The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-02-17

The attempts to repeal the law converting
the two Houses on March 4tb, will be made
Gen. Grant has expressed the opinion to a
leading member who asked it, that the new
Congress had better organize at once.
The Presidents nomination of Mr. Dent
Gen. Grants brother-in-law, as minister to
Chill, is specimen of his small cunning. He
THINKS the Senate wont dare to reject Mr..
Dent, and thus he kills eff Fitzpatrick. But
Mr.. Dent writes to Sumner that he did not
solicit and does not want the appointment.
The election news from Sitka, Alaska, is
that William S. Dodge has been reelected May
or.
Hon. David Atwood, Mayor of Madison,
and editor of the Madison Journal, Charles G..
Sey mour, editor of the La Crosse Republican
and the ex-GovernorlEd Edward Solomon of Nj
waukee present incumbent, and Governor Fair
child, are all candidates for the Republican
nomination for Governor in Wisconsin.
The election to fill the vacancy in the In
diana Congr sssional delegation, occasioned by
the resignation of the Hon. d. D. Pratt, pro-
NOTED, will take place on Saturday, February
20. The Republicans have nominated James
M. Tyner, an ex-agent of the Post Office De-
| partment, and friend of Schuyler Colfax.-
There was $500 Republican majority in that
| last fall.
Ex-President Pierce is getting well.
The Buffalo police have recently been max
| ing extensive raids upon houses of prostitution
| and the Buffalo Express demands in chival.
rous article that the male as well as the female
inmates sh all be brought to the shame of 9
public trial for immortality
The Chicago Post announces that it will
admit no jokes in its columns during Lent.
Nearly all the Democratic members of Con
gress attended Buffers great party in Wash
ington.
Robins have made their appearance in Con
cord.
In the principality of Waldeck, Germany
public notice has been given that no license
to marry will be given to drunkards.
John G. Heenan went to Harrisburg, Pa
on Wednesday. to intercede for Gerald Eaton
the murderer of his brother, who is now unde
sentence of death. He had an interview witt
the Governor, in which he pleaded that tn
death sc ntence might be committed to impris
onment for life, as the loss of brother woul,
not be atoned by the execution of the murder
er. It is said he was unsuccessful in his ei
forts.
Planchette has invaded Brigham Young
dominions, and his Salt Lake organ SILVER
with horror at its demoralizing influences. Tw
children of a Mormon elder tempered with tn
unholy thing, and the result was that the
were seized at night with a power that pre-
trasted them and left them almost lifeless."
With this for terrible example, Brigham
Young warns all his followers to have nothin
to do with Panchette, lest they be "drawn un
der the influences which accompany it."
Bangor is the fourth in rank of the cities
the Union engaged in the lumber business
Chicago is the first, Albany the second, an
Burlington, Vt, the third. Bangor sells NOR
lumber than Burlington, but of poore
quality.
Cornell University has refused to open it
doors to two ladies who have applied to it 70
admission.
The editor of the Montgomery (Ala.) Mai
has just served out a sentence of five days i'm
prisonment for refusing to perform jury ser
vice. A fine of $50, likewise imposed upol
him, was paid by the ladies of the place.
Mr.. Beecher's illness was occasioned by
cold caught from the wind of the great organ
which stands just behind the pulpit.
Weston expects to reach Buffalo about Sun
day. He is now 750 miles from Bangor.
New York has appropriated $4,000 for thu
celebration of Washington's birthday.
At a meeting O. masters and owners of yes
sells engaged in the coastiig trade held Tues
day afternoon in New York, preliminary steps
were taken for organizing permanent asso
citation for their mutual protection and benefit
The meeting was quite numerously attended
Two new murders are reported from New
York. Where is the vigilance committee?
Gen. Sheridan is expected in St Louis about
the goth inst, when Gen. Sherman will proba-
bly, return from the South. 1t is stated that
the 7th cavalry will be withdrawn from the
/ Indian country
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Su-
| san B. Anthony lectured at Mercantile Hall
ST. Louis, Monday night, under the auspices Of
the Woman's Suffrage Association of Missou-
| ri, to large audience. Miss Anthony starts
| for Leavenworth and Mrs. Stanton will adj
dress the Illinois Legislature at Springfield on
| Friday.
Two men, named Charles Bilford and James
| Quick, charged with murder, were taken from
the Jail at Hillsboro', Jefferson county, Mis-
souri,, at 10 o'clock Monday morning by large
crowd of men and hung.