The Portland daily press., 1869-04-27

The News.
Coy and Rawlins are all the Secretaries left
in Washington, the other members Of the Cab
met being out of town.
Horace Greeley has been appointed one of
the government commissioners to examine the
Pacific RAILROAD. He promptly accepted the
appointment and thus gave Dana an opportu-
nifty to point the finger of scorn.
Butler Us Sumner is to be the next sensa-
ton. The former thinks he knows as much
about the Alabama claims as the latter and
proposes to criticise his speech.
A lion tore q man to pieces in Belgium re-
Gently, during performance in msnagerie.
The man lost his presence of mind when raw
meat was fed to the beasts in the cage wnere
he was performing, and began to Withdraw In
trepidation and without keeping bis eye hxed
ON the animals. This was fatal mistake.
The Supreme Court has just decided that an
alien woman married to an American citizen
i, also citizen of the United States
1t is said that the Bourbon Prince who left
Washington without paying his board, says
he forgot it and has since returned and set
tied it.
received any dispatch from his government
since the rejection of the Alabama treaty.
Abbott of North Carolina is six feet high
and weighs over two hundred pounds
Sprague gives the people to understand that
he used the word puppy in Pickwickian
sense.
During the last executive session Of the
Sarata Roular oud Nbandl hod ON oltorca-
tion.
The New York Herald says that yacht ID
waiting in New York to carry Gen. Grant to
Cuba, where he proposes to make short visit.
The English and French ministers at WASH
ington are reported to approve everything that
Secretary Fish has yet done in the Cuban
business The latter has been assured by the
Spanish ambassador that the persons on board
the Lizzie Major have been released, and that
full reparation will be made to the United
States by the Spanish government for all
wrongs done American citizens.
Dispatches received by the English and
French ministers from their respective gov
ernments relative to the Cuban difficulties in
dictate that those governments are taking a
lively interest in events transpiring here in
regard to matters in that island. They are
particularly an xious to know whether the gov
ernment here is allowing expeditions to be fit
ted out in aid of the insurgents or taking any
steps relative to the acquisition of that island
Secretary Fish states that no more foreign
appointments will be made until after June,
except where vacancies have occurred.
The Tribune's special says Mr.. Fish told a
member of the Foreign Relations committee
on Friday that Mr.. Motley would take out no
prescribed instructions to England. He said
that Mr.. Motley would be authorized to treat
on the basis of Mr.. Summers speech, and he,
the Secretary OF State, did not disguise his
expectations that such an offer would be de-
clined. In this event Mr.. Motley was just to
wait and not revive the matter unless instruct
ed to do SO hereafter; and SO the question was
likely to remain an open one, a position which
Mr. Fish said he did not think would be disad-
vantageous to this government.
The conscription authorized by law has been
completed throughout Spain. There was no
rioting or disorder except at Avila, small
town about fifty miles from Madrid, where the
CONSUMPTION was postponed for time ON ao-
The Newburyport Herald wants Gen. But
Ter to be the next Governor of Massachusetts
The East Maine Conference of the M. T..
Church will be held at Bangor May 29th.--
Bishop Clark of Cincinnati will preside.
The investigation of the spirit photograph"
phenomenon is still in progress in New York.
A nephew Of ex-Gov. Henry A. Wise of
VIRGINIA hos haan orrostod IN Nou VorI1 for
obtaining money under false pretenoes.
There is great excitement in Louisville, KY,
over the discovery that the corn in the eleva-
tors is heating and will probably be spoiled.
A petition is being signed by large number
of persons in Boston requesting the President
to appoint Frederick A. Douglass Minister to
Brazil.
DIR. Adelaide Grennan, q woman doctor liv-
ing in st. Louis, has been appointed examin-
ing physician Of the Homeopathic Insurance
Company of New York.
Francis w. Goddard, of Providence, late a
captain of the LIST Rhode Island regiment, has
sent letter to Senator Sprague, closing az
follows: cit remains for me to pronounce you
before the world, and with full apprehension
of the words I use a liar, q calumniator, and q
poltroon."
Sunday the first steamers of the season
reached Detroit from Chicago.
James NJ. Ashley, familiarly called Impeach-
er Ashley, publishes card denying that he
has ever belonged to any ring, or that he ever
made a dollar because of any vote he gave in
Congress. His friends believe him.
Mexico has recognized Cuba as belligerent
and admits vessels bearing the Cuban flags to
its ports.