The Portland daily press., 1870-03-19

Inc managers OF the National Asylum for
Disabled Soldiers, Thursday, elected B. F.
nutler, president; Gen. j. N. Martindale and
Jay Cooke, vice-presidents; Lewis Blanckle,
secretary. The asylums at Augusta, Dayton
ana Milwaukee are in a satisfactory condi-
ton, furnishing homes for 90 900 veterans and
with the buildings in progress, will be enabled
to receive and care for all entitled for admis-
sion. The board has made some changes in
the discipline, giving greater discretion to the
governors of the asylums, and more liberty to
the soldiers. A provision was made for bet
ter water supply at Augusta, where the next
meeting is to be held.
There is a surmise current that the Admins
| tration contemplates action of most extraor-
| binary character upon the Cuban question, it
being the recognition of the volunteer organi-
cation now holding high carnival in the prin-
cipal cities of the island as the de tacto Gov
eminent, and the accordance of belligerency
thereto. This action is supposed to be part
of the policy of Mr.. Fish in his diplomacy with
Madrid.
Cardiff giant swindle, but public interest in
the matter has declined.
The Washington correspondents say But
| terfeld's resignation as Brevet Major General
in the United States Army was on condition
that he should receive no final payments un.
til he satisfied the Pay Department of his
non-indebtedness to the Government.
John Wood, an Orthodox Quaker preacher
of Poughkeepsie, having been charged will
improper intimacy with servant girl named
Mary Mckinney, was accused of the ofense
by the members of his church, confessed bis
shortcomings, and rendered his resignation
This was not received, and steps are taking to
expel him.
A correspondent, writing from Bartlett
N. H., says the average depth of the snow
l there is five six- faa+--n,,a- .------ra-~--. a.
is piled up ter or fifteen feet, the roads ant
fences being entirely obliterated. "Snow
shoeing" is at present the ordinary method o
travel. So deep is the snow that at filnera
the other day, it was found to be three fee
above most of the gravestones, and the coffir
was drawn to the grave on hand sled, 81
impracticable was it to make carriage road
| Consul Shepard writes that while tn.
Oneida was sinking Lieut. George z. Adams
and Lieut. Commander William F. Stewart
went below, forced the doors of the magazine
got cartridges, loaded and fired gun three
times. and were in the act of loading th,
fourth time when the ship had sunk so fa
astern that the rife gun at the bow fell owe
and killed the former.
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire de
cided last week that although parent is un
der moral obligation to provide his mino
child with the necessaries of life, yet neither
the common law nor the statutes of the STATE
furnish any remedy whereby he can be made
to pay for such necessaries if furnished by
third person, without his promise, expressed
OF implied, to pay for them, even if they wer
thus furnished to relieve the child from actua
| want.
We have received the particulars of the es
| cape OF Col. Yerger, the murderer of Col
| Crane, fiom the Jail in Jackson, Miss. The
first two nights after being handed over to the
civil authorities he was kept in close confine.
ment, but after that he had 'more comforta-
bic quarters" in room without fastening on
| either window or door, and given free access
to the yard, by day and night. A little before
| o'clock in the morning he sent the jailor 70,
| a cup Of coffee to an adjoining market-house
| and during his absence availed himself of 9
convenient empty barrel and box, and By
their aid easily reached the top of the thir
| teen-foot fence. He stole the jailor's revolver
| and took it with him.
A license bill passed the Massachusetts
House, but was defeated in the Senate.
The iron for the Northern Pacific and 9th
er great Western railroads will probably b.
taken from the Lake Superior Mining region
where some of the best iron in the world is Il
be found.