The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-26
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NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-The officers of the
New Bedford whalor Robt. Edwards deny ut
terly the statement published this morning nv
the sailors now awaiting trial for setting fire to
the ship in mid ocean. Capt. Pease is a PROM
inent and respected citizen of New Bedford
and part wner OF the chip. on which he had
no Insurance, while the officers were all faith
full, temperate men, treating the crew kindly
and satisfactorily. The ship, with her outfit
and stores, was valued at $4,000. The prison.
ers were arraigned before Commissioner Os-
born this afternoon, bat waiy ed examination.
with the exception of Pardoe, the ringleader.
who, by advice of counsel, insisted on an ex-
animation, which will begin Saturday morning.
Rev MIR. Duncan. father of Samuel Duncan,
the boy who was first to confess the conspira-
cy to destroy the Edwards, was present during
the procee 1ings. Young Duncan will proba-
bly, escape in consequence of turning states
evidence.
Samuel E. Hatch, New Orleans commits
SION merchant. was held in $150O bail to-day
for an assault with cane on Otis M. Cutter, a
well-knOwn Wall street broker at 9TH Avenue
Hotel this morning.
The Episcopal clergy of the five d:oceses of
THIS state Will hold convention in this city
tomorrow to decide on the establishment of an
archbishopric for the State for which position
Bishop Potter is prominently mentioned.
Brig Louisa from Jamaica arrived to-day
with the crew of the schooner Nettie Richard
son, which was waterlogged and abandoned
Oct. 10Th.
The United States authorities have seized
1885, 600 cigars for violation of the revenue laws.
Nearly all of the thirty or more persons
against whom warrant of arrest has been is
sued for illegal registration have left for parts
unknown. They were frightened at the Wig
0rous and determined manner in which the
United States authorities were proceeding.
Gen. Martin Mcmahon has beeh nominated
for Congress in the 4th district in place of
John Fox. Young Democracy declined.
Ethan Allen declines the Republican nomi-
nation in the same district.
Eghs vessels from infected ports arrived at
quarantine during the past week with twenty
one cases yellow fever on board, six of which
proved fatal. Sanitary Superintendent Morris
reports the relapsing fever epidemic at an end,
1000 cases having occurred, of which nine per
cent were fatal.
Judge Bowling, in sentencing the keeper of
disorderly house to fine and three months
imprisonment this afternoon, expressed an
opinion in favor of licensing houses of prostitu-
ton and the hope that the next Legislature
would adopt some such measure to meet an
evil which, while human nature is constituted
as it is, it would be impossible to suppress, but
might be possible to lessen.
Mr.. Greeley is recovering from his recent
illness. He addressed the Irish Republican
meeting at Cooper Institute this evening.
The SapphO be lat the DauutesS to day twen-
ty-three minutes in race of twenty five miles
to the windward and back.
NILS. y ulla w dTu I1OWo, Ill lecture at the
Young Mems Christian Association Hall this
evening said that hitherto it bad been left to
the men to make efforts 10 bring about peace
between contendng nations. As rule men
had failed because they we're suspected of self
ish motives in their representations. It was
now time for the women to attempt to do some
thing towards securing peace among nations
Resolutions were proposed and adopted to
form women's peace association, which should
enter earnestly and at once on the task of
bringing about peace in Europe.
The schooner Spectator arrived at San Bias
Oct 22d. About twenty-five miles south OF
Hatteras she spoke the brig S. P. Brown, from
Wilmington for Boston, two days out. She
was leaking. and had lost her sails in the gale
OF Oct. 2lst and was going back to Wilmington
THE INDEPENDENT AND THE UNIrARIANs.
The Independent OF this week says the state
ment OF faith adopted by the recent Unitarian
National Conference in this city is march to-
wards the Collyers, Hepworths and Putnams,
and away from the Frothinghams, Corduers
and Abbotts. 1t is an open indication of the
tendency which hasl long been more or less
manifest toward the ultimate and irrevocable
sundering of the denomination.