The Portland daily press., 1869-12-16

& Delawate Bay Railroad Company and over
the wine new relations were established.
The London Telegraph QiberaD predicts
some modification of the policy of Congress
regarding reciprocity with Canada through
the influence of Secretary Fish, who is a free.
trader. The Times thinks the attempt to pro-
mote the growth of cotton in the East will NOT
displace the American descriptions in the mar.
ket.
line Methodist State Conference of Massa-
chusetts, now in session in Boston, are dissat-
isfied with the whitewashing report of the COM
mlttee who were appointed to investigate the
ahalrs OF the Book Concern. Wednesday it
passed resolution "calling upon the said Book
Committee for full report of such facts with
in their knowledge as are necessary to clear
understanding of the manner in which this
great interest of the church has been manag-
ed"
A swindle on large scale has come to light
in Boston. A dry goods jobbing house estab-
lished on Milk street about two months ago, in
some unaccountable manner succeeded in get
ting credit in New York city to the amount of
perhaps 100000. These goods have been sold at
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frauding the creditors, and within few days
the members of the firm have suddenly cleared
out for Canada or some other place of conceal
ment taking their i'll gotten gains with them.
Two New York policemen are before the
courts charged with highway robbery. The
facts, as sworn to, show that the officers were
in uniform and on duty when found by the
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the victim, who had lost pocket book con-
tanning four hundred dollars, invited them to
drink which they accepted; that the officers
undertook to ''see" him to another place of re-
sort, and while on the way one of the police
men "eased" him of his pocket book. This is
the victims story
The late sale of the steamers Ontario and
Erie in Boston to New York parties, having
failed in consequence of the neglect of the pur-
chasers to make the first payment within the
specified time, Boston capitalists propose to
organize an American Steamship Company,
with a capital of one million dollars. The en-
terprise includes the purchase of the above
named steamers and placing them on line
to be established between Boston and Liver
pool 1t is understood that the steamers can
be had at the recent. auction cost, which is
about one third of their estimated value
Cowardice is certainly not a Characteristic
Of Missouri bank-robbers. At the hour of
noon one of them entered bank at Gallatin
and requested the President to change a one
hundred dollar bill. The latter went to the
safe to accommodate him, when another party
entered the bank and spoke to the first one.
The President had just unlocked the safe
when two shots were fred at him by the men,
one ball entering his head and the other strik-
ing him in the breast. He expired instantly.
The men then took from the safe large sum
OF money, mounted their horses and coolly
rode out of town.
A special from st. Paul says that later intel
gence from Red River is to the effect that the
rebels placed Gov. McTavish under close guard
on account of his recent proclamation advising
them to lay down their arms and submit to
the government. Mr.. Campbell, of McDou-
gafs party, attempted to enter + ort Gerry but
was met at the gate by sentinels who forced
him back upon American SOIL Upon pain of
being shot he had been forbidden to re-epter
the lines of the insurgents. An account saws
the rebels continue to issue rations from the
Hudson Bay Company's goods, with regu-
larity that is making great inroads upon the
company's provisions.
A remarkable article in the Independent in
relation to the marriage relation is attracting
much attention. The Albany Journal under
stands it to mean that wedlock should be ga
matter of convenience, to be entered into at
the pleasure of parties passionateiy attracte d,
and dissolved when they find that the associa-
tlon IS no longer mutually agreeable-a sort of
business copartnership, terminable upon no.
tice;' and it remarks that "it is one of the
most painful signs of a degeneracy in the tenn
per of the community that utterances so des-
perately bold and infinitely bad should find
their way into the editorial columns of wide
ly circulated and influential journal, claiming
especial recognition as a religious organ"