The Portland daily press., 1869-05-25
THE PROGRAMME.


Attorney General Hoar is said to be dissat-
isied because the President has ignored his
| opinion on the eight hour law.
| Gen. Candy has issued an order for the eec-
| tion in Virginia in accordance with the Presi-
dents proclamation. Ten days, commencing
June 14th are allowed for registration. The
whites and blacks are to be entered on separ-
ate lists.
Ex-Presdent Pierce, who is much improved
in health, approves the appointment of Mr..
Motley as Minister to England, but says the
situation is very serious and that it is no time
for thoughtless defamation. That means Mr..
Sumner.
The Navy Department is still selling YES
sells that are not needed.
DR.. f. r. Lees, tho celebrated English Tenn
perance lecturer spoke in Music Hall, Boston,
Sunday night. Senator Wilson presided.
The reporl Of the landing of fillsbusters in
England is doubted.
Lowell Mason and Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis
are the only honorary guests whom the Ex-
ecutor Committee of the Peace Jubilee have
yet invited.
1t is certainly cool in the Memphis con-
vention, which composed largely of men who
were in the rebel army, and which received a
letter from Gen. Lee with shouts of applause,
to denounce the national debt.
One of the Washington first class hotels is
receiving the attentions of first class ghost.
The New York papers says that Edwin
Booth and Miss Mary McVickar are to be mar
ried early in June at the house of Mr.. j. H
McVickar, Long Branch.
The first Hartford passenger across the con-
tinent by the completed Pacific Railroad was
a young lady who had faith enough in young
mans word to travel $500 miles to marry him.
Nearly all the Paris correspondents say that
Madame Patti will soon be engaged in a scan
dalous divorce suit, and that most of her jeal-
GUS sister singers will exult over her misfor-
tunes.
Balls statue of Washington is finished and
will be erected in the Public Garden of Bos-
ton on the 4th of July.
DR.. Lees has written q letter to the Tribune
saying that the English people, in his opinion,
do not share the present fury of the English
press in regard to American affairs
"The Gates Of the Hinges" is said to be
coming sensation among the book publishers.
An Englishman is said to have invented a
machine which he calls desiccator, by which
hay can be made independently of sunshine
and in spite of rain. This can't be true, be-
cause it contradicts well-established proverb
which is couched in imperative language.
Miss Lizzie Peckham, a niece of one of the
Justices OF the Supreme Court Of New York,
is studying law with the intention of being ad-
mitted to the bar at Milwaukee. The leading
awyers of that city are extending to her every
aid in their power, and no doubt she will some
day make as eloquent at plea as Poria
General Dodge, the engineer of the Union
Pacific Railroad, telegraphs from Omaha that
all the arrangements for through travel are
complete, and both freight and passenger
trains are running on time. The greater por-
tion of the road, he says, is in as good order as
any line east of Omaha, but owing to the erec-
ton of some permanent bridges and stone cul-
verts in the place of temporary structui es,
and changes in small portions of the road-bed,
the company will not present the road as fully
finished before the 1st of August.
Official figures at the Treasury Department.
show that the importations for the months Of
March and April were greater than for the
corresponding months of any previous year.
The Worlds Washington dispatch says the
friends of Senator Sherman and Governor
Morton do not conceal their qualification at the
course of Secretary Boutwell,, never their
choice for Secretary. They profess to see in
Mr.. Boutwell's policy the utter ruin of his rep
utation as a fnancier.
Ex-senator Wade has not yet accepted the
position Of government dfector of the Pacific
| Railroad.
Col. Robert Campbell, of St. Louis, has gone
| to Washington at the solicitation of the Presi-
dent through the Secretary of War; to meet
several prominent gentlemen selected from
different sections of the country, to confer
upon matters looking to the amelioration o.
the condition of the Indians. The conference
| will take place at Washington on Wednesday
Prince Karageorgewich, who has been il
| prison charged with completely in the murder
of Prince Michael, of Servia in June last, ha,
been released on ball. in order that he may pre-
pare his defence on the trial soon to take place
The new Rhode Island State Government
will be inaugurated at Newport to-day. Th'
Providence Journal says that it is doubtful i
the Constitutional amendment is acted upoI
before January.
John Taylor, for many years the farmer o
Daniel Webster, died in Salisbury, N. H., o
consumption on Friday last, aged 68 years
He was buried en- the Webster farm in Frank
lin Sunday. Mr.. Taylor was an intelligen
farmer and an upright citizen, and his rela
tions to Mr.. Webster were of a gratifying
character
A correspondent of the Boston Journal
who saws there are many who cannot pay th
lee to the COLISEUM Festival week, makes the
following proposition for grand outdoor sing
"Let the whole multitude there assembled
singers and musicians, choirs and bands, audi
ence and volunteer escort, civil, musical an'
military, proceed on the 18th Of June to Bun
ker Hill in grand procession, and together sinl
America the Star Spangled Banner Hal
Columbia and such other patriotic airs a
the occasion may suggest. The memory 0
such day would last forever
Rev. DR.. Storrs, of the Church of the Pill
grims, Brooklyn, N. Y, has concluded not t
accept the very urgent call he has had from
Boston.