The Portland daily press., 1865-05-05
ORIGINAL AND sELEOTED.

for six hundred thousand blank discharges.
VThe shad fisheries in the Delaware are said
to be unusually productive.
ELate English papers report that Mr.. Ten
Brook g horses had beaten in three races.
4Dr. Sharp of St. Louis. has been appointed
Postmaster al Richmond
% By special permit cargo Of Rockland
lime is to be admitted into Savannah.
Carl Schurz has resigned his commission
as Major General.
HSergeant Corbett, who shot Booth has
been ordered to join his regiment.
II Gen. Tlson Of Rockland, has q command
in the army of the Potomac.
BLowell papers announce that Mai. Cen.
Butler has returned home, after an absence of q
month in Washington and other cities
H Maj. RoWell of the Hallowell Gazette,
Paymaster Of the U. s. Army. arrived homo on
Wednesday.
Gen. Augur has ordered that no more
soldiers bodies be disinterred from the LIST of
May to the LIST of October.
HH Hon. E. P. Weston has entered on his
charge of the Abbot School, SO called at Far
mington.
B Fernando Wood, q guest at the Easter
banquet of the Lord Mayor Of London, was
not down for speech.
BThe colored people of New Orleans have
started daily, to be called the Block Republi-
can.
HA sherifys jury in New York has just re-
turneda verdict of 500 in favor of the "Count
Johannes " against Stephen h. Fiske of the
Leader. vi
~ The New Hampshire Legislature meets on
June 7th, when the finances, the militia law, and
the location Of the agricultural college viii
form the leading subjects of legislation.
q Gen. Grant is reported to have taken the
partof Sherman in Washington, and to have de-
clared that he is no lawyer but patriotic sol
der.
R The Governor Of New York has pro-
NOTED Lieut.. Doherty who commanded the squad
of cavalry which captured Booth. to Cap
taincy. $3.50
BAt Surratt's house in Maryland, Booth
took drink Of whiskey, Boosting that "Abe
Lincoln and Seward have both been killed
d-n them" 4S
VSixty vessels were put out Of commission
at the Washington Navy Yard on Wednesday
last, and one hundred employees in the Navy
Yard discharged,
- Twenty clerks were discharged from a
single bureau in the War Department on We'd
nesday. So the work OF retrenchment goes
on.
E Advices from Richmond say that great
lawlessness prevailsin that city, and burglsries
and highway robberies, both by night and day
are common occurrences. EsHsSys
VI. ]. Carr, Esq, of Farmingdale, sold last
week to Hon. ]. 8. Carr of Boston, Knox
gelding colt, two years and eight months old, for
$3.50.
TGen. Hooker is to be chief marshal Of the
Presidents funeral in Springfield, Illinois. The
Common Conncil has appropriated $40, 900 for
the incidental expenses.
EThe story of rebel plot to introduce
yellow fever into New York city by the ship
ment of infected rags from Bermuda, turned out
to be canard.
HThe New York Times suggests that as the
Chicago Convention (Democratic) did not adj
journ sine die, it would be well for that body to
meet and reconsider its vote that the war to put
down rebellion had proved failure
ga French paper relates that when Roths-
child was asked whether he would not like to be-
come temporal King of the Jews in Palestine,
he said: 80, no, / would rather be Jew of the
Kings than King of the Jews.' 9 aA
HIt is understood at Washington that Gov.
Pierpont will in day or two issue an address to
the people of Virginia, and that he will recon-
mend that the congressional elections in the State
be postponed until next October. Is
VSpecial dispatch to the Boston Post, of
Wednesday, says President johnson told dele
cation from Pennsylvania to-day, headed by
Simon Cameronthat he should offer amnesty and
mercy to the masses of the South, but make
severe punishment for the leaders.
- Report says that one-half Of adailynews-
paper establishment in this city has recently
changed hands for about $780, We would not
definitely intimate what paper it is, though we
are aware of no changes in the proprietorship Of
any Of the morning papers.
ETA dispatch to the Boston advertiser says
it is now settled that the regular trial of the SIX
teen persons in custody for conspiring in the
assassination plot before military commits
sion will begin in Washington ON Monday
next. essestf fs4srsss Fsre 4 4. gF4s ~
EWe are indebted to Capt. Charles Deering,
of the o. s. Steamer Dictator, for copy Of the
Richmond Whig Of May LIST. The Wing has
changed its form to folio, and makes a very
fair appearance except in Inequality Of its paper
which is coarse, brown and dingy.
ETA story comes by telegraph to the effect
that Clark Mills, the sculptor, who is not sups
posed to have an excess Of loyalty, applied for
permission to take cast Of Booths head. The
Secretary Of War sententiously replied: 'sBetter
look out for your own
EMadame Anna Bishop who sailed from
New York about three months ago, has since
given concerts in New Orleans, Brazos Santa
go, Bagdad. and Matamoras, and at last ac-
counts was singing at Monterey. She intended
going to Vera Cruz and from thence to
HAVANA. e4 49esst
HThe Keene, N. H., Sentinel states that 1--WE
persons attended the funeral services Of Presi-
dtnt Lincoln at DIR. Barstow's church in that
town on the 10th, who attended the funeral SER
vices held under the same roof frame, on the
occasion of the death Of George Washington in
1899.
give have heard q suggestion that COM
pany Of smart boys might make good specu-
lation, by slipping ever the line and bsgging
Beverly Tucker and some of the other traitors
for whose apprehension reward is offered, and
taking them into the States by the Underground
Railroad.
. The fact that President johnson has offered
100000 for the apprehension Of JEFF. Davis,
affords pretty convicting proof that should that
arch traitor be captured, tried and convicted,
no clemency on the part of Andrew johnson
would save his wretched neck. President John
son would not waste the peoples money SO fool
ishly as that.
e Messrs. A. c. Dennison & Co. at Mechanic
Falls, have recently purchased the Drake and