The Portland daily press., 1874-03-23

New YORK, March 21.-Plymouth church
last evening, adopted resolutions declining the
invitation to be present at the approaching
Congregational Council 1t is now thought
that the churches generally sympathzing with
Mr. Beecher, will stand aloof from the coun-
cil
Accident at Sen.
The brig Carrie Dingie, from Palermo, re-
ports on the 18th inst. the schooner Adria, for
Havana, which had lost her captain and receiv-
ed damage in gale. Stood by them twenty
hours, but the gale increased and the schooner
was lost sight Of
The Sunday Mercury says that Arthur
Bell, head book-keeper of r. Fl. Macdonald &
Co, patent medicine dealers in this city, has
defrauded his employers of nearly $30,000 by
falsifying fgurs in the books aud by obtaining
checks for stamps and merchandise ON which
he changed the words ''order' to bearer" He
is said to have invested much of the money in
the purchase of grocery. He has been arrest
ed, confessed and given up the property valued
at some $4,000, also four savings bank deposit
books representing deposits aggregating $1,000.
The Erie Strike.
The Erie Railroad Co., this morning employ
ed one hundred men in the place of hands who
struck a few days ago. large force of police
are stationed at piers 80 and 81, North River to
apprehended from the strikers.
LdteT-The Erie Railroad strikers attacked
and dispursed the men, who had been engaged
to take tt cir places.
NEW YORK, March 2-Representatives OF
the Erie. Pennsylvania Central and New York
Central roads, yesterday agreed to concede
nothing to the striking freight men. They will
pay no more than III cents per hour for ten or
more hours daily labor. New men will be put
on tomorrow in the place of all those who dom t
report for duty. The strikers say they don't in
tend to have recourse to violence and they made
use of none towards the Italians, whom they
dispersed yesterday An immense quantity
Of freight has accumulated, chiefly at Long
Dock, N. j.
The freight handlers in employ at Long Dock
terms offered by the company, and the latter
has made arrangements to put about 500 new
men at work tomorrow morning
Various Matters.
Still another thief was shot as he was rob-
bing the Hudson River freight depot Friday.
A Broadway stage diver yesterday was taken
from his stage on the charge of having two
wives, and the passengers were sent adrift.
Messrs Hawley ard Vanderwerken, the reve-
nue. officials, pleaded not guilty to the new in
dictment in Brooklyn, to day, and gave bail in
$4,000 to appear for trial on the 3Oth inst.
Taintor will be brought down from Sing Sing
to testify against Collender the defrauding
bank examiner.
Over one thousand men excavating in the
new Delaware & Lackawanna tunnel, at Ber-
gin Hill, N. D., have struck for higher wages,
which being refused by the contractors, they
threaten riot if any attempt is made to fiji
their places with new men.
A memorial of John Foley and others ash, =.
ing for the impeachment of Comptroller Greene
will be shortly laid before the Legislature, and
several prominent signers have framed a coun-
ter memorial saying tue names were obtained
under the representation that it was merely a
petition asking that committee be appointed
to examine and report upon thesaccounts of the
financial condition of the city.
A petition of a thousand merchants of New
York, will be presented to Congress to morrow.
asking that the volume of legal tenders be fixed
at $40O, 900 600, and for the passage of the free
banking law.
Since March 4th, claims of 6,679 pensioners
have been paid at the pension office here, re-
quiring the disbursement of $211,00O
A large number of conductors have been dis
charged by the Erie Co. The reason Is not sta
ted, but it is believed ALL or about all of the old
employees are to 60.
VIM Cullen Bryant will preside over the
great financial meeting here next Tuesday eve
ming. Among the Vice Presidents are Charles
Francis Adams, A. H. Bullock, VIM. NJ
Evarts and others.
II. b. Clafiin says that those parties who
claim that he favors the present moiety system
are entirely wrong.
Ex-Alderman Chas McBrien, once promi
ncnt po.itician of the 9th Ward. and till late
ly engaged in the policy business, died sudd en-
ly this evening.