Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-04
NEWS BY MAIL.

1t is rumored that Bismarck offers Metz,
dismantled, for Pondicherry or Cochin. China.
Joseph F. Joy has been elected president OF
the Panama railroad, vice David Hoadley, re-
signed.
The new Roosevelt hospital in New York,
erected with a million of dollars, left by the
late James II. Roosevelt, was formally opened
yesterday.
President Theirs, it is said, uncertain of
his tenure Of life, has made a political will,
hoping to secure succession in the presidency
for Casimir Pereire.
1t has been officially determined to arm the
State national guard of New York with the
Remington breech-loaders. The complement
will be completed by Jan. l.
In New York, on Thursday, Nov. II, will
be the grand Swiss celebration of the five
hundred and fifty sixth anniversary of the in
dependence Of Switzerland. The banner to
be presented is to be brought from Switzer-
land.
deputation of Americans yesterday wait
ed upon Mr.. Washburne, the American min
lister in Paris, and presented him with SER
vice of plate, as a recognition of his services
to his countrymen during the siege and under
the Commune.
The reform meeting in New York Thurs
day evening was the largest gathering Of
masses of respectable people of the city ever
held. The speeches of Joseph Choate,
Evarts, Samuel Tilden and others, were en-
thusiastially received, and the meeting sepa-
rated with great harmony. In the course of
his speech Mr.. Choate read the following
amidst cheers 81 am requested to state that
the political funeral of VIM. NJ. Tweed will
take place at the new County Court House,
in this city, on Tuesday, Nov. It'll. Rev. Ed
ward Pierrepont will officiate. The hymn to
be sung is that good old tune by DIR. Watts :
believing, we rejoice to see the cuss re-
moved Archbishop O'Connor, with seventy
assistants, will conduct the services. The text
for the sermon will be taken from the Gospels
Lord by this time he stinketh.' This
congregation are requested to attend
Choate's statement that the fight between the
wings of the republican party that heretofore
| had refused to futter, fly or even flop to-
gether, had been conciliated and on Tuesday
| the lions of the Custom House and the lambs
of Horace Greeley would go to bed together,
ELECTED uproarious cheers, long continued.
A New York special says: The feeling in
the city is intense. The Ring are making
desperate efforts to carry the election by
fraud. All inspectors and canvassers are APP
pointed by Mayor Hall, and the most of them
are men in the interest of the Ring. Instead
of registering the name of voters in book,
as heretofore, they take the names upon slip
of white paper. If the citizen objects, he is
kicked out by the police, who are acting in
the Tammany interest, and implicitly obey
Tweed's orders. Many repeaters are already
registered, some in a dozen districts. 1t is
said that 500 Philadelphia roughs have been
imported and quartered at various hotels in
the interest of the Ring, from which they are
registered and from which they intend to vote.
There is no thoroughly organized effort to
defeat the schemes of the Ring. Many citi-
zens aver their determination to stand at the
polls, revolver in hand, and prevent fraud if
possible. The law requires the poll lists to
be sent to the Aldermen in each ward, and
copy of the same to be sent to police head
quarters. The Aldermen and the police
Commissioners are willing tools of the ring;
they have changed the lists repeatedly here
tofore, and have it in their to do so again.
The canvassers are the Board Of Aldermen,
acting as a board of Supervisors. Everybody
anticipates riot on election day. Bloodshed
is certain in the 7th Senatorial District, where
Peter B. Sweeney's brother-in-law is running
against sheriff O'Brien. All the police that
can be implicitly trusted by Tammany have
been transferred to that district. The worst
thieves in the city are nightly parading the
streets in political professions.