Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-04
GENERII NEWS.

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The President of the Cuban Junta in New
| York publishes an indignant card denying that
| the Junta of which he is President has issued
| a circular advising the Cubans to lay down
their arms
President Grant is firmly persuaded that the
lease and ultimate purchase of the Bay of
SANTANA as a naval outpost, will be of great
national importance to the United States. A
message embodying his views. and accompa
MED by several important documents, will be
presented to Congress after the recess, and
there are indications that the necessary appro-
priations will be made.
Secretary Boutwell, promptly announces his
financial programme for the coming month. so
that business men may govern themselves ac-
cordingly. He has directed the Sub-Treasurer
at New York to continue the sale of one mil
lion of gold and the purchase of one million
of bonds alternate weeks through the
month of January on account of the sinking
fund also to sell one million of gold and pur-
chase two millions of bonds on the alternate
weeks for the special funds. This will secure
the sale of four millions of gold and the pur-
chase of six millions of bonds.
The Quebec Mercury says that yesterday
Dan, y an important act passed at the last
session of the Dominion Parliament, with the
view of preventing Canada being made an
asylum for thieves and swindlers, went into
operation. This act provides that if any per-
f,l-o into baS in,
sion therein, any property stolen, or obtained
by fraud or false pretences, in any other
country, in such manner that the stealing or
obtaining in such manner in Canada would be
a felony or misdem eanor, then the taking of
such property there, or having it in possession
with knowledge of its being unlawfully OBJ
tanned shall be an offence of the same nature
and punishable in the same manner as if the
stealing or unlawful obtainance had taken
place in Canada.
1t is now claimed that the recent motion
made in the Tennessee Legislature for the
sale of General Thomas's portrait was joke.
Somebody had introduced resolution for
having a portrait of General jackson placed
in the Capitol, and in rebuke to the extrava-
gance which would buy pictures when
the State Treasury was bankrupt, a Mr.
Hinkle moved that the portraits of General
Thomas and Senator Brownlow be disposed
of. The mover and four of the eight men
who voted for it were officers in the Union
army, and they have written to Gen. Thomas,
explaining their action in the matter and dis
claiming any thought of disrespect to
him. These parties may be very facetious fell
lows, but they were guilty of perpetrating
very poor joke by their notion if joke it
really was.
The Augusta (Ga.) Constituencies
''scorns' to call the Government s'our Gov
eminent" and it calls upon its fellow coun-
trymen,' if they are really anxious to pay a
debt of vengeance and save themselves
from continuous future calamity, to show
their pluck, their manhood and their strategy,
by 'cutting off the enemys supplies"
Mr.. John g. Walker, who has had the
Chinese business in charge, says:
There is little prospect at present that
John will trespass on the domain of 'Sambo'
to a serious extent. Those who have held out
in hopes of procuring very cheap labor by
importing it from the shores of Eastern Asia,
are, | think, mistaken in their conclusion.
From one end of China to the other, the value
of labor in American California is well known;
and although labor in China is very cheap,
able bodied men will not engage to expatriate
themselves for series of years, except on
condition of receiving such high wages as
will enable them to return home in compare
tive affiuence. | am confident that no reli-
ance can be placed upon obtaining and retain
ing Chinese labor for agricultural work ex-
cept at the wages of the country where labor
is performed; and much more is this the case
for railroad labor
The Savannah Republican unintention-
ally pays the memory of Edwin NJ. STAN
ton high compliment when it says; "Mr.
Stanton was a bad man. He was the life
and soul of the Federal armies during the
late war, and but for his abilities and I'M
conquerable sterness of purpose it would
have closed years before it did, and with
the South Independent"
1t is understood that the movement to
raise a fund of 800, 900 for the benefit of
the family of the late Secretary Stanton is
progressing very favorably, and that
large amount has already been subscribed.
Ii is reported that Senator Chandler has
subscribed $4,000, and that other gentle
men eminent in political life have given
equally large amounts.
The Washington Chronicle says the
leading New York hotels are considering
the propriety of cutting down their prices
thirty-three per cent. They could well
afford to put them down fifty per cent,
and nearly all the hotels in the country
could join them. The day of war charges
has gone by.
The Orphans Home family at Bath num-
hers thirty children between the age of
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