The Portland daily press., 1869-12-18

AT large meeting of workingmen in New
York, Thursday evening, resolutions were
passed denouncing the Chinese immigration
scheme and calling on Congress to prohibit it.1
s. W. Remsen, formerly Methodist minis.
ter and lately policeman, was on Thursday
dismissed from the New York police force on
the charge of street robbery while on duty.
Prof Agassiz Indignantly denies that he
ever said, Il do not wish any one to come to
my lectures who believes the book of Genesis
as given in the Bible"
The failure of eleven dry goods, drug, no.
siery, hat and cap, clothing and wooden manu-
featuring houses in Philadelphia, st. Louis,
Cincinnati and Trenton, were announced in
New York Friday.
A meeting was held at the residence of Dex-
| ter A. Hawkins, "a graduate of Bowdoin) in
| New York on Thursday to take preparatory
| steps to forming an Alumni association in that
| city. Pres Harris, Prof. J. B. Sewall and
Prof. lockwood were present at the meeting
There was good deal of surprise in the SEN
| ate Thursday at the Presidents sending in
message nominating Benjamin f. Potts, of
| Ohio, as Governor of Montana, in place of
James F. Ashley, of Ohio, removed. The cause
which led to Ashley removal are not known.
Commissioner Delano has information that
I detachment of the 5th cavalry on duty under
| instructions of the revenue bureau in Virginia
have been very successful in detecting a num-
| Der of Illicit distileries near Jonesville and
Cumberland Gap. private belonging to a
detachment, named John Boyle, was danger
ously wounded in attempting to capture the
proprietor of an Illicit distillery.
Historicus publishes long communication
| in the London Times wherein he asserts that
| the European States refused to consider JEFF
| ferson Davis and Robert e. Lee pirates, for the
same reason that France long before refused to
| So regard Benjamin franklin. The analogy in
the cases of Paul Jones and Admiral Semmes
| he thinks is complete, and thence goes on to
draw the obvious inference.
The merchants and business men of Bangor,
Belfast and Rockland are considering the
| project of a new steamer between Bangor and
Boston-an iron propeller of 5000 barrels Ca
| pacity and to accommodate 100 passengers. 1t
| proposed that the steamer shall touch at Port
| land during the winter, while the Portland and
D"nSoh Aih0 - hoe iuHhAuS. AucIe ~ eoule
| talk of putting the steamer Eastern City on the
the route until the propeller is built
The Canadian papers report that sweeprg
changes in their revenue may be looked for at
the next session Of the Canadian Parliament
It is likeIy that similar duties will be put on
| imported produce to those levied by the United
States on Canadian, and that the ad valorem
method of assessing duties will he much mora
extensively adopted, in order to promote direct
trade with the places of production. An ex-
port duty on pine lumber will also, perhaps, be
a part of the plan.
| The Sun publishes column of visit to
Mrs. James Fisk at her Boston house, and say
Mrs. Fisk's fortune is among the millions, but
she has not received gifts of large sums Of
money from Mr.. Fisk as is generally supposed
As soon as they were welded she received a
present ofsome property located in Main street
Brattelborough, vt. Sin ce that time she has
continued to purchase property there in her
own name, and at present owns majority of
the business buildings and residences on Main
street. Her property there has increased in
| value until it is estimated at two millions
Besides her home in Boston, Mrs Fisk owns
| considerable real estate there. Her income
from rents is princely, and she reinvests it as
fast as accumulated. She prefers to live in
Boston. Her marital relations, contrary to
some gratuitous whisperings, are pleasant aud
| even happy in the extreme