Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-06-11
NEWS BY NJ ALL.

The United States Senate has ratified the
nomination OF Ellis Spear as Chief Examiner
of the Patent Office.
Judge William Yerger, one of the most
brilliant lawyers in the South, died at his
home in jackson, Miss, June s.
The clerical committee at Baltimore has
declared the Rev. DIR. Huston not guilty Of
the charges brought against him.
Gen. T.. w. Kinks entered upon his duties
as manager of the National Soldiers and
Sailors Asylum at Hampton, Virginia, yes.
terday.
Iwakura and the japanese Embassy left
Washington Saturday night for an extensive
tour, which is to terminate at the Peace Jub-
| lice here.
| The negotiations relative to the Supple
mental Act to the Treaty are progressing
tayorably, sentiment concerning it having
somewhat modified in England.
\ violent gale at Toronto Ontario, Fri.
day, buried eight men under the ruins of
brick building, killing one, and capszing
boats in the bay and drowning two men.
j The damages done in Illinois and Ohio
by flood and tornado are tremendous. Every
railroad leading out of Chicago has suffered,
and many have had huge sections of track
swept away. Several places in Ohio were
nearly destroyed, and various persons in
them were killed.
j. a. Mansfield, San Francisco painter,
shot Mary Helm, Saturday night, on account
OF her refusal to marry him, and then shot
himself. Neither are dead yet.
Vice President Colfax has vacated the
chair Of the Senate for this session, and Sem
ator Anthony has again been chosen Presi-
dent. MIR. Colfax will leave for North Bend,
Indiana, in day or two.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher startled his
audience yesterday by politely informing
them they were individually and collectively
given to falsehood. The noted divine re-
TERED to the ordinary insincerites of soce-
ty.
| man giving the name of John Moore.
and hailng from Maine, died suddenly of
heart disease, it is Supposed, in his bunk at
the harbor station in Boston, Sabbath morn
ing. He applied for lodgings the previous
evening.
Miss Sarah l.. Smiley, the Quakeress,
whose preaching in DR.. Cuyler's church in
Brookly brought that gentleman before the
presbytery some time ago, has renowned
Quakerism and was on Sunday baptized in
the Hanson'place Baptist Church, Brooklyn,
by DIR. Pen.icost, who said he did not baptize
the lady into the Baptist church, but into
the Universal church, of which he was a
member.
On Saturday morning Senator Sumner
called upon Senator Wilson and heartily
congratulated him upon the high distinction
and honor conferred on him by the republic
can party of the country. Senator Sumner
remarked that his call was from mere per-
sona regard and friendship, and not from
any political nature whatever. He felt great
ly pleased to know that his colleague had
been chosen for the second place in the ma
ton.
In 1865, Horace Greeley, at a BANQUET in
Montreal, made the following acute and sug-
gestive remarks-as suggestive as Hamlet's
soliloquy: MIR. Webster was not only a
gentleman, but he had the elements of moral
greatness; and he had faults as we'll He
tailed only in one respect, and in this respect
differ from him-he wanted TO be President
and l don't. (Chrers and laughter But
for that one misfortune he would have been
the greatest man America ever produced.
We have seen our greatest man, Mr. Chase.
making the same blunder. l have seen men
who had the disease early, and died of it at a
very old age. (Laughter.) General Lewis
Cass died at about eighty-two, and up to the
day of his death wanted to be President. No
one ever escapes who once catches the dis
ease-he lives and dies in the delusion.
Being a reader and an observer at an early
age, saw how it poisoned and paralyzed the
very best Of our our public men, and / have
carefully avoided it.
A special to the Herald from London the
9th. say that Thursday General Sickles,
Minister to Spain, submitted TO the Spanish
ministry a formal and peremptsry demand
for the release of DR.. Emile Howard from
sentence of Court Marshal. The communi.
cation OF Minister Sickles is an elaborate
document and entirely covers the case. In
presenting the demand Mr.. Sickles conveyed
to the Spanish government, the desire Of the
President that there should be no delay, but
that the subject should receive immediate at
tention; and in case of refusal to comply,
he stated the President would take decisive
action in the matter.