SEP 4RA RATTON OF MAINE.
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From ntimations in the western papers we should
be led to conclude, that such flood of petitions,
from all parts of the District, are getting up, to
produce the utmost life and activity and that the
Legislature of Massachusetts will shortly be COM
pletely inundated with them To most of our SUBJ
scribers who live in the District of Maine this n-
formation will probably De neV, as there has been
little interest excited on the subject, that it is
seldom made topic of conversation among us. Ii
is true we have before intimated, that 40 or so
persons, who expect to be Governors, 1t. Cover
nors, Secretaries &c. &c. are very inpatient TO get
loares and fishes, and use every endeavor to
this boon by exciting interest in the community
but so poorly do they succeed that we very much
doubt if they can find out of ten in the District
who will consent 10 have their TAXEs DoUBLED
merely to CRAFTY these ambitious and unpriacipled
dtmngog,9s with offices of honor and profit.


The editor Of Delaware democratic paper, in an
essay on this subject, says the situation of that
section OF the state is such as to require" asepara-
tion--and gives reason for the measure, that
" their political characters entirely dnerento
This, TO be sure, may be powerful argument with
those who want Offices; but il will hardly satisfy
those on whom will devolve the bnrthen Of deiray-
ing the expense. Depend upon it people are not
60 blind to their interests TO relinquish a real
good for a certain evil.


This editor gives as another reason why a sepa-
ration shoId take place, that Massachusetts atior





during the late war-if we had no national gorera-
ment 10 whom the citizens had paid their money for
protection or II were the province of the national
government TO declare scGr, merely, and the duty
OF the respective states to carry on there would
be some plausibility in his reasoning-though in
that case, the money which was raised to support
the war; ought to have been paid to the state gOr-
er7aaents rather than the national. However, since
this is supposing which does not exist, all in
ferences drawn from it, like the rest of his argu
ments, are absurd and ridiculous and we must say
of him as he says of protection" that he is
=" miserable'' reasener.


The Hon. William Plumer is agreed on as
the democratic candidate for governor in N.
Hampshire at the next election. The federal
candidate is John Goddard, Esq. Of Ports
mouth. In the electioneering campaign New
Hampshire is the first to take the field, and
the result Of their election serves, in some
measure, as an index TO the state of public
feeling in the neighboring states. d. .Adp.


His Eycellency CALEB STRONG was Cover
hor of this Commonwealth from 1900 to 1907,
and has been Continued in that Office from
1912 to the present time-having served as
Chief Magistrate period of IL years-and
having been many years longer in that office
than any other gentleman, except Hancock,