The Portland daily press., 1869-11-01

tne numDer OF twenty-five or thirty, COM
menced firing into the mob Unfortunately.
The great darkness of the night prevented
many fatalities, though several negroes were
wounded and one was killed. One soldier was
also killed. Finally the mob retired and the
soldiers sought shelter in their quarters.
miscellaneous.
Governor Washburn, of Verm ont, denoun-
ces usury laws and private legislation.
The Jail at Portsmouth, NH, has been pre-
sented as common nuisance, and the county
is indicted for maintaining it. n8
A story comes from Kentucky that on the
eve of battle in 1868, the Colonel of one of the
regiments of that State resigned "because the
boys of his regiment were too young for him."
Mr.. Bonner ought to be satisfied with what
Mr.. Tilton says about him this week: Gu our
judgment the Ledger, in, point of moral tone,
is as good as the Evangelist, better than the
Adoance, and very far superior to the Congre-
gationalist." ,-t t'
During the season just colsed, 225 cargoes of
ice, comprising $4,000 tons, have been shipped
from the Kennebec river, Maine. OF this
amount the Knickerbocker Company, of
Flrmngdale, shipped about 10000 tols. Most
Washington and Philadelphia. -
Thanksgiving draws near and prices of raj
sins have an upward look. A cable dispatch
from Malaga, received Friday, P. M, Oct. 20,
by one of the most eminent importing houses
of this city, says: mo raisins under two dol
lars" This is an advance of about ten cents
per box in two days. ~ +4~A4 e.
Fears are entertained at the White House
that Collector Casey General Grants brother
in-law) and family were on board the Inflated
Stonewall. He informed his father-in-aw by
letter that it was his intention to leave St.
Louis on Tuesday by the boat for New Or
leans, and since that time be has not been
heard from.
There is great activity in the building of cot
ton factories and railroads in the more South
ern States A Southern exchange stated re.
Gently that ''almost every thriving town of
three thousand inhabitants in Alabama and
Mississippi is building cot on mill" A large
amount of Boston capital is said to be assisting
in these enterprises.
A friend of ours noticed large and small
| SPIDER IN pursuit of fly. The small one
| caught the ny and was carrying him off when
the fly and marched off. The little one crept
| up behind the large one, bit him on the leg,
and ran away for dear life. Instantly the
| large spider commenced swelling and in five
minutes was dead. Possibly the bite of spi-
| der may not be dangerous to the human sys-
| TEN, but it evidently affects one of the same
| species ACKNOWLEDGMENT Wig.
The Commercial Bulletin says that the man
ufacturing interest of the State of Maine is
likely to receive an impetus from the most
valuable report upon the water power of Maine
which has just been presented by the State
| photographic Surveyor, Walter Wells Those
who have made the water power of Maine a
subject of study declare that they expect by
1875 to see $120 000, 900 invested in factories in
Maine, employing 200 900 operatives, and pro-
ducing $2Oo,OOOOOO per annum.
| There is a story told of we'll known aboli-
ZIONIST, who, in the early years of the move
ment, was once riding in hack in Boston
with two clergymen. The clergymen asked
the abolitionist what his business was
MY business is to fight slavery" was the
reply ...... x...,.-..,y>
Fight slavery! then why do you stay here
Why don't you go down South to the home of
slavery and fight it there?'' tstts
Gentlemen, don't you fight slavery?"
mo, sir it is all we can do to fight the ID
in our profession" :. ttb}GSA
Indeed! then what are you doing here, why
don't you go down to hi, the home of the ID
and fight him there?" said the abolitionist
Information has reached the Treasury De-
partment of au organized attempt among GER
tain disappointed contractors and spectators
who expected to to fasten themselves upon the,
government in the matter of building the
New York Post Office, to cause the failure of
certain plans of Supervisor Architect Mullet
| by brlbing wOrkmen to arrange their material
| SO as to develop weakness in the walls and in
| other portions of the structure The same
class of operations has been discovered in 9th
parts of the country, in connection with the
public buildings under way, the design being
| to try to break down the present method of
building by days works and to restore the old
| system of contracts.
The old dispute about the INSANITY of Mrs.
| Charles A. Phelps has broken out again.
A ter living with her husband at Granville,
for number of years, Mrs. Phelps was aston
ished recently at the number Of physicians
from Boston who called upon her with au os-
tensible view to the purchase of their resi-
dence, bnt, as it seems, and as she suspected
with the real pun pose of OBSERVING her mental
condition. The upshot of this finessing was
an order for the appearance of the parties in
tercsted before Judge of Probate George
White, of Needham, on the question of COM
INITIAL to an asylum-t hearing to take place
| ON Wednesday week. Richard H. Dana. Jr
appears for Mr.. Phelps, and Charles M. Ellis
| for Mrs. Phelps. Ofconrse all GrautyilI5. and
| very large tract of country near and remote
| thereto are expectant of the result.
The Boston Post says it is ascertained, ON
| thoroughly reliable authority, that the Presi-
| dent and Mrs. Grant have ceased all social
connection with their relative, Mr. A. r. Cor
| bin, of New York. Their reason for this is
evidently his duplicity in connecting them
with the New York gold conspiracy. 1t is also
ascer talned that when the President sold his
house in Washington to Gen. Sherman, he gave
his wife $4,000 of the proceeds, which she
forthwith transferred to Corbin, then pre- sent
In Washington on his bridal tour, to be used
| III new Jersey real estate speculation This
sine only money ever given to him by any of
the RESIDENTS family, and it is not improbable
that he used it for the purpose OF conveying to
Fisk and Gould the impression that he was
the broker of the Grant family. 1t is certain
that Corbin did convey such an impression
and that they were gre atty Influenced by it in
their operations. The sale of gold fiually dis
PEELED it, and disclosed Corbn in all the hid
eous duplicity of his character.
In his forthcoming report, General Parker,
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, will, it is
understood, take ground against the system of
making treaties with Indian tribes, and will
advocate the adoption of a plan somewhat SIM
iiar 70 one In use in Canada. During the past
year there has been marked improvement in
the general condition of the Indians; fewer
depredations have been committed under the