The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-02-22

The Army of the Potamac has its first annu-
al reunion at New York to-day.
Keene, New Hampshire, wishes to be a city.
A vote to that effect was carried two years ago,
but the legislature did not give sanction to it
| by an act of Incorporation.
Gen. Butler borrowed from the Treasury De-
partment several mammoth mirrors for the
walls Of his house, at his recent big party. Hol-
brook, the Idaho delegate, who gave the lie to
Butler, and got censured, had resolution of
| inquiry drawn up about the said mirrors, and
| their cost to government, and az to what au.
thority for loaning them, etc., but he was pr-
vately persuaded not to introduce it in the
| House.
Costello and Warren, the naturalized Amer
| lean citizens who have been shut up in English
| prisons, have been released.
The House Committee on the Census has
had meeting and in part matured a bill which
provides for taking the census by special Off
GERS to be created for that purpose, and part as
heretofore by the. United States Marshals.-
The committee has agreed upon several amend
MEETS to the former schedules. 1t is proposed
to increase the number of members of the
House to three hundred, The estimate is that
If no increase in the number of Representatives
be made, New York will lose five members;
Massachusetts, two; Vermont, New Hampshire
and Vermont each one. The Western States
nearly all gain.
Charles s. Swain, of Campton, N. H., has
killed thirty deer this season.
The Portsmouth Chronicle says that the
condition of the Grand Trunk in New Hamp-
| shire demands the immediate attention of the
Railroad Commissioners
joel Gray, Esq, of Boston, President of the
Somerset Railroad, and Landlord Of the City
Hotel, Boston, has been presented with
beautifully wrought gold-headed cane by the
boarders of that house. 1t will be gratifying
to his numerous friends to hear that he is slow
~ recovering from an attack of Darslysis
With prudence and care it is confidently hop
ed that he will entirely recover.
The Herald says it is rumorsd that General
Butler and Mr.. Fisk, of Erie, are about to pur-
chase Newspaper in Springfield, Mass, to
run in opposition to Mr.. Bowlss Republican.
Gov. Smith, of Alabama, has issued strin-
gent orders to the sherifs of counties to sup-
press the Ku Klux, directing them to call for
military aid, if necessary.
The Spanish Consul at New Orleans mas ap-
piled to the Governor of Louisiana for aid in
preventing collision between the Spaniards
and Cuban refugees in that city.
The United States Consul at Valparaiso,
writes to- the Secretary of State as follows
81 regret to be obliged to report that the yellow
fever, which caused such fearful loss of life at
Lima and Caliao, and the ports south in Peru,
on this coast has again made its appearance in
. most malignant form, at the ports south of
Callao."
Mr.. Bescher was able to preach once yester-
day.
Breckenridge has gone to his Kentucky
home, saying that he shall have nothing more
to do with politics.
The excitement about the California White
Pine Mines is increasing Fifty-four compa-
MES have gone to the mines, and they have
been incorporated with nominal capitals ag-
gregating $62OOOO0O.
The Nevada Legislature waits Congress to
annex to that Territory the tract of land south
OF Snake river.
Inc remains of a large mastodon have been
alscoyered near Pstaluma, Cal.