The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-16

In the official return OF votes from Clare
mont, N. H., is one vote each for Will am P.
Fessenden, James Dixon, James w. Grimes,
Edmund G. Ross, and Lyman Trumbull for
electors.
1t is reported that New York Insurance
Company has rendered Gen. r. E. Lee the po-
sition of Supervisor OF Agencies for the South
ern States, at salary OF $4,000 year. He
Is also spoken of for the Presidency of the
chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
President johnson is bestowing much
thought upon the message which he will trans
init to Congress at the commencement of its
regular session in December, as it will he his
last opportunity for placing his views on the
national records.
The Pictou Chronicle says a new gold field
has been discovered between Malignant Cove
and Cape George, at a place named George
vile. The discoveries have taken up a large
claim, and several other parties have taken up
areas. Several excellent specimens in which
gold was quite visible were found at the sur
face of the quartz leads, and the quarts has
been pronounced gold bearing and of good
quality by an experienced mineralogist. OPP
erations are in progress to open the leads.
The Chinese embassy is to be received by
the Queen at Windsor palace on the GOTH
The meteoric shower in New York was
very brilliant. One hundred and q We meteors
were seen in thirty minutes.
Recruiting for the Cuban expedition has
ceased in New York, Col. Gibbons having al
ready enrolled $500 men, which is 1900 more
than he wants. He alleges that the whole
command is to devolve upon wealthy Ha-
banese,quite famous as a military leader under
Don Carlos and Macmillan, and who SO far
has furnished all the funds necessary. The in
tention is to annex Cuba to the United States.
A public meeting is to be held in relation to
the matter in Cooper Institute soon.
g A dispatch from Madrid says that it is under
stood all parties agree upon monarchial
form of government founded not upon divine
right but upon the sovereignty of the people
expressed by universal suffrage.
a. Gen. Grant is importuned for mouey as well
as for office. Every day he receives letters
asking donations or loans
Inc Cincinnati Commercial mentions Hon.
james G Blaine a proper person for Post.
master General.
III MS Aeianta speech, Ben. Hill said he de-
sired to be the man, after the election whose
duty it should be to kindle the aames wb;o,,
would burn up the archives of the nresant
Georgia State government, aud DESTROY tbo
last vestige of its existence. The Anonsta
National Republican anxiousy asks him when
he intends to light his torch.
At Murfreesboro, Tenn, where five years
ago thousands of Union sol diers laid down
Their lives the Rebels did not permit one of the
two thousand Republicans residing there to
vote
A call signed by large number of the most
distinguished cergymen and laynen of evan.
gelical denominations in the United States
has been issued, inviting their brethren. both
lay and clerical, TO meet in convention in the
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. corner
Fifth Avenue and 29th street, in the city of
New York, from the 18th to the 2Olh DAYS of
this month. The object is to "more freely de-
veiop Christian zeal and render efficient the
gifts and energies of the Church of Christi
that the Indifference of multtudes TO the
CLAIMS of the Gospel. and the tendency to ire
.si'a IN our country may be overcome. A
hst OF eighteen topics for discussion has been
Pfepaieu' III which well known clergymen
ana iayineh VIII deliver Introductory ESSAYS.
There are 39O,ooO slaves in Cuba. By a de-
cree of the Revolutionary Junta of Spain all
children born of slaves after September II of
the present year are free
Horace Greeley lectured on Temperance at
Philadelphia on Thursday of this week.
Professor Brooks went up in balloon from
Memphis, and at the height of 5000 feet acct
dentally dropped dog. The animal is sup
posed to have sustained internal injuries, as
no external marks were found, of injuries or of
the dog.