The Portland daily press., 1870-05-27


The North German Parliament has killed all
foreign lotteries in the North German Confed-
Grafton.
The bullion in the vaults of the Bank OF
England has increased G4O2, 900 within the
week.
The revenue cutter Chase is to be sent to
Osdensburg for the prote ction of American
property.
The customs receipts the past week from the
six principal ports of the country were S., 923,
TAI
The stockholders of the Northern railroad at
their annual meeting in Concord Thursday
ratified the contract between that corporation
aud the Concord railroad.
The river and harbor bill reported in the
House Thursday appropriates nearly three and
half million dollars, including 100000 for
the improvement of Boston harbor, $40, 600 for
the Hudson river and $25OOO0 for removing
the Instructions in East river, including He'll
Gate.
Private Havana dispatches state that the
| Spaniards intend to place loan of fifty mil
lions on the United States market, giving Gu
ba and its revenues as security.
More stores aud offices are now vacant in
New York than ever before. On Broadway,
below 14th street; over sixty stores and two
hundred Offices are vacant. The cause is high
rents.
The Atantics of Brooklyn beat the Mary
lands at Baltimore Wednesday in a game of
base ball. Score, ID to H.
Advices from the Darien surveying exped-
ton to the 18th are that the work had pro-
crossed twelve miles inland, from the bay of
San Bias, the highest elevation passed being
112 feet. Heavy rains impeded the survey.
The sick list of the guard numbers eight per-
sons Three officers at the front with the sur
veying party were sick with fever and ague
The rest of the expedition is in good health.
The expedition expects TO sail fer home about
May 9th, unless the present intention is
changed.
The London papers of Thursday astonished
themselves and made a decided sensation by
prineing vnlumnous dispatches from America,
embracing the Presidents proclamation and
the Fenian movements. The Times says that
while the proclamation itself is satisfactory,
the absence of American troops on the borders
to carry out its provisions is deplorable. This
however is not surprising, as troops are not
usually auartered ON friendly frontier
Troops should be sent to Canada Immediately,
and Canada should forward to the frontier all
the soldiers she can spare. Canada must have
no tenderness for this second offence. These
marauders must be treated as robbers, rufians
and murderers.
The New York papers of Thursday speak of
the Fenian invasion as weak, reckless and i'll
advised, and will create ridicule and defeat to
the cause of Ireland.
The Tribune says that the folly OF O'Neill
has cost thousands of working people the last
dollar of their savings, and some poor fellows
their lives, covered good cause with disgrace,
postponed the liberation Of Ireland, degraded
Irishmen in the estimation of their fellow citi
zens who will perhaps overlook the difference
between the patriotism of the people and the
imbecile sanity of their leaders.
The Herald says that the best thing British
statesmen could do would be to annex Canada
to the United States to pay off the Alabama
claims, and then we would have no more of
lawless raids. The Fenan fasco, twice re-
peated, does not prove that because the attacks
upon the colonial dependencies OF Great Brit
ain over the border have failed there will not
remain disposition here of a large class to en-
courage, tacitly at least, such governments,
until the just claims of our government as to
the unsettled Alabama business are attended