The Portland daily press., 1869-05-28


mand upon the State Department for the sur
render of the steamer Quaker City which was
seized by the government on account of its
supposed intention to violate the neutrality
laws Mr.. Thornton claims that she is the
property of British subjects, but Mr.. Fish up
on consultation with Secretary Boutwell, has
concluded that the vessel having been libeled
by the court is not subject to his control.
The Republican convention in Washington
nominated an Irishman and colored man for
two important positions. The Irishman was
nominated for the Suryeyorship and the color
ed man for the Registership.
Kate Fisher, the actress has been arrested in
New York for grand larceny.
Governor Brownlow announces himself in
favor of Senter for Governor as against Stokes
in published card. The excitement among
the Republicans is great and the contest bitter.
East Tennessee is remarkably strong for Stokes
notwithstanding Brownlow and his friends
bitterly oppose him.
The 55th volume of Maine Reports, and the
third of Virgins, is now in the hands of the
binder.
DR.. Torsey OF Kent's Hill has been called to
the Presidency of Howard University, Wash
ington.
Gold has been discovered near Inverness,
Scotland, and there is great excitement in con.
sequence.
President Grant has pardoned but five per-
sons since the beginning of his adminstra-
tion.
During an audience which the Emperor AL
exander of Russia recently gave to some
Americans at st. Petersburg, he suddenly
turned very pale and tainted. A lady who was
present was so much affected that she fell into
Mysteries.
The Cuban Junta at New York have pub
lished circular showing that the order of
Cespedes decreeing reprisal against the Span
ish authorities blood for blood; execution for
execution; determination for extermination"
was not issued until all efforts on his part 10
induce the Spaniards to observe the rules of
civilized warfare had failed These facts were
carefully suppressed by the Spanish censor
when forwarding the body of the proclama-
ton.
John Bull has computed that each of the
prisoners released by the Abyssinian war cost
most than ton of gold.
The Inauguration of the Isthmus of Suez
Canal is fixed for the 10th, 18th, and 18th of
October next. The steamer which leaves
Marseilles on the 9th, will arrive on the 18th
or 14th.
Secretary Boutwell, has in contemplation the
appointment of Doctor Mary Walker to po-
sition in Alaska. Leading members of the
Women's Rights League say that it is inn
portaht for the success of their cause that
Doctor Mary Walker should have an appoint
me it as far from civilization as possible, and
they therefore approve of providing her o
place ia Alaska.
A Dane, named Christian Rasmussen, COM
mitted suicide in the town of Bath, Freeborn
county, Mimi, on the 9th inst. He took a
rope and razor and climbed up tree. Ty-
ing one end of the rope around his neck, he
recured the other to one of the top branches
This done, he took the razor, cut his throat
nearly from ear to car, and jumped from the
tree to the end of tie rope. He had been cross
ed in love-
The constitution of Ohio forbds special legis-
lation of any kind, but Cincinnati job was
introduced by an ingenious Democrat who
proposed that in all cities with population of
10000, 100000 in bonds should be issued for
the completion of Eggeston avenue.
The ladies of Nashua, New Hampshire have
taken the temperance movement into their
own hands. They bold public meetings and
draw up appeals to the liquor dealers to stop
their infamous traffic.
General regret is expressed that the efforts
of the Methodist churches North and South to
unite have not the prospect of success that at
tends the similar efforts of the Old and New
School Presbyterians.
The horse that bore Phil. Sheridan into the
Shenandoah fight, from Winchester, twenty
miles away" eats corn and hay in the stable
of G. HI. Merry, Dubuque, Iowa.
Virginia f. Townsend the authoress, hay
ing been accused of unfilial conduct in allow
lug her father who is eighty years old and
hopelessly insane to go to the poor house,
writer in Western paper defends her very
warmly, saying that she has never been able
to earn over six hundred dollars a year and
that she has done everything possible to aid
her parent,
Col. Mason of Arkansas, appointed Judge
of the Sierra Leone or Capetowe Court of Ar
bitration, provided for under the treaty for the
suppression of the slave trade, is colored
man, born a slaye in Arkansas, made free by
his father, and educated at Oberlin, where he
graduated. He afterward entered the Uni
versity of Paris, whence he graduated with
honor and entered the French army, in which
he served with distinction, coming out of the
Crimean war with the rank of Colonel
The Spectator calls Goodwin Smiths COM
murication TO the Beehive "a verv silly letter"
That is just what is thought of it on this side
of the water.
Did not some of the clergymen who have
been objecting to using Sunday as Memorial
Day" as desecration of holy time deliver
patriotic sermons from their pulpits during
the war; and would it be SO very to decorate
the graves of heroes? Deeds may be as ac-
ceptable to heaven as words.
A teamster in Maine says he can start the
most balky horse by taking him out of the
shafts, and making him go around in narrow
circle till he is giddy. If the first dance of
this sort does not cure him, the second will.
There is rumor that Spain will, in June
next, instruct her agents abroad to give public
notice that every citizen of that country, or its
American possessions, having property or val
ues of any kind in the Island of Cuba, will be
required to go before some consul to register
their names and make oath of allegiance to the
Spanish government, or else that property will
be subject to sequestration.
William III. Seward, whom our readers may
remember as at one time man Of some prom
inence in the country, is at present in Phila-
delphia attending to an important lawsuit.
George Opdyke, s. b. Chittenden, and other
prominent business men of New York city,
visited Secretary Boutwell, yesterday. A