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The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
THE INDIANS.

White Men Ordered to Leave the Ute
Reservation.
DENVER, Col, May 9.-The United States
grand jury have found indictments against
Berry, Meacham and Cline as accessories and
five Utes as principals in the murder of A. D.
Jackson
A letter received here states that the whites
have been ordered to leave the Ute reserva-
tion The writer does not give the source of
the order, but it is thought that the order was
given by the military, and that it means i'm
mediate steps toward the removal of the Utes
Commissioner Mears had great faith in Ber-
that Berry and himself could influence them
to speedy and peaceful exodus, and it il stat
cd that Berry has decided TO remain in Dem
yer until brought to trial Mears decided that
ne would not go without him, and rather than
trust himself to the influence of the other COM
missioners, without Berry's aid, he would re-
sign. 1t is furthermore stated that Mears had
already prepared his resignation, to be for
warded to the Interior Department as soon as
it is settled beyond question that he cannot
have Berry's assistance. The gentleman Civ
ing this information is in position to know
the temper of the Indians and their DISPOSE
ton toward the commissioner. He believes
there is not member of the commission who
could influence the Indians, and that probably
the presence ofany of them would incite the
Indians to an outbreak, as their first impress
sion would be that their mission was to remove
them. He believes that Berry could cause
peaceable removal of the Indians, and the sur
render of those indicted for Jackson's murder.
The Utes are held in their reservation in the
valleys, and regard the prospect of fight with
the soldiers without derision, and boast that
they can defeat all the soldiers the government
is likely to bring into the field.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
MAIL CONTRACTS.
Radical Change in the Manner of OPP
ening Proposals.

A Radical Change in the Manner of OPP
ening Proposals.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-On May Z the
awards for carrying the mails in various parts
OF the country, under the miscellaneous adver-
tlsement of March 10, were finally decided
upon at the Post Office Department. The let
ting OF these contracts is not what is known as
the regular letting, but consists of service on
such routes as, from various causes, cannot be
advertised and let at the usual time and in the
usual manner. In opening the proposals fol
these contracts material departure was made
from the usual custom i'll such cases. The law
requires that all proposals for carrying the
mails shall. before being turned over to the
Contract Office, be "opened and marked u
Heretofore-with one exception, occurring
several years ago-the custom has been merely
to open the bids and stamp them-a work
which some of the officials at the Department
say is practically of no value, and evidently
not what the law contemplated; since, as no
record OF the bids was made, others could be
added after the opening, or bids in blank could
be filled in SO as to give some favored bidder
the contract, or could be changed for the same
purpose Some years ago quite scandal was
created III the Department by some of these
very doings, and several employees of the Con-
tract Office were dismissed in consequence;
still, with the exception before alluded to, no
change in the manner of opening the bids was
made.
master General James authorized change to
be made which was as follows: After the bids
were opened they were stamped with the date
OF opening and with an engraved device, of
which there is but one in existence. They
were then numbered consecutively, arranged
by routes and list made of them, giving the
number of the bid, the name OF the bidder,
the number OF the route on which Serv ice is to
be made, the amount of the bid. and any de-
feet, informality or irregularity that was dis
covered. After this the bids were turned over
to the the contract office, and the list fur
nished to the Postmaster-General, together
with the engraved device mentioned Before
these bids were turned over to the contract Of
fee they were always either under the eyes of
the committee appointed to examine and mark
them or in vault, the Keys of which were in
the exclusive possession of one of the commit
tee. 1t will be seen that under this plan there
is no opportunity whatever for tampering with
bids by any one disposed to do so in the de
partment, withouI certainty of discovery,
and that no bids can be distracted nor new
ones admitted. 1t is SO good a plan that the
Postmaster. General will probably cause it to
be adopted for all future openings of bids for
Star routes and other contracts.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.

A Movement in Favor Of Elk Senator
Thurman for Governor.
CINCINNATI, May 9.-There is talk in poll
tical circles of the Democrats bringing out ex.
Senator Thurman as a candidate for Governor
in the coming campaign. A letter is reported
to have been written to Paris, where he now
is, detailing the political situation and urging
him to permit his name to be used in the con-
vention in connection with the nomination for
Governor. The letter, it is said, insists that he
is the only man who can bring out the entire
vote of the party; that he would receive many
Republican votes, and that the State, whose
interests he has guarded for so many years
could enjoy no prouder distinction than that of
having Allen G. Thurman in its chief exc
cutive chair. So far as can be learned no in
timation has been in any way given by the
ex-senator as to how he wonld regard q
nomination for Governor. 1t is the feeling of
many of the party managers that one of the
old time men should be put forward in the
coming campaign. The feeling prompted the
effort to bring out Washington Mclean, and
it has much to do with the present movement
in Thurman's behalf.
Some of the younger Democrats favor the
selection of business man, and one of promi-
hence and power in Springfield, is talked of.
He is at the head of large manufacturing
business and has a wide acquaintance in bust
ness circles. He has long been identified with
the strict temperance people and would for
that reason encounter determined opposition
In this part of the State, ex-senator Thurman
is not considered. Col. John f. Follett has the
greatest strength.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
NEW YORK.
Crime in the Metropolis.

Crime in the Metropolis.
NEW YORK, May 9.-Peter Noonan and
John Snyder were held for trial without bail
for fatally stabbng NJ. Hoffen, the brewer.
81. McEuroe for fatally injurlng the girl
Abbentina Willie with a bottle was also held
without bail.
NJ. Lenehan and Tim Leahy for fatally beat
ing 5. Englehart were also held without bail.
All the above may prove to be murderers.
Mrs. Louisa Harvey who was shot by VIM
Mcintosh, her brother, on Doth ult, for re-
fusing to give him money for liquor, died in
the hospital to-day. Mcintosh is held for
trial.
Injunction Agains t the Western Union.
Judge Spier this morning in the Superior
Court handed down decision on a motion in
the suit by Rufus Hatch against the Western
Union, to prevent the issue of SIS, 525 500 in
In favor OF the plaintiff and continues the
temporary injunction previously granted
restraining the distribution of the new stock
pending judgment
Three Men Drowned.
Frederick Stark, Charles Stark and David
Roach were drowned yesterday near Staten
Island, by the upsetting of a fishing boat.
The Army Worm and Potato Bug on Long
Island.
The army worm and Colorado beetle have
appeared in large numbers in both Queens
and Suffolk counties, Long Island. The army
worm is found most in spinach and sprout
beds.
Talmage's Church Filling Up.
At Talmage's Brooklyn Tabernacle yester-
day liz new members were received. DIR. Tai
mage gave them the right hand of fellowship
as they stood in the aisles, in the presence OF
an immense throng of people. There were
many clergymen on the platform, which was
adorned with flowers. Over 500 persons have
been cow erted, as alleged, during this revival
in the Tabernacle. The membership is now
1891, which is by far the largest Presbyterian
membership in the world.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
MINOR KILOGRAMS

duel impends between NJ Lepere, former
ly minister of Interior, and M. Mascot, Vice
President of the Counsel General of the Depart.
ment of Yonne.
The importations of specie at New York last
week amounted to $81S,000.
The Jews in Podolia have been maltreated
and troops sent to them for protection.
NJ. Y. B. Fowler, president of the CONNER
cial Fire Insurance Company of New York,
died suddenly in the office of the company YES.
terday, aged g.
A Fayetteville, N. c., dispatch states that
there is considerable excitement in political
circles there at the removal of Deputy Revenue
Collector George Downing, white, Republican,
and the appointment of colored lawyer,
John S. Leary, Republican, in his place.
There are no charges against Downing. but it
is reported there that large number of colored
men will supersede whites in the revenue and
postal service.
William Henry Priester, young man of %,
who killed his father at his home in Barnwell
comfy, S. c., on the 2Sth of April, and fled
was captured at Greenville, S. c., Sunday
morning.
At Chicago the mercury on Sunday after
noon rose to So. One case of sunstroke is re-
ported.
The house and barn at Hardwiek, VT,
valued at $4,000 and business block valued at
$1,000 with contents were burned Yesterday
morning. No insurance Also house, barn
and outbuilding of A. E. Underline valued at
$500; insured.
Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor OF Cape
Colony and member of the royal commission,
has arrived at New CASTLE
Twenty-Five deck hands and laborers in the
employ of the Bridgeport Steamship Co. at
pier 80, East River, struck yesterday morning
for an increase of wages. The men have been
paid at the rate Of $2S and $50 per month, and
they now demand an increase of 50 per month.
The police are on hand to protect the property
OF the company. No disturbances reported.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
WASHINGTON.
Rumors Contradicted.


WASHINGTON, May cit has been rumored
that Sixth Auditor McGrew, Deputy Sixth
Auditor Lilley and Judge Crowell Of Sixth
Auditors Office at the Post Office Department
have been requested to tender their respective
designations. Secretary Window this after
noon said the rumor was without foundation
and no such request has been made of the gen.
tlemen named. He said further that the COM
mittee appointed to investigate charges of ir-
regularity made against the Sixth Auditor 8
Office was still engaged in the work.
Mrs. Garfield Seriously ILL.,
Mrs President Garfield is quite seriously i'll
from nervous prostration and is said to be
threatened with malarial fever
Reports Of National Banks.
The Comptroller of the Currency has called
for reports from the national banks showing
their condition Mayo.
Mr.. Grier's Nomination Withdrawn.
The President has withdrawn the nomina-
ton OF Mr.. Grier of Pennsylvania to be Third
Assistant Postmaster General, Mr. Grier hay
ing declined the position.
The Isthmus Canal
Senate committee on foreign relations rec
ommend the adoption of resolution recently
introduced by Mr.. Morgan declaring that this
government will insist that its consent is ne C.
essary to the 1sthmus canal as necessary
condition precedent to the execution of such
project, and also as to the rules under which
other nations shall participate in the use of
such canals or other ways either in peace or in
war.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
MASSACHUSETTS.
A Fatal Mistake,

Fatal Mistake.
WORCESTER, May 9.-Jennie Jewell of Oak
dale, Is years of age, drank bed-bug poison for
water on Saturday evening, from the effects of
which she died.
Alarming Spread of the Small Pox.
NORTH ADAMS. May 9.-Four new cases of
small pox are reported at South Adams this
morning, two at the section of Renfrew.
known as the Whitehall, and two more on the
Plunkett Grounds. Two fatalities have re-
suited in the past "a hours. A Cheshire woman
came to Adams on Saturday and removed her
brother to that town. He was badly broken
out with small pox. This morning it is thought
he will die. Quite an excitement prevails in
Cheshire for fear of the disease breaking out
there. The opinion at South Adams has be-
come general that small pox is rapidly spread
ing and the residents have become alarmed
Upward of 30 cases are reported as the total
since the scourge first broke out there. North
Adams is wholly free from the epidemic
There is not a single case within her borders
and the general health was never better.
Immense Arrival of Fish at Gloucester.
GLOUCESTER, May 9.-The receipts of Bank
Goldfish the past "a hours have been larger than
for any like period of which there is any re.
cord, nine arrivals having been reported from
the Western Bank, with $4,000 pounds of
split Goldfish and 10000 pounds of round hand
dock. There have also been seven arrivals
from Georges with 112, 900 pounds of split cod
fish and 5000 pounds of fresh halibut, and
three from off shore grounds with $4,000
pounds of Goldfish.
Nearly Soffocated by Cas-
Francis Pratson of Boston, was found nearly
suffocated by gas in his room at the Dyke
House In the Bowery, last night. His recov-
cry is doubtful.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
ROBERTSoN'S NOMINATION.
Mr.. Conkling States His Case to a
Republican Caucus.
THE ADMINISTRATION CHARGED
WITH BAD FAITH

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Republican Senators
held caucus this afternoon for the purpose of
determining what course shall be pursued in
regard to the class of executive business left
temporarily unprovided for in the programme
adopted last week. The meeting, although
prolonged to late hour adjourned without
reaching point of action OH the subject under
consideration. Mr.. Conkling made speech
which occupied nearly two hours. 1t was de-
voted to the history of the nomination of Judge
Robertson for the New York Collectorship and
to a comprehensive statement of the rea5ons
why his nomination was particularly objec-
tionable and offensive to him. In the course
of his remarks he entered extensively into the
subject of New York state politics and Judge
Robertson's connection with them particularly
at the Chicago convention and also gave a de-
tailed recital of his conference aud under
standings with the President in regard t, New
York nominations at various times antecedent
to the nomination of Robertson. from all of
which circumstances he argued that he and
the party whom he and his colleague repre-
sented in New York had been dealt with in
bad faith and treated most injuriously. 1t is
also reported that Conkling in narratlng what
occurred at Chicago informed the caucus that
Judge Robertson, among other expressions of
personal hostility then made by him, went so
far as to declare he would not support General
Arthur if nominated for Vice President. At
the close of Senator Conkling's speech the
caucus adjourned till tomorrow.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 10.

very wide diversity of homes and interests
gives varying points of view which serve to
make conversation less stupid, to say the least
than where your companion has lived next
door all his days. The magnitude and variety
OF the interests involved in the every day do
ings of most men here gives depth and breadth
to even casual conversation, while the personal
recollection and anecdote across dinner-table
OF men and women bearing names distin-
guished for generations, or familiar among the
great the world over, are apt to have a flavor
of something more than ephemeral interest
have sometimes thought it well to look
closely at every one you see in Washington. AT
a single dinner here I once met company of
twenty of whom two-thirds of both ladies and
gentlemen had become in the next three
months the staple topic of newspaper gossip
and private conversation some had died, some
had risen in the world, some had become the
centres of wide spread scandals. 1t is a nota.
BILE society, where Congressman who amuses
himself at party talking with one of the girls
he meets there of his present position and fu-
ture political prospects, becomes President of
the United States in the few months before
she meets him again. But the distinguishing
characteristic of Washington society is not its
great men, nor its unusual elements alone, but
the fact that nearly every man you meet is Sc.
lected from his fellows because of some ability
to make himself felt above his kind. so that in
certain sense each is. picked man.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10

Numerous arrests among the military have
beeu made. The battalion which assisted to
depose Abdul Aziz has been broken up and its
officers sent to distant posts. 1t is believed
there will be no public trial of the accused,
they will be quietly exiled. 1t is reported that
Mahmoud Damad Pasha has already been sent
away OH a man-of- war which left the Bospho-
rus under secret orders
The Monetary Conference.
BERLIN, May "a dispatch from Paris to
the Post says: 1t is probable that the monetary
conference, after an exhaustive discussion
will adjourn for an indefinite period to give
time for direct negotiations between the va
rions States on the conclusions reached by the
conference. At Saturdays sitting Herr Theil-
mann, the German delegate, replying to Ger
nusch, the French delegate, demurred to the
likelihood or feasibility of Germany calling in
her thalers Immediately, and said that in view
of the relations between Germany and Eng
land, the London market being the place
where German accounts current are liquldated,
it is essential that Germany should retain a
monetary system analogous ITO that of Eng
land
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
MINOR KILOGRAMS.

Sunday Mosher, an aged man of Stanstead
Quebec, was caught under large roller on
Saturday and died almost instantly from the
I'M uries received.
thunder storm prevailed in Chicago yes
terday and the temperature fell 30 degrees in
four hours.
At the locomotive works in Providence last
with a file by Frederick Glover and died al
most Immediately. Pooling led 70 fighting
with the fatal result, but some feeling existed
before the affray.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
XLVIIth CONGRESS.
Senate-Executive Session.

WASHINGTON, May 9.
Mr.. Ransom called up the resolution offered
by him March 18th, directing the commit
tee on commerce to inquire into the
condition of the Potomac river front of WASH
ington, the floods and the health of the city,
and to report at the next session what steps if
any should be taken withlreference thereto.
Adopted.
Mr.. Kellogg offered resolution calling on
the Postmaster General, the Secretaries of
War, the Navy, State and the Treasury, for
names of all clerks and other employees, with
the date of their appointment, the State to
whicheach is charged and the person on whose
recommendations each was appointed
On objection of Mr.. Ferry the resolution was
laid over under the rules
The Senate then, on motion of Mr.. Dawes,
at 12.10, went into executive session.
When the doors reopened at 1890, the Sem
ate adjourned.
The Senate confirmed several Western post
masters
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
METEOROLOGICAL
INDICATIONS FOR TIE NEXT rwRNrY-YoUH
NOORS.

WAR DEPT, OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL
OFFICER, Washington, D. c.,
May 10, / A. N.
For New England,
partly cloudy weather and occasional rain,
southerly winds, stationary or higher barometer
and temperature.
SPECIAL WEATHER BULLETIN.
The temperature has risen slightly in the
South Atlantic States and from / to II de-
grees in New England and to IS degrees in
the Middle Atlantic States Rain has fallen
since last report in New England, Lake re-
gion, Ohio valley and Tennessee, northwest
and east Gulf States. The Missouri has fallen
9inches at Leavenworth The Mississippi has
fallen 81 inchesa Leclaire and is falling rapid
ly at st. Louis; 3 feet inches above danger line
aud rising slowly at Cairo feet 6 inches
above at Helena. inches at Vicksburg, 2
/ lches below at New Orleans.
Indications are partly cloudy weather and
local rains prevail in the northwest Lake re-
gion, Ohio valley and Tennessee and New
England to-day and tomorrow. That fair
weather will prevail in the Middle Atlantic
States during the day followed by increasing
clouSiness ard occasional rain.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
DEATHS
In this city, May O. Peter Elder aped ss war.

In this city. May 8, Peter Elder, aged 6s years.
Funeral service at his late residence, 448 Cum
berland street, wednesday afternoon at 2 80 o'clk
Burial pr vate. Advertiser copy
In this city, May 8, Minnie vesta youngest daugh-
ter Of Lewis +; and Sophia P. Knight of Scarbero,
aged years IL months
In this city, May 9, Mary E. Henderson, wife of
VIM. Henderson. ~
at No. 2 Middle street. Burial private.
In West Falmouth, May 8. Granville X. Leighton,
aged So years.
A. Lynch, aged 80 years 30 days,
In Brunswick, May 7, of heart disease, Mrs. Han.
nah Strout wife OF the late Jas. Strout, Esq., form
erly of Durham, aged n years. -
ngThe funeral service of the late Hon. Jason
W. Beatty will take place at Saco at $50 O'Clock
to day.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
PRESS STATISTICS.

American Journalism as Shown by the
Census.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-The census office has
just issued preliminary exhibit of statistics
of the daily press of the United States during
the census year. The total number of daily
journals in the country during the census
year was 962 which includes so dailies which
suspended and ia established in course of the
placed at 3,5S1,1S7. and the aggregate annual
circulation at 1.127 1897 1855. The people of the
United States pay out annually $26 $50, 900 for
their daily newspapers. New York publishes
the largest number of dailies, lis; Pennsyl-
vania next, 50; Massachusetts, 35; Connecticut,
10; Maine, IL; and Rhode Island. 6.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
THE VACANT JUDGESHIP.

Stanley Matthews Nomination Reported
Adversely.
WASHINGTON, May 9,-The Senate judiciary
committee this morning voted to report ad-
versely on the nomination of Stanley Matthews
as associate justice of the Supreme Court. The
nomination was reported accordingly to the
Senate in executive session this morning. 1t
is understood the vote in committee on this
nomination was as follows;
In favor of con6rmation-M Lamar.
Against OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Edmunds,
Logan, ingalls,, Mcmillan, Davis of Illinois
and Bayard.
Absent-Messrs. Conkling and Garland
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10

HAVANA. May 7.-Sugar in good demand; in some
instances fraction higher prices than the preceding
week and the market closed strong; No 10 to IL
q at 9Z2l01OA reals gold per arrobe; No 10 to 20
q li9l2M reals: MOlasses Sugar regular to good
mon to fair 7ss@75s reals; Centrifugal Sugars 81
TO ~ deg. polarization in boxes and hhds 91s4915
reals; stock in the warehouses at Havana and Ma
tanzas 78 900 boxes, 800 bags and ZIG SOOhhds
receipts for the week 1000 boxes, 7.7O0 bags and
II 55O hhds exports 2570 boxes, $500 bags and
l4,l00 hhds. including 5000 bags and Is, 1915 hhds
:. Molasses firm: 80 degrees polarization at 71aa
IA reals gold y keg in gold.
Freights dull; loading at Havana for the United
States % hid Sugar 7b03 90 currency; 10 hid Of
Molasses at 2 0O@2 25; loading at yporfs on NORTH
coast Outside ports for the United States u hid Su
bacco unchanged.
Spanish gold 1.9419@1. 94s4. Exchange firmIor
United States so days gold at ia @SA prem; short
sight do at $4,000 prem
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
Col. Tom Scott, Divine

PHILADELPHIA, May 9.-It is believed that
Col Thomas A. Scott's death is now only a
question of hours, He has had third stroke
of paralysis, and has lost consciousness. He
rested somewhat last evening, but DIR. S. Weir
Mitchell, his physician, has no hopes of his re-
gaining his senses for any length of times. He
was out on Tuesday for the last time.
The Portland daily press., 1881-05-10
SOUTH AMERICA.

Opening of the Argentine Congress.
BuENos AyREs, May 9.-Congress opened
today. Gen. Rocca, President of the confed-
GRAFTON, in his speech strongly emphasized the
determination of the government to maintain
peace at all costs and develope the resources
of tho ranuhlic