The Portland daily press., 1865-07-29

having Deen committed to the Dover Jail, is
suffering greatly in mind and body. and unite
overcome by the enormity Of his crime. which
was committed while under the Influenza of
liquor. s-..--.a-..
gY The Boston Herald understands that
coal has risen in price 81 per ton, and that the
price hereafter win be $40. SgFE p
Is Arthur Tappan, about a quarter of a
century ago and previously noted as the lead
ing anti-slavery man in New York died At New
Haven, Connecticut, ON Sunday, aged eighty
years. .,s7-sss.s .F,,.- s.t.t-s-T s -
SF-Ten dollar bills of the Thompson Bank,
Thompson, Conn, are being put in circulation
imitation of the genuine notes of that Bank,
well executed.
Popular toast-May no cabal destroy the
Atlantic cable. Mr.. Quilp, a pubiic-surited
man, hopes earnestly that Cyrus may succeed
to his Hearts Content.-[Post. w.
% Sturdivant the newly elected Mavor of
Richmond, recently major in the rebel armv.
promises to afford satisfaction that a vote ,iyep
for him was not vote for treason.
BrThe Secretary of War has Amounted Dr.
Francis Lieber of New York as chief Of the
bureau for the collection and safe keeping of
the rebel archives. 54le b
U.s. The Lowell Mechanics Institute have in
yited Gen. Howard to deliver an address before
them some time this fall ~
20 Hon. Henry Dawes, member of Com
gress from Western Massachusetts has the sig
nal satisfaction of having all the copperhead
papers praising him for his abuse of the aradi-
Gals" on the suffrage question. Dawes has
hunted his head against rock On that we
dare bet high l 81
BB-The watch taken by the rebels from the
body of Col. Uric Dahlgren has been recovered
in Norfolk.
% Blackberries are plenty in Springfield at
eight cents quart. b
gB Among those who have recently applied
for executive pardon, are the rebel General
Joseph f. johnson, VIM E. Rives and Duff
Green have been pardoned
pa 1T is daily expected that JEFF Davis win
apply for pardon, declare himself an original
Union man, and that he has never sympathized
with the rebellion. SsAstsA 5Se78 81
ER-The ground lately occupied by Barnum's
Museum has been purchased by James Gordon
Bennett, who will undoubtedly build there a
magnificent Herald Office, Mr.. Barnum re-
ceived for his unexpired lease of the ground,
which has twelve years to rum 100000. He
at once invested the whole in seven-thirties.
BY- The Republican State Convention Ct
Iowa resolycd in favor of equal suffrage and of
amending the State Constitution by striking
out the word white" in the article ON suff.
rage .,sT m
GB- justice of peace in Duchess County,
N. Y, sentenced boy eleven years old to the
Albany Penitentiary for two years, on a charge
of stoning turkey. The boy has been par
doned by the Governor -assf9 - ass
Ba The milk sold in New YORK at ten cents
quart is purchased of the farmers, haitian
hours drive from the cars, at two and a half
cents quart. a9
% Seventy thousand copies have been
printed of Mr.. A. d. Richardson's account Of
his captivity and escape. as 55i issai
sit has been unoficially announced that
Mr.. Horace Greedy has ceased to control. CT
even to conduct, the New York Tribune.
B- Robinson the soldier nurse, and savior
of Mr.. Seward, seems to be favorite subject
with the item-makers. The latest bit 0, news
about him is that he has got married.
% Twenty students have just gadu-
ated from the Female Medical College of Penn
sylvania, which institution is now in the six
teenth year of its existence.
The Pepperell Mills in Biddeford, says
the Union, have increased the wages of their
operatives upwards of 20 per cent, so that old
hands (females) are making readily $1.25 per
day. Female operatives are in good demand.
10 We learn from the linton thattwo chill.
dren of Mrs. Quincy Sawyer, of Saco, on Mon
day morning last, got some matches which
were at the head of the bed and played with
them in bed. which set the bed on fire, and be-
fore assistance could be obtained one of the
little girls, three years Of age, was SO terribly
burned that she died in the afternoon Of the
same day.
gB-M Mrs. Rufus Leavitt of Saco and her son,
Mr.. John Leavitt were thrown from wagon
last Monday ON Gooch Island, in consequence
of their horse taking fright from the breaking
of the harness. The Union says Mrs. Leayitt
was badly bruised about the head, and her son
had his shoulder dislocated.