The Portland daily press., 1869-12-20


Ionis Napoleon has entirely recovered from
his recent indisposition.
The steamer George B. Upton, from Bos-
ton, ashore on Halett's Point, has been hauled
completely across the tide and the chances are
that she will break in two.
The iron foundry OF Wilkinson & Van Win
kle, at Lyons, N. Y, was totally destroyed by
fire Saturday morning. Loss $4,000; no in
surance. 1t was the work of an incendiary.
The action of the Wyoming Legislature in
comforting suffrage upon women, will bring
the subject directly before Congress, as all acts
of a Territorial Legislature to be valid must
have the approval of Congress This brings
| up the question in quarter where it could
not rise under other circumstances, and Con-
gress must prepare to meet it.
The London Spectator of Saturday, in reply
ing to the comments of the other London Jour-
nails on the Alabama question, comes to the
defence OF the American ministers, Messrs.
motley and johnson, against the charge OF
tnelr suoserviance to English influence. The
writer says, 1.-The English people believe that
Mr.. johnson impartially took in them and
their dinners"
Albert Lang and George Abbott have print
| ed card stating that they intended to blow
| up the Spanish gunboats in New York harbor,
| butreceiging no encouragement from the Gu.
ban Junta, offered their plan to the Spanish
Consul, Sidney Webster and Mr.. Delamater
Ihey assert that some money was obtained
from the latter, and they have left, determined
to yet have some of the boats and man them
with Americans.
The account of tue proceedings in the Nc.
Farland divorce case has been furnished to the
Cincinnati Commercial by an indianapolis
correspondent, from which it appears that vic
ence to the extent of smashing furniture and
crockery, besides habitual drunkenness and
failure to support his family, and two or three
abandonmeuts of his wife were proved against
him by her father, herself, and Mrs L. G. CAL
houn of the New York Tribune. But the pro.
csedings were conducted as privately as posi-
be; the only notice to the defendant, who did
not appear, was the publication of the sum
mons four times in a weekly paper of the towr
of Martinsville, Indiana.
The trial of John N. Monroe, the architect
who murdered Miss Vail and her child on the
3lst of October, 1868, which has been in prog
ress at st. John, N. B., for the past ten days
was concluded Friday. The jury brought in
verdict OF guilty, but added strong recon-
mendation to mercy. This case was remark
able instance of circumstantial evidence. Up
wards of one hundred witnesses were examin
ed during the trial, and the speeches of thu
counsel were among the most able ever deliv
cred in the Province. The case has aroused ar
| intense excitement throughout the lower prov
inces, both on account of the previous charac
ter of the murderer and his victims and thu
strange circumstances attending the affair."
An Havana letter of the 18th inst, state.
| that the Cuban General Covolda on the 27tl
| of November attacked Cienfugos and drove
the Spaniards to their last stronghold behipt
the Grand Plaza. His men held the remain
der of the town. from one o'clock P. M. unit
| shutdown. They captured nine 24-poup,
| howitzers and 1000 muskets, which were il
| the barracks in Gale Emperador. They ais,
took fifteen hundred thousand dollars worth o
stores, among which were the much needed
articles of salt, clothing, and ammunition. al
| the families of the Cuban patriots in Cienfu
| gos improved the opportunity to escape. Co
| volda took 218 prisoners whom he released OF
their parole not to fight against the Cuban
again.
| The Treasury Department has considerably,
| information relating to the sugar frauds il
New York. 1t appears that soon after Gran
came into office, complaints were made t.
Secretary Boutwell, by men from Boston ant
elsewhere, that importers at New York were
in some way getting favors which enabled
them to undersell those of other cities. He
| directed an investigation on every point rails
ed, and this has been going on all summer
The sugar question came up in August. The
frauds are reported as having taken place in
two ways-by underweighing and by under.
sampling; that is, by passing sugar at low
grade when it was of high quality. The
| amount of the swindle is very large, but II
| is not yet ascertaned. 1t should be remem
bered that these frauds, like all others recent.
| ly discovered in New York perpetrated during
Johnson's administration.