The Portland daily press., 1874-06-26

terfere with his edcts,
Theodore Tilton has offered to appear before |
the Plymouth church and answer all questions
asked touching the Beecher scandal, but that |
body has declined.
A submarine telegraph has been success
fully laid from Brazil to Spain. The first press
despatch dated in Brazil was received Tuesday |
night.
The Maine Congregational State Conference
is in session in Newcastle and the Universallst
State Convention atCalais.
if'l THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
A few incidents happened at. Washington
during the last week in connection with Con-
gress. but of so peculiar character as not to
he worthy of place in the regular proceedings.
One of these was the 'mock-sesson of the
House on Friday eyenin5 to discuss the moiety
bill which had passed some days before. The
real intent of the session was to give Gen. But
Ter an opportunity to make his speech really in
self-defence There was a good crowd, and
B. F. B. was no longer i'll. He first defended
the system of espionage and told us how
Maine smugglers of tea were caught and pun
ished. He then pitched into Phelps Dodge &
Co. of New York, who paid $271, 900 to the
government ON account of alleged frauds in
importations of goods who he said under the
cover of the act allowing statuary to be i'm
ported free, sent over tin and lead goddesses of
liberty and George Washingtons. He then
turned his attention to the Ways and Means
Committee and sharply criticised their investi-
CATION of the Sanborn and Jayne scandals, on
the ground that the committee were investi-
eating him (Butler.) He read private letters
and amused the audience greatly, and closed
by a pathetic allusion to himself in which he
declared that posterity would declare that his
virtues surpassed his vices and that he was
man who loved lis country and his fellowmen.
Foster of Ohio, who had been attacked, gave n
emphatic ''amen'' when the General closed,
and then went for him on rigorous
style, showing that he had sent to Ohio to
hunt up somothiug against him, had stolen
kilograms, letters, etc, and caused Jaynes'
testimony to be read, in which it
appeared that But was Jaynes' paid coun-
sci. Tremane, Roberts, Hoar and Dawes fol-
lowed, and the result was that all of the Gene
RAILS statements were refuted and that he got
some very severe raps.
The Senate, or part of it, showed dspo-
sition to put newspapers into the hands of the
District Courts, where the correspondents
would be punished. and passed bill that was
rather disgraceful to that body. 1t did not,
however, pass the House
The civil rights bill passed by the Senate
failed to secure favorable action in the House
because it required twothirds vote by the
rules to t4ke it from the Speakers table. 1t
got nearly the whole Republican vote.
The Reciprocity treaty was laid over untilthe
next session. The full text has been made
public.
1t was decided by the House Committee on
the Pacific Railroad not to investigate the ru-
mors of fraud in connection with the building
of the California division. A bill was passed,
however, to compel the road to pay part of
its net earnings to the government as required
by its charter.
The President has appointed Benjamin
Moran, Secretary of our London legation. third
assistant Secretary of State, and Mr.. Bass,
district attorney in Illinois, assistant secretary
of the Treasury vice Sawyer tainted with San
born contracts.
Wednesday, Postmaster General Creswell
rendered his resignation to the President on ac-
count of the pressure of long neglected private
business. The President in accepting thanked
Mr.. Cresswell for bis zeal and efficiency. A
Washington despatch says it is believed that
the President has rendered the Office to Con-
gresham Hale of Maine
FINANCE AND BUSINESS.
There are various predictions respecting the
effect of the late financial legislation of Con-
gress, There is a general impression that it
will cause more currency to be put upon the
market and there is strengthening of the
stock market and from some cause or other
there is general advance of prices in groceries
and provisions as will be seen by our report of
the wholesale market Money is unusually
abundant in New York and can be had at very
low rates on CALL Gold, oxever, does not re-
spond to the supposed Initiation and fell We'd
nesday from III ga to Ill 3-S. There are signs
of activity in the produce and other markets.
The reports of the Western crops continue
favorable, while the hay crop in New England
promises to be very heavy.
THE TILToN.BEECHER SCANDAL.
Mr.. Tilton, in letter published in the Gold
en- Age of Wednesday, makes quite directly
the chalgesof a great crime upon Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. The whole despatch is pub
lished elsewhere.
CASUALTIES AND CRIMES.
A terrible disaster is reported on the sea of
Marmora by which 800 lives were lost. 1t was
caused by collision between q Turkish ship
with $40 passengers on board and another vessel.
The former sunk in few moments
A shocking catastrophe occurred at Syracuse
N. Y, Tuesday evening. During strawberry
festival in the parlors of the Central Baptist
Church the floor gave way when full of people,
Eo, Il
hundred more or less seriously injured. Rev
G. h. Bowling. pastor, is seriously injured.
Cause, defective construction, the supporting
truss being composed of blocks spiked together.
/ The yellow fever is raging in Bahia, Brazil
| A destructive tornado passed over Memphis,
Tenn, and vicinity, Sunday, doing great dam
age to crops. 4
/ An attempt was made to wreck a train near
Greenwich, CT.
I Affairs in Cuba are in sad condition, and
business is threatened with ruin.
I An immense oater-spout passed through
Havana harbol, sunday, doing damage to the
shipping. 1t was dissolved by the men-of-war
firing into it. r-.i --sssl
/ George Avery of Boston has walked 100
miles in q hours ard 40 minutes. This is
casually, DeCdus6 OUu6TS WILL annoy bu6 puDUC
by attempting it.
I Garibaldi is SO i'll that he cannot feed him
self. $50
/ Murders and lynchings are too frequent in
Kentucky to make it desirable place for timid
people to inhabit.
+ There have been no large fires the past week.
IN GENERAL.
( John L. CaGwalader of New York, has been
appointed Assistant Secretary of State in place
of Mr.. Bancroft Davis, who goes to the Aus
trian court An excellent choice, it is said
OF the West Point graduates, c. G. Norton and
20. L, Turner are from Maine--The ship with
the shore end of the new cable arrived off
Portsmouth Thursday last--The question of
the Bible in the public schools is agitating To-
ledo, O.-Tweed was in court as a witness
the other day andsthe crowd cheered him
Rochefort has arrived in London--1550 Chi
nese emigrants arrived this week--About so
people were killed BY being run over by trains
the past week-Professiona base ball is rag.
ing severely The Bostons are ahead-The
fog whistle at Sable Islands, Nova Scotia, burst
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