The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-05-20

Col. Robert johnson, son of the ex-Presi-
dent, died of an overdose of laudanum.
The Boston Posts special says that Presi-
dent Grant, accompanied by Mr. Cox, Secre-
tary of the Interior, will leave the city about
the first of June for West Point, where he
will remain day or two and then visit several
cities in New England, and probably Bos. ON
during the Peace Jubilee
The Attorney General is considering wheth-
er the President, under the enure-of-offce act.
can make appointments to fill vacancies coca
stoned by the resignation of consuls during the
recess of the Senate.
Inc friends OF Mr.. Sherman of Ohio are said
to hope that he will be at the head of the
Treasury Department within few months.
The Commissioner of Pensions is preparing
circular letter simplifying the form of ap-
phcatlons for increased pensions under the act
OF July, 1868 The letter gives very full direc-
tons, contains all the needed blank forms, and
calls the especial attention of all interested to
the provisions contained in the seventh Sec
ton of the act just named.
The following income returns for last year
are reported A. T. Stewart, three million
nineteen thousand; Senator Morgan, one hum
dred twenty-six thousand; Peter B. Sweeney,
one hundred eighty-one thousand; Marshall
o. Roberts, seventy-one thousand; L. Delmon-
leo, one bundled twenty-five thousand; Ar
mold & Constable, the first, two hundred and
thirty thousand; tho second, one hundred and
twelve thousand. These are all in New York
city.
The question of liability for town scrip issued
in nearly all Southern towns during the rebel
lion has received a final settlement at the
hands of Chief Justice Chase. He decides
that the authorities under which it was issued
being de fdcto government, the towns would
have been liable for its redemption had it been
issued for ordinary purposes. But it was put
out to aid the rebellion, and its redemption
cannot therefore be ordered by the government
it was designed to subvert.
The name of the first man by rail from San
Francisco was 7. G. Jenckcns. OF course he
will print his adventures Jenckens always
does.
An order has been posted up in the New
York Tribune editorial rooms abolishing the
position of managing editor, left vacant by the
resignation of Mr.. Young, and directing
Whitlaw Reid to see that Mr.. Greeley's orders
are oDeyed.
A gentleman from New Orleans reports sew
eral hundred ex-rebel and Union soldiers are
drilling there for Cuban volunteers. They are
well equipped. and over 100000 had been
raised to transport them to Cuba.
Secretary Boutwell, declines for the present
to change his policy of buying million bonds
week.
A money delivery clerk of an express COM
pany was robbed of $4,000 Baltimore Tues
day. The robbers seized him as soon as he
entered the room where he was to deliver the
money, gagged him, seized their booty, locked
him into the room, and departed.
The conscience fund received a contribution
Of $552 from Newark, N. j., yesterday.
The NewburyportH Herald says that the Bart
lett Mills have stopped work and will not re-
sumo this month. They have been running at
loss for the past year, as all the cotton faeto.
ries in Newburyport have, with one exception,
and the market has been SO dull that, with that
one exception, goods have been aecumulating
Col. j. b. Stockton, special agent from Ces-
pedes to Gen. Grant, says that by the official
reports the Cuban insurgents have 1850 men,
of whom "a, 495 are armed with muskets
Judge Cardozo Of New York having commit
ted two prostitutes to the Tombs, received the
following pleasant note, signed "Ku Klux
Committee: eff you do not order the imme-
date release of those two women from Jail, you
die this day.
The butcher cart thieves perpetrated another
bold robbery in New York Tuesday and es-
capped
The New York World says that zone of the
sauciest kilograms ever sent to any man. was
received by the President Tuesday from Sena-
tor Cragin of New Hampshire, the occasion
being the suspension of John p. Hale and the
appointment of Gen. Sickles as Minister to
Spain