The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-04-20
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70 Black boys clothed in blue, now guard
gray backs in Libby Prison
5 H The Lewiston Journal says that those
merchants who don't advertise sell so few goods
that they are obliged to sell at dear rates.
@Applcation has been made by wealthy
colored men for liberty to organize the Freed
mems National Bank. ssa
B-Sir Henry Bulwer of England, is in Egypt
planning for new branch line OF railroad from
Cairo TO the western point of the Red Sea.
10 Secretary McCulloch writes that the re-
sumption Of specie payments is with him car
dinal point, because he believes the specie basis
Is the only safe and healthy one for business.
81 Rev. Mr. Steer, of the Universalist
Church in Lewiston, in a discourse Sunday said
that the assassination of President Lincoln did
not indicate what we are coming to but rather
whatwe are going from.
~ The WING says that ON Tuesday night
the stable on Billings Avenue, Bangor, was de-
stroyed by fire. The wooden portion of the
house adjoining, occupied by Mr.. Seavy and by
Mr. hurry, was also partially destroyed.
GR-We have received from an officer in the
army a copy of the Richmond Wing, of April
18th = a small, dingy, quarto sheet, which,
though now loyal is still printed on rebel-made
paper,
81 Girard College in Philadelphia has 500
pupils, each of which cost $3.50 a year. In 1857
there were only 295 pupils, and each then cost
1882. The number of applications is increasing
on account of orphanage caused by the war.
B-A movement is said to be on foot to estab-
1ioh q &han1oosaoI cohno1 in
the education of colored Baptist ministers, about
50 of whom, found in and around Washington,
have already been enrolled as pupils. ais
10 Mistakes will happen in the best regulated
families. For example: the Buffalo Express
says ''the eighteenth birthday of the venerable
Rev. John Pierpont, was celebrated at Washing
ton, on Thursday evening" Mr.. Pierpont is
an octogenarian. Y
20 The Gardiner JournaL-says that on Sat-
urday. 18th, James Howe, of Augusta, was ar
rested for stealing a horse, wagon and harness
from George W. Center, of Bowdoinham, on
the night of the 10th inst. He plead guilty, and
was carried to Jail on Monday.
H Two women, on the train from Skowhe-
ganthe other day, expressed themselves in an Of
fensive manner, exulting over the assassination
of the President. On their arrival in Augusta.
they were quietly delivered over to a squad Of
soldiers sent by Col. Littler, at the request of
the conductor, and lodged in jail
H THE late Mrs. Browning said rather sharp
ly, in letter to friend, that SO far as she could
see, modern thought in matters religious was
developing two great classes Of thinkers, chose
who tolerated everybody, because they believed
nothing, and those who tolerated nobody, be-
cause they believed something
F The Machias Union suggests that the
"sturdy patriot who, in his jubilation over
Lees surrender, kissed the ssdarling little niger
for his mother, !" was the editor of the Press. If
it had been SO there would have been satisfac-
ton in knowing that the negro was not half SO
black as the copperhead who presides over the
Machias paper.
80 Mr.. james Hooper of Walpole, N. H., So
years of age, remembers when salmon and shad
were caught in immense numbers in the rivers
of that State. He states that when II years old
he assisted to haul seine at Bellows Falls eddy,
in the Connecticut River, and at ore haul caught
! 300 shad and 20 salmon. He says shad were
salmon three to five cents pound.
The Richmond Eraminer said, in com
menting on Davis address to the rebels, and its
words are now seen to have been prophetic
The evacuation of Richmond would be the
loss of all respect and authority toward the
Confederate Government, the. disintegration
of the army, and the abandonment of the
scheme of an independent Southern Confedera-
tion''
= % The Hartford Press says that Mr.. Simon
Goodman of that city, who plugged up a hole
while quarrying on the upper Delaware, in New
York State in 1850, because there was flow Of
thick unpleasant fluid from it, has recently
visited the locality, withdrew the plug, and was
gratifed by copious flow of oil. He owned
i've acres of the locality, and on Monday sold
portion of his interest for $50, o00 still reserv-
ing $40, 900 interest. M
% Is the confederacy now a belligerent
power This is the question the European gov
ernments will naturally put TO themselves when
they receive news of the fall of Richmond
government without ports, without capital,
without local habtation, is no more entitled to
recognition as belligerent power than gang
OF marauders anywhere How can England
and France continue this recognition, when its
only elects to give the confederate pirates the
opportunity to continue their depredations. II
they see reasons for maintaining friendly rela-
tons with the United States, let them make haste
to withdraw the recognition Of the confederacy.
which was hastily and unreasonably given at
first. Then we shall know that their professions
of amitv are oenuine