The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-01
NEW YORK.
SUIT AGAINST FISK AND GOULD.

NEW YORK, Dec. o0.-CharleS y. Allen, q
Wall street broker has taken legal proceedings
before Judge McCunn against Fisk, Jr., and
Gould for an alleged false imprisonment Allen
charges that his arrest was made to prevent
him testifying about matters of which he was
cognizant in reference to the "Black Friday
transactions of Gould and Fisk, and indirectly
charges Judge Bowling, who granted the order
for Aliens arrest, with completely in the arrest,
the proceedings Of which appear to have been
taken in 1869 The damages are laid at $780, 900.
Fisk and Gould were absent yesterday in Bos-
ton. On their return they will be served with
an order from Judge McCunn
CALLENDER's CASE.
United States Commissioner Osborne to-day
denied a motion to dismiss the complaint of
making fraudulent report of the affairs of the
Ocean Bank against Bank Examiner Calender.
The Commissioner holds that Callender's report
of the condition of the bank as satisfactory"
was an unofficial act based only ON the state
ment of the bookkeeper without his (Callen-
ders) personal examination and was made at
the request of director.
A POINT FOR TWEED.
Tweed's counsel to-day made application to
the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Judge Car
dozo, for the removal of the indictments found
against him in the general sessions to that
Court. As the District Attorney consented the
motion was granted as a matter of course The
Oyer and Terminer Court is held by one of the
Supreme Court judges, and this change is
doubtless point in Tweed's favor. But few
were present in the Court, as the matter was
not expected to come up.
SECRETARY FISH.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-A Herald reporter in
terviewed Secretary Fish last evening on the
espssn st 1hs Minister
Fish said:-tI am sorry about the recall of the
Spanish Minister, for [ have yet to know the
Spaniard who is a better man than Senior Rob
erts. He has been invariably courteous and
hind Whppavar ha DOcSihlv cou1d he a1vOpat-
ed humane policy in Cuba and endeavored to
mitigate the severity of Spanish rule"
Reporter-Has Senior Roberts been superseded
because he was perhaps too conciliatory for his
Government?
Secretary Fish-He has been concilatory, but
also firm and dignifed, and not more concilia-
tory than his instructions warranted him to be.
His instructions may have been wrong, but
whether right or wrong he was bound to follow
them. Whether the action OF the Spanish Gov
eminent indicates any change in the policy re-
garding Cuba he was unable to say.
On being questioned on the subject of the
State Department the Secretary declined to give
any information, but the hesitating manner of
his answer gave the impression that his resigna-
ton is at hand
MEETING OF TAMMANY.
At a special meeting of the Tammany Society
yesterday Jas. b. Nicholson presiding, and
Jno. j. Bradley, Isaac Bell, Matthew 7. Bren-
nan, Samuel j. Garvin, Emanuel B. Hart and
JOS. Bowling being among those present. Au
gustus Schell was elected Grand Sachem in
place of VIM. M. Tweed.
NOT VERY HAPPY NEW YEARS.
Mayor Hall will omit his usual New Years
reception tomorrow.
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION.
Henry A. Richardson, bookseller, has brought
all action against the firm of Virtue & Yorston
for malicious prosecution, asking $4,000 dam
ages. Richardson was agent for the firm in
Providence in 1867, where he was arrested for
an alleged embeZzlement and defalcation and
lay in Jail five months Yorston was arrested
yesterday and committed to Ludlow street Jail.
FoGGY.
Owing to the dense fog there has been but
single arrival from sea to-day.
VESSEL LOST BUT CREW SAVED.
Ship Amelia, from Glasgow, reports that on
December 9Th, in lat. 40 Is, long "a so, she fell
in with the bark Danish Princess (Br), Sofwith,
from Liverpool fer New York. with loss of bow
spirit, mainmaSt sprung and in sinking condi-
ton, having four feet of water in her hold
Took from her the captain and crew, fourteen
in number, and brought them here.
GOOD MOVE. a.
The Presidents of the Catholic Temperance
| State organizations, including several clergy
men of the Eastern States, will issue joint
address and call for National Convention at
| Baltimore Feb I'D to form a national organ-
| cation for the spread of total abstinence in
| the Catholic Church.
| FIRE.
The eastern wing of the Seaman's Hospital,
on list street, was damaged by fire to-day $40,
900; loss on furniture $4,000. 1t was feared at
| first that panic might occur among the pa
tients. but they were safely transferred to a
! portion OF the building not reached by the fire.
| VARIOUS MATTERS.
| IN McMaster was knocked down and robbed
| by highwaymen in Railroad avenue, jersey
| City, Saturday night, and Clark's dry goods
| store, in the same place, was heavily burglar
| lied the same evening.
! Patrick Murphy was beaten by J ohm Manner
in a saloon fight in Brooklyn Tuesday evening
and died Saturday morning. The murderer
| was arrested.
The brig Express, from Tagauray, arrived
| Saturday She lost sailor overheard during a
gale. The brig Osprey, from Newfoundland,
has also arrived, with sails split and the vessel
| was much wrecked by gales on her passage.
Other vessels arriving Saturday report very
| heavy weather
commenced by the heirs of the former owner to
recover from the Mount Sinai Hospital Society
the land on which the new building is erected
at cost of $350,000
At meeting of the Long Island city Board
| of Education last night petition from a num-
Der of Catholic citizens for the repeal of por-
ton of the bylaws providing for the daily read
ing of the Scriptures in the schools was unani,
mousy denied.
Benz. Hull, Mormon elder, is now in East
ern Long Island arranging for revival The
people say they will appeal to the authorities to
prevent the meetings. A lively time is antici
pated.
1t is reported that the Reform Committee OF
Morrisiana will shortly make some startling de-
velopments.
Jersey City loses $3.50 by the reception in
payment of taxes of a worthless check OF thai
amount on the New Haven Bank.
NEW YORK POLITICS.
ALBANY, Dec 31.-The crowds at the hotel
are much larger than usual on Sunday night be
fore the organization of the Legislature L
has been settled that Jas. Terwilliger will b,
Clerk of the Senate. The question of speaker
ship absorbs the principal attention and is real
ly narrowed down to Henry Smith, of Albany
and Z. G. Alverd, of Syracuse. Both sides ar,
very confident and each claim majority of tn,
Republican members. These candidates repre-
sent the Conkling and Fenton wings of the Re
publica party. The outside feeling is apparent
iy for Alyord, but the Smith men speak conf
IDENTIFY of having 55 to 63 votes pledged.
PENNSYLVANIA.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.