The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-04-12
ORIGINAL AND sELEUTED.

With this year the British Parliament has
been in existence 600 years.
B The removal Of the torpedoes in the
James river, is found very easy work.
B The Portsmouth Chronicle says JEFF Davis
last ditch smells of sulphur.
e The Saco Democrat next week is to be re-
stored to its former size.
- On the first page an article worthy of |
careful thought; on the last page timely Sc
lection of poetry.
The authorities of Halifax refuse to grant |
liquor licenses to the proprietors of gambling or
dancing saloons.
~ The number of physicians in the United
States is 22,543; lawyers, S7,16s; clergymen,
80 500 s3
BWe notice among the recent deaths repor-
ted at Annapolis, those of W. H. Lovejoy, 18th
Me. reg't. and NJ L. Written, 10th Me.
II Rev. VIM R. Alger. the pastor of the New
North Church in Boston, has left for a visit to
Europe, with the intention of being absent about
six months.
~ John Anderson of Boston, E. A. johnson
and Geo. w. Foster, ell of the First Maine
Cavalry, died in Hospital at Washington Satur-
day last
F-We are covered up with perfect avalanche
of letters and communications. We have letters
from Goldsboro', from Vicksburg, and from
other places at the front, and then we have
poetical favors, o score at least.
RThe Boston advertiser well says, sthe
sensation of relief and victory is expressed
without words. There is no orator in the land
who would venture to speak the nations graft
tude''
RThe report via New York that General
Sherman occupied Raleigh on Wednesday last is
wholly unfounded, as Goldsborough letters of
that day say that the army had not moved from
that point
% During the march from Kinston, on the
oath ult,, one lady on the route remarked to
some of our officers that if the rebels continued
to fall back much longer it would soon become
necessary for them to rent land to fight on.
RJef. Davis is supposed to be at Danville,
but he will, no doubt, prudently keep his carpet
bag ready packed for sudden start, as some
of Grants men viii soon be walking down that
way to see where he lives.
by the overrulings of the Divine Proyi-
dence it has come to pass that the sacred
Palm Sunday, celebrated in the offices of the
Church as the day of the Saviour's entry into
Jerusalem, was the day OF our cessation from
active strife.
EWs have not received the Catalogue OF
Bowdoin College for the Spring Term, 1865,
which shows that institution to be in its usual
fourishing condition. The whole number of
students including 50 in the Medical School is
1877.
81 Charles Lamb, who made all sorts of puns
once made stammeFing pun. Some one had
been speaking of the reticence and the frigid
manners of the Duke of Cumberland. eyes,"
said Lamb, ''he is cool, but then you know he is
Duke of Cu-cumberland.
RAt the Kittery Navy Yard on Monday, on
the receipt Of the news of Lees surrender, the
workmen were called together under the flag to
cheer for our noble heroes, and then were in
formed that they would be excused from labor
for the balance of the day,
B"Carleton"- writes from Richmond, April
9Th, that deserters are coming in by hundreds.
The colored regiments are filing up rapidly.
Trade is reviying. The city is full of visitors
The cars are running to Petersburg. The rail-
road to- Aqua Greek will soon be opened.
BA private In the 9th Ioys cavalry, sta
toned somewhere on the frontiers of Dacotah
where whiskey was not an article to be had, adj
dressed the following postscript to his wife in
pubuque "Annie, dip your lethur in whiskey,
SO that | can get schmell Of the eraythnr once
more
RWeare informed by Mr.. Story, who took
the recent good Aews, in advance of the mail, to
all the towns in the upper part Of this county,
that in Standish the flag was raised, the bells
rung and cannon were fired, and that Hon. H. ].
Swasey addressed the gathered multitude in
good Union speech, and closed by call for cheers
for Grant
RA correspondent of the Bath Times says
that Nj. Walter Chapman, con Of the la te Hon.
Hiram Chapman of Damarriscotta, and mate of
ship Criterion, died at the Chincha Islands,
March Sd. His remains have been buried in
guano on board the ship to be taken home. Mr.
Melcher of Brunswick, ID mate of ship Mary
Bangs. died Feb. 2lst, He was buried there.
VsGive the negro. if he can aead, the right
W NOte. ludJ Is OuF Opiuiou. We WOulu dsk |
the Bath Times, whose "opinion" this is, why
one rule should be prescribed for the negro and
another for the white man Is not the negro
IS intelligent as the ''white trash ofthe South
If knowing how to read should be condition |
precedent of his voting, 30 it should be with all
other persons.
The Journal of Commerce has an afflicted
correspondent who thus expstiates: "In Octo-
Der last, purchased 4OO, 900 pounds of sugar at
i6c pound. On the LIST of January, it was |
worth 10 &c pound, or Sic, 900 more than / |
gave for it; but did not sell. In the month of |
March sold the lot of sugar at 10 l-2ca pound, |
paving me loss of $22 1000" The Tribune |
saws. stand back to give him chance. Our |
grief can wait century or so.
RWonders will never cease. In Bangor |
serenading party visited the Franklin House on
Monday and called for Mr.. Marcellus Emery of
the Democrat, who, says the Wing, appeared |
On the balcony, and then and there made full |
recantation of his opinions in regard to the pos
slbility of putting down the rebellion by zoe
cion." He acknowledged that the people had
been right. and that he was wrong. The rebels
had been conquered, and the South would be
obliged to submit Mr.. Emery CALLED for three
cheers for the flag, and at his suggestion the |
stars and stripes were thrown out from win
dow in the Democrat office,