The Portland daily press., 1869-05-13

sympathy with the citizens of New York in
their hopeless struggle against the tyranny OF
the legislative ring; and adds-"Of the two we
consider our sufferings the least toerable and
the hardest to endure"
The Washington printers resist the appoint
ment of Fred Douglass son to a place in the
government printing Office. He cannot work
unless he belongs to the Typographical Union.
and it is doubtful if he is permitted to join.
The New York papers say that VIM B. As
tor returns an income of $1,O79,912; H. T.
Helmbold $152205; Commodore Vanderbilt
500, 200, and Udolpho Wolfe $71 ,916
Senator Chandler of Michigan proposes to
spend the summer with his family in Europe
-Four sections of the Union Pacific Railroad
yet remain to be inspected by the Government
Commissioners and accepted by the President.
Three sections are twenty miles each in length
and the last section is twenty-six miles. No
orders have been sent to the Commissioners to
make the inspection.
The London correspondent of the Liverpool
Journal says that Lord John Russell makes
no secret of his opinion that the whole course
of the British government towards the United
States until the point when it declined to rec
ognize the South, was wrong. Tt is very easy
for him to see the blunders of himself and col
leagues now. The present administration
should not perpetuate the blunder by refusing
to make due reparation.
Mr.. VIM. B. Spooner, the President Of the
Massachusetts State Temperance Alliance,
who has been requested to resign by the Exec
utive Committee of that body on account of
his inclning to the opinion that cider and
lager should not be included in the prohibitory
law, has refused to obey the Committee, alleg-
ing that they have no authority to remove
him.
The municipal election in Cumberland,
Maryland, on Monday, resulted in Republi-
can majority of 81, which was doing very we'll,
as Horatio Seymour received about 300 MAORI
ty in the city last November.
The Workihgmens Society in Belgium has
issued the following proclamation to the peo-
pie, signed by the revolutionary committee
" For long time you have suffered grinding
slavery. Now take your revenge; kill and
massacre, if entire liberty in everything is not
given to you. Down with the capitalists!
Death to the nobility and clergy! The Repub-
lie forever! Couragei IT your knives and
slaves are not sufficient, we will give you
armsl Take revengeI'
The Hon. John Segar announces himself as
candidate for Congressman at large from the
State of Virginia.
A Washington dispatch says that Mr. Nor
ris, our Minister to Turkey, has not behaved
himself well, and will be Immediately recalled
The manner in which Mr.. Morris has brought
influence to bear upon the President, as we'll
as on the State Department, to have himself
retained at Constantinople, vexed both Grant
and Fish. He had petition drawn up and
signed by large number of Greek and Rus
sian merchants and bankers of Constantine
pie, who are not at all friendly to the Turkish
government, praying for his retention. Baron
St@ckle, the Russian minister, also asked that
Morris be kept il Turkey, probably because he
sympathized with Russia as against Turkey;
but this only served to strengthen the Presi.
dents conviction that it was for our interest to
make new appointment.
Mayor Shurtleff and his associates of the
Boston committee formally invited the Presi-
dent and Cabinet yesterday to attend the peace
jubilee, aud were encouraged to believe that
all would attend
Mr.. Fabens, the confidential agent Of the
st. Domingo government, had long inter
view recently with the President on affairs in
that republic.
The fifteenth constitutional amendment will
be voted upon in the Connecticut House to-
day. 1t has already passed the Senate.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan, in company with
Gov. Randolph of New Jersey, called on the
President Wednesday.
Menabrea, the President of the italian Min
istry, has retired in favor of Digny.
The steamer Cuba, from New Orleans, via
Havana, touched at Fortress Monroe Wednes-
day to land the 18th Infantry, enroute to Rich
mond, for consolidation. She had on board
over 100 Cuban refugees.
Hon. John Jay, the American minister to
Austria, arrived in London Wednesday.