The Portland daily press., 1870-06-17

The Petnvian nasy is the strongest Of au3 bs
the South American republics,
The Western Unitarian Conference i. g,
session at Cleveland, Ohio.
A new Australian steamship company for
direct communication with Sidney has been
organized in San Francisco and service will he
commenced on or before the 10Th of July. The
steamers will make trips in q days.
The steamer Cambridge in dense fog off
Monhegan Wednesday morning, ran into and
sunk the schooner Susan Ross, Herrick mas
ter of Brookline, from Boston in ballast The
crew escaped in boat and were picked up nv
the Cambridge. The latter was not damaged.
The Pope has fixed July Odd as the utmost
limit which will be allowed Americans to make
their submission to the Holy See. Ii by that
time they have not reconcled themselves with
Rome accommodation will be pronounced
against them.
British brig Willie E. Smith, of Halifax, load
ing at Aracibo, Hayt, for New York, was seiz-
ed on the oath ult. by the Spanish authorities
charged with violation of the neutrality laws.
The vessel arrived at Aracibo from New York
with cargo, which she discharged, and loaded
again; when nearly ready to sail, the mate of
the brig sold an old cannon and some ammu-
milton, said to be to the amount of $4,000, to
parties on shore. The authorities on learning
the fact Immediately seized the vessel, and
caused the arrest of the mate, charging him
with melting a revolt against the government.
The captain applied TO the British Consul at
st. John for relief, but he refused to interfere.
and the vpScn1 rnn1aipS n fha
Spanish government
Capt. German, formerly of the United States
who left New York short time since in the
interests of the West India and Panama Tele-
graph Company, has been successful in his ne.
gotiations with the Haytien government, for
the service of the telegraph cable to the island.
The cable is to be laid from the eastern point
OF Jamaica to Jacmel, and thence to Porto
Rico. An inland line throughout Hayti has
also been arranged. The government has
agreed to pay 100000, god, with liberal land
grant, and gives the company a MONOPOLY for
ten years, besides all other requisites for max.
Ing the project success. The government has
the right OF sending free all diplomatic MESA
ges. An offer has been made to San Domingo
to come into the arrangement, but they refuse
on the plea OF inability to pay.
Receipts of cotton at the various ports in the
United States show that the crop OF 1869 will
reach about {, 237, 900 bales, which is consider
ably in excess of previous estimates In the
meanwhile the cry begins to come up from the
cotton plantations of a scarcity of corn, and its
consequent high price. In the interior of Ala
bana corn is now selling at 50 so per bushel
on credit, and large numbers of planters are
compelled to buy at that rate to enable them
to live till the new cotton crop comes in, having
adhered to the old Southern idea that it is
more profitable to raise cotton exclusively. and
buy food. Their present experience is rapidly
disabusing them of that notion, ard they are
realizing the fact. so long understood at the
North, that as general rule it is always safer
for farmers to raise food than to rely upon pur-
chasing it with the proceeds of a more vaiua-
BILE crop, especially where there is no lack of
land, and an exacting factor stands in the
background to take advantage of their necessi-
ties. .
The Boston. Hartford and Erie aid bill passed
the Massachusetts Senate to engrossment on
Wednesday, % to IA, with some important
notifications, which provides for the compile
ton of the road to Will;mantic; for new
election of directors within three months and
for the prosecution of the work on the South
Boston flats under existing contracts or new
contracts to be approved by the Governor and
Couucil. A new amendment was also adopt
ed providing that the Berdell bonds deposited
as security for the scrip yet to be issued shall
not be exchanged for second mortgage bonds.
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American citizen, on his way from Vera Cruz
to New York, landed at Havana Juue 9TH and
was seized by the Spanish authorities, thrown
into prison and refused comm uncation with
friends outside. The execution of Cubans con-
vcted of disloyaty continue throughout the
island. Two insurgent recruiting officers in
Sagua district were hunted down with blood
hounds and captured. One named Terra was
so badly bitten and mangled by the dogs that
when he was executed he was unable to stand
and was obliged to receive the fatal bullets sit
ting in chair. A rumor prevailed at Havana
that Valmesada had been routed and killed
near Bayamo.
IN class of fifty-eight graduates at West
n-:-s, "Wednesday the 1,---0ro'i rnDn We're
Francis V. Greene of Rhode Island first ::
Winfield S. Chaplin of Maine, second Edward
S. Holder of Missouri, third; CAL F. Palfrey
of Maine, fourth, and James Rockwell, Jr., of
New York, fifth. Other New England gradu-
ates ranked as follows: William B. Homer of
Brookline, Mass, eleventh; Edward S. Ste
vens of Massachusetts, fourteenth Charles A.
Burrows of Maine, seventeenth; Benjamin H.
Randolph of Rhode Island, twenty-first; Dan'l
Z. Pearson OF Massachusetts, twenty fifth;
Dexter w. Parker of Connecticut, thirty
ninth, and Edwin II. Shelton of Connecticut t,
forty-sixth.