The Portland daily press., 1869-11-26

Two fractional currency cOunterfeiterS, civ
ing their names as Bronson and Taylor, were
arrested at Concord, N. H., having been traced
from Baltimore by detectives.
1t is stated that the sentence of Lieutenant
Commander Seeley, recently tried by courl
martial in Boston and found guilty of the
charge of cruelty to seamen while in command
of the United States steamer Pawnee, is that
Seeley be suspended from command, on fur
Tough pay, with the loss of full pay for five
years.
The Newcastle (Eng.) Chronicle of Nov. 10th
describes the arrival of Walter Brown in that
city to train for his race with Sadler, which
took place last week, and of which we have re-
ceived nothing but the Geographic announce
ment of his victory. Nearly a thousand per-
sons were in waiting to greet him, and he was
loudly cheered. A great crowd followed him
to his hotel and called for a speech, but Walter
only thanked them for the reception. Some
the leading oarsmen called on him during the
evening.
More frauds have been discov cred in the
New York Custom House. Over two hundred
respectable merchants, many of them occupy
ing prominent and influential positions, are
now under suspicion of having participated in
the frauds, which extended through several
months during the last administration. Their
names will be suppressed pending the official
investigation, which is now being conducted at
the Custom House. The frauds were accom-
plshed by means of false invoices and under
valuation of imported merchandise, and are
believed to involve vast amount of money.
Lizzie Rice, young lady of twenty three
was taken to Bellevue Hospital, New York,
on Saturday, being found in the street in an
unfortunate condition. 1t seems that she
married the son of a wealthy English family
in Bridgeport, Conn, but the family refused
to acknowledge the marriage, and her hus-
band being junior they sent him to England.
She then came to New York to earn her liv-
ing, but was driven from the places she OBJ
tanned as soon as it was evident that she was
about to bee ONE mother. In this condition
without friends, home, money or, indeed, rep
utation, she was found as above stated and
taken care of by the officer.
The new constitution for Porto Rico, as read
in the Spanish Cortes yesterday, forbids the
discussion by the colonial legislative body of
any proposition or resolution contemplating a
separation of the island from Spain; proclaims
complete religious liberty for all christian de-
nominations in the territory; extends the
right of electoral suffrage to all who can read
and write, with the exception of slaves; places
certain legal restrictions on the slave system
declares that slaves have no citizen rights in
the soil, and that they can acquire such only
bu nd al H.
ton of slavery is in fact, according to the min
isterial statement and the concluding clauses
of the present measure, reserved for another
and separate bill and future specific legisla-
ton.
A heart-rendng case of restitution and star
walton recently came to light in Birmingham,
England. In back court family, consisting
of father and mother, James and Margaret
Parsons, lived in two rooms On the 10th inst
the mother, and on the 18th, the father, died !;
both, according to the testimony of physicians,
from sheer exhaustion, through want of food
and exposure to cold. 1t appears that Parsons
was once in most respectable position, hay
ing but only five years ago been partner in
manufacturing business in Wolverhampton,
carried on previously by his father for many
years. A reverse of fortune so reduced him,
that, according to his own account. he had been
eight months without earning sixpence, and
the whole income of the family of seven, save
the too rare charity of friends, had been the
earnings of the eldest lad, boy of fourteen,
who received three shillings week as errand
boy. The mother, who had nursing child,
just before her death, had gone four days with
no food but water. The man and his wife were
too proud to make known their circumstances
to the neighbors, whom they Stunned, and
their condition was not discovered till it was
too late to save their lives. Their apartments
showed shocking state of misery and desti-
tuition. The children were removed to the
in good circumstances.
The more we learn of the particulars of the
Peightal murder in Pennsylvania, the more
horrible becomes our impressions of the crime.
Mr.. Peghtal was well-known to be possessed
of considerable wealth. He was a quiet, inof-
fensve man, very popular in the region where
he lived, and particularly remarkable for his
benevolence. The three men who confess the
murder slept in his house for three nights. Mr..
Peightal gave them food and drink, and cared
for them without prospect of reimbursement.
And yet their hearts were steeled to the COM
initial of his murder. On Wednesday night
The Pelghtals were eating supper in the kitch-
en- OF the house at the usual time all uncon-
sc'ous OF their impending doom. The coffee of
Inc old man and the boy had just been poured
put, while Mrs. Peightal was engaged in pour
t9g her own. A dish of potatoes, boiled with
haa I'm; nsss on, was upon the table, the old man
10y. n;s ssI one on his plate, when the re.
'~as s,n dood tn me .s;,.anee, and the old
n'n ie,i ue"d. en ano'nel, - BOY
was ushered into eternity. Mrs Peiehtal
must have jumped up and endeavored to es-
cape and been cut down with hatchet, and |
afterwards shot when the pistol had been re-
loaded, The work of blood being accomplish
ed, the murderers searched The house for plum
der and then set fire to the building for the
purpose of covering up their bloody work