Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1869-04-30

The Spanish $4,000, 900 loan Is enthusias-
tically sustained in London.
The universal suffrage clause in the Spanish
Constitution has been adopted by the Cortes.
The guuboat Seminole went into commits
sion on Friday, and will 60 to Cuban waters.
The liberty of the press and of speech is
established by the Constituents Cortes in
Spain.
The high water in the Connecticut in the
late rise was 26 feet inches higher than low
water mark.
The New York Assembly has voted to sub
nit the fifteenth amendment to the people at
the next general election.
Rev. James Marshall, o Catholic priest OF
Chicago, charged with forgery, has been dis
charged, guiltless.
A movement to assassinate the Prince I'm.
perial of France, was recently discovered in
Paris and frustrated.
Susan Christie, 80 years of age, committed
suicide by drowning herself in cistern al
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Col. Robert johnson, the eldest son of ex-
President johnson, died on Friday at Green.
vile, Tennessee.
Washington dispatches say that within two
weeks Gen. Sickles will be appointed Minis
ter to Spain, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mr.. Hale.
An oyster was recently caught in New
Haven, which contained 293 pearls. The
largest was about the size of buckshot, and
the smallest of mustard seed.
Right Rev. Bishop Lay, the newly elected
Bishop of the Diocese of Easton. arrived o.
Tuesday, and enters at once in his new field
of labor.
Cain Norris, negro, who had outraged
three white girls, has been convicted at Cham
bersburg, Pa, and sentenced to thirty-6ve
years solitary confinement.
The thieves who robbed the Beneficial Saw
ings Bank at Philadelphia have considerably
returned by express half million dollars
worth of bonds which they couldn't well
manage.
The trial at Dedbam, Mass, of Mrs. Eliza
F. Holmes, for causing the death of Miss Eli
zabeth B. Blanchard, of South Weymouth, by
procuring an abortion, resulted in verdict o
guilty.
Hon. Reverdy johnson, in speech in Lon
don on the 9th inst, abiding to his recall
said that he had forwarded his resignation t.
Washington, AID would soon return to hi.
home ga sadder man."
Gov. Bowie has signed the death warrant
for the execution of George Truman, colored
convicted of murder in the first degree at the
late term of the Circuit Court for Frederick
county May 18th has been designated as
the day of execution.
It Is rnnaazad In GinAi-.-Ai- 49, al =
and Mississippi Railroad will make through
passenger and freight arrangements with the
Baltimore and Ohio, on account of the Penn.
sylvania Central having secured control of the
Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad.
The London Telegraph says it is best 70,
English interests that Spain retain her autho.
rity over Cuba. The Owl says that Grant
has run mad on the subject of Cuba, that he
longs for foreign war, and if he troubles
Cuba he will get one.
The Board of Registration of voters in
Washington has rejected the applications OIL
number of females to be registered, in orde,
that they might vote at the approaching mu-
nicipal election.
The steamer Baltimore, of the Baltimore
and Bremen line, arrived at Baltimore on
Monday, with seven hundred and twenty.
eight passengers and a full cargo of merchan-
die. She made the passage from South
ampton to the Capes in fifteen days.
New England Methodists project an Edu-
cational University that is to rival Harvard.
Towards its establishment one million dollars
have been subscribed, and the Massachusetts
Legislature is to be petitioned for charter.
Secretary Fish, it is stated, will soon retire
from the State Department, at the head Of
which be has only remained from Difference
to the personal request of the President. He
desires to return to private life Another re-
port has it that Secretary Borie will resign
the Navy Department on account of ill health
The Sprague-Abbott difficulty has been
settled without any bloodshed. Mr.. Sprague
writes Mr.. Abbott that the very offensive Ian
guage he used was not intended to apply
to the Senator from North Carolina, and
Mr.. Abbot. withdraws bis language and
threats concerning the Senator from Rhode
Island.
Arrangements have been perfected by the
Association of the Army of the Potomac, to
give grand banquet at the Academy of Mu-
sic, New York city, on the 9th of July
President Grant. Generals Sherman and Sher-
idan, and Admiral Farragut will be present.
The Canadian Parliament is about to dis
cuss proposition to constitute the cost of de-
Tending Canada against the Fenians as a
claim against tie United States Government.
Senator Chambers speech will be commented
on in connection with the subject.
A Curiosity.
We were shown ON Tuesday last an ami
mails tooth, recently found imbedded in a
mari bank on the land of Mr.. Ignatius Simms
in this county, the crown of which measures
143 inches in circumference and inches a.
IN