The Portland daily press., 1869-04-17

A rich Omaha merchant asked Anna Dick
inson What answer" at Des Moines, and
she replied, No.
Thursday Secretary Boutwell, discharged
hundred johnson clerks from the third audi
tors office.
The captured American brig Mary Lowell
has been declared legal prize by the Spanish
courts. The acting consul-general has sent
the United States steamer Penobscot to hey
West with dispatches informing the govern
ment of the facts.
Boston is disgruntled at the appointment of
Gov. Hartman of New Hampshire to be naval
officer at that port.
The CITY authorities of Concord, New Hamp.
shire, are enforcing the prohibitory liquor law
more vigorously than it has ever before been
enforced.
A paper is in circulation for signatures in
Providence, Rhode Island, asking Governor
Burnside to accept.'a public ovation, owing to
the aspersions cast upon his military reputa-
ton by Senator Sprague.
1t is rumored that Commodore Winslow.
who commanded the Kearsage in the memoir
able fight with the Alabama, is to relieve the
present Navy Yard Commandment at Kit
terry.
Mr.. Hale has sent in his resignation as Min
lister to Spain.
|. Ex-Secretary Stanton's health is improving
quite rapidly,
A Sydney, New South Wales, letter dated
February 4th, states that the natives OF the
South Sea Islands had taken up arms against
the slave traders and five or six of the crew of
schooner PIima Donna, who touched at the
Island of Valna, bad been driven off with loss.
A small white colony is reported to have been
massaered.
People from New Mexico and army officers
from the plains say they anticipate the worst
Indian war this sunmer ever known. The In
dians are concentrated They will sell their
skinsito get their ammunition, arms, powder,
and lead, and when the grass is strong, about
July, they will make general warfare on the
whites.
Washington dispatch says that the Pres
ident promised the Spanish mission to Sickles.
but that the pressure brought to bear upon the
former in Sanford's behalf induced him to
change his plan.
Letters from Havana give full particulars of
U00 ldUe rlOG dJ Uu0 c4oCubl0Q VI uSuTScAUSs-
The drummers had received orders to drown
any seditieus remarks of the insurgents, but
Leon succeeded in making very patriotic
speech before they commenced drumming
His cry f."Viva Cespedesr' was responded to
by at least one hundred Cubans in the crowd,
and theh the Spanish Volunteers began firing
to the right and lett. A volunteer states that
there were 16 killed, among whom two were
Spaniards. Leon had declared his intentions
of becoming an American citizen, and the
American Consul the day before the execution
asking through it the intervention of Madrid
in the name of humanity.
Moran the New York Sheriff who allowed
the robber King to escape has been sentenced
to four years imprisonment.
John r. Clay, of Louisiana, the col
orsd man confirmed as Minister Resident at
Liberia, is a resident of New Orleans and be-
longs to the upper ten of negro society there.
| His income is said to be about 5000 per an
mum. He was educated abroad, and speaks
several languages with great fuency. Mr.
Clay has declined the appointment and it is
thought the place will be given to M. Lang
| ston, the celebrated colored preacher.
1t is said Mr.. Breckenridge will 60 into the
Kentucky Legslature-that he is worth not
less than 100000, and that his health was new
er SO good as it is at present.
The Liberal party in Rome declare they
have positive information that Italy has Joined
France and Austria in treaty of alliance,
and that one of the covenants provides that
''the status quo shall be maintained at Rome
till the death of Plus TX, when Rome shall be
declared the capital of Italy"
Upon the argument of a case of breach of
| marriage promise at Lebanon, N. Y, last
week, when it was alleged the defendant want
ed to marry his deceased wife's sister in un-
seemly haste, one of tile counsel said, 1.-THE
| cold baked potatoes of the funeral were fried
| for the marriage feast" And the man who
thus improved upon Hamlet got verdict of
$500 for his client.