The Portland daily press., 1869-08-16

The Portsmouth Journal notes with pleas
ure the employment of many colored men at
the Kittery Navy Yard.
The stockholders of the Buffalo and Erie
Railroad and of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railway have voted to consolidate
their lines, by large majorities, and CONSOLE
dated line from Buffalo to Chicago is there
fore an accomplished fact.
The St Paul bridge across the Mississippi
shows indications of being unsafe. There is
danger that it may fall at any moment
Petitions to Congress praying Tor repeal of
the duty on coal are in circulation in all parts
of the country.
The Commonwealth is perhaps little late
in the day but it publishes a letter from cor
respondent who makes most eloquent de-
Tense of the " anvil chorus" at the Peace Jubi-
lee.
Andrew johnson never was inside q church
but once while President of the United States
and then he got in by mistake.
A Chicago reporter took this unique style to
announce the coming of the eclipse: Miss
Luna, that heavenly. girl of the PERIOD will
this evening overwhelm and snuff out Mr.. Sol,
her effulgent old beau, by whose borrowed
light she had been shining SO long. Coquetry
ever terminates thusly.'
Rear Admiral Charles Fl. Davis has been
ordered to make arrangements for survey of
the Isthmus of Darien to ascertain the pro-
priety of constructing canal across the 18th
mus.
A European correspondent speaks of the
good time coming when traveller will have
only to stick a shilling stamp ON his hat and
travel TO whatever point he may please.
The Chicago Post concludes an Article on the
Susquchanna war by saying; "We are inclin-
ed to the opinion that the whole caboodle of
judges, receivers, directors, superintendent,
and officers should be dumped into the nearest
Jail, there to study the laws, and to learn how
to respect and obey Them
There are one hundred and twenty-five grog
shops in Bridgeport, Conn.
The brig F. Fl. Todd, Capt Mcguire, sixteen
days from Calais. Me-, while coming through
He'll lte Thursday, collided with the drilling
machine off Pan Rock, and carried away her
flying jib-boom and all her head rigging; the
drilling machine was upset, but to what ex-
aent damaged was not ascertained.
Ex-President Pierce is spending the sum-
mer at his cottage on Rye Beach, N. H., and
is in excellent health.
1t is said the three Cubans who escaned
from the Island of Fernando Pc, whittier thew
had been banished by the Spanish authorities.
are worth, on an average, over one million
dollars each.
A young Canadian girl who ran away from
home and went to Detroit, has been arrested
for vagrancy When offered her liberty in
case she would go back home, she showed her
good taste by the following reply: "Not any,
Mister; 1 like the States in prison better than
Canada at liberty. I'll take my chances on
this side."
A wide spread Carlist conspiracy has been
discovered at Valladolid.
Another railroad war is imminent in New
York.
Senior Jose Manuel Macas has been COM
missoned an agent of the Cuban Government
to treat with the Spanish authorities in refer
ence to acknowledging the independence of
Cuba. Senior Macias left New York for Eu-
rope last Saturday, and expects to meet Gen.
Prim at some point in France and at once
enter into negotiations concerning the objects
of his mission in accordance with promises
made by Gen. Prim to the Cubans, when,
some fourteen months since, the Cubans fur
nished the Spanish revolutionary junta $780,
600 in gold to aid in overthrowing Isabella, in
return for which Cuba was to be made indie
pendent.
IL is reported that a privateer left north
ern port Of the United States few nights since
destined for the service of the Cubans.