Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-07
NEWS BY MAIL.

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The French national assembly reconvened
at Versailles Monday. The message of Pres
ident / HERS was received.
A memorial to the poet, Cowper, at Birk-
hamstead. England. is contemplated, and
subscriptions from the admirers of the au-
| thor of the ''The Task" in the United States
are desired
The Washington correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal says Few State papers have
ever been read before the two houses of
Congress which commanded such respectful
attention as was paid the Presidents Message
this afternoon, and it is generally pronounc-
ed the best document of the kind that has
been heard since the Messages of Andrew
jackson. There is no installing its mean
ing, and it is very evident that Gen. Grant
has not only studied the great questions of
the day, but that he has been guided by
spirit OF progressive reform in his treatment
of them.
rumor is current in Paris that the Due
D'Aumale and Prince de Joinvile have Off
cially intimated to M. Theirs their intention
| to occupy their seats in the chamber of depu-
ties, to which they were elected.
Aaron NJ. Powell, who lately made tour
among the Indian reservations, endorsing the
Quaker policy. states that the proposed re-
moval of the Indians from their reservations
in the Indian Territory was in the interest of
RAILROAD schemes and spectators.
Hon. James Pike has published a card de-
Ginning to be a candidate for Governor of
New Hampshire.
The Buffalo board of trade yesterday de-
nounced the proposed Niagara ship canal as
useless and unlikely to lessen the cost of
western produce to eastern consumers. The
board declined to send delegates to the De-
trot commercial convention on the 26th in
slant
In the United States Senate Tuesday an
unsuccessful effort was made to take up the
bill asking the President for the reasons of
his course in regard to certain counties in
South Carolina. A resolution calling for the
Catacazy correspondence was adopted.
In the House the matter of referring that
part of the Presidents message which re-
ferred TO postal telegraphs created lively
debate, which occupied considerable time.
| 1t finally went to the committee on appro-
priations, and the project is probably as good
as dead so far as the present sessions is con-
cerned. bill concerning the introduction
of penny postal cards was submitted.
hS oauh CouHty udhk, eNpTeSs OIHce. sew
eral stores and small buildings in Baraboo,
Wisconsin, were burned on Monday Loss
SO, 900.
Two members of the New York chamber of
commerce have gone to Chicago to supervise
the distribution of the relief fund, of which
there is still on hand $500, 900.
In Chicago the thermometer is from to
IL degrees below zero. There is almost an
entire suspension OF work in the burnt dis
trict.
Miner, the counterfeter, threatens start
ling disclosures relative to Whitely's secret
service business, when his trial takes place.
delegation of Mormons left Salt Lake
City for Washington, Sunday, TO try and Sc
cure legislation to- protect the olygamous
tenet.
A bronze statute of Franklin for Printing
House square, New York, is completed.
The report of the retirement of Attorney.
General Alderman from the Cabinet is not
credited at the department of Justice.
Gen. Sckes and his bride have arrived at
London on their way to take the steamer for
New York.
| A prisoner froze to death in cell of the po-
lice station at Jefferson Market, New York,
on Monday night.
Major Upham, commanding at Fort Scott,
Kansas, has been ordered to remove $500
white settlers from the Ossage reservation.
The carrying negroes from the eastern de-
partnient OF Cuba TO work on plantations in
the western department Is prohibited.
Fifteen hundred sheep have been burned to
death in the tule lands in The delta of the San
joaquin River.
The Welland canal is again frozen. Four
propellers will get through, but few sailing
vessels will have to lay up.
man narrowly escaped death at Rolln-
ford, Wednesday night, by jumping on the
train starting for Boston In trying to
catch hold of both ratings he missed one,
and was swung between the cars, but fortu-
nately passenger stood on one car and a
brakeman on the other, who by great exertion
saved the mans life.
! The farmers of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire, interested in the production of
milk, held their annual meeting at Meionaon
Hall yesterday. They are anxious to dis
pense with the services of middle men and
contractors, and to bring their produce d.
rectly to market.
A bill authorizing an increase of the circu-
lation of the Bank of France will be intro
duced into the assembly this week.
The coal supply in the vicinity of Omaha 10
nearly exhausted, and many are using corn
| for fuel.