The Portland daily press., 1871-01-09

Steamer Ironsides, from Washington to Ac-
quia Creek, on Saturday, was cut by the ice so
that it was necessary to run her on the fats to
prevent heI from sinking.
The House OF Representatives at Washing
ton, on Saturday, spent the day in discussing
the election frauds in Alabama.
On Saturday Judge Benedict, of the U. S.
District Court in New York, sentenced eight
counterteters to penalties varying from two to
eight years in the penitentiary.
British Columbia, which is now hemmed in
| on the seaboard by Alaska and Washington
Territory, is said to be quietly making a move
| towards annexation to the United States. She
has rich gold fields. mines OF excellent bitumi-
nous and anthracite coal, fisheries and pine
forests, with some land which repays cultiva-
ton, but her population is falling off, and there
is decided lack of prosperity. 81
Rev. DR.. G hlckeriDg, who is passing the win
ter in Washington, is inaugurating a religious
temperance movement in that city.
Gen. Charles S. Lowell, of the regular army,
who died in Louisville, KY, Tuesday, was
native of Massachusetts. He served in the
Mexican war and received several promotions
for gallant services during the late rebellion.
The bombardment of the southern forts of
Paris commenced Thursday morning.
A train Oh the Mississippi Central railroad
ran off the track Thursday night. Louis Mar
ole, the engineer, was seriously, if not fatally
injured, and the fireman was injured, but none
of the passengers were hurt
At the term of the Circuit Court held at
Memphis, Tenn, fifteen persons were sentene-
ed to seventy eight years in the renitentialy.
The Beckett House, at Dayton, Ohio was
injured to the amount of 900 by fire on Fri
day morning. May of the guests were com
peled to fly in their night clothes III
A fire took place in the business part of
Lynchburg, Va, on Friday, which DESTROYED
property to the amount OF $4,000 Part of the
insurance was in the "Home," of New Haven.
Meetings expressive of sympathy with France
have been held in many places in England, un.
der the auspices of the radicals.
Capt. George Butler of Edgefed county, a
brother of Gen. M. G. Butler, was shot and
killed during an alteration of private ma
ture, by young man named Hamilton Win
slow of the same county, near Savannah river,
on Monday. f...-+
A reward of $4,000 is offered for the murder
err of the express messenger at Albany, on Fri
day.
On Friday United States officer arrested
in Poughkeepsie, three cadet refugees from
West Point and took them back to the post
They declare they were dragged from their
quarters after dark by the first class, and con-
veyed to the mountains, where they were d.
rected to leaye forthwith, under the penalty of
being tarred and feathered. They have sent
written statement of the entire transaction to
the post commandant.
NO clue has been obtained to the assassin
VINO attacked and robbed the Merchants I'm
~" express messenger at Albany Friday night.
messenger Ha'piue was in favorable condi-
avn vi SATURDAY. He is fully rational and
takes occasional nourshment.
A fire in New Bedford SATURDAY. destroved
Clarks stable with ten valuable borsas o,,d
Fosters carpenter shop.
Mason Morse, charged with tamperins with
iuryman in the Mills smuggling case, in Bos. |
ton, has been held in $1,000 bail for trial
A passenger from Wakefield, name unknown. |
had both legs and one hand cut off Saturday,
jumping from train as it was entering the
Maine depot in Boston. He will probably die. |
Stephen Glover, the composer of many bevu. |
tlfll and popular melodies, among them the |
favorits airs "Why do Summer Roses Fade,'
1.-THE Monks of Old'' and "What are the Wild