The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1865-10-20
BIDDEFORD,

Postomces Woro ro-openeu IN tho ooutneTu
States.
A company has been formed and grant OBJ
tanned from the Queen Of Spain, to lay sub.
marine cable between Poto Rico, Cuba, and the
United States.
Recently published correspondence shows
that the Chinese Government forbade the Ala
bama and other Rebel cruisers entering Ito
ports.
The Emperor Of Austria has issued Q mani.
festo guaranteeing the right Of the people to
participate, through their representatives In
legislation and the conduct Of the finances.
The recently published views OF Henry Ward
Is leaning to Uniyersalism, Ii causing much
discussion.
The Charleston Courier Is calling as Justify
for Northern labor and capital as It formely
did for their exclusion. One land holder has
white workmen to fell timber, run saw mills
and do farm work, and has received o number
Of applications.
A FIRE Thursay night at Belfast Me-, con
sumed nearly the entire business portion oil
that city, below Washington and Cross-sts.
Over 100 buildings were destroyed. and the
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been the work Of an incendiary.
The extensive machine shop of Walter Aiken
at Franklin. N. H., was entirely destroyed by
FIRE on Thursday night. The shop was used
for tho manufacture OF stocking machinery
and knitting needles. The loss Is estimated al
$50, 900. which Is we'll covered by insurance.
Mount Hood, Oregon, has been In state oil
eruption since Sept %. II Is thought this may
| have some connection with the recent earth.
quake shocks in California.
The official majority for Governor Of Vermont
is 1916.
We have received some choice new music
from the publishing house Of Horace Waters,
4sl Broadway, N. Y, as follows: Serio.comic
song, as sung by Tony Pastor, entitled, "a
Maiden for sale" Song, "Give me honest
Friends and true; Song, THE Martyr OF
Liberty" in memory Of President Lincoln
Song. "Too late to Marry"
The Free Baptist triennial Conference came
to close at Lewiston last Thursday week. Of.
ter session of ten days. The papers are say
ing that there were 1900 delegates present.
They are In error only l440
Rev. Robert Castleman, q we'll. known member
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was bru-
tally murdered on Wednesday night of last
week, near CASTOR, N. c., while on his return
from O visit.
Gen. Grant has commenced the work Of re-
organizing the army and reducing II to the d.
minished proportions necessary In time OF peace.
| In the general order he makes various assign
ments and distributions Of the different organi
cations. All the volunteer cavalry east of the
Mississippi river are to be forthwith mustered
out, and all the sea coast forts south OF Foit.
ress Monroe, excepting Forts Taylor and Jetfer:
son, In Florida, are to be garrisoned by colored
troops. All other colored troops are to be
mustered out Of service as fast rs they can be
dispensed with. The Sd Regular Artillery will
garrison the forts In Maine, New Hampshire
aud Massachusetts,.
Sir Morton Peto spoke the highest praise Of
American institutions in his brief address at
Cleveland. "In our journeyings through the
east and west.' he said, ave have not seen o
single man asking aims. Z" This he regarded
as extraordinary. He knew OF no other coun-
try in which this notable exemption from beg.
CARS might be witnessed. In other countries,
" no matter where. he said 1--WE could not
have Travelled day without being appealed to
on all sides by beggars, not port. that we
could enter without being met on landing with
appeals for alms.
The national debt was diminished by over
Sl2, 000, 900 during the month OF October.
The Chairman OF the Republican State Cen.
trail Committee Of Iowa announces that the
election returns thus far indicate that Gen.
Stones majority Is about l6. 900, and that the
Legislature will be about three.fourths Repub-
lican.
The Tribune's Columbus (O.) dispatch Of the
9Th, says returns from all the counties give
Cox majority of 2S,2s!, while the average
majority, on the State ticket, Is 10000 The
legislature stands Union %, Democrat IL In
the Senate; and 10 Union to IS Democrats In
the House. The soldiers vote will not be
counted until next month.
The father of Gen. Grant Is less reticent than
his distinguished son, but Is understood to
agree with him politically. In recent speech
| the senior Grant said; "0ur fight is transferred
to the ballot; 1t Is our duty as patriotic citi.
seps not to allow this miserable old Locofoco-
Lecompton- Copperhcad faction to be galvaniz.
ed into life, on the pretense that 1t Is the only
party that can save tho country.'
The Republic Of Paraguay Is now said to be
mainly ruled by woman, picked up In the
streets of London by Lopez, the Presidents
curious whirlIgig Of fortune.
A 5000 pound blackfsh was brought into
Portland last week. lie was q valuable black,
producing 5000 worth of oil.
The income Of tho Government from Inter-
nal Revenue through the past week amounted
to S5.073,Sl7. making n total Of Sl06 pos, lao
since the commencement of the present current
fiscal year, July /.
George w. Jones Of China, the late william
who was caught in setting the late fire in
Portland. has confessed to setting the late
destructive fire in Augusta.
DR.. Daniel Wilkins Of Greene exhibited at
the late Androscoggin Show and Fair an i'm
menso grecnng apple, raised on tree that
has produced apples for 90 years.
They are raising the frame Of the new
Unitarian church in WaterYille.
Professor Smell Of Amherst, who has kept
q meteorological register for twenty.seven
years, states that he never recorded so small
an amount of rain for o single month as
during the month OF September last. The
water that fell measured only thirty.eight
hundredths Of IN inch.
Gen. Chas. A. Smith of Eastport, has been
admitted to ,hc. Washington County Bar
He will form co.partncrship with Hon. A.
Haydcuot PASSPORT. The General is SENATOR
elect.
GENUINE LoYALisrs.-The Nashville cor
respondent of Western paper writes as fol.