The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-11
ORIGINAL AND sELnOTED.

~ Ooai transportation over the Reading
Railroad has been reduced one dollar per ton.
VThe first National Bank Of Richmond (va.)
went into operation on Monday last.
e Mails run regularly now between Richmond
and Washington and other parts of the country
81 Rev. FL. Fletcher has accepted the pas
torate of the Universalist Society in Bath, and
assumed the duties thereof on last Sabbath.
e. designations. military, naval and civil,
still pour in rapidly. Thirteen generals have
resigned thus far.
RThe Argus yesterday displayed very con-
spicuous Unite feather, evidently plucked from a
goose, or some other barn-yord foul.
EVA beautiful original sketch will be found
ON the last page, and history of the LIST Me.
Vet. Vol. Regiment on the first page
R Bishop Simpson delivered the funeral era
ton in Springfield. Ill, upon the burial of the
late Presidents remains.
- Lucille Western, accompanied by her hus-
band and james W. Collier, sails for Europe on
the 10Th of June.
81 The Chronicle says Judge Clifford was to
commence session Of the U. s. Circuit Court
in Portsmouth on Monday.
ET The Fenian Brotherhood and the Fenian
Ssterhood have each an organization, as we UNI
derstand, in this city and hold their meetings in
Jones Block.-[ Lewiston Journal.
" Gen. Halleck has issued an order notify
ing everybody in Virginia and North Carolina
who may be found after the 20thof May in arms
that they will be treated as outlaws.
- The Pail Mall (London) Gazette says the
Emperor Macmillan will probably return to
Europe with bag and baggage, before the end Of
the year.
B-A fire occurred at the U. s. Arsenal at Au-
gusta, last week, in the building used as bar
racks, doing damage to the amount Of about
S., 900.
81 The New Haven Courier announces that
Mrs. John Tyler, widow of the ex-President,
will visit that city during this week, and indor-
ses her as lady patriotic and loyal.
~ At the Philadelphia mint, during the
month of April, there were coined 1888, 1924
pieces, as follows: = OF gold, 3s,422; silver,
5000; copper, 100000.
e. The President has ordered that Ex.Gov-
ernor Aiken Of South Carolina, shall no longer
be considered as under arrest. 1t is understood
that there was no just cause for his arrest by the
military authorities of Charleston.
One of the ssbeautiful young ladies" who
composed the ballet at the Pittsburg Varieties,
turned out to be a young man. She was dressed
and roomed with the other fair ones. The man.
ager very properly turned the damsel out.
- One thousand barrels of high wine and
twelve hundred barrels of alcohol have recently
been seized in New York ON the ground that thu
property was sold fraudulently under the in.
ternal revenue law.
E The Chronicle says an old lady aged OF
years, named Blay, on Friday, walked from Kit
terry Point to Portsmouth and back-a distance
Of miles. This old lady was formerly a nurs,
in Kittery, and one of her protegees is IS year,
of age, and far more decrepit than Mrs Blay
EThe rebels in Canada for whose arres
President johnson has offered reward, den,
with much indignation all completely in the as
sassination of President Lincoln. Who sup
posed they would not? It is usual for crimi,
nails to plead mot guilty." but who believe
them innocent because of such aplea
H General Rosecrans passed through st
Johnsbury, VT, Wednesday evening, on his wa!
to Canada. He is understood to be on a tour o
inspection of the border defences, but it is ais
intimated that he is charged by Presiden, John
son with an important mission to the Canadian
authorities relative to Sanders, Tucker & Co.
EA number of the leading citizens of New
York, among whom are Moses Taylor, Angus
Belmont, Thurlow Weed, Marshall 0. Roberts
and others, have made up the handsom
purse Of $1,000 for the brave soldier, Robinson
who, while acting as nurse, saved Secretar.
Stewards life. Robinson is said to be Main
soldier, from Aroostook county.
e. A well-known member of the Frenc
Corps Legislatif was at ball of Prince Meter
nich's in Paris, and everybody smiled when tn
illustrioas member paced the room in his sill
stockings and breeehes. He thought the ad
miration was paid to his person, when suddenl,
he gazed in looking glass and, alas saw tina
the pads of his legs had been sliding to the front
RItis noted Is "a angiaSas fact a.s that Jet
any statement of any kind relative to the assas
sination of President Lincoln, although he ha
been publicly and officially branded as the lead
ing accomplish in that act. If heis not afrai
to reveal his whereabouts, why don't he issue
proclamation, declaring his non-complicity il
that greatest crime of the age
BThe Farmer says busy scene is presen-
ted at the site Of the old South Church in Au
gusta, where work upon the new edi6ceis bein,
prosecuted with energy under the immediat
superintendent of the contractor, ALDER
Coonbs, Esq, of Haverhill, Mass. The extrem
length Of the church will be 118 feet and it
width "a feet, occupying the same position a
the old church, the main or bell tower being OF
the south west corner, fronting on State street.
RA well-informed war correspondent who's
opinions are worthy of attention, writing from
Richmond to the New York Herald, says tn
people of the South look upon the course to b.
pursued by the Government in the reconstruc
ton or restoration of the revolted States with .
great deal of anxiety. They assume that tn,
whole matter rests with the general government
and the people have nothing whatever to DE-
with it.