The Portland daily press., 1869-10-25


The News
The Earl of Derby died in London Saturday
morning. He was seventy years old Il
A second colored compostor has been set at
work in the government printing Office. ~
While Haggerty, a notorious Philadelphia
criminal was being conveyed to jail Saturday
morning, the van was surrounded by his
friends who released him and he escaped.
/ It is rumored that Ledru Rollin, Felix Pyat,
Victor Hugo, Luois Blanc, and other extreme
Radicals, are to run for the Corps Legislatif in
the election soon to take place.
Havana dispatches report small bodies of
rebels near Trinidad, and skrmishes in the
Cuatro Villas and Sierras Nuevas districts;
Cuban loss in the former six, and in the latter
seven; Spanish loss not reported. nv IgNe
A party of nine miners arrived at Fort Ben
ton recently from point in the British Pos
sessions 425 miles distant, having been COM
| PEELED to leave by apprehensions Of the Black
feet Indians and the refusal OF the British to
| sell them food.
The steamer Lillian, which sailed with an
| expeditionary force from Florida for Cuba, was
| captured by the British gunboat Lapwing and
| taken into Nassau, where she was released by
| the authorities under the ruling of the Attor-
| ney General that she could not legally be held
| It is said that the ultra Radicals are visiting
the workshops of Paris, and urging the men
| to take pant in the demonstration on the 26th
| inst. The wOrkmen in the Provinces have also
been notified of general uprising on that day.
| The Radical press are opposed to the demon
stration. ..
| A large meeting Of long dock workmen was
held in jersey City Friday night. They re-
solved to join the Erie strikers. 1t is believed
the Erie trains may have to stop running on
Monday for want of men. A very bad feeling
exists along the whole line towards Fisk and
| Gould. ny .'a
Mr.. Low, our new Minister to China, is ex-
pected in Washington soon. After receiving
his instructions he will 60 to his post by way
of Europe and Egypt, in order to consult Min
lister Burlingame on the way. 1t is understood
that his orders are to enforce the Bur.ingame
treaty strictly.
The Coliseum concert lottery closed in Bos-
ton Saturday afternoon. Ticket SO ,451 drew
the building. The owner of the ticket is un-
known, not being present. Some five thou
sand other prizes consisting of settees, chairs
and other movable relics Of the Jubilee were
then drawn. A large crowd was present.
The Duke Of Montpensier is said to be again
a prominent candidate for the Spanish throne.
The Madrid press urge the immediate election
of King, and name Espartero for life, to be
succeeded by the Duke of Genoa The ques-
ton Of electing Deputies in the place of those
favoriDg the revo.utionists is agitating the
Cortes :' ii'- Fl. ai1s 10 t-is
The N. Y. Herald's Washington dispatch
says the project of removing the capital out
West has considerable strength. The West
ern members are pretty well united on the sub
ject and are in its favor, and it is thought they
will show their strength this winter in trying
to defeat appropriations for the State and War
Department buildings. $50 a
Recent advices from Mexico state that work
on both public and private works of improve
ment has been commenced. Unfinished aque-
ducts in various parts of the country are in
course of completion and new aqueducts are
being erected. 1t is stated that there are two
thousand miles of telegraph lines in operation
in Mexico six railroads in progress and two
hundred and forty miles of railroad in running
order. c''S'N"
The latest advices from Japan show the
country to be really progressing. A railroad
from Kabe to Osaca is projected. and tele
graph from Yeddo to Yokohama. A mint is to
be established by the government, and an edu-
cational system with foreign teachers through
out the Empire. A scheme for the centraliza
ton of power and revenue had been favorably
entertained by the Parliament Business wa!
) improving, but there was much suffering among
the poor of Yeddo. Y-rq 81
The private social scandal in Washington al
present is in relation to a young attache of
foreign legation who has fallen deeply in love
with an Octoroon, with whom he has visited
the theatre and promenaded the streets unde-
tected hitherto owing to her white complexion
She was discovered in the theatre, however
| by the three colored men who were recently
elected from the dress circle on account Of
their color, and the young attache in shame
fed to New York. IRE h'vi, ~ -sss,i.s ,...'.l FL
A St. John, NJ B.. dispatch says the earth.
quake there was preceded by rumblipg noise
and the vibrations lasted about twenty sec
onds. Houses shook violently, everybody was
awakened and many rushed from their houses
in alarm, but no material damage was done.
In other parts of New Observation-Disclosures
ton, Woodstock, Miramichi and St. Andrews
the shocks appear to have been more severe,
throwing down chimneys and cracking the
walls of houses. Slighter shocks were felt in
Halifax, Annapolis and Kentville, N. s.
The redoubtable Jim Flske, Jr, again ap-
| pears in his character of Asmodeus. He was
the subject of discussion before the Court OF
Common Pleas in New York ION Friday, on a
motion to dissolve an order of attachment is
sued against his property on the ground Of
non-resids nee. Numerous afidavits were read
showing him to have many residences in New
York, but the court was inclined to believe that
his legal residence was in Boston. A certified
copy of Mr.. Fisk's statement to the internal
revenue authorities at Boston of his income
for 1868, sworn to April IA, 1869. was presented
on the part of the plaintiff. Mr.. Fisk states
his gross income to be SCI, 200, the items being
$64,CO0 profits on sales of gold or stocks, and
$1,000 net income of his wife. He paid spe-
cial tax upon two gold watches and a billiard
table. His counsel had until the 9th of No
vember granted to prepare afidavits in rebuff
tai of the overwhelming mass offered by the
plaintiffs. In published card Mr. Fisk denies
the report that he has separated from his wife
but that bis domestic relations have been per-
L ~ horn mi nd hov,p