The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-02
ORIGINAL ANO sELxCTED.

''~N Lis AS1 10 AWFUL 10 VISIT CANADA
80 On the Emperor Napoleons forthcoming
trip to Algeria it is said that the little prince
Will accompany him. ..---s---s
VLast Friday was the warmest day in April,
in Newburyport. for eighteen years; the mercury
stood at 81 deg.
The Times speaks very highly of Mr..
Murray co mpany in Bangor, and says they
are realizing deserved success. "a q 20. !
), - The Massachusetts, Legislature will, it is
thought, adjourn some time between now and
next Fall, says New York paper. The pros
pect isdubious, at present. Il Boston Post
% Brother Ignatius, the English monk, has
been observing Lent with such extraordinary
rigor that he several times tainted in Church
from exhaustion. 14ts7i9eHl
% JEFF. Davis is presumed, about this time,
to lin amood to appreciate as never before,
that maxim of modern scriptsre-..R Root hog or
de-" az1e5s s
% The .argus is great on figures of speech.
''The dog' says the editor, ''instinctively takes
to the Press. Birds Of feather, &c.'' How
long since the dog has been considered bird to
wear feathers 49, xr =.
HRev. DR.. Goodell, our veteran missionary
at Constantinople. by reason Of thsinfrmities Of
age, feels compelled to abandon his work and to
return to his native land to live and die With his
children. He left the United States for his mis-
sionary field in 1922. g e ~ a .9i'5 +.
ET-Marshall q. Roberts of New York, offers
to be one Of ten who shall give ten thousand
dollars each to constitute fund Of one hundred
thousand dollars for Mrs. Lincoln. He has de-
posted his share of the amount with ]. w. For
q Cd ~ M9a sqAiilrA N-N ae5f A19g
HMrsStone,-P Principal Of the High School
In this city, has decided not to apsept the Office
Of State Superintendent Of Schools, reoently
conferred upon him by Gov. Cony. He prefers
to make his present position here his field Of
labor for the present. fsss "a f.tv sss. f
| 50 During the Presidential campaign the
friends Of Mr.. Lincoln claimed that his election
would shorten the war, and that in three months
after his Inauguration ii would be practically
closed. Those who opposed him insisted his
election would protract it at least four years
that peace could never return under his policy.
| Who was nearest right G9HH
| HThe Portsmouth Journal calls upon the
city authorities to put a stop to the gambling
every night carried on at the Templein that
| city, under the name of sGift Enterprises p
where few feats Of legerdemain are performed
to give gloss to wholesale swindling. The laws
are clear against such speculations. The sug-
| gestions of the Journal are as applicable to
Maine as to New Hampshire. to Portland rs to
! Portsmouth. tA& iatal'
| B Richard semmes, one Of the rebel con-
spirators, just sentenced out West for being con-
cerned in the plot to release the rebel prisoners
at Camp Douglas, was at the New Eaven law
school in 1923. He is nephew of the pirate
Semmes, and the New Haven papers say that
while at the law school there be was o ''slick
looking, well-dressed. feminine sort of FELLOW,
full Of secesh IDEAS, wanting in talent and edu-
cation, and evidently with room to let in his
upper story" gh8A esuaa gai1.1 a Fila
/ The London correspondent Of the Inds.
pendent writes: 1.-THE decision in the Colensc
case, given by the highest judicial tribunal in
the land, has taken every party by surprise, and
has probably given satisfaction to none. DR.
Gray, the Bishop of Cape Town, and the So
called metropolitan Of South Africa, had claimed
and exercised the right Of deposing DR.. Colsnse
from the bishoprick of Natal The Lord Chan
cellor has delivered q judgment which strips
Bishop Gray Of all coercive authority, make,
| DR.. Colenso of no more influence in his diocese
than any untitled priest. and reduces the Episco.
| pal Church OF South Africa to the rank Of q
voluntary association. @9grFF9 IUf
| - Says the Philadelphia Press, "there i.
nothing eo-apao A.d so practical, to-day. a.
that there be no more unrevenged treason to
the American Union. One good result has oome
from the rebellion and the foul murder which
crowns its decay, like the ghoul that grinds its
envenomed tooth into the murderer's grave.
The Rebellion Il accompanied to itsreeking sepul.
chre by the individual assassin. And the good
result is this that our peace is to be an uncondi.
tioDal peace. A month ago MIR. Lincoln would
have consented to composition or CON-
promises now the civilized world demands
complete conquest Of ell the elements
that fomented, forced, and fought the bloody re-
| The Albany Argus seems to have changed
/ fronts since the Whole armament has become lu-
minous with Union successes II saws: saVe
must treat the question OF the future with ref
| erence to ourselves, not the South. s* =
We DO not propose to stand between the ssnti-
ment OF the.people and the South. It would be
| idle to do SO ! We speak in the interests Of the
the North, and in the spirit Of that selfshness
which is permitted to great people in the crises
Of agreat revolution. In all that is needed to
ssvethe country President johnson is stronger
| even than his predecessor. All good men win
rally to his side. Let him 60 to his high duty
in the consciousness of this struggle. There i.
no task so great that he will not find force TO
accomplish it, in the warm hearts and strong
hands Of the people, 7aiis sia'a Ell neoi 10
RThe following is the closing sentence Of
MIR. Lincolns brief farewell speech to his friends
atSpringfeld. on leaving there for Washington
IN Feb, 1851, as reported at the time: To-day
leave you 4 go to assume q task more diff
cult than that which devolved upon General
Washington. Unless the great God who assis-
ted him shall be with and aid me, I must fail
But Il the same Omniscient mind and the same
Almighty arm that directed and protected him,
shall guide and support, me shall not fail; 1
shall succeed. Let US all pray that the God of
our fathers may not forsake us now. To him I
commend YOU all-permit me to ask that, With
equal sincerity and faith, yDu will all invoke His
wisdom and guidance form With. these few
words must leave you-ter bow long knov
not Friends, one and ell, I must POW bid you
an afectionate farewell. rs saisss "a sssgFs A.
ROn the 18th inst the very day of Presi-
dent Lincoln's assassination, a Democratic paper
in Psnnsylvania published the following words
frpm g. Chauncey Burr, one Of the vilest wretches
that ever escaped the peBitsntiary- Burr had
just been on visit to Wheatland, where he had
spent few hours with Mr. Buchanan, and in
the exuberance of spirit generated by their in
terview, he says: "For our own part, we have
neyer feared for the Ultimate triumph Of truth
and liberty mgr doubled the oyerthresO and pun
ishmsnt Of Linsals and the partisana IN his
despotism. But we know of. many who do
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