The Portland daily press., 1870-04-11
News By the Latest Nlails.

very respectfully,
News by the --latest Mails.
The new Alabama loan is successful in Lon
don.
The trial trip of the Vanguard, just conclud-
ed, proves herself swiftest of the armored ships.
She made fraction under fifteen knots per
hour.
George johnson, a wealthy citizen of Cicero,
near Syracuse, N. Y, was shockingly murder
ed Thursday night, his house robbed and his
pockets rifled. No arrests
Mrs. Wing was burned to death at Cieve-
land, Ohio, Friday, by an explosion of kero-
sene while pouring it on fire.
The London Saturday Revieoo has long ar
ticle arguing in mitigation of the condemna-
ton of Eyre, the captain of the Bombay. The
same paper says the boat races are fast degen-
Grating into betting traps, and thinks such
exhibitions should be removed from London
waters.
Steamship Henry Chauncey brings Panama
dates to April 1st. Lady Franklin and niece
had arrived at Panama en- route to California.
Advces of the Darien expedition are to March
28th. From Caledonia Bay several miles in
land had been explored. but no low elevations
of land were discovered, and the expedition
consequently accomplished nothing.
The grand jury for Norfolk county, Mass,
indicted John Phillips, William E. Hill and
Maria Hill for the murder of William Jacobs
Stoughton, on the 9th of July last.
The iron clad Mian!onomoh has been ordered
to Norfolk from Boston, preparatory to sailing
for Havana
Chill is sending troops to depose the self
appointed king of Araucania and a battle is
looked for.
The yellow fever at Rio Janeiro is decreas-
ing and the deaths now number only forty
day.
Gov Senter of Tennessee was before the Re-
construction Committee Thursday and said he
could maintain order if troops were furnished
him. He will be cross examined Tuesday.
An unknown woman on Saturday morning
laid herself On the track Of the Harlem rail-
road and was cut to pieces by train of cars.
A San Domingo letter of the 10Th ult states
that conspiracy against Baez had been dis
covered and the chiefs imprisoned. Several
and the natives of Samana Bay.
About four o'clock Friday afternoon Nathan
Gotham, a carpenter, stabbed woman in the
counting room of the Lawrence Manufacture
ing Company, Lowell. He called to see her
there and after talking some time stabbed her
seriously. He claims that she is his wife and
that she refuses to live with him. She was ta-
ken to st. Johns Hospital. He was arrested
Strange developments are expected at the trial
A telegram from Beyrout announces the
sudden death from heart disease of Bishop
Kingsley of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Bishop had been to India and China via
California and Japan, on an official visit to
the Methodist missions in that quarter. Re-
turning thence with Rev. J. D. Brown and
wife and the family of Rev. S. w. Wough of
the Indian mission, he parted with them at
Suez, they proceeding to the United States
via England, while the Bishop went to Syria
1t is supposed that he had visited Jerusalem
and arrived at Beyrout on his return when
overtaken by death.
Various county clerks of California refuse to
register colored men as voters until the opinion
of the Attorney General of the State is receiv-
ed. Over fifty Democratic members of the
Legislature have addressed letter to the clerk
of Sacramento, ,congratulating him on his refu-
sal to enroll colored people as voters under the
fifteenth amendment, stating that they will
support him with all the moral, and if need be-
physical force that God has given them.
The Oregon Republican State Convention,
which met in Portland Friday, was the largest
political body ever assanahi-.-sa Vnat STATE.
auuIrIon to the nomination of Palmer for
Governor and Wilson for Congress, M Hirsch
was nominated for Treasurer and James Dick
ems for Secretary of State.
For some time past placards have been post
ed in public places in the city, inviting all the
workingmen of Paris to refuse to pay their
rents for month and join the general strike
on Sunday, the 10th inst. The city authori-
ties are taking measures to repress threatened
disorders, but the newspapers make light of
the whole matter.
A concerted movement is on foot among a
number OF Cubans in this country having for
its object their emigration to San Domingo.
Interviews have been held with prominent
men in New York shipping houses engaged in
the West India trade for the purpose of acquir-
ing information respecting inducements to set
tlement in San Domingo by the Cubans and
the most advantageous means of proceeding
there; and there seems to be probability of
large number of exiled patriots from the
"Queen of the Antilles'' making their future
homes in their sister island. The prospect of
the annexation of San Domingo to the United
States is the principal incentive to this move
ment.
All the vessels that arrived at New York
from the southwark and eastward during the
past three days report exceedingly rough
weather.
1t is stated that Justice Bradley of the U, 8.
Supreme Court authorizes denial of the re-
port that he had determined not to sit in apy
case involving the constitutionality of the le-
gal tender act for the reason that as an advo-
cate he had previously been interested in the
question. He holds that whether he was inter-
ested or not in cases involving the constitution
ality of the law, it has nothing to do with his
rights and duties as a judge, and especially in
cases which are now before the court with
which he had no connection.