The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-09

Sixty arrests for illegal voting were made in
New York Tuesday.
A whiskey warehouse in Newark was seized
by the revenue officers Tuesday.
Nester's jewelry factory in Newark was dam.
aged $4,000 by fire Tuesday night
Blatchford says his revelations as to draw
back frauds will mplicate many prominent
men.
The New York Daily Republic is dead We
are sorry, for it was a good paper. 1t did
something, however. 1t sunk some 100000
John j. Eckel, being told he was about to
die, denied any connection with the Burdell
murder, but made statements duplicating Mrs.
Cunningham.
The Congressional Globe will hereafter be
published at o'clock in the morning, instead
of at noon and will contain nothing but the
debates of Congress.
The Paris Steele prints Il large portion of the
report of the Secretary of the American Treas.
ury, and says that American promise is equiv
alent to its fulfillment''
The English ministry has refused to accept
the notifications Of the treaty of commerce be-
tween England and France proposed by the
latter.
The Wheeling and Parkersburg packet Re
bacca collided in the pier at Parkersburg Tues
day night and sunk Immediately. Three or
four lives were lost. All the passengers are
reported to be saved. The lost are supposed to
have been deck hands,
A statement is published that the reported
completely of the Hudson Bay Company in
the Red River rebellion is false, and that, on
the contrary, the company have protested
strongly against the doings of Rialle and his
adherents, and have repeatedly tried to i'm
press on the insurgents the necessity of their
withdrawing. 1t is difficult to ascertain the
number of men under arms, but many of tie
insurgents have returned to their private occu-
patton.
Monday the quartz mines of the Columbia
Mining Co., at Unionvlle, Montana, struck in
resistance to q decrease of wages. New men
were set at work but were driven off bys the
strikers. Five Of the strikers were arrested by
the sheriff, but they were instantly rescued by
their friends. The next morning all the mi
ners in the district, some three or four hun.
bred, struck and armed themselves against the
sheriff. The latter collected q posse of about
four hundred citizens and proceeded to Union
vile, but the mining company acceeded to the
demands of the strikers, who then gave them
selves up and were discharged.
News has been received at Gen. Sherman's
headquarters that the Blackfeet Indians, who
are very numerous in Montana territory, have
left their reservations, organized in mounted
parties, and are robbing and numbering white
citizens in the most shocking and barbarous
manner. The citizens have adopted an ad.
dress to Gen. Hancock, setting forth in detail
the sufferings of the white settlers at the
hands of the Indians, and asking that the peo-
pie ofthe territory be allowed to raise among
themselves a sufficient force of mounted troops
to protect their towns and settlements and
chastise the marauding savages as they de-
serve.
The Nashua Telegraph says the Nashua Man
ufacturing Company had to suspend operations
ON Tuesday morning. The snow had blown
into their canal to such an extent as to entire
Iy ill it, and the water was damned back into
the river so as to efectually suspend operations.
The whole canal is huge trough of slosh, 80
thick as to be immovable. The same thing
happened sixteen years ago, and cold snap
SO hard that the expanding ice broke away its
BANKS, and large gangs of men were turned
out cutting away the frozen mass and repair
ing the canal, work being suspended for three
or four weeks.
The funeral of Mr.. John J. Eckel, who was
prominently mixed up in the Burdell murder
case, took place in New York on Tuesday,
Mr.. Eckel, during his lifetime, was a member
OF the Presbyterian Church, and gave much
time and money to its support. It was intend
ed by his friends, when the body arrived from
Albany, where he died, to have it taken to the
Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Twenty.
ninth street and Madison avenue; but when
the pastor, the Rev. DR.. Conklin, heard the
name of the deceased, he refused to permit the
funeral there. The body was then taken to
the office of the undertaken. Several clergy
men Of the same denomination were waited
upon, but all refused to oficiate. Finally, Mr..
Methodist clergyman, consented
to conduct the funeral service. Two ladies
dressed in black, who attended the funeral, at
tracted much attention, and il was reported
that they were Mrs. Cunningham and her
daughter.