The Portland daily press., 1869-05-19


the approaching Peace Jubilee and calls it de-
risively "the grand wind-upin Boston" Bet
ter have asgrand wind-up there, says the N.
I'll. Herald, than general smash up all over
the country, which might have been the case
had the Copperheads had full sway during the
war.
Five more women have applied to be regis
tered as voters in Washington. They also pre-
sented the board with large bouquet. The
bouquet was accepted, but the names of the
donors were not registered.
The house in Frederick, Maryland, from the
attic window of which Barbara Freitchie sent
her famous defiance to Stonewall jackson and
his bold riders has disappeared. The local
paper, in chroncling the event, says it was in
pursuance of determination of the city au-
thorities to blot out the memory of the
"Freitchie woman"
A Washington dispatch says that Mr..
Motley, the President and the Secretary of
State are in accord with Mr.. Sumner on the
Alabama question.
Commissioner Delano has taken steps to
have James Fisk, Jr's, residence decisively
settled, whether in Massachusetts or New
AOlhs LIZ AcpuItCu oAO 'AOuSdAo uSAAoAo Ia
come last year; Jay Gould one hundred and
fifty thousand. .
Donnelly declines to run for Governor of
Minnesota, but will push his friend, General
j. 7. Averill. The favorite of the Ramsey
party is the present Governor Marshall.
1t is now pretty certain that Gen. Peter T.
Washburne, of Woodstock, will be the next
Governor of Vermont.
Mr.. Goldie, of Oxford University, directed
his answer on behalf of Cambridge to the Har-
ward challenge, to Cambridge University,
Harvard, Mass"
The portraits of Gems. Lee and Stonewall
jackson, that formerly hung in the Council
Chamber at Charleston, South Carol lima, have
been removed and replaced by portraits of
Gems. Grant and Sherman.
DIR. Norton, colored man, of York county,
Virginia, announces himself as an indepen-
dent candidate for Congress against Colonel
Ayers, the Wells candidate.
Vague accounts of a battle near Trinidad,
Cuba, in which the insurgents were success
full, have come to hand.
The ex-rebel ram Atlanta is supposed to be
fitting out at League Island for Cuba. Her
guns and armament are very powerful.
Mr. Motley has been instructed to negotiate
two treaties-ons a naturalization treaty, bas-
ed upon the protocol recently ratified by the
Senate; the other treaty defining the duties,
rights and privileges of Consul Generals and
Consuls in the two countries, similar to the
consular treaties recently negotiated with sew
eral of the European powers.
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he is perfectly contented at St. Paul. Peo-
pie for the most part are perfectly contented,
to have him stay there.
A Richmond, Va, dispatch says that owing
to extensive sales of land in small portions to
white emigrants, the negro laborers are going
further South for employment. Over three
hundred have recently left and hundreds are
preparing to follow.
Judge Edmunds has taken possession Of the
Washington post-ofice. His predecessor did
not claim the benefit of the tenure-of-ofice act
as previously reported.
Fifty-nine clerks are to be discharged from
the Treasury Department.
A young telegraph clerk of Paris has dis
covered plan for the rapid self-printing of
dispatches for which he has been offered 100000
| francs
The Ballarat Sun says that hailstone TWEEN.
ty feet in length, twenty feet in breadth, and
twenty feet in thickness, has fallen near that
plaeel
| disguised at the bad conduct of some of the
persons attending the late meeting OF the
Equal Rights Association, that they have
formed a new society, to be called the National
| Woman Suffrage Association. Men may be-
come members, but they are to be held al
strictly subordinate. Many wealthy and dis
| tinguished ladies who would have nothing tt
| do with the old society will connect themselves
with this.
James Parton, when an editor on the Home
Journal, copied, with approving comment, an
article by Fanny Fern, sister of N. P. Willis
and the latter finding fault thereat, Parton
left the Office. Fanny Fern wrote to thank
Mr.. Parton for his sympathy, and thus they
became acquainted, and becoming acquainted
married.
A correspondent in Europe, who processes te
have visited the principal American Legations
there, has found that the United States is the
worst represented at the foreign courts of al
/ the nations.
A Porto Rico letter says that the island is on
the verge of an instruction. The principal
streets of Ponce have been burned by ineen.
diaries. Spanish soldiers are assassinated and
business suspended. The negroes are leaving
their masters to join the insurgents, and the
principal families are leaving as fast as posi-.
BILE.
A new ritual was adopted by the Grand Ar.
my of the Republic at its late session in Gin
cinnati. Every State in the Union was repre-
| scented.
| The President has made between eighty and
ninety appointments since the adjournment Of
the Senate-about half of which are suspen-
sions under the modified tenure-of-office act.