The Portland daily press., 1872-02-13
THE TRIAL OF STOKES.

NEW YORK, Feb. 12-There are five hundred
petit and fifty grand jurors at the Oyer and
Terminer Court to-day from whom jury is to
be drawn to try Stokes. Judge Cardoza charged
the grand jury as to their duties and they re-
After some little delay and conversation be-
tween counsel and judge the first juror. VIM.
b. Ogden, was accepted to thy the case of
Stokes .-i
Three parties were rejected when second
juror was secured in the person of George T.
Huntingdon and third juror in the person of
Chandler Robbins
Geo. w. Nicholson, Peter Kemp John Hen
ry Walker and Simon Mchaels, were also &C
cepted as jurors up to the adjournment of the
court. The jury is being selected for the trial
in the Stokes case.
PRESIDENT GRANT GRATIFIED AT THE TONE OF
PREss.-A WAR NOT TO BE EvADED IF 1T rs
DUTY 4
The Herald's Washington dispatch says the
President expresses himself very much graft
fed at the temperate tone of the press of the
. United States on the excited comments of the
English ministry on our case before the Geneva
Conference. 4.troH tE,a ~
The duty of the country is quite plain. : If
the English government withdraws, the United
States cannot agree with honor to any new ne
gotiations What further action may then be
necessary will be influenced in great measure
by circumstances. In reply to a question as to
his opinion of the proposed prospect of war,
the President said that he hardly thought it
would come to that, but if war was duty it
would not be evaded. He does not desire to see
the amicable relations inaugurated by the treaty
disturbed, but at the same time America, in
honor to herself, cannot be used as an instru-
ment in the hands of any foreign ministry to
shield itself against embarrassments arising
from local political divisions
VARIOUS MATTERS.
The steamship Moro Castle, which arrived
yesterday from Havana with a party of exour-
sionsts from this city, was caught in a storm
off Nassau and narrowly escaped The coal
had given out, and some eighty boxes of sugar
were used to make steam.
There were "a fires, 5S4 Deaths 1856 marriages,
and 413 births in the city last week. Thirty-four
of the deaths were caused by smallpox.
The foreign importations last week amounted
to about 81 800 600.
The prospect for a general reduction in the
rates OF rent for nearly every description of pro-
perty is said to be very favorable.
1t is reported that Missions crazy lover, Chas
j.. Busch, recently escaped from Blackwell
Island was found near her residence and has
been returned to the island.
The funeIal of John Dunn, one of the most
eminent champions of the cause of temperance
in New York, who died Friday last, took place
yesterday afternoon. The funeral was largely
attended by the temperance organizations.
VETO.
ALBANY, Feb. 12.-Gov. Hoffman has vetoed
the bill passed by the Legislature for the pro-
lection of tax payers, &c, on the ground that
its provisions were disapproved by the Judges
of the Court of Appeals and they may defeat
its very object by divesting municipalities of
all title to bring an action to recover their
property or funds
ANOTHER CHARTER.
Another charter for the city of New York
has been introduced in the Assembly. 1t is
understood to have been prepared by the Greeley
Republicans
STRINGENT REGISTRY LAW,
A bill was introduced in the Senate re-enact-
ing the former State registry law with stronger
penalties, also resolution of enquiry into all
the circumstances connected with the use by
the Hudson, Harlem and New Haven Railroads
of Fourth avenue above AID street, New York