the nomina-
do less, unless he sat down quietly and sub
mitted. The specializing ones assumes that it
is Blaine and Conkling's fight. We'll, let it be
so; the Maine man will come out ahead in the
end, as he has all the advantage. Hardly any
of the easy going kind will want to commence
thus early to fight the administration. 1t is
three years too early if any one has the desire
to antagonize tine President or his policy. But
let no one suppose that the skirmish Just now
end destroy the party. No such event will
grow out of this measuring OF swords thus ear
ly by the administration and the New York
Senator. UNCLE TOBY.
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Perfectly Paralyzing.
The Intellectual Conversation Between
Two Giddy Young Things on the Cars.
[Burdette's Roaming Letter. I

Burdette's Roaming Letter.
On the way to Buffalo two young people,
got on the train some where east of Cleveland.
They were going back to school. They were
not silly, ignorant country young people. By
no manner of means. They represented SEM
mary and college education, for the young
man was ON his way back to Cornell. They
dropped into a seat opposite the pilgrims, and
the passengers in the immediate vicinity lis
tened to this highly intellectual interchange of
pulsng thought and throbbng sentiment:
''Say!" exclaimed the impetuous youth, az
heard something about you"
"Oh you'll" she replied; "what was it?''
"Shan't tell"
'"rhat's real mean. Who told you?'
"Oh. l know" he asserted sit paralyzed
me-
"Well, what was it about?''
"Down there at Chatauqua that time. Oh,
that paralyzed me. Te-he, te-he."
What" she exclaimed, in tones of intense
surprise rs though it was the first time she ever
heard of such aplace-"Chatauqua!"
"Aw, yes, You know. Out there with
"Wth whom? Te-be"
"Oh, pshaw! Te-he, te.he."
Il don't know what you mean"
"Oh, no, you don't Well, it paralyzed me-"
"Well, l don't care, anyhow. it amt So"
well, got it pretty Straight 1t jut par
alyzed me-"
"Who told you?"
"Youll never tell told you?''
"No indeed I won't"
"Wel. got it from Will Blank IL just
paralyzed me-"
"On, know what you mean now. Well,
what of that? Te-he, te-he''
Jaw we'll, good deai'of it. Ts-he, Te-he."
why, that was nothing Te-he. Te-he."
Jaw, that Just paralyzed me-"
81 don't believe you know anything about
it. anyhow Te-he. TIE he"
YES do know all about it, Just piralyzed
me, tell YOU"
well, what did he say about the other?'
"Oh, he told me all about that"
"What did he think?''
81 won't tell you
'Oh, please do"
"Ah, you're 100 anxious"
"Indeed, l think ought to know
you'll get mad if tell you" (Then, sud-
denly remembering that he hadn't made the
remark for thirty seconds-) 1T just psraiyzed
me'
mo, won't get mad"
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of somehow, 1 suppose" she would reply,
when asked how she could have managed to
wreck herself so utterly. What contrast be-
tween the one who did what she could. and the
other who would not do anything that she
could, or ought to do. All! the world is so
full of such people, men are 81 tried by the un-
Willingness to work-as they work-of their
female dependents and friends, that IL is no
wonder that we are voted down so eften. II
we want our rights, want all doors of employ
meDt thrown open to us, we must show that
we mean work, that it is not empty talk. We
must make the exception prove the rule. Had
my lazy widow not thought it so beneath her
dignity to go into her own kitchen, and do her
own cooking, she might have kept her lofdse
free from mortgage, and full of paying ard
ers. Had my working widow waited, lABMi-
cawber, till something turned up" she might
still be homeless and destitute, her children
uneducated. Ab, no! We chsfe and fret at
onr narrowed boundaries, and sigh over our
ideals. and abuse those who would be our
friends, could they discover that we are our
own friends; but how many of us. who are cry
ing for work, are willing to work? How many
who will give their best work. who do not con-
stantly say, 80. this is good enough-poor pay.
poor work." Not so, my friends. Success re-
qures good work. Whatsoever thy hand
fndeth to do, do it with all thy night"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

THE Freeman's Journal (Dublin says !:
"The more we study and attempt to master
the Land bill the more we become impressed
with the marvellous ability it displays. We
can well understand how it required twenty
three several draughts before the measure
satisfied its author. 1t is, we say without
hesitation, great measure. 1t is based up
on true principles. which fully, even gener-
ously, recognize the rights of the Irish ten
ants. Mr.. Gladstone deserves the thanks
and the admiration of the Irish people,"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

1t would be very awkward just now if the
Indians were TO make au attack on tho 'front.'
ier Pretty nearly all the United States Army
is here in New York attending the Whitaker
trial-Puck.
81 have never been able," says Macaulay,
"to discover that a man is any the worse for
being attacked" Macaulay never saw Sew
enth Ward rounder after row at the prima-
ries.-Boston Globe.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

THE Governor of North Carolina and the
and take part in the Yorktown centennial
ceremonies. Both Governors will be at
tended by large retinue of troops, and the
Legislatures of both States have made liber-
al appropriations to pay the expense. There
is great anxietyto learn if the North Caro-
lima executive will make the usual remark
to his fellow Governor
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

A MAN, whose nom de plume is ''Ethel
Holiness" kindly offers to furnish American
papers with weekly articles for year to
come. He promises ''ten sentimental or
philosophical articles, and seven or more
poems," and says ''each article shall be at
least one column in length, entirely original,
and amusing as well as instru ,tive" Miss
Ethel Holmes is a decided acquisition to the
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

II is charged by the st. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat that Texas has passed law, which
the Governor has approved, giving every
Confederate soldier in that State pension
in the shape of grant of public lauds.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

COLLECTOR Brady of Petersburg, Va. be-
lieves that the Malone party will poll more
votes in the next election than ever
before. The colored men are solid for his
ticket because he is the first man who has
been able to protect them in the right to
vote; while the people from the North who
have heretofore taken no part in politics for
fear of ostracism, and the young element
that has been kept under by the old Bour-
bon leaders, will bring many votes to the
new party ticket
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

THE Treasury has only got away with
$70,000,000 of debt since June of last year.
The Democrats, had they elected Hancock,
might have made far more sweeping re-
duction. They might have wiped out the
debt as with a sponge.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

NEBRASKA, according to the Government
report of che condition of the crops, shows
the best condition" of winter grain of any
State or Territorv
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

DURING April, from $4,000 to 95, 900 i'm
migrants from foreign lands passed through
Chicago to settle in the States and Territories
of the Northwest. This is an increase of
forty per cent over last year.
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 8.

EVERY regular attach6 of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pulen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09

THE most costly piece of real estate in
New York is the Trinity building, next to
Trinity church, assessed at $1,700,0O0, and
next is the Fifth-avenue Hotel.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-09
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
CITY OF PORTLAND.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND Aide MEN,

In BOARD OF MAYOR AND AIDE MEN,
May End. 1881.
ORDERED, That the City Clerk give notice to all
parties interested, by publishing copy of this
order in the Portland Daily Press" and "Daily
Eastern Argus" of this city, for three weeks sue
cessivey, that this board on MONDAY. the sixth
day of June next at 71a O'Clock p. NJ, at The
Aldermen's room will hear all parties interested
In the petitions for sewers in the following Streets
viz:
Winthrop street through Everett TO Greenleaf
street.
Melbourne street to Eastern Promenade.
Market street from Middle to Federal streets.
Congress street, Weymouth to Portland streets.
Danforth and Orcha rd streets to foot of Danforth
street.
And this board will then and there determine if
public convenience and necessity require the con-
structiOn of said sewers
Read and passed.
Attest: H. l. ROBINSON, Clerk.
A true copy.
Attest: II. 1. ROBINSON, City Clerk.
CITY OF PORTLAND. IS
CITY CLERKS OFFICE,(
May 3, 1881.
10 whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given
as requested, by the aforesaid Order, which is
made part of this notice.
may6 d3w
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Ocean Park Association.
NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that special meeting
their grounds at Old orchard. Saco, Me-, on TUES
DAY, the 10th day of May, 1881, at nine and halt
O'Clock 8. m. The principal obect of this meeting
is the dedication of the grounds and the sale of lots
The directors meeting will be on the day preceding
at 2 O'Clock p. IN at the Central House.
Persons wishing entertainment, should apply at
once, to w. G. SMITH, Central House, Old orchard.
L. W. STONE Secretary of Association.
Bddeford, April 27, 1881. may2d7t
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PHILADELPHIA Press: The Senate dead
lock has been succeeded by the Senate pad
ock, as applied to the executive sessions.
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Pavement 90.
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS,
wITHi A BONUS OF STOCK.

The pavement made by this Company has met
with the highest favor both in this country and in
Europe, and it is considered to approach perfection
more nearly than any other.
The Works of the Company are at Providence,
R. l., and at Hastings, N. Y, and the needs of its
business will require additional ones at Chica-
go and other large cities.
Negotiations are pending with capitalists i'll
London and Paris for the right to manufacture and
this pavement in those cities.
Few enterprises on the market promise
profitable business at this one.
The Company require additional means to extend
their facilities for manufacturing and offer for sale
the second 500, 900 of their per cent. bonds
convertible INTO stock) at par and interest These
bonds carry bonus of stock. which is fixed for the
present at FIFTY PER CENT.
Pamphlets and full information furnished, and
suhSo orntioY, ;xyod bu
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Customers can commence taking Ice at
any time they desire, and delivery will
be continued until notice to stop is re.
ceiyed ut the office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-03
DIR. B. I. KELLER,
Late OF GrantsvilIe. Md.

Having located in Oakland, offers his pro-
fessional services to the citizens OF Oak Ia nd
and vicinity. A calls promptly answered,
day or night. Office and residence In the Os-
bourn house.
2 5 3m
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-03
The Public Domain.

1t sounds trifie sensational to say
that,at the present rate of settlement
the agricultural portion of our public
domain lying within the arabic re-
gion, will be all taken up within
three years. Yet that is precisely
the estimate of the Public Land
Commission which has just complet-
ed its labors and made its report
which cannot, however, be printed
for public distribution until Congress
shall have made an appropriation
for the work. The Land Office tells
US that in 1879 the surveyed arabic
agricultural lands capable of cultiva-
tion without irrigation or other
artificial modes of watering and sub
Ject to entry under the Homestead
Act, embraced not more than 25,-
576,960 acres made up of compare
lively small sections in Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas. Washington Territory, and Ore
gon and still smaller areas In some of
the other States. In addition to this,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-03

A prominent New York Republi-
can says that after all efforts to effect
a compromise in the matter of the
New York collectorship had failed,
Vice President Arthur went in a
manly way to the President, and
plainly told him that he felt bound
in honor to sustain his friends, and
added: 81 trust, Mr.. President, you
will not think that there Is anything
personal to you in my action" The
President, in his usual hearty way,
took hold of General Arthur by both
shoulders, and said: "Pers0nal,
my dear fellow? Nothing of the
sert. | know you haYe no such pet
ty feeling at ALL"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-03
The Chess Superstition.

Chess, otherwise called bronze
grass, is like many other bad weeds.
native of Europe. 1t is an annual.
and, like other plants, originates on
ly from seed of its own kind. IT
soon becomes choked out by the
perennial grasses. but its seeds may
lie dormant in the soil till the sod IA
iroKen ana the CONDITIONS are again
favorable for termination. The su-
prostitution that it originates from
the degeneration of wheat, owing to
unfayorable conditions of soil or
season, or some other cause, is un-
worthy ofserious consideration, This
foolish notion came, like the seeds of
the weed itself, from Europe, where
the belief was once entertained that
wheat would change to rye, rye to
barley, barley to chess and chess to
oats. Whenever it shall have been
shown that chess appeared in the
wheat field, or anywhere else where
only clean wheat was sown, and
where there were no seeds of chess in
the soil, then it will be time to be-
lieye this unnatural transformation
to be possible but no such proof has
ever yet been produced. Chess, like
wheat, is member of the great
family of grasses, and the two resem-.
BILE one another to some extent in
botanical characters ; but they belong
to distinct genera, and not even the
most ardent believer in the deriva-
tion of one species of plant from an
other and the survival of the fittest,
would expect to get chess from wheat
in a single season or even in hun
dred years. Nevertheless, we can
hardly hope that this statement will
'settle dispute" on the subject.
There always have been, and long
may be, farmers firm in the faith
that "wheat turns to cheat" even
Genesis l, XII, to the contrary not
withstanding.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-03
VIII the President Live.

l pray God, and so re-echo the
hope of millions, that he may; but
the dark shadow has not yet passed
the Threshold of the White House.
Whatever may become of him the
lessen of his catastrophe is a precious
legacy. Even his death would be a
gain because it disclosed the highest
qualities in the American people. It
was worth that if only to show that
they still have noble hearts, and that
they have not surrendered to the love
of gold and hate of their brothers.
His peril woke all their best emo
tions. From Jefferson Davis, in his
Mississippi home, to Samuel j. Til
den, at his countryseat !; from the
Catholic cathedral to the Hebrew
synagogue from the Church of Eng
land to the Quaker meeting house;
from the Methodist to the Moravian,
there has come one petition: "God
save our President!" We talk of
religion, but this calamity seems to
have taught us the right way to the
true faith. Heretofore we have di-
vided in seeking many roads to it;
but his great danger has united us
for the first time in realizing the
right way to the truth. For such
blessing there is no penalty or price
we ought not to be glad to pay.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-03

A writer, advising the youth to
abandon slang and acquire the habit
of writing and speaking good, plain
English, says: "The longer you live
the more difficult the acquisition of
good language will be, and if the
golden age of your life. the proper
time for the acquisition of language,
be passed in abuse, the unfortunate
victim of neglected education is very
probably doomed to talk slang for
life. Money is not necessary to pre-
duce this education. He has to use
language he reads insteads of the
slang he hears to form taste from
the best speakers and poets of the
country to treasure up choice
phrases in his memory and llabituate
himself to their use, avoiding at the
same time that pedantic precision
and bombast which show rather
weakness and vaiE ambition than
the polish of an educated mind.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-03
The Mississippi CAMPAIGN.

The campaign in Mississippi has
nearly as much National interest as
that in Virginia. Were there as
much intellectual activity in the
former as in the latter, it would have
more, since the future possibilities of
Mississippi are much greater than
those of effete, worn out Virginia.
But though their State has been on
the down grade for three quarters of
a century, the Virginians have al.
ways maintained some of the politi-
cal prominence which they inherited
along with their exhausted lands.
The Mississippians, on the other
hand, like the Missourians and Ark
ansas people, are largely composed of
the low-class whites from the older
Southern States, and haye few of the
higher qualities which distinguish
the typical Seutherner. Only three
Mississippians have ever been heard
of. These were JEFF. Davis, who
hailed from Kentucky until middle
life; FL. S. Foote, a Virginian. and
Sergeant S. Prentis, thorough going
Down-easter, from Maine. This last,
who gave the State all the reputation
for genius it ever obtained, became so
disguised with the community that
he finally shook the dust of Vicks-
burg from his feet, and went to live
in New Orleans.
But for all this, the State undoubt-
edly has great future. 1t has 25
per cent. more territory than Ohio,
and this is mostly good land, capable
Of supporting very dense popula.
tion. AT the census of 1870 there
were but 1856 people to the square
mile in Mississippi, while Ohio had
nearly four times as many (66.69).
The tide of emigration must some
day turn Southwark into this sparse
ly settled region and develop it into
as rich and productive a country as
Illinois, which it approximates in
size, and resembles in other ways.
Nothing of this kind can happen to
Virginia, whose sterile soil will repel
emigrants as long as there is land
anywhere else to be taken up. Con-
sequently it is not worth while to
hope for much in non-progressive
community like Virginia, which has
been Democratic, of the rock ribbed,
mountain-bitterseed character, ever
since there has been a democratic
party, while there are good reasons
for hoping to secure results in Missis-
sippi which will bring forth good
fruits.
In the first place with anything
like fair count, Mississippi is Re-
publican State by from 25 900 to 3d.
900 majority. The difficulty is in
having this majority counted, which
has not been done since 1875. The
Republicans are now offered an alIi-
ance with the Greenbackers and In
dependent Democrats, who have
found a longer endurance of the Bour-
bon Democratic rule intolerable, and
are organizing a subversion of it.
The Greenbackers claim to have 90
600 votes and the Independents 5000.
The Bourbon vote for Hancock was
1880. and the vote for Garfield 34,-
s54. The advantages of a coalition
are that it will begin the disruption
of solid Democracy. and the Green
hackers and Independents, when