The Portland daily press., 1865-04-11
AND sELEorpD.


% 1t is reported that Hon John NJ Bolts will
hereafter edit the Richmond Whio.
% Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Gen. Grant are
ooth at Richmond They visited Libby Prison
few days since
W The 7-3O Loan is advertised in the Rich
mond paper-the Wing, which is the only paper
in the city.
~ The caterpillars have Matched and are be-
ginning their evil work upon the apple trees.
Now Is the time to look after them.
~ The Confederate debt is estimated at S.
Ooo. 10000. Assets six cords of shin plasters
and bunch of keys.
% schuyler Colfax will start on western
tour In May, going to Colorado, Utah, Cali
fornia, Oregon and Pugets Sound.
81 Atthe Mint in Philadelphia, during the
last month 1924 200 worth of two cent pieces
ana $4o,3Oo OF one cent pieces were coined.
~ A Chinaman, in California, committed
suicide by drawing his cue tight round his neck
This is cue-rious way to destroy life.
VThe British Parliament has been in exis-
tence six hundred years. Lord Palmerston has
been in public life sixty years.
% There are now two hundred divorce cases
on the docket of the Supreme Court in Suffolk
county.
Tin pursuance OF purpose long enter
tanned by the government a formidable feet
soon sails for the Mediterranean.
| gA button-hole sewing machine is one of
the lstest inventions-the work being turned
out at the rate Of one hundred holes per hour.
81 Maj. Gen Casey and staff have gone to
Richmond, to commence the organization of
colored troops in that vicinity.
q Robert Bonner of the New York Ledger
has sent check of $500 to the Everett statue
fund.
BOn the first page Letter from Virginia.
Letter from the Old Dominion and SIN Me-
moriam.''
RA proud mother-Ohio; and well she may
be, for her sons are Grant, Sherman, Sheridan,
Thomas and Rosecrans.
BA son of Mr.. N. D. Phillips, of Brewer
| Village, about two years of age was drowned
Saturday afternoon by falling into pit at
! Sterns' tannery, at that place. Wing.
They punish people queerly In China.
For robbing peddler, person was lately put
into mortar (cannon) and fred against stone
wall.
|
Cambridge, a few evenings since, that the s'rail
splitter had turned out better than the Union
splitter
| @lt is the belief in Washington that Mr..
Lincoln remains at Richmond as much to keep
clear of the of6ce-seekers as to 10 ok after the
rebels
| H'It never rains but it pours'' With the
other glorious news comes the intelligence that
Raleigh has been evacuated, and that Sherman
is soon likely to corner Johnston
Sheldon & Co., New York, have published
another volume of Surgeons Sermons, max
ing the eihgth series. The opening sermon of
this series is the one on Bsptismal Regeneration,
which has made so much stir in England
81 Says the Brunswick Telegraph, lady
with her face swollen with the ague, called the
other day upon friend, who was exceedingly
lame of one foot. Said the hostess-"I am glad
to see you, though you are de faced, and 1 am
de leated
- Charleston, sure enough, is being sown
with salt-the ''salt of the earth"-salt that has
not lost its SAVIOR. Yankee school teachers are
as thick as blackberries, and already fifteen hun
dred children have been gathered into the
schools of the city.
ROne Of our Rev. D. D. subscribers in
neighboring town, desiring to have an error in
the spelling of his name corrected in the direc-
ton of his paper, facetiously reminds US that
lit used to be thought important to call things
by their right names.''
~ JEFF. Davis beech at Macon, Ca, in which
he said the larger part of his army had deser-
ted, reminds us of recent observation of Arte-
mus Ward. Said the immortal Snowman, 81
happen to possess brains, but don't happen to
have them with me-"
% Dr. Urann at Portsmouth, gives a whole
column of certificates of his cures, most of
them of weak and palsied limbs Can't he adj
minister to the Southern Confederacy, so that it
can stand up long enough to be handsomely
knocked down
g The iron-workers in Straffordsbire re-
Gently INDUCED in ''strike." The manufactu-
rers Immediately resolved to combine and close
their forges, etc. By this clock OUT" as it is
termed, seventy thousand men are thrown out
| of employment.
. The Hartford Times, Copperhead, has be-
come facetious. 1t explains the large republi-
can majorities iE the Connecticut election by the
theory that the democrats were so busily en-
gagged celebrating Grants victories and the cap
ture of Richmond that they were unable to spare
time to go to the polls.
RThe venerable John Tappan of Boston.
now in Philadelphia, writes brief but vigor
GUS letter to the Congregationalist, protesting
against undue leniency on the part of our
government, towards the rebel leaders, and re-
buking what he calls the s'mawkish sensibility
of the Tribune"
20 Some of the Democratic editors, those of
metallic tendencies, are calling upon the Presi-
dent to offer terms of peace to the rebels. Thew
want to break the fall of their friends; but Mr.
Lincoln seems wisely determined to let Grant
Sheridan and Sherman make peace in their own
way.
81 The Ellsworth american learns of the
death at Geneva, Illinois, April 4th, of Hon.
Charles Jarvis, who was there on a visit. He
had been sick, but his family at Ellsworth heard
a few days since that he was rapidly recovering.
and were soon expecting him home. His ace was
| n years.
R-A subscriber in San Francisco RENTS fen
dollars for the weekly Press, saying, "The no.
tice [direction LABEL says Goth June 1862.
Whew ! tempus fugit. Well. its better late
than never, they say, which is all the oonsola-
ton can offer except the ten dollars for your
bill The Press is worth it's
R-At the funeral of an excellent citizen all
the people were in tears for their loss, excep.
one man, who excused his want of sympathy by
saying that the deceased belonged to another
parish. Do the copperheads who refuse to give
for the aid and comfort Of cur sick and waun