The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-12-06
NEW YORK.


Sailing Of Suspicious Graft.
New YORK, Dec. 5.-Tbe schooner Albert
w. Smith, the fastest sailing schooner of Staten
Island sound, has cleared for Key West with
cargo of coal. She also carried nineteen heavy
cases marked 'linseed oil, and eight long, pc
culiar looking boxes, which required several
men each to get them in the bold, besides other
articles. As she has been visited by several
well-known members of the Cuban Junta, it is
believed that she has gone to sea to supply Gu
ban privateers.
Disabled Steamer.
The steamship Bremen, which left here yes
terday morning for Bremen, has returned with
six feet of water in her hold. The Bremen
will transfer her passengers to the Deuchland,
if she cannot sail tomorrow The leak was in
the coal bunkers. The coal will be taken out.
Gsrinnell Il Co.
Z George Bird Grnnell & Co., bankrupts,
have filed petition in the United States Dis
trict Court, in which they state that they have
arranged with all their creditors except a lew
and received their WRIT N consent that the pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy be discontinued, and
that the property of the bankrupts be relieved
and restored to them, and asking the court to
issue an order to the register before whom the
matter is, to take testimony and report on the
question of a discontinuance of the bankruptcy
proceedings Judge Batchford granted the
order.
Activity ut the Navy Yard.
At the Navy Yard the repairs on the Dictat-
or are to be pushed forward as rapidly as pos
sib,e. The torpedo shed has been put in order
for pushing rapidly the construction of the tor
pedo boats.
Huadreds of men are applying for enlistment
and all able bodied seamen and landsmen are
accepted.
Orders have been received at the engineering
and other departments to push the work on the
fast sailing war ship Florida, and an increased
force is now at work on board of her. Her
bow is to be heavily plated as ram and she
will be mounted with a heavy nine inch bat
terry Her edgines are nearly ready and they
will be tried, as will also those of the triple
turreted monitor Roanoke, on Sunday. The
work on the torpedo boat Alarm is pushing rap
idly and her engines and boilers, which are nm
ished, will be put in as soon as the mechanics
have prepared place. The demand for good
mechanics exceed the supply:
The Colorado will undoubtedly leave the
navy yard at an early hour tomorrow morning.
All her preparations were completed to-day
This afternoon every gun was in its place.
Orders were received to give out the contract
of the monitor Pruitan, sstership to the Die
tatOr
varlons Matters.
Joel Gonklin, one of the Oldest turf men of
the country, and formerly owner of the Centre
vile Course, died at Jamaica, L. l., to-day.
Fifty men were taken on the navy yard to-
day. The orders are to push the work forward
as fast as possible.
at Ilinn, in this State, is filling the second order
for $4,000 rifles on the Spanish account to be
shipped to Cuba. The same firm furnished
thre. mitrailleuses to the Cubans, which were
on board the Virgnius when captured.
Aaron Harris, convicted of arson and PERU
~, was sentenced to-day to ten years impriso n
m ,nt at Sing Sing.
4 In Beecher's church tonight, it was decided
to drop the subject of the Beecher-Tilton scan
dial so far as Bowen is concerned. .-.-