The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-31

C6sne, the prisoner who attempted to COM
NIT suicide at the Charlestown State Prison
on Tuesday, made second attempt on his life
the next day by throwing himself with great
violence from his bed to the granite flooring.
but receiving no other injuries than few
slight bruises. The Warden has removed him
to larger room and detailed man to watch
and prevent him from making any further at
tempts on his life.
A writer on the subject of the Red River re-
belion says that the only way for Canada to
reach it is to send an expedition around Cane
Horn to the Pacific ocean, which, passing
through Behring's Straits in the open Polar
Sea, might ascend Mackenzie's River to Great
Slave Lake; thence to Athabasca Lake, by the
Athabasca River to Fort Assiniboene; and
from thence by the Saskatchewan, to Winnie
peg Lake.
The January dividends of the New England
manufacturing companies show comparative
decrease, but not to the extent the talk of dull
times would seem to justify. OF the twenty
nine companies which pay dividends in Boston
only six pass, the Dwight Great Falls and
Manchester Print, for the second time, and the
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first time. The semi annual dividends of the
other twenty three range from to II per cent;
one being of IL. three of TO- one of 8, one of 6
four of g. eight of 4, and five of 8 per cent
The Comptroller of the Currency warns all
banks and bankers against receiving any $50
or 500 notes on the First National Bank of
Jersey City, for the reason that ST., 900 of these
bills, unsigned, were stolen from the vaults of
the Treasury in April, 1867. The thief was tried
for the offence and was found guilty, but for
an alleged defect in the indictment the verdict
was set aside and the prisoner discharged; and
it is probable that renewed efforts will be made
to put the stolen notes in circulation. The
bank is prepared to redeem all its genuine
bills.
The secret Of the New York Worlds venom
GUS attacks on the late Secretary Stanton may
be found in the following anecdote told by the
New York Sun: One day during 1868 or 1864,
a correspondent of the New York World an
piled at the War Department for pass to the
Army of the Potomac. The question was taken
to Mr.. Stanton-at that time he allowed no
one else to give such passes-and his answer
was: Refuse it; and say to the correspondent
shoe Ao AdFoi Cau uc gwen u6re TO q treaSO0a-
BILE newspaper" No doubt this reply was
faithfully reported at the World office, and that
journal has ever since pursued Mr.. Stanton
with rancor it has never exhibited toward
Jefferson Davis
The murder of Hays, the Brooklyn watch
man by Perry, promises to occupy considera-
BILE attention, and elicit further DEVELOPMENTS
in regard to the way matters connected with
the custom house in New York are conducted.
AT the Coroner's inquest Wednesday. Mrs.
Hays testified that Perry had offered brides to
her husband to allow him to steal from the
dock which he was hired to watch, and upon
being refused had threatened him. Charles
Stanton and William Coon testified that thew
had frequently helped Perry unload coffee from
small boat at night, which came from the
stores on the dock where Hays was employed
as Waterman, and which must have been
stolen. Perry pretends not to know anything
about shooting Hays, says he was friendly to
MN and had not carried a pistol