The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-11-17

An attempt was made at Buffalo Wednes-
day 10 assassinate Capt Lee Of the schooner
Mystic. lie is the principal witness against a
noted burglar whose trial was to come off to-
day.
William Hume Blake, distinguished iurist
of Canada, died Tuesday.
The steamer Java from New York Wednes-
day took out $265,672 in specie The steamer
Lafayette sailed for Havre with cargo of
AZ, 1850 rifles, 900 carbines, S,Sl4 236 CARTRIDGES
and five pieces of artillery. The total value is
$S17, 1858.
Archbishop McClosky confirmed 200 children
at the church of the TRANSPORTATION in New
York Wednesday,
Chas. Underhll, of the firm of Appellant,
Garrison s. Co., of New York, was robbed at
Leavenworth on Monday last of $500 in money
and between $4,000 and $4,000 in notes and
bonds, and gold watch. A soldier at Fort
Leavenworth is supposed TO he the robber.
Brig I. W. Chesley, from New York for st.
John, N. B.. put into Boston for repairs, and
reports, on the 18th at midnight, off Cape Cod,
was run into by brig Hattie Eaton, from Bos-
ton for Demarara, and lost cutwater head gear
and fore -topsallant mast and split sails. The
damage to the Hattie Eaton is unknown
The President has commenced the prepara-
ton Of his annual message and will devote the
greater part of every day hereafter until its
completion.
The Washington dispatch that Congressman
Jenckes is an applicant for the position of Com
missioner of Patents is utterly unfounded.
Lowell has free evening schools.
An Irishwoman who was stealing wood at
Hoyoke Thursday night, got too big a load
and the rope with which it was bound slipped
around her neck and stranglei her. She was
found dead next morning.
The Portsmouth Times says that couple o.
gentlemen from Milford, while riding on York
Beach on Sunday, not noticing the rapid in.
coming Of the tide, and thinking they could
drive to the lower end and up the road, sud.
denly found themselves and their carriage go.
ing seaward in heavy surf. Fortunately they
were seen by couple of gentlemen, who res
cued them from their perious position, and
were rewarded with fifty dollar greenback
and the thanks of the Milford men,
The Tribune says the result of the colored
cadet case is unsatisfactory. The punishment
adjudged by the court martial should have
been Inflicted. We hope to see the Cay when
colored cadets will receive precisely the same
treatment as white ones before military law,
being held neither too bad for fair treatment
nor too good for just punishment.
An additional convention between the Unit.
ed States and Great Britain has been published
by authority. The three mixed courts of jus
tice are abolished and the jurisdiction hereto
fore exercised by them is to be exercised by the
courts of ore or the other high contracting
parties according to their respective modes OF
procedure In the matter of maritime prizes
it is agreed that in case of an American vessel
being Sc arched by British cruisers and being
detained as having been engaged in the Afri-
can slave trade, or as having been fitted out
for that purpose, she shall be sent to New York
or Key West for adjudication, or shall be hand
ed over to the United States cruisers; and that
in corresponding case of a British vessel
searched by United States cruiser, she shall
be sent for adjudication to the nearest or most
accessible British colony, or handed over to a
British cruiser. All negroes or others on board
either an American or British vessel for the
purpose OF being consigned to slavery, shall be
handed over TO the nearest British authority,
Her Britannia Majesty guaranteeing their
liberty.