The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-18
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81 President Johnson, it is said. will not es-
tablish his residence at the White House before
September
~ Washington dispatch says DR.. Mudd's
case looks exceedingly dark. Mud never was
remarkable for its clearness or transparency.
- Mr.. Arnold, member of Congress from
Illinois, is preparing memoirs of the life and ad-
ADMINISTRATION of President Lincoln. B ss8A
MISUNDERSTOOD that Rev. Mr.. Ballard Of
Brunswick, has accepted the appointment Of
State Superintendent of schools.
- Col Samuel NJ Quincy, son of Hon. Jo-
siah Quincy of Boston, is acting by order of
Gen. Banks, as Mayor Of New Orleans ~
Bron the first page--Long Afterwards;
story. Last page-poetry: The Wind over the
Chimney Z aseo7 aaA IAa9V ~
B-Fiye barns belonging to Randolph Linds-
ley in Meriden, Conn. were burned, with their
| contents, on Monday. May g.
81 Neither the scenes nor anything else about
| Ford's Theatre, have been disturbed since the
assassination. The building is guarded by a
detachment of soldiers IsnAHe
~ The Augusta Farmer records the death in
| that city, of Hon. John Potter, one of the old
est citizens, and father of Hon. ] ohm F.. Potter,
us. Consul General in Canada. = 49, - .os s
1CJ Thomas s. Bocock, well known both at
the North and the South. and latterly as the
Speaker of the rebel House of Representatives,
isin Richmond. apparently unmolested. lt.
BThe rebel general R E. Lee and bis family
are now being supported by Government rations
regularly supplied to them by the proper au-i
thorities at Richmond. They are entirely desti-
tute. 49,. ~, I'D E =, va ST ssirsa i %
AlI ~ About four hundred of the graduates and
students of Harvard College have seryedin the
army during the war, and of these not ar from
one fourth have given their lives in defense Of
4 the country. I a. u .,--l Is e W =
YrThe joyful intelligence of the capture of
4 JEFF Davis was received by the soldiers encamped
around Washington with great demonstrations.
/ Only one opinion prevailed among them as to
4 what should be done with the Decentralization,
A and that was that he should be hung. 81
4 President johnson has commuted the SEN
itence of one of the Indianaconspirators Jersey,
who was sentenced to be hung at Indianapolis on
Friday, to imprisonment for life, and respited
the other two, Mulligan and Boyles, who will
not be executed until June ID. s. rpla
EThe Lewiston Journal says at the open
ing of the High School in that city on Monday
i morning, the scholars asked and obtained per
a mission from the Principal to sing that we'll
4 known song with the familiar refrain. ssWe'n
: hang JEFF. Davis on q sour apple tree
"a Says the Machias Union: ssMany persons
7 praised and admired John Brown as a martyr
! The same persons detest John Wilkes Booth as a
devil. Whereas the difference in the character
of the two infamous persons r. According tc
this copperheads' idea of right and justice. t.
assassinate the President of the United States i.
! no more infamous than to attempt to confer
freedom on a race Of bondmen John Brown
didn't go to Virginia to kill masters. but to fire,
slaves; the killing was Incidental to his main pur.
pose.
80 The Washington correspondent of tn,
4 Boston advertiser says a New York lady over
Z heard in . car q conversation between Booth anC
n another man in disguise, last November, il
o which Booth spoke of going to Washington
They exchanged some letters, and in the &C
dropped one, which this lady secured, ant
which fully reveals the plot to murder the Presi
Fl dent, and intimates that the deed had fallen b,
lot to some person who was given the choice o
: the cup, the knife, or the bullet, as the instru
,, ment, with the caution that the former haC
failed once. The letter refers to the services O
{, Sanders in Canada as being Of little use, The
discovery of this document was made known a
the timeto Gen. Dix. a
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