The Portland daily press., 1870-05-24
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Lohuon, oho uioCiosuIeS OF winch prOuuceo
great sensation in all parts of the kingdom,
The defendants being three young men, chars
ed with criminally conducting themselves III
the guise of women. The evidence showeu
that number of private fashionable balls hau
been given. at which men dressed as women
had been in attendance, indulglpS IN iheWiio
est bacbanalian orgies, and the most shame
fnl scenes were enacted. Among the parties
eliminated by these developments are sad TO
b, Lord Arthur Clinton and member OF the
Peel family, whose title the prosecution fail
ed to show. A number of other parties were
indirectly involved, but the signatures to the
correspondence being fictitious, no clue was
afforded to the authors. The standing Of
number of other prominent members Of the |
aristocracy was also involved by these develop |
ments.
Late alvires from Buenos Ayres give the |
particulars of the murder of Gen. Uruuisa
Governor of Entire Rios and his two sons on
the evening of April II. The Gen. was sitting
in the patio Of his palace at San Jose, when
he was notified that some armed men were sur
rounding the house. He at once ordered that
the guard should be called out, but the men
refused to move UrquiZa at once took alarm
and shut himself up in the library. Theparty
then broke into the premises, and one man
placing bunderbuss at the very mouth of the
General, fired and instantly killed him. The
whole household rushed to the room, and the
Generals daughter, Lola, on perceiving her
father, weltering in blood, flung herself upon
the lileless body, and called upon the assassins
to kill her also. With satanic cowardice they
fired lnto the group. Strange to say, not
ball strnck the heroic girl, all of them enter
| ing the body of her father. In the meantime
| another daughter rushed to the scene and shot
| down one OF the murderers and wounded an
other. Gen. Lopez Jordan surrounded the
palace with 400 men, and the murderers Of
| Urquiza fled.
Washington dispatches say the foreign mail
service is in better working order, by reason
| OF the treaties concluded by the present ad-
ministration, than at any previous period.
Except that relations with France are broken
of, everything is going on in a satisfactory
manner. The carrying of English mails from
Australia via San Francisco has placed us on
a better footing in regard to carrying our own
closed mails for the continent through En-
gland. There are indications which point to
the necessity of the French coming to terms
with u.s.. AT home the affairs of Mr. Cress-
wells department are in most promising
condition. The revenue thus far has been
larger than was expected. The House ap
preparation committee has given him all be
asked for and, in fact, increased the sum fol
the letter-carrier system $250OOO in order tt
make it more efficient.
A terrible accident, resulting in the death O
boy named Henry Platt, occurred in jersey
City Saturday afternoon. He was looking
down the shaft in Colgate's factory while th,
eevating car was coming down over his head
He was caught By the descending car, and be
fore he could escape was crushed to the floor
His body was cut in twain, the lower limb
remaining upon the floor where he had beef
standing, and the upper part falling down tht
shaft to the cellar.
The Memphis appeal tells curious stor,
of the mysteries of the bottom of the mighty
Mississippi, which come of the researches o.
one Capt. John Cowdon, who for years with
his diving-bell boat and curious machinery
has devoted himself to dragging up wrecked
vessels from the fathomless abysses of the
river. Not long since he fished up from the
bottom of the Arkansas locomotive ant
train of cars, and he affirms that beneath on,
OF the countless forestcrowned islands which
dot the river there rests a steamer ON wbicI
are 800 barrels of brandy and 800 of whiskey
which he proposes to invade. Another steam
er, the Tennessee, was sunk about thirty
years ago, having $4,000 in gold in an iron
safe on board. She rests beneath another is
land which Cowdon has often traversed. Fol
several weeks past be has been making a sur
vey Of other localities which may contain un.
counted wealth, and while inspecting the va
ter-ilne along the eastern shore he discovered
the bow OF small copper fastened vessel pro-
truding into the river. 1t was also observed
that trees from five to seven feet i'm diameter
grew Immediately above the buried boat, and
that the roots of these gigantic expresses were
-tWned atout the ancient vessel The theory
OF John Cowdon is that, considering its di-
mansions, twice as great as those of mod
ehn vYaY 4sst e9p be 1astenns e length o.
II, tie sunken craft contains the body of the
800 years buried De Soto.
George Abbott, negro, has been arrested
for horrible outrage on colored Girl named
Ha5af Smith, near Morses's Mills, Union Co.,
N. >. The girl states the negro attacked her
| whie she was returning to her home from the
store; that he kept her all night, tied to q
tree, robbed her OF all the money she had, aud
threatened to pour turpeLtine upon her and
burn her to death. A bottle of turpentine
was In the basket which she was carving
home from the store, and the negro was only
prevented from putting his threat into execu-
ton by his failure to find a match. When
morning, arrived he united the girl and let
her SO, threatening to murder her if she be-
trayed him.