The Portland daily press., 1865-04-28
ORIGINAL AND AELECTnD.


EThe value Of the estate LIT by President
Lincoln is said to be estimated II about $685.
0OO
% The names of five lawyers Mo entered the
rebel army have lately been remoed from the
court rolls at Baltimore.
The Royal Society Of Musicians lately held
IN London their one hundred and tmnty-seyenth
anniversary
80 bust of Richard Golden is o be placed |
in the Versailles Gallery, by order Oh the French
Emperor.
- The New York theatres we're opened We'd
nesday night for the first timesnce the night of |
the Presidents murder.
% The cotton factory at Augusta, which has
been suspended through the winter, is soon to be
put in full operation.
BTheannual meetings OF the Grand Ma
sonic Bodies of Maine will take place in this
city next week. f
9Cabinet meetings are held daily. A special
to the Boston Post says all rumors of cabinet
changes are groundless
% Prominent citizens of Brooklyn have de-
termined to erect monument to the late Pres-
dent Lincoln, in that city. a'al
When Johnston left Raleigh he had not
more than 90, 600 or $4,000 men, which is not
half the infantry force of Sherman.
RA camp for rebel prisoners has been estab-
lished at Newport News 1t is guarded by col
orei troops who rigidly hold to their orders
R Crosbys $500, 900 opera house at Chicago
was opened last week. 1t will seat 5000 per-
sons
| ET Jacob Strawn. the great Illinois farmer,
has lately given $4,000 to the Christian COM
| mission.
I. 81 Caves filed with the most wonderful
stalactitcs are found in the Arizona silver
| mines.
Secretary Seward was able to ride out on
Wednesday. He will soon be able to attend to
81 Hon. Nathan A. Farwell ex-U. s. Sena-
tor, was in the city yesterday, and left by the,
afternoon train for Boston. 9w
RIntelligence has reached Washington to
the effect that JEFF. Davis is pushing rapidly for
the Mississippi river, with view of crossing
into Texas and from thence to Mexico.
Hon. George Bancroft, the great Histo-
rian, has delivered an Grafton in Union Square,
New York, on the death of President Lin
coin. 500 70
1 Cylinder Attorney General Speeds decision,
good many rebel officers at Washington, are
taking the oath of allegiance rather than be
| sent South
i - The New York Iri5unes Washington dis
patch says the investigation of the conspiracy
shows that Mr. Lincoln's death had already been
attempted by poison. b94 si
gThe q. s. sloop-of-war Rhode Island left
Belfast on Monday, having been ordered to re-
port at New York. About thirty men were en-
listed on board of her for the navy, and eleven
1 of her former number deserted.
RThe Belfast .Hge says the farmers have
commenced spring work in earnest; considera-
bic blowing has been done; early grain sown,
and many acres of potatoes planted. The season
thus far is as forward as the middle of May.
EFF M. Ballou has recovered 5000 DANA
ges in the Supreme Court sitting at Worcester,
Mass, of the Trustees of the Norfolk County
Railroad. for being knocked down by car at
the station in Blackstone
RW. G. Roose, Of New Albany, Indiana,
who said he 'swould like to dance on Lincoln's
cofin,' has been sentenced by the Provost Mar
shall of Louisiana to sixty days hard work on
the fortfcations. s.. agss
EMr. A. L. Cary, recently landlord Of the
Dwinel House, Bangor, died 1T that house on
Monday evening last after brief illness. He
was g gentleman who had won hosts Of
friends. :.
+ EThe official, civil or military, who pa
LAYERS with rebels in arms, proposing any other
tarvv,s than rd;t;oral uu~roy,dar 10 anna IN
go under with the great current Of popular SEN
| timent
EJef. Davis said in his recent proclama-
tion 81 will never consent to abandon to the
1 enemy one foot Of the soil Of any one of the
States of the Confederacy.'' The cowardly
braggart
EIti is reported that Gen. Lee said, when the
news of the assassination reached him, that he
regretted Mr.. Lincoln's death as much as any
man in the North, and believed him to be the
epitome of magnanimity and good faith
ETbe dwelling house of Mr.. Samuel D.
Marshall of West Paris, was burned on Sunday
night last, between six and seven o'clock. The
stand is that known as Dea. Marshall place. The
fire is said TO have taken from the chimney
lOxford Democrat.
ENow that Booths dead, has died like a
dog only that dog dies without guilt, and the
nation is saved from the feverish excitement OF
another solemn tragedy, we hope the rumors Of
his arrest in almost every city and village of the
land will cease esfsm ss
i VIn Bath P. M sabbath services commence
at o'clock, and last sabbath clergyman on
exchange there. who was accustomed to COM
mence service at O'Clock, kept the congrega-
hx,h - AZ
custom Of the place. eieauies ~
1 % The Saco Democrat says Henry Holman,
son of Dea. Daniel Holman, at the Pool, aged
about IS years, died on Saturday last of lock-
jaw. About week before his death while at
work on cellar, he received an injury on the
foot causing tbs fatal result.
- Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher, just returned
from the excursion to tort Sumter, preached
to his congregation at Brooklyn, Sunday morn
ing, on the assassination. Not one-third of
the people who came together could get into the
house.
j 81 Testimony from various sources is printed
to show that President johnson has never been a
drinking man, and that he was overcome on in
auguration day BY small glass of brandy,
taken by the advice of friend, to give him
strength for the duties of the day. sb-si Qiq5
- One of the late Richard Cobden's last acts
was to send sum of money to poor, distress
ed, sick American sailor. His death was proba-
bly, FASTENED by his hurrying to London to speak
on the Canadian question. and in friendliness to
our government.
EYE. o. Halle, who has corresponded for the
Boston advertiser over the signature of Gala
bama,' and who was two years since employed
on the local department of the .argus, has been
placed by Gen. Granger, in charge of the Mo-
bile .Ne1s. -
ELetters received at Washington from Ra-