The Portland daily press., 1870-03-25

CUMBERLAND.
News by the Latest MALL.
The total loss by the fire in Williamsburg
Wednesday was $3O,000 on which there ia full
insurance.
The persons arrested for conspiracy durino
the recent troubles at Paris are to he tried at
Tours after Prince Pierre Napoleon's trial ia
finished. "a
"Shoo-Fly," a horse owned by William B.
Smith, of Hanford, Ct, won a race unon the
ice at Middlebury, VT, last week, in the extra
ordinary time of2.15, II, 21s.
On Sunday last, in Father McMahon's Ro-
man Catholic Church in New York. the off,
ciating priest read the Popes bull against the
Fenians. Half the congregation abruptly left.
The steamship City of Brussels, which touch
ed at Halifax on Tuesday, had but one small
pox patient on board, Mr.. Stetson, of Boston,
merchant, who was put ashore.
Maggie Patterson, aged eight years. was IA
tally burned at Manville, R. l., Tuesday. Her
mother was working in the mill and her father
is visiting Ireland.
The British turreted ship Captain made her
second trial trip Wednesday. She went a long
way out to sea and experienced rough weather.
The trip was successful beyond expectation.
The bill repeating what is known as the con-
spiracy law, relating to strikes, has passed
both Houses of the New York Legislature. and
been signed by Gov. Hoffman.
The jury in the case of G. w. Cammock.
charged with homicide of John Nixon, Jr.,
at the Boston Club, in New Orleans in Janua.
ry last, have returned verdict of acquittal
Gen. William Hoffman, q. S. A., having
served over fifty consecutive years, has been
retired at his own request
Eugene Schuyler has been confirmed secre.
tary OF legation at st. Petersburg.
A series of resolutions favoring the revival
OF the reciprocity treaty between that province
and the United States were introduced in the
Nova Scotia legislature Wednesday night and
made the special order for Fridav.
At the seventh annual commencement OF the
New York Medical College for women, We'd
nesday, the degree of NJ. d. was conferred on
five young women, one of them a negress.
A custom house officer is implicated in the
silk smuggling reported Wednesday from New
York, and was permitted to turn States evil
dence.
Ship Patriarch has made the voyage from
England to Syeney, Australia, in 81 days.
A Paris letter says tripartite alliance will
soon be consummated between France, Russia
and Prussia.
A telegraph cable has been laid through the
Red Sea, completing the connection between
Bombay and Suez.
Steamer Dolphia, from Philadelphia for
Richmond, was burned to the waters edge at
Patuxent, Nd, Tuesday morning, the crew
barely escaping with their lives.
A man named Vanderhaydea was murdered
Wednesday night by three robbers, who went
to his residence near Troy, N. Y, for the pur-
pose of robbing a safe which he had in the
house. --------4-.
The Senate Committee on Post Offices and
Post Roads has agreed to report bill subsi
dizing the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
for mail service between San Francisco and
China to the extent of one million dollars per
annum, the service to be semi monthly y
A freight train on the Burlington & Qu...ty
Railroad, in Illinois, broke loose on down
grade and ran into passenger train. Joseph
Wheeler was killed, E. Hendricks fatally in
jured, and Moses Strong had both legs brokon.
The Internal Revenue Supervisor has def
nitely ascertained that ex-Collector Bailey's
defalcation will amount to more than $120, 600.
The belief is gaining ground that the runaway
has ended his career by jumping off the end of
some wharf.
Horace Greeley has obtained a verdict of
$7775 against Moses D. Bean, who inveigled
him into bogus African colonization scheme,
the pretence being that large lot of land in
North Carolina had been engaged, which ulti-
mately proved to be portion of the Dismal
Swamp.
A gang of striking glass blowers Wednesday
evening attacked several workmen as they
came from their work In Brooklyn. One OF
the workmen named Etienne was nearly killed,
and only saved his life by firing double bar
relied pistol at the crowd. Other workmen
were slightly injured by the strikers.
On the 3Oth of last September the vault and
safe of the National Bank at Narwalk, Conn.,,
en ts and Tobbed Of $S9 COG X9gth e
number of bonds $1,000 5.2Os, which were
Identified as part of the stolen property, have
been found in New York and traced to one
O'Kell, broker, who says he received them
in the regular way of business. He is under
arrest.
A letter from the United States consul at
Cardenas March states that mutiny was
reported to have occurred at that port on board
the American schooner Frank & Nellie, of
had secured the Imprisonment of the mutt
neers, three in number, with the intention Of
sending them to the United States for trial
One of the mutinous seamen was sent by a
schooner which sailed on the 9Th inst, and the
two others were to be sent On the first oppor-
tunitv. The cause of the trouble was not men
toned.
Two men were taken from Prudence Island
Thursday morning and carried to Providence.
They say that they left Providence on the
British brig Anna, bound to New York, and
that shortly after leaving port the captain of
the brig commenced regular warfare on the
crew, killing one and inflicting severe wounds
on the others. 1t is the same vessel ON which
a mutiny occurred few weeks since while
lying at Providence. The men rescued both
bear marks of rough usage. &
A San Domingo letter of the 9th ult. states
that the vote on annexation is almost unani-
nous, the votes recorded against it not being
over two per cent. of the whole population
The revolution by Cabral and others has COL
lapsed Cabral has not been on the soil of ST.
Domingo for eight months, and his followers
some time ago. Hatch, an Ameri-
can citizen, imprisoned for alleged completely
with the Cabralists for the overthrow of the
Baez Government, has been released, and " i'll
shortly return to the United States.
A Kingston (Jamaica) letter of the 10th inst.
states that steamer arrived there with the
American consul, Mr.. Phillips, on board, who
had fled from Santiago de Cuba. 1t appears
that Phillips had entered protest against the
arrest and assassination of naturalized Amer
lean citizen and against the seizure of the
American sloop Champion, whose captain and
crew he sent to one of his estates in the coun-
try to keep them from the Spanish prison.
Just then came the report from the United
States relative to his letter to Secretary Fish,
which caused threats of assassination by the
volunteers. The governor of Santiago said he
was powerless and advised Phillips to leave,
and he did SO, being accompanied to the wharf
by the governors secretary and the British