The Portland daily press., 1870-05-13
General News.

An Havana despatch says Gen. Goicouria
was sarrotted on the grounds lying west of
Principe castle, before several thousand volun-
teers and Spaniards and few foreigners May
ID. When he landed, the General was taken
to the public prison, where drum-head court
martial soon alter assembled and with double
| quick proceedings sentenced him to be gar
rotted the nc Xt morning. The old gentleman
was not moved by the difficulties of his posi-
| ton and met death with great fortitude and
composure. He was given no opportunity to
make an ante norton address but still man
| aged to shout Viva Cuba" The beating of
| drums prevented anything else from being
| heard. He wanted to be shot, not garrOted,
| but the Spaniards, bent upon his suffering the
| same kind of death as his old friend and COM
| panion in arms, Gen. Narcisso Lopez, would
| not consent.
| On the 9th ut., in Chichester, N. H., Mr..
| John Mason came home and retired as usual.
About four O'Clock the next morning, his wife
| attempted 70 strangle him, but was prevented
by his daughter, who came in answer to her
fathers cries. The woman claimed to have
been acting in a fit of somnambulism. The
affair was lightly thought of at first, but
proves to have been so serious a matter that
Mrs. NJ. was arrested. The matter has been
compromised by the agreement of the woman
| to clear out and trouble her husband no more.
| She left within the last two days. Her repu-
| tation has been none of the best, il reports
| speak truly.
The town of Fincastle, Va, was visited by
terrible fire ON Friday night last, resulting
in great destruction of property. One-half
of the town is in ashes, including both of the
hotels, and every store in the place. A large
portion of the citizens are rendered houseless
and homeless. The loss viii! exceed 100000.
Hitherto an important section of the most
remunerative field of womam's work has been
closed by the unwllingness of various relig-
iOus bodies, such as the Tract Society, the BIZ
bic Society, the Book Concern to employ fe-
male compositors, while women are employed
| by them as bookbinders. In view OF this fact
| a petition has been presented to the Tract So
ciety and the Bible Society signed by Horace
Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, Mrs. Marshall
0. Roberts, Robert Bonner and others, asking
these bodies not to make any discrimination
against women compositors on account of
sex. 1t is understood that those having this
matter in charge will, IN case this petition is
disregarded, ask all ladies to refuse to give
| money or make requests to societies which
thus discriminate against their sex.
A Pesth paper says that the Hungarian
Archbishop Haynald recently had an audi
ance of the Pope, at which he warmly urged
His Holiness to abandon the dogma of Papal
infallibilty, and represented that the promui-
CATION of such dogma would only lead to
schism in the Chulch. The Pope replied as
follows: ut is just for the purpose OF prevent
ing disturbances and dissensions in mems
minds that the dogma of infallibility is neces-
sary. Look where you will, you will find
strife and disputes among men; there are so
many questions as to which they cannot come
| to an agreement. Hitherto there has been no
one to settle disputes; and decide doubtful
| questions by his sentence; but il Papal infal-
tllity is once recognized, the successor of st.
Peter will give his inlallible judgment on all
the questions of the day. Thus will mems
minds be tranquillized, for they will know on
which side lies the TRUTH
1t is little singular that while at the North.
even in Canada, the Spring is earlier than
common, at the South the season has been
wet and backward, though not enough SO as
to endanger the staple crops. About the
middle of April there was sudden and I'M
timely cold snap at the Southwest, as far
South as Arkansas, which did considerable
damage to the opening fruit buds; and the
account of the wheat crops in California are
not as good as last year. But with these two
exceptions there is general satisfaction with
the season and the crops, and great congratu-
lation over the prospect
In gambling saloon on Broadway, New
York, up to few months ago, there was an
old portrait of George Washington, painted
by some unknown and unmeritorious artist.
The thing was a daub of the first order, and
not worth ten dollals. The gamblers who
frequented the saloon got tired of the picture
and insisted that it brought them bad luck.
and so at their request it was taken down and
slowed in the garnet. The portrait is about
twelve ieet by six, and had taken the eye OF a
seedy and played-out politician. One evening
ne was somewhat drunk, and inquired affec-
tionately for his favorite, when he learned
that it was slowed away. He begged the
portrait and took it away, everybody wonder
ing what had become of it Two or three
weeks since tire Boafd or Afdeffnen passed
resolution for the purchase, at the low rate of
$780, of colossal portrait of Washington,
by the famous American artist, Rembrandt
Peae, ESQ.,, who was long since gathered to
his fathers. OF course genuine portrait by
Peale could not be allowed to pass, and it was
brought at once. 1t proves to be the identical
daub that hung in the gambling saloon, and
the suspicion is very strong that member of
the Board OF Aldermen has gone shares with
the owner of the daub.