The Portland daily press., 1868-11-30

W nal6n, the HurQSt Oh SlcdSe, MHo ID III"
under sentence of death, exhibits the greatest
indifference to his fate. He still stoutly MAIN
| tains that he is innocent.
The Rev. j. Jones, a prominent Methodist
| Clergyman OF st. Joseph, Mich, addressed his
congregation on Sunday evening in opposition
| TO the reelection Of Senator Chandler to the
| United States Senate.
A little fellow who had Just commenced
| reading the papers, asked his father if the
| word Hon." prefixed to the name of Fernan-
do Wood, the member of Congress, meant
''honest." The parent shook his bead.
A party of distinguished Italians--the Duke
of Farli; Captain l.. Esengieni, honorary Off
Ger OF ordnance to His Majesty Victor Elm.
manuel; Count A. Arventi, Count L. !Gulinel.
| Ii, and Count g. Gulinelli, visited Fort Warren
| and the schoolship on Wednesday, accompan-
| led by the Italian vice-consul, Signor Finotti
| Collector Russell, Governor Chamberlain, OF
| Maine, and Mr.. Goodnow, American Consul
| at Constantinople.
| Schuyler Colfax, Vice President elect spent
| Thanksgiving day in Brooklyn, the guest of
| BENJAMIN w. Delamater. In the evening an
entertainment was given in horror of the
| Der of prominent citizens assisted, and the
| gentleman received warm congratulations up
on two Of the events of his life, viz, his marri
| age with Miss Wade and his election to the
| Vice Presidency. .-.t-
| Secretary McCulloch is arranging the fig
| ures for his report to Congress and will COM
| plete it in day or two. The reports Of Sec
| retaries Welles and Schofield and Browning
| and Postmaster General Randall have been
| finished and are being printed at the govern
| ment office. Neither of the other members of
the Cabinet makes report to Congress.
! The Minnesota Legislature meets on Janu-
! airy 9Th. A United States Senator must be
elected within ten days afterward. The Leg
islature stands politically "a Republicans to
| 15 Democrats. The competing candidates for
| this position are Messrs. Ramsey, Wilkinson,
| and Donnelly.
| The last official returns OF the lawful money
reserve held by the 141S national banks in the
United States, show that they had $95 1873, $50
to protect liabilities to the amount of $405 1923,
1866. The law requires each national bank TO
| have an available lawful money reserve of
of Is per cent, of the amount of its liabilities,
| but the per centage held averages 23.9, per.
cent. The Vermont 209, Massachusetts 24.5
and Rhode Island 21.5. The per centage held
| by the Boston banks is 32.1.
| There was no personal encounter between
Gen. Howard aud DIR. Boynten as reported in
the papers. DIR. Boynton's son was impertn-
ant to General Howard, threatened to strike
him and was properly rebuked, and that is
| the whole story.
Several persons have been arrested in Paris
| by the police, for making speeches at public
| meetings.
The Moniteur du Soir, in an editorial on
| the Presidential election in the United States,
| says Gen. Grants large majority is a source
| of tranquility. 1t believes his policy will be to
| health wounds of the late war by measures
| OF Cancellation.
Official accounts from abe Consolidated Col
onies OF British Columbia and Vancouver Is
land show deplorabie state Of things there Z.
Scarcely vessel leaves there without carry
ing away settlers and citizens, who have be-
| come impoverished after laboring in the col
| ony for greater or less number of years, to
| seek homes and business in che United States
| or some other part of the world So general
| has this exodus been that Victoria, which had
| In for mer years its eight or ten thousand in
habitants, at this time has not more than fiji
| teen hundred. Throughout the COLONY now,
| including Vancouver Island and British Co.
lumbia, real estate has deprecated within the
last two years more than seventy-five per cent
and in many instances, for the want of pur-
ohasers, at any price, farms and improvements
have been abandoned.
The Independent announces: "Mr. Greeley,
to vary his usual articles, has promised US the
successive chapters of a new book, the subject
of which, by his request, we will not yet an
nounce."
Queen Isabella's mind is so much unsettled
by her misfortunes that she talks of investing
$4,000 in a newspaper to combat the revclu-
ton.
Wisconsin, it is asserted, by the journals of
that State, hasa larger population of foreign
born inhabitants than any other State Of the
naturalized citizens, the Germans are most
numerous, the Irish next, and the Norwegians
third in point of numbers. There are also "a
great many English, Dutch, WEIGH, Belgians,
Scotch aud Bonemians.