The Portland daily press., 1874-12-04

elected mayor by about 200 majority in a total
vote Of 1850 The issue turned on prohibition
and anti won. aolyoke elected Republican
mayor.
FOREIGN.
A few days since deputaton from seventy
two chambers Of commerce waited on Lords
Derby and Caruavon. English Foreign and
Colouial Secretairs, and presented objections
to the proposed reciprocity treaty. They urged
that Canada granted to he United States more
than to England, and advocated the insertion
of clause providing that English trade and
commerce shall not be placed at disadvantage
as compared with those of other countries.
Lord Derby rep lied, expressing concurrence in
the views of the deputation, aud assuring them
that they never intended to allow the imposi-
ton of differential duty, and did not think
there was anything in the treaty that could be
construed as such, Approaching the subject
from another standpoint the Secretary said
caliar situation ard refrain from imposing any
obstacle to her trade with the United States
Other news from England is generally unim-
portant There has boon storm on the coast
and several vessels are reported lost.
The French Assembly met Tuesday, and
elected Mr.. Buffet, President There had
been considerable preliminary caucusing, and
there are indications of break in the Right,
seventy members of the Extreme Right having
resolved to vote against the constitutional bills
Count Chambord has written a letter to his
supporters, which is remarkable for saying
nothing except that he is Royalist which was
generally known before. Returns from munich
pal elections show further Republican successes.
The debate in the German Reichstag on the
Alsace andLorrane bill to endow the Strasbourg
university, drew out a sharp speech from Bis
marck. The deputies from these provinces op.
posed the bill as being more for the advantage
of the empire than the provinces, whereupon
Bismarck pointedy told them that the question
concerned imperial interests alone, that Ger
man blood was not spilled for the benefit of AL
SAGE and Lorraine and that he had come to the
conclusion that these provinces were net to be
trusted and must be watched. Size, the editor,
who had the hardihood to say that Kullman's
assault upon the Premier was put up job on
the part of the government, has been sentenced
to ten months Imprisonment in contun,acian,
AhO RPahioh wal ohoSo oiOuS WituOut D1uCu
fighting. Another force of Carlists has ad-
vanced on Irun but accomplished nothing. 1t
is asserted now that Russia and Spain have
settled their differences and that the former will
soon recognize the Republic. Two New York
newspaper correspondents have been arrested
by the Republicans and subjected to indigrites
but have since been released. ,sr.rl-
The Argentine war still continues, but news
is meagre and unreliable. Neither party seem
to have gained any important successes. 1t is
rumored that Gen. Mitre, the leader of the in.
surgents, has made overtures to the govern
ment for a cessation of hostilities.
China and Japan have settled up the
Formosan difficulty and amity is restored.
There was rumor in London few days
since that the Gar of Russia was insane, but
it lacks confirmation,
BRIEF MENTION.
Democratic congressman announce that they
intend to have the operations Of the First Syn
dictate investigated refiners con tenn
plate the reduction of their present production.
More reinforcements have loft Spain for
Cuba.--Cherokee Indians are f ghtipg among
themselves recently sent from
Cuba to Spain as spy, is being well treated.
--Disraeli is slightly indisposed. 1.-The At
torneytGeneral of Louisiana is in Washington
to engineer through Congress an endorsement
of the Kellogg government Theirs says
France is neither Bonapartist nor Monarchist,
but Republican. Russell lowell de-
clnes the mission to st. Petersburg, owing to
i'll health.-Occident beat Judge Fullerton
at San Francisco last Saturday, for purse of
$6000.-Six inches of snow fell in Toronto
last Saturday. Vermont Legislature has
adjourned. Prussian government has
decided to give its consent to the conversion OF
the Prussian bank into German national
bank.-Prussia desires that the South Amer.
lean States as well as the United States be rep :
resented in the next International Congress.
$50 counterfeit greenbacks have been circu-
lated extensively in st. Louis.-Mayor Cobb
of Boston, has been receiving contributions for
the Tuscumbia sufferers.-San Domingo and
Spain are making treaty of amity and COM
merce.-The statement that the Chicago
Inter-Ocean is hereafter to be published in
Springfield is denied. The pottery makers of
Trenton, N. j., have organized to resist re-
duction of wages.-The Arkansas Legislature
has decided to investigate Senator Dorsey s
election.-Several hundred of the most re-
spectacle citizens of New York city have petit
toned the pc lice commissioners to take meas
ures to preve MT inroads upon the sanctity Of
the Sabbath-The Erie directors have sue
ceeded in negotiating loan in Europe.-A
new disease called ''Thorisis," and believed to
1,o rs,.,,, s,,1 ro1
in New York. Thousands of microscopic in
sects are found in the Threats of those diseased.
New Yerk consumers complain of short
weight in imported prints. MARY Hanley has
received $1,000 for the capture of Kate Stod-
dard, the murderer of Goodrich
Herman is candidate for Senator IN New
York.-A bill has been introduced into the
Italian Parliament for grant of an annual
pension of $4,000 to Garbaldi.-Small pex
IN Bathurst, N. B., is under control.-A
mountain disaster in Switzerland is reported
in which eleven persons were buried in snow
and persisted. Dean Stanley has been elected
Lord Rector of st. Andrews University
MacGahan, the Herald's Spanish correspon-
dent, has been released. Bayley
of Baltimore, has again denounced Gladstone
recent pamphlet.-The memoirs of the late
President Juarez of Mexico will be published,
and important revelations in regard to the Max
imillan dynasty are expeeted.-The directors
of the Direct Gable Company will endeayor to
raise funds to lay another cable.-Mr. Saund.
ers has received his exequatur as vice consul
at Bern.-Boston Park Commissioners have
prepared report recommending a series of
parks around the city to be connected by boule-
vards.-No white man has entered the Black