The Portland daily press., 1871-01-17
Lates, New. by Mail.

1t is said that the necklace and sleeve but
tons, sent on the stage at the Globe Theatre in
Boston on Saturday for Miss Leclercq aad Mr..
Feehter, were the gift of Anna Dickerson.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin delivered an address
before the Maine Association in Washington
Monday evening.
the means of advertising the Globe Theatre
quite effectually, and the return of Mr.. Wal
lack to its boards is quite satisfactory to its pat
rons. Mrs. Scott Siddons began an engage
ment last evening. Mr.. Wm. R. Floyd is the
new manager.
Rev. DR.. r. S. Storrs, of Brooklyn, is to be
rendered trip to Europe by bis church for his
health.
Engineer Lochell on the Long Island and
North side railroad has been presented with
$1OO and fireman Sohirner with $50 for saving
train at the risk of their own lives.
The North German consulate In New York
has thus far forwarded to Berlin for the relief
OF the sufferers by the war $3O7,975.
Steamer City of Brooklyn has arrived at
Queenstown under sail.
The Potomac is again open for navigation.
The revolution headed by Placdo Vega in
northwestern Mexico has failed and he is try
ing to escape to this country.
Messrs. Vickery and Rogers of Augusta have
put in sealed proposal for the State printing.
The confession of Pinto the Sing Sing State
prisoner, that he was the murderer of Rogers
in New York, is not credited in New York.
Col. Stewart, manager of the Sailors Home
in San Francisco, has disappeared with anoth-
er mans wife and $1,000 belonging to the
sailors.
The Dutch Gap canal is to be cleaned out
1t is to be made $50 feet wide, and of sufficient
depth for the navigation of vessels of any ton
mage that can pass between it and Richmond
A contract, it is stated, has been made for the
work.
Boston shoe manufacturer, named Roberts
and doing business at 8 Pearl street, has been
detected in forging drafts and has fled the
country. He has gone either to Canada or to
Europe-the detectives are not quite sure
which-and has taken with him some $4,000
which he obtained through his forgeries and
by borrowing from his friends
1t is expected that the San Domingo Com
missioners will sail on Wednesday. Arrange.
ments have been made on board the Tennessee
Tor three commissioners, two secretaries, two
stenographers and seven correspondents
Among the latter are Gen. H. V. Boynton of
the Associated Press and Cincinnati Gazette
Oscar G. Sawyer of the New York World, H.
I. Ramsdsll of the Tribune, G. c. Fulton of the
Baltimore American, Arthur R. Shepherd of
the Washington Republican, Messrs. Foley and
Hill, stenozraphers, Gen. Siegel and Fred
Douglass and Prof. 7. F. Crane of Cornell
University, who goes as Private Secretary to
President White.
The N. Y. Evening Post announces the dis
covery of the Nathan murderer and says, 'We
are informed on the highest authority that
complete chain of evidence has been woven
around a certain individual, and of his guilt
there is no question. The man is known and
there is great confidence that he will lie appre-
hended in few days."
The season in California continues unusual
ly cold, dry and backward. Friday night ice
half an inch thick formed in Petaluma Valley,
heretofore unheard in that locality. There
was frost in San Francisco Colonel s. Jones
Jackson, a veteran of the Florida and Mexi-
can wars, and provost marshal of San Francis
co during the rebellion, died Thursday night at
Santa Clara.
G. E. Campbell, an old resident of Oroville,
Cal, was murdered and thrown into a mining
shaft Sunday. He had been stabbed to the
heart No clue to the murderers