The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-17

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Mr.. Peters OF the fourth district has place
on the Judiciary Committee.
The Neapolitan Court of appeal has just de-
cided that the marriage of a priest is legal
This decision establishes the perfect indepen-
dence of the state in its relations with the
church and determines the position of priest
in the presence of the law. This decision, it
is expected, will be confirmed by Canon of
the Ecumenical Council, which is to meet in
December next
A decree abolishing slavery in all the Por-
.tuguese possessions has just appeared in Lis
bon.
1t is now improbable that Gen. Sheridan
will 60 to New Orleans, as he has been in oon-
tinuous service ever since the beginning of
the late war, and will now probably be grant
ed leave of absence for some time at his own
request. 1t is believed in military circles that
Gen. Howard will be sent to command the 9th
District at New Orleans, since Sheridan does
not care about assuming his old command.
The Senate Republican caucus, Monday
night, nominated John R. French of North
Carolina to be Sergeant-at-Arms. Jno M.
Norris of Conn.,, to be Executive clerk, A. M.
Clapp to be public printer. These nominees
superced e, respectively, Geo. J. Brown, De-
witt Clinton Clark, and John D. Defrees.-
Clapp, in place of the latter is editor of the
Buffalo Express.
The Spring trade is opening earlier than
usual in New York, and very briskly.
Next month the elections for the French
Legislative body will take place. The Liberal
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IDENTIFY expect to make large gains.
A statistician estimates the number of
horses in the United Statesat 7,971, 100, valued
in the aggregate at 81, 800 100000 Five million
of these are worth from $50 to $500 each;
twenty-eight hundred thousand from $500 to
$4,000 each; fifty thousand, $1,000 each; TWEEN
ty thousand, 5000 each; one thousand $4,000
each, and one hundred have an average value
of $4,000 each.
George q. Pendleton adjures his folio wers
and admirers not to form any entangling alli-
ances with the negroes, still believing that
"this is white mans government"
The Cretan Envoy to the United States,
Constantine Voloudaki has been in Paris for
some weeks, and has attracted much attention
there. The Paris pictorial gives portrait of
him which is strikingly handsome, and a
sketch of his life, from which it seems he is 4S
years old. He was born in Vouva, village of
Sphakia, in Crete, in 1921, and his father, Paul
Voloudaki, was killed by the Turks when Con-
stantine was an infant. He was adopted by
an uncle and brought up among the mount
aims of Sphakia, where, in 1871, he engaged in
a revolt against the Turks, as his father had
done before him. In the present struggle of
the Cretans for independence he has been very
prominent, and was early elected to high
place in their provisional government, of
which he is now the President. His colleagues
have been captured and many Of the patriots
have submitted to the Turks, but the revolt is
sure to break out again at the first opportuni-
ty, which will not be long in coming.
Ex-President johnson has determined to 70
to Europe in May, with his two daughters, to
remain three months.
Under the new law for the reduction of the
army the cavalry and artillery regiments re-
main unchanged. The forty five regiments of
infantry are to be consolidated into twenty
five. This will throw twenty colonies, twenty
lieutenant colonies, twenty majors, two hun
dred captains, and about four hundred first
ana second Ieutenants, into the list of those
awaiting orders. Whenever officers are on de-
tached duty, or are absent with leave or other.
wise, their places Will be filed from the next
in rank, and they left on the list of those in
retirement. The twenty-five regiments will