The Portland daily press., 1869-04-23
The News.

1me NeWbs
The signatures to the testimonial address to
Governor Burnside of Rhode Island already
returned, number between three and four thou
sand, and several lists of names are yet to
come in,
The latest election returns from Michigan
show that the Republicans elected ten of the
sixteen Circuit Judges.
The English Government consider the At
| rican slave trade extinct, and have withdrawn
the squadron which they have maintained on
that coast at great cost for many years. For a
time the expense was $500, 900 year.
Somebody perpetrates the following as the
last conundrum: AS Colfax had Nellie Wade
why didn't he have her uncle weighed also ?
Because he's Ben Wade.
Queen Isabella of Spain still refuses to abb
dictate. Some rulers who have displayed like
| obstinacy have finally been obliged to do worse
to decapitate.
DR.. Cummings says our tribulation is com
ing which was foretold by the Prophet Tag
gai-"Yet little while, and 1 will shake the
earth, and the sea, and the dry land We
are in the seventh vial, and zone shock, start
ling, terrific, and of huge and unprecedented
proportions is yet to come for the purpose OF
shaking up the scoffers
Another version of the British, Minister'S
exclamation when he heard of the rejection of
the Alabama treaty is that he said, "This
means war; "No,' said the French Minister
with whom he was conversing, sit means Can
ada''
The sixteen Indian agents and superintend-
ontc ho xuoro noyr,in fod w I'D N oro oil
Quakers
Mr.. Hulburt of Illinois, who was nominated
for Minister to Bogota is rejected on account
of his being addicted too much to the use Of
intoxicating drinks.
Four railroad accidents were reported on
Wednesday,-two in Tennessee, one in New
York and one in Massachusetts, Seven per-
sons were killed and several were seriously
wounded.
Telegraphic communication was established
between Hamilton, Nevada, and the East last
Friday. On that day the president of the
board of trustees sent message to the mayor
of New York, offering the greetings usual on
such occasions. The versatile Mr.. Hall tardi-
ly replied on Monday with the following re-
markabla composition: Struck by your
lightning, the metropolis hopes soon to be
pushed by your steam. The metropolis con-
graduates Hamilton upon the achievement.
Long may intelligence flash along every high
way, connecting practically Asia and Europe,
and to open which was practically the dream
of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries"
Ex-Secretary Stanton refuses to take the
money offered him by his friends.
Ole Ru11 and Camilla TTreo ara draxu;,o
their magic bows in Chicago.
Minister Mahon is to be recalled from Para
quay, and the President and Secretary Fish
are considering the propriety of wholly aban-
doning that mission.
A Liverpool court has recently decided in a
suit brought by seaman against an American
vessel for wages that the American consul
alone has jurisdiction in such cases where the
plaintiffs have signed shipping articles.
Great efforts are being made, especially on
the part of German and French ecclesiastical
bodies to induce the Pope to postpone indefi-
nitely the Eucmenical Council, as the two car
dinal points for which it has been convoked-
the Pope's personal infallibility, and the con-
domination of political liberalism-will not re-
ceive the Endorsement of the Council. Such
at least appears to be the likely result, judging
from the tone of the special congregation of
prelates appointed to digest the proposed dog
mas.
The Princess Louise, daughter of Queen
Victoria, is to be married on the 9th of July
next to the Prince Royal of Denmark. This
will leave the Queen only one unmarried
daughter, the Princess Beatrice.
Mr.. Young of the Tribune and other news
paper correspondents were before the Senate
Committee yesterday and Intercepted as to
where they got their copy of the confidential
Hale and Perry correspondence.
The name of Charles p. Morrill, of Maine.
nominated for Consul at Berbexo, was with
drawn Wednesday.
The committee of arrangements for the an
nual reunion of the Third Army Corps, to be
held in New York on the 9Th of May, their
regular anniversary, met in that city Wednes-
day and. decided that the annual banquet
should be at Delmonico's. Officers of the corps
VINO intend to be present shonld apply at once
lor tnelr tickets to Colonel Louis Fitzgerald,
NO barclay street. New York. The number
is necessarily limited Generals Heiutzleman
Hooker, Sickles and other nrominont MAN.
bers of the Third Corps will be present ON tho
occasion.
The Trbune's Montreal special saws the ar
der for the withdrawal of the British troon.'
from Canada in May next, is said by well in
formed persons to be held in allegiance for a
while There will, howevar, be considerable
change in the military stations, and one
change, both curious and unaccountable, is
the transfer oftroops from Montreal to Quebec,
which has been ordered. The general order
from the Horse Guards, directing the return
of the regiments in England and to foreign
stations have never been Withdrawn, and con-