The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-04-22


The Franco Canadisn, paper published at
St. Johns, Canada, says that at the station Of
that town alone they sell smigrant tickets to
the amount of 800 to $1,000 every day. Other
stations nearer the lines sell far larger amounts
yet In one range of the parish of st. Alex
andtr, eleven farms have been completely
abandoned, and are offered for sale OF to let
Every Sunday the public crier has long list
OF public sales of furniture and implements by
parties who want to obtain the means of leav-
ing the country. At Sherrington, twenty five
families left in one day; and at st. Valentine,
grand mass was celebrated ON the occasion
OF the departure of fifty young men. The
scene is represented as having been affecting
in the extreme. .si ifs
Commissioner Wells estimates that the
whisksy tax will yield more than $4,000, 900
the present fiscal year. Last year it produced
only $1SOO0,OO0. .YAs.
Gen, Caldwell of this State gets $500 less
salary by going to Valparaiso than he would
have received if he had accepted the first ap-
pointment. But the place is more agreeable
one.
The late Pennsylvania legislature is said to
have been marvel of corruption. Divorce
bills were openly sold in the Hobbies, and $4,000
a vote was freely paid on some bills.
Information has been received at the PEN
sion Office Of the trial and conviction in Ban
gor, Maine, of M. II. and Charles Kicker, flor
fraud on the government in connection with
claims for pensions
The President expects to issue his order for
an election in Virginia during the present
week. The election will take place the last of
May or the first of june The Radicals will
support Wells for Governor while Walker will
lead the Conservatives.
The President Tuesday made the first remov-
al of one of his appointees. Mr.. Cox of Phila-
delphia, one of the leading men in the Union
League, was nominated last week and con-
frmed on Friday as consul at Leghorn. The
President learned on Tuesday, that he had
been caught in what the newspaper dispatch
es from Philadelphia called "kleptonania,
and at once removed him and appointed MIR
howard another Pennsylvanian, in his place.
1t is very appropriate thing for the gov
eminent to give Mr.. Riott Central Ameri-
can mission. Riots are indigenous in that
country.
Ihe Gfanu Ituuh railway track II entlrely
under water between Buffalo and Brantford.
The express train which left Buffalo city at 6
o'clock yesterday morning was obliged to re-
turn. So far the freshst had not impsded trav-
Of on the Great Western railway.
James Maher, who was arraigned before a
New York court some months ago on the charge,
Of being implicated in the Rogers murder, has
been discharged.
A labor convention was held in New Haven
Tuesday for the purpose of organizing State
Labor League. Resolutions supporting the
claims of labor against capital were presented.
The attendance was not large.
The lower part of Montreal is flooded by the
St. Lawrence. The houses and cellars are fill
ed with water, and several narrow escapes from
drowning are recorded. The ice has made sew
sral slides but has not yet moved away.
The Senate COMMITTEES reported adversely to
Pile as Minister to Brazil, on the ground Of
unfitness, and to Garlic, of West Virginia, On
account of his bad political record.
Late news from Paraguay state that Lopez
Tsmains undisturbed in his mountain fastness
and is rapidly filling his ranks. All he wants
is time, which the allies are allowing him. The
latter have in all about 10000 troops. The Ar
gentine Republic had not yet sent an envoy to
assist i'm forming provisional government for