The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-19

Massachusetts returns from all but six
towns give majority for General Grant of
6,912, and for Clafin of 68 1889. The six towns
not yet heart from cast Republican majority
of 1854 last year.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, says The Spring
field Republican, seems not to have returned
from Boston in very amiable mood, for he
told his people, at the Friday evening prayer
meeting, that the religion OF Boston is cold as
ice. In answer to question how he account
ed for the rigid theology OF the Bay State, Mr..
Beecher said it originated in the dead ortho-
doxy of former age. If the Puritan Fathers
had preached Christ instead of Calvinism, the
men who deny the divinity of the Saviour
would not now be in power in New England.
The Des Moines Register says the grasshop-
pers recently ate up half an acre of tobacco
for man near that place, and when the own
er and squrted tobacco juice in his face.
Mr.. Pollard, in an article on Stonewall
Jackson in Putnam's Monthly for December,
states that he once recommended a night at
tack to be made by assailants stripped naked
and armed with bowie knives, suggesting that
the novelty and terror of such an apparition
would paralyze the enemy
Personal beauty is the test by which they
try candidates for the mayoralty in New
York.
Gen. Schriver, Inspector General of the Ar
my, reports that West Point can accommodate
400 students as well as the 29O for whom pro-
vision is now made by law. The number now
in attendance is 224.
A cable dispatch says that the streams of la j.
va elected by the eruption of Vesuvius have
filled and overfowed the Forse Veterana and
are still following the course of the eruption OF
1855. Tuesday night the upper cone discharg-
ed columns of ashes, occasionally illuminated
by flashes of flame.
Gov. Clayton of Arkansas has placed certain
counties in the State under martial law In
the Southern part of the State Gen. Patter-
sons troops have been attacked by the Ku-
Klux Khan. Three of the attacking party and
one militia man were killed and several on
both sides wounded.
Arizona advices to October 81 state that the
Indians have commenced vigorous warfare.
Four successful raids have been made against
the whites near Prescott and two men were
killed and five wounded. The people are
greatly startled at these unexpected attacks
and are apparently helpless. Gen. Halleck
was implored to send troops to their assistance
Full returns from Minnesota give General
Grant majority OF 10 $40; majority for negro
suffrage 1924. The official vote of Illinois,
with the exception of one or two counties foot
up $4,000; Grants majority 57,14O.
There are 1850 students connected with the
various departments of Harvard College
The Social Science meeting at Chicago was
grand success, DR.. Edward Beecher, who is
spoken of as "a july old angel" is credited
with having contributed much to the enjoy
ment of the occasion.
"Dexter" trotted a half mile in FOG against
heavy wind the other day.
Mrs. Jenny Perry, who has figured in sever
al Congressional reports as "the Washington
Woman" and who enjoyed the especial favor
of Andrew johnson and some of his friends,
now threatens to make revelations. If she
would tell the whole truth her exposures would
be interesting.
In view of the consolidation under one COM
mandant of the three branches of the National
Military Asylum for disabled volunteer SOL
diers, Major Cutter, of the Togus or Eastern
branch, has been invited to serve as command
ant of the whole, instead of being confined to
Togus, with headquarters at Dayton, Ohio.
/, The people of Cincinnati are going to chop
the election liberty poles and flag stats into
frewood for the poor.
The forthcoming report of the Postmaster
General will show in what States and Terri
tories the receipts of postage fall far short of
the expenses of transporting the mails, includ-
lAl-- g "a
Tennessee. In these sections the expense of
transportation alone exceeds the postage re-
ceipts by the sum of 5000, 1877.