The Portland daily press., 1869-05-12

A religious paper says that rltuallSm Is the
Humpty Dumpty of the church.
In their race for bonds and territory, in the
neighborhood of Salt Lake, the Union Pacific
and Central Pacific railroad companies graded
two roads for 90 miles side by side, occasional
ly crossing one another. That of the Union
Pacific was accepted by the government, and
the bonds for it issued to that company; but
they are at the same time required to sell it to
the Central Pacific,-so that, while the actual
point of meeting in construction is Promon-
tory Point, at the head of Salt Lake, the real
point of union in ownership and running
is to be at Ogden some 30 to 60 miles this side,
and far down the Salt Lake valley
New drop letter boxes will shortly replace
those nav in use in all the cities.
President Grants inaugural has been trans
lated into Japanese and printed in the Japan
papers.
The man who saw the Rogers murder and
said, Jim, don't do it." has been promised
immunity from punishment if he will appear
and testify.
Secretary Boutwell, says that his purchase
of a million dollars worth of bonds a week
Los ~ lClCiCuCC W thc SluhlHS iuuu Nc Will
not destroy them, but keep them in the de-
partment to be reissued in case of necessity.
His purpose in purchasing bonds is merely to
stop the interest
Some enthusiastic Californians tried to get
Grant to make a speech OIL the completion of
the Pacific railroad, but he declined
The Princess of Wales, during her recent
visit to Constantinople, overturned one of the
most rigid barriers of Oriental life, ana OBJ
tanned place for herself and three other la
dies at the table of the Sultar.
Gen. Joe Lane, who was on the Demo-
cratic national ticket with Breckenridge in
1860, has Joined the Catholic Chmch.
The interest paid on the Pacific Railroad
bonds issued by the government up to the first
of this month amounts to over four millions
and half, of which sum the roads have not
paid one-thi1d. What they have paid is by
way Of transportation, mail service, &c.
Commissioner Van Aernem, OF the Pension
Office, in appointing G. B. Trevitt Chief Clerk,
paid high compliment to Alonzo Weeks, o,
Maine, for the satisfactory manner in which he
has of late performed the duties of acting
Chief Clerk, and appointed him stationery
Clerk
The United States is to act as arbitrator in a
dispute between Great Britain and Portugal
as to which power has the right to exercise
sovereignty over the province of Bolama on
the western coast of Africa. This dispute was
commenced in 1881, and was continued until
last January, when a convention was signed
at Lisbon by which the contracting powers
agreed to submit their differences to the Uni
ted States. Mr.. Seward accepted the arbitra-
torship in February last, and President Grant
will now have to select an arbitrator to the ar
guments and to prepare decision. General
Gushing is regarded as eminently qualified for
the position.
Senior Roberts, the Spanish Minister re-
ceived a cable dispatch Monday from the Cap
tain Ganeral of Cuba, announcing the virtual
termination of the instruction. He is conf
dent that not over twelve hundred insurgents
remain under arms, and they are scattered at
different points, without concert of action.
Specimens from the deltoid muscle of wo-
man who recently died near Elgin, ILL.,, of trich-
inosis, have been taken to Chicago, and exam
ined under microscope. They show thirty
The woman has been dead three weeks, and as
trichina was suspected, she was disinterred.
The wars from 1858 to 1866, according to the
London Peace Society, cost Chrstendom ], )
743,491 lives and $9,565, 100000.
Revenue cutters have been stationed in East
River, New York, to prevent the sailing of
warlike expeditions for Cuba.
Miss H. E. Bailey, while personating "Juli-
et'' at the Academy of Music in New York,
accidentally caught her dagger in the folds of
her dress, penetrating below the left breast and
striking rib breaking off the point of the dag
ger The wound is serious but net dangerous
A probe failed to reach the piece il her body.
The New York Mail sagaciously declares
that the World has got its great Cuban expe-
dition on it's hands and doesn't know what to
do with it.
The reduction of the whiskey tax to fifty
cents gallon has resulted in doubling the
governments revenue from that source.
The Boston Coliseum will be lighted by
twenty-four hundred gas-burners.
The Board of Trade of Mobile has suggested
the policy of requiring gold in payment for all
cotton which shall be sold hereafter in the
South, and has appointed committee to cor
respond with the Boards of Trade in other
Southern cities, in order to obtain that CO. rope,
ration and unity of action which, for success.
this policy NAV require