The Portland daily press., 1865-05-15
oRfefNAL AND sKLFoTND.


EYGen. Howard has arrived at Washington.
Rrhe peach crop in Maryland has been
very seriously damaged by recent frosts.
Rfhe university Of Michigan has 9sS stu
dents.
EEGen. Grants house At PhilAaelPhia cost
shout $50 900.
EA city railroad is about to be constructed
In Richmond BY Yankee enterprise. .ft
HPresident johnson has recovered rom MS
recent illness. and is noWia excellent health.
EwThere Is trouble among the Mormons- Joe
Smiths son disputes Brigham Youngs authority
as chief priest and ruler
rxGen. weitssI's Twsnty-Fifth Corps, com
posed chiefly of cOlored troops, has been desig-
mated to form the expedition to Texas.
RThe Raleigh Progress says that milk in
that city IL fifty cents quart with water thrown
in, and the milk skinned.
H-Some common-eense writer advises not to
plant seed till it is warm enough to do so with
out owrcoat or mittens.
The Boston post Office receives about
100000 quarter ter the sale OF postage
stamps.
H The editor Of the Skowhegan Clarion
speaks of the remains of human person re-
Gently dug up in sinking well in that region
B-A reward of Elk thousand dollars has been
offered for the arrest of the assassin Of Hon.
Burr Burton, in Syracuse.
81 New York city is said to contain $50, 900
Germans. OF these, 43 900 are Jews, II, 900 are
Romanists, and 81 900 are Protestants.
BA gentleman in New Haven has lost a
quantity of kerosene oil, and also twenty-five
young fruit trees to which he applied it.
H The Baltimore American denies the story
about the breaking upon of EX-GOVERNOR Hicks
tomb, which has been extensively circulated.
BThe Detroit Board of Trade has resolved
to invite an internal convention of similar COM
mercial bodies, to be held in that city on the
second Tuesday of July.
HThe editor of the Bangor N,hiq is likely
to keep cool. He has already been presented
with q mess Of lettuce and cucumbers, raised
this season in that city
% The Army of the Potomac has returned
from the scene of its late conflicts, and is now
encamped within sight of the dome of the cap
ital
1.-THE Springfield Republican says 'sdresses
are worn SO low in the neck in Paris that we
should blush if we were there-we know we
should
B-The Boston Herald says the City Council
has done very sagacious thing in its action
providing for throwing open the Public Library
to the people Sunday evening.
B-The largest heifer in the United States is
owned at Dunbarton, N. H. The animal weighs
$500 pounds, girths feet inches, and is 10 feet
long.
RIt is said that M. Theirs has informed
some literary friends that it is his intention to
write a History of the Restoration, from 1914 to
1880.
Jarrett pays Mr.. and Mrs Charles Kean
$4,000 for twenty-five nights at Boston, Phila-
delphia and Brooklyn, the engagement to be-
gin in September next.
~ Galveston papers of late date announce
that Major General Wharton of the rebel army
had been shot by Colonel Baylor, of the same
service
B4 The Massachusetts, legislature has been In
session over four months, and the Boston Post
says it is preparing to plunge its long arm deep
into the Treasury, by repeating the law limiting
the compensation Of its members.
~ Gov. Plerpont of Va, leaves Alexandria
for Richmond to-day, to occupy the executive
buildings, and restore the civil authority
throughout the State The rebel leaders will
have no voice in this work.
az Among the new fashions in New York at
present is this, that no lady goes to the grave
with husband, child or friend. Women are
compelled to sit solitary in the house, while the
gentlemen perform the rites of sepulture at the
burial.
60 petrifed man was recently exhumed in
Philadelphia We have heard of no petrifed
men in this state, but petrifed politicians are
quite common. The specimens are fast be gath
cred up for preservation in museums of natural
curiosities.
- There have been some very successful
races at Rome, although some of the jockeys
got hurt. Miss Harriet Hosmer's groom got
thrown and injured Miss Charlotte Cushman
was more fortunate; two of her horses took
prizes, it is said.
HA gentleman from neighboring town re-
marked to us the other day that he took real
satisfaction in having the Press go into his
family, because he always felt sure il would con-
tain no word that gentleman would blush to
read in the presence of ladies or children
EThe Philadelphia Press publishes a letter
from Fernando Wood to Governor Wise, advis-
ing him not to hang John Brown, but to inn
prison him for life A letter from James Blu
oh
rescue the prison er, is also Published.
ETA Washington dispatch says Maj General
Daniel Z Sickles is absent in South America on
a diplomatic mission, and has already shown
that he is admirably qualified for this field. He
writes in good spirits OF the effect produced by
the glowing prospects Of the Union cause in the
countries he has visited.
RThe Argus says that at the Office of DR..
Tewksbury in this city is leg that he amruta
ted, Of young lad fourteen years Of age, and
that the lower portion, inclading the ankle
joint, with all the feshy parts, even TO the skin.
have been changed or transformed into solid
rock-like substance and enlarged to three times
the natural size. 1t does not partake of the
nature of bone, but is like ivory or stone.
R A few days since President johnson
signed the death warrant of three of the Wes-
tern conspirators known as the ssKnights of the
Golden Circle, or Sons Of Liberty" in conse-
quence Of the testimony produced and made
good before the several military courts and in
accordance with their recommendation. They
were to be hung last week. This is the first exc
cutions of the kind since the beginning of the
rebellion, and is signal indication of the de-