The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-04-18
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R The New York canals will be opened on
the first of May.
- The Cushnoc House, Augusta, lis to be rem
ovated and repaired.
81 Poor Brigham Young has become par
TALLY widowed. One of his prettiest wives has
recently died.
q One corporation at Newbaryport, Mass,
has million and half yards of wooden cloth
on hand
B A timely and acceptable article, headed
THE New President,''is necessarily laid over
till tomorrow. ae so ssafe3 4.E
~ An old house was sold in Portsmouth
few days since, and is now being removed, which
was built in 1875, about 100 years ago.;
II We learn from the Wateryille Mail that
Mr.. William Redington of that town, son of the
late Asa Redington, Esq, del of apoplexy on
Sunday last. mi- 5ns az.
~ communication from Lincoln, giving
account of the rejoicing in that town at thenews
of Lees surrender, is laid aside, as the great ma
tional sorrow seems to render it inappropriate
H-The Massachusetts Legislature, by near
" unanimous vote, has decided against chang
ing the law in relation to capital punishment, as
recommended by Gov Andrew. 20 =
RThe workmen of Kittery Navy Yard rails
ed So, 1880 for John McGraw, who had both
hands blown off in firing salute on the ocea-
sion Of Lees surrender.
H The recognized and adjusted debt of the
United States on the LIST of April, was stated by
Secretary McCulloch at So, 164 GOO 900 in round
numbers.
B Charles Kean and his wife are both play
ing in New York. Mrs. Kean was formerly
well known to the theatre going public as Miss
Ellen Tree Yer .a-sHe haa
R The Old Oaken Bucket has reduced its
terms to clubs. The Bucket is good Temper
ance paper. and should have largelist of good,
reliable, paying subscribers.
R In consequence of the great national ca
lamity, Mr.. Manager Jarrett, of the Boston
Theatre, has closed that place of amusement un-4
) til further notice. Ha
~ In the telegraphic co,.sans yesterday the
age of Mr.. Lincoln was incorrectly stated. He
was born on the 18th of Feb, 1909, and was
therefore, at the time of his DEATH little more
than ffty-six years Of age. -
R- The Montreal Gazette thinks that when
the "ConfederatesD get their three hundred thou
sand slave soldiers in the field fighting for free
dom. they will astonish the Federals,-and SO
| they will. ~ s,-sf b5esss54
~ There are now two hundred and sixty
four post towns in Great Britain which send
day mail to London; seventy three towns which
send three day mails to London; fifteen towns
which send four day mails, and six which send
five day mails. re z
RThe Petersburg Express of Saturday, the
day before the city surrendered, announced that
Son the whole all goes we'll with usp'-"Our
lines are secure against all attacks of the enemy
eve hope, ere long, to chronicle a glorious
victory for our arms, and crushing defeat Of
the enc my"i aea
~ While on their way to Richmond, after
their capture, Generals Crook and Kelly were
offered, by an Irishmsn, bunch Of segars; but
as neither smoked, they were declined. Adju-
tant Melvin, however, accepted the bunch; and,
ON opening it, found q hundred-dollar green
back. The loyal Irishman took this mode Of
evincing his sympathy.
E The Lewiston Journal says that in the
assassination of President Lincoln and Secretary
| Seward, the Southern leaders will discover that
they have struck down the two best friends they
had in all the North. 1t might have added, the
two men who, more effectually than all others.
have stood between them and the righteous in
dignation, of the Northern people.
+ Ewe cannot but congratulate class Of our
copperhead gentry, who were lamenting three
years ago that "they had no country,'-''it
seemed to them they had nonep' The govern
ment is saved, and they have at length found a
country--more successful than some Of their old
friends South Yes, Captain Marcy has coun-
try; DR.. Batchelder has country, and Frank
Pierce, too: shielding the evil with the good the
unjust as well as the just Portsmouth Jour-
nal. 1900
E We will take ii as a favor if friends will
4 not inform us of individual instances of rejoic-
ing over the late tragedy at Washington, unless
they can give us information SO definite that we
shall be justified in calling names, and are will
ing that we should give our authority if called
upon by implicated individuals, We don't wish
to think worse of human nature than wellau-
thenticated facts will warrant. r1el
1 E That ridiculous old Dutch Mayor of New
York is evidently sympathizer with JEFF Davis
and rebellion in every aspiration Of his heart.
In recent message to the City Government he
says: 81 have ON former occasion expressed
myself opposed on principle to the celebration
of victories gained over our fellow citizens, as
calculated to embitter and ALLEVIATE those whose
affections and good will it should be our object
to gain.' aims rs aet5
81 The Unionism that we admire is that Of
Joseph Holt, the noble Kentuckian, who says
"My faith in all this matter is simple and briefly
stated tits this -For all things that are for .he
the Union; against all things that are against
it. am for the Union as Internationally as
am for protecting my own body, at every cost
and hazard, from the knife Of the assassin No
human institution, no earthly interest, shall ev-
er by me be weighed in the scales against the
life of my country sfsgssss
R For the last three years the greatest fear
Of democratic politicians and papers, in connec-
ton with the war, has been, not that we should
fail to put down rebellion, not that the public
burdens would become unbearable, NOT that the
patience or patriotism of the people would give
out, not that desolation would cover the land,
not that our free institutions would be over
thrown, but that some blow would be struck
that would hurt slavery and free the negroes!
81 The Evening Post thinks it not exactly
right for the Government to arrest in Rich
mond a poor devil like Pollard. newspaper
scribe with foolish tongue and little brain, and
thrust him into Castle Thunder. while Campbell
who, while United States Judge, plotted trea-
SON and entered JEFF. Davis cabinet, and Hun
ter, who left the U. 8. Senate to become JEFF.
Davis Secretary Of State, bothleaders in trea-
son, walk the streets of Richmond unmolested.
The Post respectfully invites the attention of
Mr., Attorney General Speed to these arch trail
| tors lssa rl brs se4a s q a}ks. asa
~ A few days since meeting was held in
New York to celebrate the birthday of Thomas
Jefersoh, the great abolitionist and hater Of all
bondage, and such graceless wretches as Ben.