The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-28

The Chicago Young Mems Christian Asso-
c;atien' has Just received fifteen tons of tracts
from Dublin.
John Morrisey Is reported to have made
5000, 900 on Wednesday by the stock panic.
More than a million pounds Of chewing to-
bacco were shipped in bond from Richmond
during the month of August.
Major Haggerty. the rejected Consul to Glas
gov, is in Washington, and is preparing his
report to the Secretary of State.
Professor Charles w. Eliot is to be formally
inaugurated as President of Harvard College
on Tuesday Oct II.
The commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that imported spirits, rectified in the
United States, are thereafter to be treated as
domestic spirits.
Alexander II. Stephens passed through
Knoxville the other day, closely wrapped in
shawls, although the thermometer stood at
eighty-fve degrees.
The Faculty of Chicago Medical College
have voted, nearly unanimously, to admit Ia
dies to that institution on equal footing with
the other sex.
Charles Calhoun, formerly q Boston mer-
chant and clerk Of the Massachusetts Senate
for twenty-one years, died on the 18th inst at
Nebraska City, aged about 70 years.
The crop report from the Agricultural De-
partment shows that a reduction Of $50, 000,-
| 600 bushels of corn is expected in the crops
this year. There will probably be a yield Of
| 1850, 900 bales of cotton, and the wheat crop
| will be larger this year than last.
Secretary Boutwell, has rendered to Asses
sor G.. C. Esty of birmingham, the position of
| Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the Dis
trict of Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and Con-
nacticut.
The reports of receipts and expenditures for
the month are not yet sufficient to justify an
estimate at the Treasury of the amount Of
the figures for the debt statement for the pres
| ent month, though there is no doubt but there
| will be a reduction.
| The New York parties who gained the dis
| graceful notority of producing the "corner" in
| gold yesterday and the day before, are VIM.
Woodward, Jay Gould, Marvin, Bros. & Co..
| Smith, Gould, Martin & Co., and James Fisk,
Jr,
The debt statement for the LIST prox. will
show further decrease of several millions,
though the precise amount cannot yet be Civ
en-. The receipts Of Internal Revenue for
September will reach nearly $4,000 900, or
about three millions more than in the cores.
| ponding month of 1868.
Our available naval force consists of a
ships, mounting 345 guns; but twenty of these
vessels are in the Pacific Ocean, or in Asiatie
waters and could not be made instantly avail
able, were we to have brush with Spain. Il
is asserted that the force could be trebled al
short notice. 1t would require to be trebled al
the very least, to afford protection to our com
merce against Spanish privateers, not to speal
of the fleet that would be needed to operate il
Cuban waters. The Spaniards think of block
aiding our ports.
Secretary Boutwell, will shortly advertise
for proposals for building and fitting out fou
steamers for the revenue marine service. Tim
being of great Importance to the Department
and to secure greater competition, bid ders will
be ordered to furnish their own plans, model
and specification complete for hull, machinery
&c. One of the vessels will be an iron pro
peller, hermaphrodite brig rugged, ITO feet o.
load line, % feet beam, and Is feet amidship'
Another one will be an iron or wood side whee
| srCururr, uermapurOuIGe UrIg rlgSou, Aco
length of load line, q feet beam and fee
depth of hold. The other two will be smalle
wooden steamers.