The Portland daily press., 1870-01-27
The News.

| The News.
The President has signed the bill admitting
Virginia into the Union.
The bids for government gold in New York
yesterday ranged from 121. % to 12170
Steamer HISTORIAN, from Portland 18th, ar
rived at Londonderry Wednesday.
The State of West Virginia has no public
| debt. How sad
1t is expected that the public debt will be re-
duced about million dollars this month.
Reports are current in Paris that several
ministers will resign ON account of want of
harmony on the Commercial questions.
One hundred and sixty workmen have been
dismissed from the Brooklyn navy yard since
Sunday.
Banquests in honor of Burns birthday were
held TUESDAY, night at Newark, Jersey City,
Paterson and Brooklyn
James Williams, Peter Williams and James
Lee are under arrest at Poughkeepsie, N Y.
charged with the murder and robbery of Far
| mer Thorn last week.
Jim Elliott, noted rough, assaulted and
shot negro in New York Tuesday afternoon.
| The latter is badly wounded. The assault was
entirely unprovoked.
Yesterdays dispatches from Rome say that
the Ecumencal council will probably dissolve
about Easter on account of the insalubrity of
the city.
A meeting to promote emigration to Canada
and other British colonies, was held at the
Mansion House in London Tuesday evening.
The Lord Mayor presided.
An Havana dispatch says Frederico Gras,
chief of the staff of Gen. Cavada, and his broth
er, Raymond, have been executed at Cienfue-
gos.
A reception is to be given Prince Arthur
next Tuesday evening at Delmonico's by thir-
ty-fve citizens. About 300 invitations will be
issued
One hundred thousand dollars worth of to-
bacco has been seized in New York within
few days-on its arrival from Virginia for alleged
violation of the revenue laws.
The Postmaster General has now completed
all the arrangements connected with the car
rylng of the foreign mails, contracts have
been made with all the new lines engaged for
two years service.
The rush to hear bastardy case in the Su-
preme Court of New Hampshire at Concord
was SO great that the whole building came
near tumbling down. and the court was forced
tc adjourn forthwith
1t is reported that the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company intend to withdraw their
steamers running between New York and As
pinwall and Panama and San Francisco. con-
fnng their operations to the China line. This,
if true, indicates the failure of the subsidy
scheme in Congress.
A Washington dispatch states that project
is broached there for Congress to authorize the
purchase of the Erie canal from the State of
New York in order to make ship canal to
connect tide water with the lakes, to be under
the control of the United States government
and free from tolls
A Port au Prince letter states that the de-
cree of the provisional government provides
that all insurgents shall be outlawed who shall
fail to give in their arms and submit to the
revolutionary authorities within forty-eight
hours of the edict. All citizens are invited to
pursue Salnave and the other outlaws. The
list of these includes the name OF General
Tate, Salnave's minister to the United States.
The British ship Barringer, from Australia,
at San Francisco, brought fifteen escaped DO
lltlcal prisoners sent from Ireland to the Brit
lsh penal colonies in 1867, their terms of SEN
tence being transportation from five years to
life. They say that they suffered indignities
such as no other country but England offer to
political offenders. They were warmly well
coined by the Irshmen of the city and received
marked attention.
Captain Small was murdered at Fort Wran-.
gle, Alaska, on the 25th of December by
drunken Indian. The chief of the village re-
fused to surrender the murderer, whereupon
the commander of the fort shelled the village.
Killing two Indians. After considerable skir-
mishing the murderer was surrendered. tried
by eourt-martial and hanged. Captain Smith
was formerly in the rebel naval service. He
commanded at Galveston at the time of the
capture of the Harriet Lane.
The Committee on Public Expenditures
have prepared bill requiring all public off,
GERS having in their charge furniture and 9TH
er government property to give bond for the
safe keeping of the same. Their reason for
this bill is that it is found that government
furniture, ETC., are found on sale at auctions
and other places, and no means are at hand to
determine how it gets there or what is done
with the proceeds of sale.
The iron manufacturers around Columbia,
Pa, held meeting Tuesday night and resolved
that the public had been misinformed relative
to the profits On pig iron, and at the present
price of coal, railroad freights and labo- re-
duction of the present duties on pig iron will
rumpef them 10 close Lnelr furnaces. They
also resolved to petition Congress to increase
the present duties on all kinds of manufac-
tured iron and to impose direct tax of one
dollar on pig iron, rails, plate and other manu-
tactured iron in this country.
AT Mrs. Grants reception, Tuesday night,
frlnce Arthur, escortng Miss Nellie Grant,
ea the way to the conservatory, followed by
Mrs. Thornton and General Badeau. The
beautiful flowers and plants were the object of |
admiration by all the royal visitors. and the |
rrlnce expressed his qualification at the priyi-
lege Afforded to indulge his pet taste. Miss
Neille obtained beautiful camelia, which she
gracefully presented to his Royal Hiehness
and the Prince accepted 1t with many thanks
Investigations into the fate of the three Wv.
BILE children show that they have not been
found. The three children reported to be the |
missing ones prove to be three strollng Italian |
musicians from New York. Judge Sanford |
mas urged complaint against the mother and |
'on Wyble, but the neighbors are all afraid to |
10 so, fearing Wyble, who has bad reputa-
ion, will either murder them or burn their
houses and barns. The mother has told sever
II conflicting stories about the children, as has
'lso the grown up son, and there is a general
belief that the little ones were murdered The
whole Wyble family are preparing to leave for
parts unknown and will probably escape.
According to correspondent of the Chicago
Republican, one Col. Euos Stutsman is the
ead and front and brains of the Winnepeg
He is lawyer by profession, ma
We of ST. Paul, Mimi, and physical anoma-
?. He has a most beautiful head, pleasing
ace, and well-shaped body, but in place of
Get has one short stump. He moves about by
no use oi his hands and arms, which are un-
developed in their muscular parts. He ,
~ Oe good speaker, and although an
ho%ay ioa, ny IN shape, in every other way the beau
aeai Of gallant and accomplished Gentle I
'an' The discounted MeDougal saws n !,