Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-31
FROM NEW YORK.

New York, 80. Washington dispatches 81
to-day report that Secretary Boutwell, has
prepared his resignation to take effect Feb.
18th. The Mail says there is consequently
| much discussion as to his probable success
soT. The most prominent names for the po-
| sition being Henry Clewes and Ex-Governor
Morgan. Either gentleman will be accept
able to the financial public.
A large crowd gathered at the Centre
street ruins to-day. where a hundred men
were at woll' removing the ruins. The in
tcntlon of &c ploying work house prisoners
was abandoned, and poor laboring men en-
gagged. The belief seems 10 prevail that the
remaining bodies are buried beneath the ru-
ms Of the stairway. Alderman Gilsey con-
tributed five hundred dollars toward the ex-
pense of removing the ruins, and Judge
Bowling and Morgan Jones promised to in
crease their donations. Coroner Herman
offered five hundred dollars. NO other nu-
man remains have yet been discovered, but
pieces of shawls, stockings, ETC., have been
found Comptroller Green has written Cor
oner Herman that he cannot put the ex.
peuse Of the work in the tax levy as that is
already made up, but he will see that it is
paid. AT a late hour this afternoon the work.
men found among the ruins human skull
with hair several inches long attached to it.,
a pair of woman's gloves and fragments of fe-
male apparel, which leaves no doubt that a
woman was burned to death near the spot
where these remains were found. The search
will be resumed in the morning.
At the recommendation of Comptroller
Green, City Chamberlain Palmer has made
arrangements for the removal of the city de-
posts, to the amount of two million from the
| 10th national bank to the Broadway bank.
The recommendation is made on the ground
(, that the bank is weak in deposits, having be-
! sides the city deposits total of only $780,
4 $50, of which it appears S309,700 were loans
or indebtedness OF the directors of the bank
Burglars entered Trinity church last nigh
4 and robbed the contribution boxes of about
sixty dollars. They were in search of the
| communion service which was locked up in
4 the safe.
| Berghs officers to-day stopped all stages
bound down with less than four horses attach
| ed.
The German steamer 'Iburingi during her
| recent voyage, had her first boatswan killed
during fearful gale.
j. S. Adams, collector OF the port of Pen
sacola, has disappeared from Taylor's Hotel
/ in Jersey City. As he had a large amount Of
money with him, foal play is feared.
Brooklyn Fire Marshal Ready has examin-
ed the hotels of that city, and reports three
| of the leading hotels insecure as regards FIRE
escapes.
Arrived, steamship Rhen, from Brennan.
The Herald obliges the New England
press with the following cable special:
| Zanzibar, Dec. Is, via. London, 80. The
United States steamer Yantic, arrived on the
| 10th. Captain Wilson, with the L. S. Con-
| sui, John T. Webb, and the officers of the
ship visited the Sultan on the llth inst. They
were received by the troops and were met by
the Sultan in front of the palace. Captain
Wilson represented to the Sultan the senti-
ments of the American people in regard to
slavery, and requested the abrogation of the
clause of the treaty with England. The Sui
tan's reply was received on the 18th. He
says: "Thirty-three years ago was forbid
den by my father Said Said, to export slaves
to Muscat. The slaves now carried there
, ore stolen by Arabs and tribes from the Per-
sian gulf. / will make strong efforts in the
future to prevent the kidnapping of these
slaves. will make every effort"