The Portland daily press., 1869-09-03
The News.

George, the Count Johannes pronounces
Mrs. Stoves true story" libel.
Sojonrner Truth, the celebrated old negress.
is dying.
There was a frost in New York, Wednesday
night and little furry of snow.
The ship laborers' strike in Quebec contin-
ues and the rioters are only kept down by mill
tary force.
A note from the Uuited States Legation in
Paris, pronounces the story Of the Sabine con-
spiracy and the execution of seven sailors.
~ tterly without foundation"
Henry Wilson, Geo. S. Boutwell,, Butler.
Attorney General Hoar, and Governor Claflin
have, by a recent conference at the Parker
House, given the Boston quidnuncs some
trouble.
Hon. Henry Wilson's history of the rise and
fall of slavery in the United States is to be
comprised in three volumes, and the first, it is
expected, will be ready before the meeting Of
Congress.
Mark Twain, who has recently become one
of the proprietors and editors Of the Buffalo
Express, estimates the distance by rail from
San Francisco to New York at 211 games of
euchre, 179 drinks and III cigars, which shows
that he is accustomed to a leisurely game.
Great activity prevails in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. More than 5000 men are now at work
there, and an additional Reinforcement was
put on yesterday. Frigates, sloops- of-war and
iron clads are being got ready for service with
extraordinary energy.
A tabular statement has been prepared at
the Internal Revenue Office, in Washington,
which shows that the quantity of whiskey up
on which tax was paid during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1868, was 6,7O9,54 gallons,
while fox the year ending June 80, 1869, duty
was paid on 81, 381 500 gallons, with thirty-sev-
en- districts yet to be heard from.
Mr.. Robert Colyer, in late lecture, told a
new anecdote of Grant He said that "when
the war first broke out the friends of General
Grant wondered what he was SO busly about
in his room in St.. Louis. Finally it was dis
covered that he was drawing plans and maps
of Notifications and of the districts where the
battles were raging"
A steamboat on the Mississippi passed a
drowning man. The unfortunate man strug-
gled, FLASHED, foundered, and screamed for
dear life in the water. The pilot of the steam
boat yelled to him to "stand upr' He did SO,
and found the water scarcely knee deep. A
more foolish, sheepish-appearing fellow than
he, as the ladies and gentlemen on the boat
screamed with laughter at the ludicrous scene,
it would be hard to meet.
The Lord Chief Justice of England has pub
lished book, in which he declares that every
man should be free to denationalize himself
when he pleases, and to become a citizen of
any country where he may choose to take up
his residence. More than that, he peremtorily
declares that there is no legal foundation what
ever for the almost universally received idea
that British law may be construed to make all
the posterity of English parents born in any
foreign countrylBritish subjects.
From Russia comes report of fearful re-
suit of religious fanaticism. The prophets of a
new religion appeared lately in the territory of
Saratow. They came preaching self-destruc-
ton by fire as the only sure road to salvation /;
and so readily was their dreadful doctrine re-
ceived by the ignorant and superstitious peas
antry that in one large village no fewer than
I1oo persons assembled in some wooden houses
and, having barricaded the doors and windows,
set the buildings on fire and persisted in the
flames.
A lively competition livery favorable to tray
eners' is now going on between he New York
oen'ra. Railroad, Erie Railway and Pennsyl-
wanna ana. railroad The rates of fare for passen-
gers nave been considerably reduced. way fares
however, Deing excepted, and freiphts are 40
low that the canals of this State cannot now
be navigated at remunerative rates. The LAT.
ter propose putting on a train that will m,ko
the distance between New York and Cb;c.oo
in twenty hours. The Erie will run the
distance in thirty hours, while Com. Wander
bilt intends to excel both his rivals and run
train by way of Lake Shore road in twenty
four hours The distances by the three routes
are as follows: By the Pennsylvania Central.
&c, S99 miles; by the Erie Railway and Buffa-
TO- &c, 961 miles; by the New York Central,
&C., 9SS miles. Twenty four hours from New
York to Chicago would be over forty-on miler,
per hour, including stoppages.