The Portland daily press., 1869-06-04

The New York Board Of Health has made
the alarming discovery that it has no power
oyer dogs and that the Legislature will have
ID appoint dog commissloper. A
If. Forster, msmbsr Of the Btitish Cabi-
net friend of America, and an intimate i
friend of Senator Sumner, made speech in
the British Parliament on the 10th of May, in 4
which he gave expression to the prevailing
English views on the Alabama question.
.oasseaa. commander OF the Cuban army,
wrote on the Sd of May to My Dear Commo-
dore',- somebody in America thus: We ask
only. as a republican form of government, that
our belligerent rights be acknowledged by the
United States government, and then you, my
friend, will be able BY the power you, bold 10
place yourself in command of acoban feet,
and doubtless will soon sweep the broad At
lantic of the wild foe that we are now contend
ing against Get your privateers ready and be-
fore many days have elapsed and with the aid
of the Almighty Power, the sea will swarm
with Them
Mazzini is still at Lugano sufferer. vom-
iting and sleeplessness put his life in peril His
disease is thought to be cancer in the stomach.
EOf some Ilme ut uds odtcu Uuiy tOOQ easy Vi
digestion --soup, raw meat hashed-+buti the
good effects of this regime have been neutral
lied by his excessive abuse Of tobacco
i've, for he smokes not ten but thirty or forty
cigars daily. cse,=H sst3af
The people of New York are growing seri-
ously alarmed en- account Of the prevalence of
| small pox.
1t is so dull in Washington that one Of the
| leading hotels had neither an arrival nor a de-
| parture to boast of for whole day
| The Heralds Washington special says Pres
| ident Grant does not support Sumner in the
| latter's speech about the Alabama claims. He
thinks great injury has been done by that
speech, which destroyed the chance Of settling
| the Alabama claims. 1t is said that Sumner,
who don't believe in the acquisition of more
i territory, made the speech expressly to nip in
the bud Banks pet scheme of acquiring the
| British American possessions as recompense
j for the lab lma claims. as5a
The Boston Herald. by way Of satirizing its
New York namesake, has sent areporter TO IN
teryiew Daniel Pratt Daniel thinks the
" equilibrium is in danger. There is gen.
erality in this statement that stamps the peri
patetic candidate for the Presidency as one oi
the leading statesmen of the age.
The craft Nonpareil, in which Captain Miles
made trip to Europe, is again ready for like
voyage. She starts for Europe on the 10th Of
July s'iaeita = ~ Si.''s -
Letters received in Washington from Cuban
sympathizers state that the forces under Gen
Jordan had succeeded in joining the Cuban
forces after several fights, in all sof which the
Span;ards were repulsed with serious losses
4 1t is stated that the losses of Jordan wert
| slight, not over forty-ive in killed and wound
ed, and that he saved his artillery and armi
and ammunition. He had with him 100 new
rifles of the most approved patterns. A-td
/ The Washington Chronicle indulges in {
burst of enthusiasm over Secretary Boutwel
and says he is "worth his weight in gold Y
+ The Washington City Council has passed
an ordinance according to colored men thu
same rights with white men in theatres als
other public places.
i Advices from Tennessee. say it now appear
Il to be the policy of the Democrats who cas-
some twenty-five or thirty thousand votes a
: the lastelection%to put no candidates in tn
field, but onthe contrary to support whicheve
of the Republican wings offers the most con
cessions to them. I. 49,, o. 90, III va
II The French Atlantic cable is finished am
an English company has contracted TO lay il
. 1t is 1000 miles long.
II A conservatives pewspaper says the Radi
calls run everything into the ground. The,
it6havs certainly run the Democratic party int
Il the ground beyond all reach Of resurrection.
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