The Portland daily press., 1869-02-01
The News.

The printers, strike in New York still con
tinues, the persons engaged In it having
fund to support them while they are idle
But poor Jack, the sailor, having no sucl
provision for rainy day, has found himself
unable to indulge in the luxury of revolt
and has been compelled to go to work fol
what he can get.
Gen. Butler vs. Gen. Fitzpatrick, in the mat
ter of the CHILEAN mission has been decided
in favor of defendant.
The Senate Committee on pensions has re.
ported adversely to Mrs. Lincoln's claim.
Caleb Gushing has started for home COM
pletely unsuccessful in his mission at Bogota
He found the government at New Granada
jealous of Yankee enterprise.
DOM Piatt says that many years ago he
was employed as an attorney to prosecute
Brigham Young for an assault upon a young
man who accused him. of favoring polygamy
Brigham was then square-set, powerful built
man, with serious rather logged expression
of face.
Michigan has commissioned female Notary
Public for four years.
Not one of the anti-impeachment Republi-
can Senators has yet been reelected.
The ex-R Rebel General Imboden writes a
long letter advising the immigration of North
ern people and the investment of Northern
capital in that State.
The Nashville Banner dominates Andrew
johnson for Governor or Senator from Ten
nessee.
j. Bryant, Chairman Of the Georgia Repub-
II, Of Sc
State, publishes card Indignantly denying
the misrepresentation of funds placed in his
hands. -.
The New York World is exposing the adul-
terating of ale, and finds, among the foreign
substances introduced, the following: salt,
lime, alum, coccuus indicus, sweet flag root,
quassia, coriander seeds, capsicum, caraway
seeds, grains of paradise, ginger, beans, oyster
shells, tobacco, sinthe,7 aloes, sulphuric acid,
(oil Of vitrioD, copperas, strychnine, black
hellebore, opium, hyoscyamia, nutgalls, chalk,
potash, magnesia, acetate of tin and cutecha.
That's what's the matter" with the ale
The Newport r. L. News says that Hon.
Seth Padelford will probably be the Rep dbli-
can candidate for Governor of Rhode Island at
the coming election, Gen. Burnside. the pres
emit Governor. and Hon. Pardon w. Stevens,
Lieutenant Governor, both having positively
declined to stand for Governor this time
The Washington Chronicle reviews the
speech of Hon. John Lynch at great length
and concludes by saying that "It evinces much
thought and comprehensive grasp of the
subject" a f..
The officers of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad state that there is no foundation for
the report that the Erie Railroad Company
would have possession of the road
The annual ball of the telegraphers Friday
night in New York was one of the most bril-
liant of the season. Many prominent mem
bers of the press and telegraphers were pres
ent.
The frauds in the New York Custom House
are now said to amount to 100000. They
have been carried on for two years with impu-
nifty.
Chicago papers denounce the passage of the
railroad fare bill by the Legislature. Five
Senators voted for it under protest. They ia
vored controlling freight and passenger rates,
but did not favor relieving the Illinois Central
Railroad from seven per cent. yearly tax. If
Governor Palmer vetoes the bill it will fail.