The Portland daily press., 1869-03-18


The female prisoners in Warsaw, who are
sentenced to be logged, receive their stripes
at the hands of a tall, herculean woman, who
belabors her poor sisters more merciessly
than the Cossaeks do the male prisoners
Nearly all the ladies of the aristocracy, who
have been arrested in the last four or five
years on charges of completely in Instruction
airy movements, have been fogged.
G. G. Bowen, of South Carolina, is the
youngest, and called the handsomest M. c.
H. Boggs Grants former partner in the real
estate business in st. Louis, and who was to
have been appointed Surveyor of the port,
died Friday.
There is paper published at Ottumwa,
Iowa, which states as as "curious fact" that
the insurance companies have never paid the
insurance ON J. Wilkes Booths life, and, al
though his mother is yet living, she has never
made any application for the money,
At a sale of autographs in New York, Tues
day, that of William Penn brought Sc; Gen.
Washington, So so; Gen. Joseph Warren,
$12 25; General Burgoyne, So so; Lord Corn
wallis, So 30; Anthony Wayne, SO.
AttorneyGeneral Hoar decides that the
revocation of pardons by the President will
not stand in law; that the act of the Execu-
tive was complete when the warrant of par
don was placed in the hands of the United
States Marshal or other officer, and that if the
persons intended to be pardoned shall not be
released then upon Habeas Corpus the courts
would release them.
Gen. Solomon Meredith died a few days ago
at Cambridge City, Ind He was a native of
North Carolina, and was Brigadier General
in the Union army during the war. After the
war he was the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in George W. Julian's district in Indi-
ana, and he revenged himself upon Mr.. Julian
for his defeat by assaulting and cowhiding
Gen. Meredith has been filling government
position in one OF the Southern States.
A minister was conducting marriage at
Andersonville the other day. when the father
of the bride burst into the room and command
ed him to dssist. The clergyman refused, when
the father shot him down with charge OF
buckshot from double-barrelled shotgun
Struggling up from the floor, mortally wound
ed, the minister said, 81 will finish this Job,
and proceeded with the ceremony, pronuunc-
ing the couple man and wife He then fell
exhausted and died.
Charles Ell. Sanborn of Concord exhibits the
following chapter of accidents to himself =
He has had the small bone of one arm, four
ribs, left leg and collar bone broken by vari-
GUS accidents, and lost the sight of his left eye
by accident.
In theI Massachusetts, House, Tuesday, Mr.
Burrage's bill, restoring the prohibitory law
without the cider clause, was defeated by
vote of 81 to 113. The Liberals and the rad
ical temperance men united against this bill.
Wendell Phillips and George F. Hoar, the
new Massachusetts, Congressman, are among
those who will advocate woman suffrage be-
fore the special committee of the Massachu-
sets Legislature.
Laurence Oliphant, who a few years ago
was a member of the English Parliament a
boon companion of the Prince of Wales and
the king of Denmark and favorite in the
most aristeeratic English society, is now a
member Of a semi-religious, semi-socialistio
community at Brooton on the borders of Lake
Erie.
The ladies of Western parish, having re-
carpeted their church, made the polite request
that 'all gentlemen who chew tobacco leave
their mouths at the doorr'
1t is announced in recent letters from the
port of Islay, Peru, that the yellow fever is
raging to fearful extent at that place. and that
the inhabitants are dying at the rate of 300 per
day. Owing to the fatal prevalence of the dis
ease, it is found impossible to procure hands to
load or discharge vessels.
The Irish of New York and Boston celsbra-
ted St. Patricks day yesterday.
Porto Rico letter of the 2Sth ult. says there
was great deal of political excitement in the
island, and the authorities have arrested sever
al young men for using language favoring the
revolution In Cuba. 1t had also. been consid-
cred prudent to change the garrisons in those
sections of the island where the soldiers have
lived long among the natives and intermar-
ried, for fear'of their siding against thu gov
eminent in case of rising.
Hon. John CONFESS, United States Senator
from California, was married on Tuesday to q
daughter of Hon. Wendell 7. Davis of Green
field, Mass,
The offce-seekers continue to swarm at
Washington in terrific numbers.
Efforts are being male to secure the appoint
ment of Ebenezer D. Bassett, colored, princi-
pal of school in Philadelphia, as Minister to
Hayti. He is endorsed by the national COM
mittee of colored men, Fred Douglass, Down
ing, Longston and many others, white and
black.
Grant is determined not to yield in the mat
ter of the civil tenure act, and declares that he
will make no more nominations until the act
is repealed.
The Georgia House of Representatives rati.
fed the 18th amendment Tuesday by vote of
"a to 80, the Democrats who voted for it argu-
ing that they did so on the ground that it will
keep the negroes out of office.
The North German Parliament has passed
bill securing freedom of speech in all Gsrma-
ny.
James B. Andrew, Esq, of New York, son
of Loring Andrews, was married to Miss Fam
ME Griswold Field, youngest daughter of Cy-
rus w. Field at the United States Legation
in Paris yesterday.
The people of Minneapolis, Minnesota, have
voted 100000 for the improvement of the falls
of st. Anthony.
State News.