The Portland daily press., 1870-04-05
News By the Latest Mails.


The Austrian Ministry having resigned, the
Emperor has summoned Count Potocki to
form a new cabinet.
Two men, named Gray and Sullivan, of
Portsmouth, have been arrested for thieving
from the Kittery Navy Yard
The cells of the Indiana State Prison at JEFF
fersonville were destroyed by fire Sunday af-
ternoon. One convict and colored boy were
sutfocated.
The first vessels from Canada for the season
have arrived at Oswego with wheat oats, spars
and lumber.
The trial of Mcfarland, the murderer of
Richardson, begun in New York on Monday
morning, before Recorder Hackett and Judge
Redford. Messrs. Graham, Spencer and Geary
appeared for the prisoner, and District Attor-
ney Garvin, Assistant Attorney Fellows and
Judge Neal Davis appeared for the prosecu-
| ton.
Judge Ingraham has denied the application
for stay of proceedings and writ of error in
the case of Jack Reynolds for thu murder Of
| Townsend in New York. There is now hardly
any doubt but the execution will take place
Friday. -.... t.-.
The st. Maurice numbering establishment at
Three Rivers, Canada, was burned Sunday
night including one mill, machine shop,
about 100000 worth of lumber belonging to
the St. Maurice Land and Navigation Compa-
nv, $4,000 worth belonging to Ward Il
About. and two-thirds of Atkinson's lumber,
amounting to about three million feet.
DISPATCHES from Calcutta state that the Earl
of Nav. Governor General of India, is making
tour of the cotton growing districts of that
country, and urging upon the people the ne
cessitv of the increased cultivation of cotton in
order to compete successfully with the United
States.
It is now tolerably certain that the solution
of the question for the submission of the new
order of things in France to a vote Of the peo
pie will be deferred for the present. The mis-
understanding between the ministry and
chambers on this subject will therefore b.
avoided. The strike a La Creuzot continues
No collision has yet occurred between the riot
ers and troops. The radical party is workin.
hard to ensure the success of Ultri Fonvile
who is candidate for Deputy in the Corp
Legislatif from the city of Lyons.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad Company he'll,
their annual meetiag at Lawrence, Kansas, Of
Monday. The Presidents annual report. show
total of the working expenses of the road q
ST. 1856, 10S; net earnings, $685., $50; number g
acres of land sold, 1884, 1876. The road is to b
i completed to Denver by September next
The Western bound passenger train whic
left Quincy, ILL.,, Saturday night, on the Han
nibal and st. Joseph Railroad, when about
miles from Quincy, one of the sleeping an
o two of the passenger cars were thrown fro1
the track down an embankment and complete
ly demolished. twenty-five passengers wer
more or less injured; two fatally.
Gen. Butler in a letter denies that he oppo
ed the admission of Mr.. Corners as member
Congress from Texas on the ground that
was Democrat, but says: &c put before tt
4 House the evidence that in public speec
s Capt. Corners. member elect from district
/. Texas, said that he had beaten with cowhid
colored soldiers under bis command since II
# war, and that when called before court
. inquiry he had bribed the same soldiers
commit perjury and swear that they had fo
gotten that he had whipped them, by which
| escaped the just punishment of his crime. tt
member did not deny that he had 80 declare
in public speech to get himself elected, nj
. did he deny that he had whipped the soldier
under his command with cowhide I'll
House refused to investigate this fact becaus
some leading gentlemen of the House declare
/; in effect that if man committed murder bt
r fore he is elected, there is no power in Ii
0 House to exclude him; SO that upon that do'
trine, if Booth had escaped Corbett's bullt
!, and presented himself as elected from any di
= trict in Virginia, he would have had to be az
mitted.'