The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-09

The News.
1t proves to be true that Mr.. Boutwell, of
Massachusetts was offered the Secretaryship
OF the Interior, but preferred to remain in the
House.
Gen. Dix Indignantly denies that he has
been making speeches or dining after the man
ner of Rsverdy johnson.
Governor Chamberlain delivers one of his
lectures at Taunton, Massachusetts,, on the
10Th inst.
The President and his family drove to the
new Metropolitan M. e. Church, Sunday
morning, but arrived late. The chur CHI was
crowded-thsy could mott obtain admis-
sion and they therefore returned to their resi-
dence.
1t is understood that Speaker Blaine will
not be ready to announce the House commit
tees until Wednesday nexk 1t is believed Mt.
Boutwell, will be chairman of the judiciary
| Committee; Mr.. Schenck of the Ways and
Means, and Mr.. Dawes of Appropriations
Gen Butler is making efforts to get the latter
chairmanship.
Lucretia Mott received several votes for
Chaplain of the House in the Republican
| caucus.
The Democrats in the Indiana Legislature
| are revolutionary in their inclinations. They
threaten to bolt and break up the quorum of
| the Legislature, if an attempt should be made
| by the Republicans to ratify the universal suf-
frage constitutional amendment. The Repub-
LEANS, nevertheless, intend to press the meas
ure to passage.
An aged man bearing marks Of poverty, su f.
L 81 c.
| in the streets of Chicago on the oath ult. From
papers and letters ON his person he is supposed
to have been Peter Sinclair, the great Scottish
philanthropist, whose name was SO familiar
during the rebellion for his efforts in behalf of
emancipation. He was the founder of the
Union and Emancipation Society in London,
formed in opposition to societies hostile to our
cause and in aid of the REBELLION. He was also
an ardent friend to emigration to America.
The Tennessee Legislature has decided not
to sell the Hermitage, now the property of the
State.
I The Scranton Register, the Democratic pa
per in banner Democratic county, has sus-
pended.
TIE Tribuns's Washington dispatch says
there is no doubt the present session will con-
tinue all the present month and perhaps till
the first of May. /,
The friends of John A. Griswold, OF New
York, are contemplating change in the Cabi-
net east and urgently pressing him for Secre-
tary of the Navy.
The Rogers murder is again on the tapis in
New York A young woman under treatment
in the hospital at Wards Island has given inn
portant testimony bearing heavily upon James
| Logan.
The report that the bill providing for grant
of land to the Denver Pacific Railroad was NOT
signed by the President is mistake. 1t is
now law. IA
4 Lyman Tremaine is mentioned for Attorney
General in case Judge Hoar withdraws.
The Newfoundland Legislature, Saturday,
adopted a resolution in favor of confederation
by a large majority.
Mr.. Smythe has sent in his resignation az
Collector of New York
The agricultural order of the Patrons OF
Husbandry, which has its headquarters at New
York, is making progress among the farmers of
the Northwest. A State "Grange" was Or
ganizei in Minnesota, with subordinate
"Granges" in different parts of the State.
Special deputies, well skilled in the business
of organizing, are actively engaged in the
| work, and are now pushing their way into ILL
| nois, Iowa and Wisconsin, and the prospects
are that by the first of May State Oranges will
| be established in each of these States. Wher-
| ever the work is understood it is sure to find
| favor, being an institution long needed by the
| farmers throughout the entire country
The appointment of Mr.. Cresswsll as Post
master General is not only acceptable to the
Republicans of the South and of the country,
but to the prominent Maryland Democrats.
Gov. Oden Bowie, on hearing it, FASTENED to
telegraph him from the Executive Mansion at
Annapolis that he was glad the President had
taken representative from Maryland, and to
offer his congratulations. OF course the Bal
timore rebels gnash their teeth and howl but
this appointment is but the beginning of the
end of their political career.
The story of quarrel between Grant and
Gen. Badeau, who has written the best his
tory of his Chief extant, is authoritatively de-
MED.
The scheme for making the Mississippi nav
igable at all seasons of the year by supplying
it with water from Lake Superioris pronounc-
ed impracticable on account of the lakes be-
ing forty feet lower than the river.
Mr.. Sumner will probably get his bill for
killing the "white male" in the District made
a law under the new administration. johnson
killed it twice by pocket veto.
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