Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-01

GENERAL NEWS

ment on Monday will show decrease OF about
three million dollars. During the present
month the receipts have been below the av-
erAee and the expenditures quite heavy.
Representatives Peters and Hale of Maine,
with other gentlemen, pass New Years day
at Charleston, 8. c.
Congress will be asked to appropriate S35,-
600, for furnishing the new Post Office and
1926, 600 for furnishing the new United States
Court House, both at Portland, Maine.
The Ave thousand copies of the Senate res
olutions, relative to the death of Senator Fes-
sender, ordered to be printed by that body,
will be printed on elegant bank-note paper,
and each will bear vignette of the Senator,
engraved by the Printing Bureau of the
Treasury Department.
Be- They have had more earthquake shocks in
California, and Nevada has also had touch
of the shakes.
The investigation of the defalcation in the
Merchants Exchange National Bank has
gone SO far as to justify the statement, on the
authority of Mr.. Colender, the National
Bank examiner, that the loss TO the bank il
less than 500, 900, and may not exceed $780,
900 In any event, he says, it will not ex-
coed one-third of the surplus of the bank at
he last quarterly statement. 1t is asserted
upon good authority that Cornelius Oakley,
he brother of the cashier. was a large depos-
itor, and at times overdrew his account. His
BUSINESS speculations proved unfortunate, and
he recently failed. Part Of his overdraft the
bank viii recover by means Of the securities
held by them. Oakley's property aud securi-
ties will also 60 far towards making up the
loss. Oakley is on duty at the bank, assisting
in untangling affairs, and it is not probable
that criminal proceedings will be taken
against him. The assertion that the pecula-
tons have been going on for four years it
contradicted, as the books are examined years
~ by competent committee, aud at the las
examination the affairs of the bank were cor
rect.
Napoleon has received the resignation of
his Minister and charged Mr.. Emile Oliver
with the formation of 4 new Ministry Mr..
Rouker has been appointed President OF the
Senate. Traupmann, who has been on trial
for the murder of the Kinck family has been
found guilty and sentenced to be hung.
The President-elect of Switzerland died on
the 2sth.
The opinion is entertained at the Navy De-
partment that the Peabody fleet will not cross
the ocean directly, but take a more sou therly
course, SO that they will not make the voyage
under twenty fve or thirty days.
The correspondent of the Boston Journal
says there are rumors in Washington that the
rebellion in the valley of the Red River is the
initial movement in the expulsion Of British
authority from the North American continent.
Some 20 as far as to say that the Fenians are
Mt the bottom of it, but this is denied by Min
nesotans who profess to be well acquainted
with the movement. The President does not
deem it advisable, just now, to publish the
information received on the subject at the
State Department, as requested by the Sen
ate; but an army officer of excellent judg-
ment has been ordered to visit the frontier,
near the scene of disturbances, and report at
once. Meanwhile the British Government will
not be permitted to cross any part of the
United States with troops or munitions of war.
Vincent Colyer of New York, on Wednes-
day handed to President Grant memorial
signed by number of property holders and
business men Of Victoria, to be followed by
another which will contain all the British.
merchants and others ut Victoria, Nanimo
and other places, in favor of the transfer OF
British Columbia to the United States. The
President returned to MIR. Colyer verbal
reply that he had read the memorial with great
interest and sent it to the Secretary OF State.
Mr.. Colyer also showed the memorial to
Senator Sumner, Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Relations, who, after reading it,
said the movement was important and could
have but one termination meanwhile our
Government was awaiting the movements OF
England, which is fast seeing the uselessness
and impracticability of European empire in
this hemisphere. Both the President and
Senator Sumner desired their replies to BIZ
made known to the memortaists.
LETTER FEOM DIR. LIVINGSTONE.
The London papers of the 18th publish the
following letter from DR.. Livingstone to Mr..
Kirk at Bombay -
"UJIJI, 30th May, 1869.
NY dear Doctor kirk-This note goes by
Musa Kamaals, who was employed by koarji
to drive the buffaloes hither, but l'y owe rdriv-
ing them numerically in the sun and tying
them up to save trouble in herding, they all
died before he got to Unyanyembe. He
witnessed the piundering of my goods and got
a share of them. and have given him beads
and cloth sufficient to buy provisions for him
self in the way back to Zanzibar. He has
done nothing here. He neither went near the
goods here nor tried to prevent their being
stolen in the way. suppose that pay fol-
four months in coming, other four of rest,
and four in going back will be ample, but
leave this to your decision. could not en-
ploy him to carry my mail back nor can
say anything to him, for he at once goes to
the Ujiians and gives his own version of all
he hears. He is untruthful and ill-conditioned
and would hand OFF the mail to any one who
wished to destroy it. The people here are
like the Kilwa traders, haters Of the English
Those Zanzibar men whom met between
this and Nyassa were gentlemen and traded
with honor. Here, as in the haunts of the
Kilwa hordes, shaving is a series of forays
and they dread exposure by my letters. No
one will take charge of .hem l have got
Thanh bin Suellim to take mail privately for
transmission to Unyanyembe. 1t contains
a check on Richie, Steuart & Co.. of Bombay,
for 1000 rupees, and some forty letters writ
ten during my slow recovery. fear it may
never reach you. A party was sent to the
coast two months ago. One man volunteer
ed to take letter secretly, but his master
warned them all not to do so, because / might
write something he did not like. He went
out with the party and gave orders to the
headman to destroy any letter he might de-
tect on the way. Thus, though ! am good
friends outwardly with them ALL can get
no assistance in procuring carriers, and, as
you will see, if the mail comes to hand, l
sent to Zanzibar for fifteen good boatmen To
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