The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-18
News by the Latest Mails.

A circular is being circulated among the
New York National Banks with view to
ganizing a general movement to prevent the
passage of the funding bill by Congress.
The Petersburg Council elected Gen. New
berry, late Union General, as Mayor. Among
the Councilmen appointed for Petersburg by
Gov. Walker, were two colored men.
The New York agent of the Inman line still
cherishes hopes that the City of Boston is safe
and will be heard from before many days.
Henry X. Ellison of the Richmond Dispatch
was elected by the Council Mayor of the city.
An Havana letter Of the 10th inst. states
| that bands of Cubans are within forty miles of
Havana, and the Spaniards do not succeed in
| driving them away. The correspondence cap
tured from Cubans mentions that Cav ada has
been appointed Generalin- Chief of the Gu
bans.
The Post Office Department orders the dis
continuance of the pay and services of w. w.
Graves as post Office clerk between Boston and
Portland.
The President has accepted the resignation
Of Col. Daniel Butterfeld, Brevet Major Gen
eral United States Army, to take effect from
March IA, 1870. Gen. Butterfeld, it is under
stood, will retire to private life 1t is said that
at the time General Butterfield sent in his re-
signation a court martial was about to assem-
BILE for the purpose of trying him for alleged
speculation, not only while Sub Treasurer but
also in high command while in the army.
"Perley" telegraphed to the Boston Journal
yesterday: There is some startling gossip told
confidentially tonight, which, if it be true,
can but ALLEVIATE those who have honestly es-
poused the cause of the insurgent Cubans from
the self constituted Junta, and prove that the
course of the ad ministration has been correct.
am not at liberty to say more at present.
Concerning the missing iron-clad Atlanta
the n Y. Herald has private advices that
short time after the execution of Salnave the
vessel, under the name of the Triumpho ar
rived off the harbor of Port au Prince, but the
officer in charge hearing that the purchaser
had been executed and no one came to claim
the vessel, departed and rendezvoused around
the Bahamas or some of the islands of the
West Indian Archipelago, and consequently
it would be very difficult to hear from her,
She is believed to be all right, and no doubt by
this time negotiations for her purchase have
been entered into by Sagot, the successor of the
unhappy Salnave.
In the Rhode Island Democratic State Con-
vention Thursday, on an informal ballot, Ed
ward w. Brunsen of Bristol, Amasa Sprague
of Cranston, Thomas Steere of Smithfied, and
Lyman Pierce of Providence, were nominated.
The names of all but Pierce were withdrawn,
and he was unanimously nominated for Gov
ernor, but Immediately after letter from him
was presented to the convention, declining the
nomination.
The New York State Temperance Assoca-
ton have adopted platform embodying their
principles and declaring that they would seek
the nomination for political positions of those
who will indorse these principles and none 9TH
er. They also adopted resolutions calling on
on the Legislature to repeal all license laws to
sell liquor, and to pass law allowing the peo-
pie IN the county, town or city to decide by
majority on the license question.