The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-10-18

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Late advices from Fernando Pc say a volca-
no in the Cameron range, on the mainland,
near that island, was in state of eruption.
A Madrid letter published in London on Sat
urday states that the railroads and telegraphs
are destroyed great distance around that city.
Colonel W.. H. Selleck, of Wisconsin, has
been appointed consular agent at Bradford,
England, in place of George M. Towle.
Captain William w. Robinson, who former
ly was in the East India trade, died in Nashua
N H., on Wednesday. He was 4S years of
age, and native of this city. GG
The House of Bishops of the Protestant Epis-
| copal Church met in Trinity Chapel, New
York, Thursday afternoon, Bishop McIlvine of
Ohio presiding, and elected Rev. Henry Mills
Pierce, D. D., Missionary Bishop of Arkansas
and Indian Territory.
Father Hyacinthe is expected in Boston to-
day, and call is out, signed by Drs. Haven,
Dexter and Marvin, and various other minis
tiers, for public reception of this noble apos-
tie OF Christian liberty. at the Meionian this
evening. @ NF
Admiral Farragut's health continues the OBJ
private circles. The most Trustworthy infor-
nation regarding it is to the effect that he may
linger in his present condition for several
days, and perhaps weeks, but serious fears are
entertained of a fatal result.
Bank rascalities, it is to be hoped, are not SO
common as would seem from recent case in
Baltimore 1t has been shown there that three
leading National Banks of that city have been
lending as high as eighty per cent of the
capital for speculative purposes. The case is
IN the United States courts, having been ap-
pealed from the District to the Supreme Court.
A prominent example should be made of the
derelict officials. @ s.
Greenwich Hospital, which for 175 years has
been used as home for wounded seamen of
the British navy. has recently been closed to
naval pensioners, all but thirty one of the in
mates having accepted outdoor relief. Eng
land has been so long at peace that the number
OF men eligible as pensioners at the hospita:
during several years past has decreased to such
an extent that the expense of governing the in
shtution far exceeded the amount required for
the support of the pensioners. stDt} go
b The Helena (Montana) Gazette states that
immense and valuable gold discoveries have
been made in that immediate vicinity. The
new discoveries are located somewhere in the
south valley on the canon. The most import-
ant discovery is on a tributary of Mitchell
Gulch, where very rich and extensive diggipgs
exist Miles of claims have been staked off.
and although water is very scarce, yet most
extraVagant returns have been made in few
hours work with the common rocker. m
The "Quaker City" will soon be famous only
for the number of fighting men it can turn out
on election days. 1t is but lately that we re-
corded serious riot in which many heads were
broken and much blood shed. On Thursday
last another practical commentary on the doc.
trine of brotherly love was afforded by the
Philadelphia Democrats. Mr.. j. A. Simpson.
well-known Republican, was on his way home
when number of persons, who did not hap
pen to like his political views, set upon him
and never left him until they had nearly beat
en- nm to death. He is now not expected to
recover. alnsd9 fHs tr b. ~
In the Louisville Convention on Friday the
report OF the Committee on Railways wa.
ADOPTED. 1t recommends the building OF rail.
roa1s leading from various parts of the West
TO various Gulf ports as the proper outlets for
western products, and favors the conpectio,
by rail of the Pacific Ocean and the lakes nv
the Northern route. The report of the Com.
mlttee on Direct Trade, which was adopted.
1avors the establishment Of steamship lines be-
tween Europe and Southern ports, REQUESTS
congress to modify the navigation laws so "a
to allow the purchase of foreign ships, and
abolish the tax on shipbuilding material. The
report recommends that Congress declare norris
OF entry all cities West and South HAVING =
population of one hundred thousand and m
wards. The Convention voted to meet at Gin
cinnat' on the first Tuesday in October, 1870. .
a very interesting point has been decided in
San francisco by Judge Sawyer. A China.
man named All Humid was summoned 7as
witness IN case under trial. when counsel on |
the other SIDE objected to the admission of his !
evidence on the ground that the statutes of the |
State excluded all Chinese from giving tost;
mony against citizen. After an able aro,,,-
ment by Mr.. Lloyd against this position. ,Jpdoo
sawyer decided that though the State law did
exclude chinese testimony, yet that the Four.
'een'h Constitutional Amendment, "wb;cb
'Verrides all State laws, confers the right r.
estfy In protection of life and property..-
U nder the State laws a Chinaman mobt mn
iergo any wrong at the hands of citizo,
Sithout pelDg able to give evidence against
Inn. Was it to be argued" asked Judee
sawyer, that if two Cinnamon were wa,kinu
long, and white man comes I'D and slav.
me of the Cinnamon, that the other is to h.
recluded from giving his testimony" That
7as precisely the view taken by Police JUDGE
San Francisco recently, but Judge SAWYER
7as too just and enlightened to defer to If,
lie ordered the examination of All Hund to ba
roceeded with, and saved the Californians
'om the scandal which their own laws are cal.
ulated to produce.
FROM the correspondence of the Montrea,
'aT we have the particulars of terrible ar |
uene at st. Maurice, by which twelve lives
ere lost by the carelessness of a pilot. A scov
I'm 'nlrtyeight persons, number of horses
:" .s 10. OF provisions on board, attempted to
across the eddy formed by the Pointe a
aateau, mile above Mackinac. to a no;r.
here the tow horses could he l.na.a i'"-''I