The Portland daily press., 1869-06-02

100 members. The total vote registered before
the last election was 22593S of which the
whites had majority of about 5000. A new
registry is to take place.
The Wilmington journal, after devoting
two columns of its valuable space to the pub
lication of rape case, says both parties are
said to be persons of excellent characterl'
The Washington correspondents say that an
English gentleman, formerly a member of
Parliament, now travelling in this country.
has returned to the Secretary of the Treasury
all excess of interest which he is receiving ON
United States bonds held by him over three
per cent. He claims that the government
ought not to pay more than three per cent,
and has asked the Secretary to issue him three
per cent. bonds.
George Ii. Pendleton was thrown from his
carriage last week and quite severely injured.
The State Department has come to the con-
clusion that Minister Mcmahon has not been
slaughtered by Lopez, but that his dispatches
have been intercepted by the allies.
The cotton crop of Alabama has been seri-
ously injured by rains and large tract is being
rapidly replanted.
The Emperor of Russia has signified his in
tention of sending an envoy extraordinary to
Washington for the purpose of congratulating
President Grant on his election and also to ex-
press the value that his majesty sets on the
maintenance of friendly relations between the
two nations.
The Herald's Washington special says the
Cubans and Cuban sympathizers are in high
spirits. During this month, three distinct
cargoes of arms and ammunition have been
safely landed in Caba with strong presump-
tion that fourth has safely reached its desti-
nation The effect of this, they say, is already
perceptible in recent fights according to Span
ish admissions.
On Saturday evening Mr.. George Butler; a
nephew of General Butler and dramatic cri-
tic of the New York Herald and Wilkes
Spirit having had controversy with Mr..
Henderson, manager of the Lydia Thompson
burlesque troop, and understood to be the hus-
band of Miss Thompson, undertook to settle
the dispute by giving Mr.. Henderson severe
beating. Hr Harry Palmer attempting to
separate the two was threatened with shooting
by Mr.. Butler. Hr Henderson was beaten
senseless and was very severely injured. He
has sent card to the papers detailing the
affair and announcing the purpose to bring it
into the courts. 1t is not stated that Mr..
Butler has been arrested.
Dickens is reported to be writing new nov
ell.
1t isn't often that clergymen and pious peo-
pie are found fighting on the same side with
rumsellers, but tits SO just now in Newark,
N. j., on the question Of running horse-cars on
Sunday. The former oppose it on the ground
that it is wicked and the latter because it
would take people to the suburbs and SO inter-
fere with their trade.
An exchange compares the "Imperialist,"
newspaper published in the interest of mon
archieal institutions which has terrified many
good people, to mouse nibbling away at the
base of the Rocky Mountains.
The movement for shipping grain by way of
the Mississippi has had its anticipated effect
upon the rates Of transportation across the
country % Ghieaee. There has been large
reduction of the tariff on fltaak and -four to
all points between st. Paul, Mimi, ana Mil
waukee and Chicago. G9
John Webb, of Gardiner has been appoint
ed Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue in
the Third District.
e. A. Small, Esq, Of Galena, ILL.,, formerly
resident of Maine and now one of the lead
ing lawyers of his adopted State, has removed
to Chicago, where he will continue to labor in
his profession.
Henry B. Ward has been appointed postmas-
ter at Machiasport, and L. H. Lttlefield at
Oak Hill Station, in this County.
Mr.. Asbury, owner of the English yacht
Cambria, has written a letter which is regard
ed as withdrawal of his challenge to Ameri-
cans for an international yacht race.
Gen. Sherman has gone to Fortress Monroe
to attend the wedding CT daughter of Gen.
Barry.
All the clerks in the principal New York
hotels struck for higher wages Monday.
The Washington municipal election takes
place next Monday. The third party move
ment has been abandoned.
An observer of the changes of human affairs
has discovered that Robert Toombs, instead Of
calling the roll of his slaves at the base Of
Bunker Hill Monument, as he boosted he
would do, now meekly contents himself with
receiving his mail enclosures from the hand of
a colored postmaster at Macon.
There are said to be nearly one hundred
cases of small pox at the hospital on Black
wells Island, mainly among the German and
Irish emigrants, who have been sent up from
Castle Garden.